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Ross Taylor (cricket) - New Zealand batsman, born 1984. 

Petra Kvitova (tennis) - Wimbledon winner in 2011 and 2014, born 1990. 

Asier Illarramendi (soccer) - former Real Madrid midfielder, now back with first club Real Sociedad, born 1990.

Phil Edmonds (cricket) - former England and Middlesex spinner, born 1951. 

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Recalled centre Manu Tuilagi can give England the X-factor in Saturday's potential Six Nations title-decider against Wales, says Jonathan Davies.

Tuilagi is back in the England squad after a 15-month absence from international duty because of injuries and disciplinary issues.

"He's definitely an X-factor player; extremely strong, powerful, with great subtleties," said Wales centre Davies.

Owen Farrell has been Jonathan Joseph's partner in England's midfield.

To mark International Women's Day, BBC World Service's Sportshour podcast interviewed those who have confronted and overcome some of the most significant barriers facing women in sport.

British rower Gee Purdy, Ghanaian football agent Dentaa Amoateng and ex-tennis player Ingrid Bentzer shared their thoughts and experiences. Listen to it here.

Great Britain will have five Para-dressage riders on their team at the Rio Games.

They qualified four places through their gold medal win at the 2014 World Equestrian Games and the extra spot will allow another rider to compete as an individual.

The team will be named later this summer.

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Ziya Eren completes his takeover of League Two side Crawley after gaining approval from the Football League.

Zimbabwe avoided an upset in the opening game of the sixth ICC World Twenty20 tournament as they beat Hong Kong by 14 runs in Nagpur.

Opener Vusi Sibanda set the Test side on the way with 59 from 46 balls, while Elton Chigumbura hit three late sixes to help them post 158-8 from 20 overs.

Hong Kong's hopes rested with former Warwickshire batsman Jamie Atkinson.

But when he fell for 53 from 44 balls, Hong Kong's slim chances disappeared with him as they finished on 144-6.

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Swindon Town chairman Lee Power says caretaker manager Luke Williams could be given a new contract "fairly soon".

Romanian league runners-up ASA Targu Mures will take "drastic" action against the unsportsmanlike behaviour of their players after four were sent off and seven booked in a match against Pandurii Targu-Jiu on Monday.

Referee Constantin Coltescu also booked three Pandurii players during a game featuring 46 fouls.

"We came to play football but you saw what happened, I've never anything like this," Pandurii's Romania international defender Cristian Sapunaru said. "I hope they realise that it's not normal to play that violently." 

Ex-Huddersfield Town, Scunthorpe and Oxford United midfielder Michael Collins tells BBC Radio Oxford about plying his trade for I-League outfit Bengaluru FC.

BBC Radio 1 presenter Gemma Cairney speaks to sociologist of gender Dr Katherine Twamley and visits a rugby club to discover why some people are reluctant to accept the label ‘feminist’.  

Here is our BBC iWonder guide on 'Are we all closet feminists?'

Eintracht Frankfurt have appointed former Croatia boss Niko Kovac as their new manager. He has named his brother - Robert - as his assistant.

The club sacked Armin Veh yesterday after seven matches without a win left them fighting relegation.

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Watch the moment Hong Kong's Ryan Campbell gets a ball stuck in his helmet grille after a full-blooded bouncer from Zimbabwe's Tinashe Panyangara.

Live coverage continues here. And it's a good, competitive game too - Hong Kong 91-3 after 15 overs, chasing 159 to win.

World champion Will Bayley and European champion Rob Davies have both been included in the 12-strong GB table tennis team for the Rio Paralympics.

Bayley, 28, will be hoping to improve on the Class 7 individual silver and team bronze he won at London 2012.

Welshman Davies, 31, who broke his back playing rugby in 2005, claimed Class 1 individual bronze four years ago.

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It'll be fun, they said...

You could be forgiven for thinking that the United Arab Emirates might provide some half decent weather conditions for a pre-season tour game. 

But for Essex & Worcestershire, that hasn't exactly proved to be the case...

But at least Stuart Kerrison, the head groundsman at Essex Cricket, saw the funny side...

England coach Mark Sampson says he sympathises with WSL teams over the Lionesses' disruptive schedule in March and April.

BBC Radio 5 Live

It's the Tuffers and Vaughan cricket show with Mark Chapman, Michael Vaughan and Mark Butcher. 

The panel preview the World T20, discuss the ECB’s announcement of a new structure to the domestic season, and debate the latest fallout between Geoffrey Boycott and the hierarchy of Yorkshire County Cricket Club.

Listen to the podcast here.

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Captain John Terry was absent from training on the eve of Chelsea's Champions League last-16 second leg with Paris St Germain.

The 35-year-old defender has missed the last five matches with a hamstring problem.

Terry, who did not travel to Paris for the first leg, which Chelsea lost 2-1, was missing for the first 15 minutes of today's training session accessible to the media.

But striker Diego Costa - who missed last Saturday's draw with Stoke as a precaution due to a minor tendon problem - did take part.

Turns out the visitor in question is this chap...

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Mr Luis Suarez.

Unfortunately for Liverpool fans, he's not staying long.