And that's where we leave you for today and for this week on Sportsday. We have the live cricket text and the live US Open tennis text still ongoing, but Sportsday will return on Monday at 08:00 BST so join the team then. Cheerio now.

BBC Radio 5 Live

Tonight's 5 live Sport with George Riley from 19:00 BST features a comprehensive preview of the weekend football programme with Sam Allardyce, Kevin Kilbane and journalist Henry Winter.

There is live commentary from the Diamond League athletics involving Justin Gatlin in both the 100 & 200m, US Open tennis and a review of the fourth one-day international between England and Australia from Headingley. 

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Here's one you don't see every day. The Usain Bolt of the tortoise world has raced into the record books as the fastest ever.

Bertie, from Adventure Valley in County Durham, covered 18ft (5.48m) in 19.59 seconds - smashing the previous best of 43.7 seconds, which stood since 1977.

"He's just like the real-life Usain Bolt as he loves the attention his run has brought and meeting people," said owner Janine Calzini.

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Steven Gerrard might have stayed at Liverpool if the club had offered him the chance to shadow Brendan Rodgers and learn about managing a team, the former England skipper has told the Daily Mail.

"What would have kept me at Liverpool into this season was the chance of shadowing Brendan Rodgers and his staff as well as playing," he says.

"Those ideas were only mentioned to me after I had announced I was leaving." 

Former Liverpool and England striker Robbie Fowler is interested in the vacant Peterborough United manager's job, BBC Radio Cambridgeshire reports.

Posh chairman Darragh MacAnthony has said he has a four-man shortlist for the job, following the sacking of Dave Robertson.

Ex-Northern Ireland international Grant McCann will be in caretaker charge against Oldham on Saturday.  

BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra

Liam Plunkett has just hit a big six and England need 18 from the final 30 balls with four wickets intact to beat Australia and take the series to a decider on Sunday.

Follow the denouement on Radio 5 live sports extra. 

If you think you know your football, why not have a bash at the BBC Sport Predictor?

See how your guesses fare against other supporters and pundit Mark Lawrenson, plus get feedback from BBC Sport's team including Gary Lineker and Alan Shearer.

A profile of Ben Cohen, lip reading on the pitch to overcome deafness, on being an icon for the gay community and how that family tragedy spurred him on to be the best in the world - plus the man who is building all of the football league grounds of England, Wales and Scotland in Lego - there are all manner of items in the BBC's Sportshour programmes.

A warning from former Spurs defender Ramon Vega about England international striker Harry Kane.

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"Harry Kane had a great season last year, but we must remember he’s very young and the pressure is on to repeat that success. But he doesn’t have a strike partner and everything is on his shoulders - he’ll be burned out very soon," Vega tells BBC World Service.

"Spurs need to put someone experienced alongside him, who can score goals, but if Kane is on his own, I see a difficult season for Spurs."

British Cycling has announced the Great Britain Cycling Team for the forthcoming UCI Road World Championships in Richmond, Virginia, from 19-27 September.

Mark Cavendish  [injury permitting after his crash today] and Geraint Thomas have been selected for the men’s road race, while Lizzie Armitstead, who has enjoyed another successful year on the road, will compete in the women’s road race.

British Cycling national time-trial champion Hayley Simmonds will represent GB for the first time, while Alex Dowsett has been selected for the men’s time-trial.

Tour de France winner Chris Froome is not selected after withdrawing from the Vuelta a Espana with injury.

Lots for you to enjoy over the weekend as the Premier League returns.

Flavia Pennetta is through to the US Open final, her first Grand Slam final, beating Simona Halep 6-1 6-3.

The all-conquering Serena Williams is next up, against Roberta Vinci of Italy.

You can follow the action on the BBC live text.

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The Press Association are reporting that Chelsea goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois  will be out of action for around three months after undergoing surgery on his right knee.

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Hang on to your hats, key man Eoin Morgan has been brilliantly caught in the gully by Glenn Maxwell for 92 and England need 62 from 62 balls with five wickets intact.

A tense finish ahead and you can hear it all on 5 live sports extra and read all about it on the BBC live text.

As mentioned earlier (16:35), Nottinghamshire wicketkeeper Chris Read has become the 26th player in history to reach 1,000 dismissals in first-class cricket.

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The 37-year-old took the catch to remove Paul Collingwood in Notts' Championship match against Durham at Trent Bridge.

Read is the first player to reach the landmark since Jack Russell in 1997.

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Tottenham boss Mauricio Pochettino was asked about out-of-favour forward Emmanuel Adebayor in his news conference earlier, and confirmed that the 31-year-old, who has not featured this season or been named in the Premier League and Europa League squads, was indeed still out of favour at White Hart Lane.

"I was very clear with him, we had a conversation before the end of last season and I explained my idea," Pochettino said. 

"I don't need to explain much more, I think it is clear he is not in my idea, in my mind or in the plans for the future of Tottenham."  

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Ben Stokes has gone for 41 but skipper Eoin Morgan has made a third successive ODI half century and has just hit a magnificent six onto the roof of the stand. 

England are 196-4 and require 104 more to win from the final 90 balls.

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Mark Cavendish's Etixx-QuickStep team-mate Matteo Trentin claims stage six of the Tour of Britain, a 192.7km route traversing the Peak District National Park, from Stoke to Nottingham.

Norwegian Boasson Hagen, the 2009 winner, enhanced his overall lead to 13 seconds ahead of the concluding weekend of racing.

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Bradford CitymanagerPhil Parkinsonhas signed a new three-year deal. 

The 47-year-old took over at Valley Parade in August 2011 and helped the club to promotion from League Two in 2012-13.

He guided the Bantams to the League Cup final in that same year and last season led them to the FA Cup quarter-finals.