SPEEDWAY: King’s Lynn will face Leicester in the Premiership Knockout Cup final after Nicolai Klindt top-scored with 14+1 points to earn them a 45-45 draw at Ipswich on Thursday night that sealed a 93-87 aggregate semi-final win. Ipswich were also knocked off the top of the league by defending champions Belle Vue, who came from behind to win 48-42 at Oxford in the evening’s only Premiership fixture.

MEN’S FOOTBALL: Cliftonville’s European campaign ended early when the Belfast team went down 3-2 at home to Gibraltar’s St Joseph’s in Thursday’s second leg of their Europa Conference first qualifying round tie. Cymru Premier teams Haverfordwest and Penybont are also out while the League of Ireland’s St Patrick’s bagged a 3-0 aggregate win over Lithuania’s Hegelmann and will meet Estonian outfit Nomme Kalju in the next round.

MEN’S CRICKET: 42-year-old Jimmy Anderson took 3-25 as Lancashire beat Yorkshire by 21 runs to seal their place in the Twenty20 Blast quarter-finals. Anderson will celebrate his 43rd birthday before the next round. Surrey and Somerset are also through to the last eight and will be joined by Northampton, who qualified without playing after Worcester beat Nottingham. Defending champions Gloucester are out following their four-wicket defeat to Sussex.

MEN’S BOXING: Hackney-born Lawrence Okolie will take on South Africa’s Kevin Lerena for the WBC silver heavyweight title on the undercard of tonight’s world title fight between Oleksandr Uysk and Daniel Dubois. Okolie has suffered only one defeat, to former world cruiserweight champion Chris Billam-Smith, in his 21 bout career, while Lerena has lost three times in 34 fights, including a technical knockout against Dubois in December 2022.