Cricket
Two uncapped quicks and a returning spinner point to a bowling group being assembled for the next cycle.

A change of role for one all-rounder has quietly fixed the phase that was costing them matches.

The selectors resist the temptation to react to one poor batting display.

Eight wickets between them on a surface that had looked benign for two sessions.
Football
Two goals from turnovers in the opposition half suggest the intensity is back.

The inconsistency is real, and so is the argument that it was always the price.

A third of their goals this season have come from dead balls, and the design is deliberate.

Touch maps from the last two seasons show a positional change that has quietly become standard.