Christine Ohuruogu, the British World 400M champion, has found support from Ed Warner. UK Athletics’ chairman has said that Ohuruogu should be reprieved from a lifetime Olympic ban. The British athlete returned from a one-year ban for missing three doping tests to claim gold in Osaka last week.

Graeme Smith, the South African skipper, believes bowlers could play as big a role as batsmen at the inaugural Twenty20 World Cup his nation is hosting from Sept. 11. "I'm unsure if batsmen are going to dominate. No one knows what the conditions are going to be like at this time of the year," he said.