In the first one-day international at Headingley, South Africa gave the hosts a brutal new era of white-ball cricket by handing out a humiliating 131-run defeat to England in a stinging 131-run defeat.
MATCH REPORT: South Africa brutally examines England’s reality.
The Peruvian government has condoled an Indonesian diplomat’s “assassination” in Lima, and described the incident as “lamentable” and “heinous act” by the country’s government.
Zetro Leonardo Purba, a member of Indonesia’s diplomatic corps, was killed in a statement sent to the nation’s ministry of foreign affairs on Tuesday, which included its “deepest condolences and deepest condemnation.”
When an unidentified assailant approaches him near the building’s entrance and shoots him twice, according to surveillance footage released by Peruvian police shows Purba riding home on Monday night while wearing a helmet.
The gunman shot Purba three times before fleeing on a motorcycle driven by a alleged accomplice after he fell from his bike.
Purba passed away later in a hospital in Peru. Unknown is the motive behind the shooting.
The Peruvian Foreign Ministry confirmed in a statement on Tuesday that an investigation was being conducted to identify those responsible. Additionally, it provided Indonesia’s embassy staff with increased police protection.
The Indonesian government will continue to support and assist the country with this matter, and it promises to thoroughly investigate this crime, according to the statement.
Sugiono, Indonesia’s foreign affairs minister, added that he and his Peruvian counterpart Elmer Schialer were on call to demand a thorough investigation into the shooting.
Sugiono, who uses a single name, wrote on social media that “we trust Peru will provide the highest protection for our embassy staff, families, and, citizens in [the country]”.
Victor Guivar, the head of Peru’s national police, made a speculative report to TV Peru that the attack might be a plotted assassination to settle scores.
They would be foreign nationals, Guivar said, based on the physical characteristics that can be observed on the video surveillance cameras.
However, various Indonesian officials have told the Peruvian media that they doubt the assessment, pointing out that Purba had not been threatened before the shooting.
At the time of his death, Purba and his wife and children had resided in Lima for about five months.
Irwan Butapierre, an Indonesian embassy employee, claimed the country’s capital was the site of rife with crime.
“Peru is a dangerous nation. He was riding his bike in tact without fear, Butapierre claimed in a newspaper article, La Republica. “I’m not sure why they killed him,” he said.
Homicides and extortion are on the rise in Peru under Dina Boluarte, president of the country.
The highest number for that time since 2017 was estimated to be 6, 041 people died between January and mid-August. Between January and July, there were 15, 989 extortion reports, an increase of 28 percent over the same time period in 2024.
Boluarte and President Prabowo Subianto celebrated 50 years of diplomatic relations between Peru and Indonesia at the Merdeka Palace in Jakarta just last month.
As Jonas Vingegaard regained the overall lead at the Vuelta a Espana on Tuesday, Australian Jay Vine won the second stage of the competition.
After the final climb, Pablo Castrillo, the breakaway’s leader, was drawn in by Vine, who had already attacked the remaining members of Movistar.
Spaniard Castrillo, a 29-year-old UAE Team Emirates-XRG rider, won by 35 seconds at the Larra-Belagua ski resort, close to Spain’s border with France, to claim his fourth Vuelta stage victory of his career.
Torstein Traeen, who was dropped on the final climb, was given the leader’s red jersey by Team Visma-Lease a Bike’s Vingegaard, who was just over a minute behind the winner.
Vine said, “Winning is so, so hard, and it’s such an incredible feeling when it happens.”
“I don’t think I’ll ever get used to winning,” he said. “It’s just unbelievably difficult.”
Vine, who won the king of the mountains award last year, is once more in the lead in the polka dot jersey race after winning the first mountain stage on Thursday this year.
Tom Pidcock, who finished fifth on Tuesday, is in fourth place overall while Joao Almeida of the UAE Team Emirates-XRG is in third place overall.
1. Emirates-XRG (Aus/UAE Team) Jay Vine 3hrs 56 minutes 24 secs
2. Castrilia (Spa/Movistar) + 35 seconds of Paradise
3. Javier Romo (Spa/Movistar) + 1 minute 4 seconds
4. Irl/EF Education-Easy Post intern, Archie Ryan + 1 minute, 5 seconds
5. Same time Tom Pidcock (GB/Q 36.5 Pro Cycling Team)
6. Giulio Ciccone (Lidl-Trek/Ita)
7. Jai Hindley (Aus/Rod Bull-Bora Hansgrohe)
8. Team Visma-Lease a Bike Matteo Jorgenson (USA)
9. Junior Lecerf (Quick-Step) by Bel/Soudal
1. Jonas Vingegaard (Den/Team Visma-Lease a Bike) 37 hrs 33 mins 52 secs
2. Thorstein Traeen (Nor/Bahrain Victorious) + 26secs
3. 38secs for Joao Almeida (Por/UAE Team Emirates-XRG)
4. Tom Pidcock (GB/Pro Cycling Team) + 58secs
5. Felix Gall (Aut/Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale) + 2 minutes, 3 secs
6. Giulio Ciccone (Lidl-Trek/Ita)+2mins 5secs
7. Matteo Jorgenson (USA/Team Visma-Lease a Bike) + 2 minutes, 12 seconds
8. Jai Hindley (Aus/Red Bull-Bora Hansgrohe) + 2 minutes 16 seconds
9. Giulio Pellizzari (Ita/Red Bull-BORA hansgrohe) at the same time
In a bizarre ending, Adil Rashid takes two wickets in two balls before Dewald Brevis sends the England spinner back over his head for six to claim a comfortable seven-wicket victory in Headingley.
MATCH REPORT: South Africa brutally examines England’s reality.
Chris Froome’s wife claims that the four-time Tour de France champion’s bike accident last week caused a potentially life-threatening heart injury.
