Sport News Update, what you need to know

Sport News Update, what you need to know.

CRICKET - Sometime skipper George Bailey claims Australia's World Cup talisman Mitchell Starc has become more feared than South African strike duo Dale Steyne and Morne Morkel.

CRICKET - Defending champions India maintained their 100 per cent record in this year's cricket World Cup, a Shikhar Dhawan century powering them to an eight-wicket win over Ireland.

BASKETBALL - Australian teenager Ben Simmons has followed in the footsteps of the great LeBron James in winning the Morgan Wooten Player of the Year award - a prize given to America's top high school basketballer.

SPORT - France is in mourning over the deaths of three sports stars - Champion sailor Florence Arthaud and Olympians Camille Muffat and Alexis Vastine - in a helicopter collision while filming a reality TV show in Argentina.


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