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Sport in brief: May 10, 2024

SPEEDWAY: Former world champion Tai Woffinden scored 13 points and Jack Holder backed him up with 12+2 as Sheffield won the last three heats to beat Belle Vue 49-41 in the second leg of their Premiership Knock Out Cup quarter-final on Thursday evening.

With the aggregate scores tied at 90-90 Holder and Woffinden won the super heat 7-2 to put Sheffield, last year’s runners-up, into the last four.

WOMEN’S CRICKET: England face Pakistan at Edgbaston on Saturday in the first of a three-match Twenty20 series.

The hosts are second behind Australia in the short-format world rankings, with Pakistan eighth.

England’s Sophie Eccleston is rated the world’s best Twenty20 bowler, with Pakistan’s Sadia Iqbal third.

Neither team have a player in the top 10 batting list. A three match one-day series will follow, starting in Derby on May 23.

DARTS: World Champion Luke Humphries beat Michael van Gerwen 6-5 in the final to pick up the latest Premier League of Darts round on Thursday night in Leeds.

Both Humphries and Van Gerwen have now joined Luke Littler in qualifying for the play-off final.

Bottom-of-the-table Peter Wright lost again, 6-1 to Littler in his first match.

Sheffield hosts round 16 of the 17-week tournament next Thursday.

MEN’S FOOTBALL: Josip Stanisic’s last-kick equaliser earned Bayer Leverkusen another of their seemingly trademarked late comebacks as they drew 2-2 draw with Roma and sealed their place in the Europa League final.

Leverkusen have now gone 49 games unbeaten, with 40 wins, this season. They will meet Atalanta in the final on May 22 in Dublin after the Italians swept aside Marseille 3-0 for a 4-1 aggregate win.

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