After suffering five broken ribs, a collapsed lung, and a lumbar vertebrae fracture during the training accident, the 40-year-old British man was airlifted to a hospital.
Michelle Froome’s wife Michelle has since reported to The Times that doctors had to repair a pericardial rupture, an injury where the sac that surrounds the heart is torn, during surgery.
Michelle Froome described her husband’s injuries as “obviously much more serious than some broken bones” after he struck head-on with a road sign at more than 30mph.
She said, “He’s fine, but the recovery process will be long.”
He won’t be able to ride a bike for a while. Chris, you should let people know what’s going on, because they need to be able to see this.
Froome is one of history’s most prestigious cyclists.
Along with his Tour de France victories, he has also won two Vuelta a Espana titles and one Giro d’Italia.
He won three Tour victories in a row between 2015 and 2017, before claiming the first of his four victories in 2013.
Only four men, Miguel Indurain, Eddy Merckx, Bernard Hinault, and Jacques Anquetil, have won more Tour de France titles.
Froome was honored for his services to cycling in 2015 after winning two Olympic bronze medals in the individual time trial in 2012 and 2016.
The injured Israel–Premier Tech rider, who is out of contract at the end of the year, is expected to miss the rest of the season.
Froome was placed in intensive care after colliding with a wall while training, and he was declared unable to compete in the Tour de France in 2019.
First Metro Bank one-day international, Headingley
England 131 (24.3 overs): Smith 54 (48); Maharaj 4-22
South Africa 137-3 (20.5 overs): Markram 86 (55); Rashid 3-26
South Africa won by seven wickets
England were bundled out for just 131 and thrashed by seven wickets in the first one-day international at Headingley as South Africa handed out a bruising reality check to the hosts’ new era of white-ball cricket under captain Harry Brook.
In an abject performance, England reached 82-2 only to be dismissed in 24.3 overs in their first white-ball matches since Brook began his tenure by sweeping aside West Indies at the start of the summer.
The collapse started when the captain was run out for 12 and opener Jamie Smith, the only batter to make more than 15, followed for a 48-ball 54.
Jacob Bethell’s tough summer continued, Will Jacks, one of five players who were playing in the Hundred final less than 48 hours ago, chipped back a catch and Jos Buttler struggled for 15 from 24 balls.
The last seven wickets fell for 29 runs in 7.1 overs as spinner Keshav Maharaj took 4-22 on a pitch that did not turn and seamer Wiaan Mulder 3-33.
Fast bowler Sonny Baker was then hit for 76 runs, including 14 boundaries, in a brutal, seven-over introduction to international cricket – the most expensive figures by an England bowler on ODI debut.
In the second over, Jofra Archer nicked off Ryan Rickelton only for the ball to be judged to have bounced before first slip and still would have had the left-hander lbw had England reviewed an lbw shout. Their failure to do so summed up their day.
Aiden Markram flogged 86 in 55 balls with England failing to make a breakthrough until he was spectacularly caught by Smith with the winning line only 11 runs away.
The crowd cheered ironically when Temba Bavuma and Tristan Stubbs followed with the scores level but Rickelton ended 31 not out and the Proteas won with a massive 29.1 overs to spare.
England have been battling a downward spiral with their white-ball teams since their failed 2023 World Cup defence in India.
Brook’s winning start – wins in three ODIs and three T20s against the Windies – was supposed to be the start of an upturn.
This performance was as bad as anything that has come in the previous two years.
Because of The Hundred, the players preparation has been non-existent.
Rather than falling in a flurry of expansive strokes, they lacked any sort of batting rhythm and a meek procession against canny yet unspectacular bowling followed.
The batting left Baker, who was last man out for a golden duck, on a hiding to nothing. Three boundaries came in his first over and his opening four-over spell cost 56 as he was thrashed to all parts by Markram, who made his lively pace look gentle with effortless, classical hitting.
While Baker ran in admirably when he returned for a further three overs, he still conceded a further 20 and took his wide tally of wides to four.
England’s batting struggles in 50-over cricket are not new.
Where previously they have struggled to find the tempo, most alarming here was the inability to halt their slide.
Ben Duckett nicked off in the third over, after which Joe Root flickered before being caught one-handed by wicketkeeper Rickelton low to his right.
Smith capitalised when South Africa bowled too full or offered width but was involved in the Brook run-out when he sent back his captain who was looking for two.
A chipped six over long-on was Buttler’s only boundary in a 24-ball 15 – the most obviously rusty innings.
South Africa’s fielding, meanwhile, was superb.
Markram took a sharp chance at slip off the wily Maharaj as Bethell departed for one to follow scores of six and five in the fifth Test against India in a summer in which he has barely played.
England captain Harry Brook: “Not ideal and not a great start to the series but it’s just one of those bad days and we have to move on as quickly as possible.
“Everybody will hold their hands up and say they’ve had a bad day, apart from Jamie Smith – he batted really nicely. But it’s just one those days, we couldn’t get a partnership together.
“The ball held in the pitch a bit more than usual but I don’t want to go into too much detail, it’s a bad day and we’ve got to move on.”
South Africa captain Temba Bavuma: “We were clinical with the ball. Even though they managed to put us under a bit of pressure in the powerplay, we still managed to take wickets. Then in the middle, the guys came in, Kesh [Maharaj] showing his class.
“With the ball, I don’t think you can fault much. With the bat, we could have been more clinical at the end but I don’t think it takes anything away from how we went about the chase, led by Aiden Markram at the top really taking the attack to them.”
Ex-England captain Michael Vaughan, speaking to Test Match Special: “Brendon McCullum is a quality manager and he will manage this situation well. He will give some strong words and some things that the players do not want to hear but we are not in the era where teacups are thrown.