On the penultimate day of competitors in Birmingham, England’s girls gained hockey gold and Australia beat Jamaica within the netball closing.

With just some occasions to go on Monday, Australia cleared the path with 66 golds, 11 forward of hosts England.

Scorching favourites Australia held their nerve to beat India by 9 runs in a Twenty20 thriller in entrance of an enormous Edgbaston crowd.

Opener Beth Mooney top-scored with 61 as Australia made 161-8 of their 20 overs within the heat sunshine.

India seemed to be heading in the right direction for a shock win once they had been cruising at 118-2.

However the dismissals of Jemimah Rodrigues (33) and captain Harmanpreet Kaur (65) sapped their momentum they usually fell frustratingly quick.

Australia partied on the pitch because the lights went out across the stadium.

“It’s completely large,” stated left-arm spinner Jess Jonassen.

“We’re blessed sufficient to be a part of some successful World Cup groups however to win the primary gold medal for girls’s cricket within the Commonwealth Video games, you’re solely ever going to try this as soon as.”

Victory underlines the dominance of Australia’s girls, who’re additionally world champions within the 20-over and 50-over codecs.

Within the bronze medal match earlier on Sunday, New Zealand coasted to an eight-wicket win over England.

Muir gold

Muir ended her Commonwealth Video games marketing campaign with a flourish by successful gold within the 1500m on the Alexander Stadium.

The 29-year-old’s team-mate, 10,000m champion Eilish McColgan, simply failed in her bid for memorable double, ending second behind Kenya’s spectacular world silver medallist Beatrice Chebet within the girls’s 5,000m.

Muir, who gained bronze within the 800m on Saturday, kicked for glory earlier than the bell and ran a reasonably reasonable area — missing two-time Olympic champion Religion Kipyegon — ragged, timing 4min 02.75sec.

The Olympic silver medallist was overjoyed, having didn’t medal in 2014 and lacking the 2018 Video games because of veterinary exams.

“You study from it and your time will come,” stated Muir. “It sounds tacky but it surely’s true. Eight years of Commonwealths and it’s been bugging me so this implies quite a bit.”

Wyclife Kinyamal defended his males’s 800m crown in a time of 1:47.52.

It was a formidable turnaround for the 25-year-old, who completed final within the closing of the world championships in July.

“Eugene (the world closing) was disappointing but it surely is rather like any race,” he stated. “As a result of if at the moment you win, tomorrow you lose.

“I suppose as a result of I failed there, I seemed ahead to coming right here to defend my title.”

New Zealand bicycle owner Aaron Gate gained the lads’s highway race to gather his fourth gold medal on the Commonwealth Video games.

“Three felt nice and I used to be tremendous proud of that,” stated Gate, who gained three observe occasions earlier within the Video games.

“I got here right here at the moment and managed to assist the crew, and if the chance arose to go for a fourth one I simply needed to seize it with each arms.”

Within the girls’s race, Australia’s Georgia Baker gained her third gold of the video games.

England gained hockey gold for the primary time after holding off a fightback from Australia to win 2-1.

Second-quarter targets from Holly Hunt and Tess Howard finally supplied decisive 24 hours after the lads’s crew had suffered semi-final despair by the hands of Australia.

Australia’s males, who’re six-time defending champions, tackle India within the closing on Monday.

There was extra pleasure for Australia within the netball competitors, with a 55-51 over Jamaica within the closing.

Australia additionally shone on the Sandwell Aquatics Centre, wrapping up the diving competitors in type.

Cassiel Rousseau took the lads’s 10m platform title and Maddison Keeney gained her second gold of the video games within the girls’s 3m springboard.

England’s Scrumptious Orie gained tremendous heavyweight gold on a busy night time of boxing, beating India’s Sagar Ahlawat.

India gained three different golds in boxing however Northern Eire took 5, together with a particular double for Aidan Walsh and his sister Michaela.

The 48-year-old, who till lately served as coach of the Wales nationwide group, has pleaded not responsible to the costs, which carry a most jail time period of 5 years.

The jury trial at a crown courtroom in Manchester was set to open at 10:30 am (0930 GMT), presided over by decide Hilary Manley. It’s anticipated to final 10 days.

Giggs is charged with assaulting his former girlfriend, PR govt Kate Greville, inflicting her precise bodily hurt on November 1, 2020, when police had been referred to as to his residence within the Manchester space.

The Welshman is additional charged with frequent assault of her youthful sister, Emma Greville, on the identical day.

He additionally faces a cost of controlling and coercive behaviour in the direction of Kate Greville all through their relationship, which started in 2017 and ended with the alleged assault.

The cost specifies that his behaviour in the direction of Greville, 36, included using “isolation, belittling, humiliation, harassment, degradation and abuse”.

Giggs was arrested by police at his residence in November 2020 and launched on bail.

He has denied the allegations and pleaded not responsible at an preliminary courtroom look in April final 12 months.

His trial was because of be heard in January however it was delayed because of a backlog of courtroom circumstances attributable to the Covid pandemic.

First of two trials

Giggs’s lawyer, Chris Daw, has acted for high-profile sports activities figures together with former England and Chelsea soccer captain John Terry, who was discovered not responsible of racially abusing fellow participant Anton Ferdinand in 2012.

Giggs resigned because the Wales supervisor in June, after being on go away since his arrest.

He mentioned he didn’t need “continued curiosity round this case” to have an effect on the group because it prepares for this 12 months’s World Cup in Qatar.

He stays on conditional bail, and has mentioned he seems ahead to “clearing my title”.

A blinding teenage expertise, Giggs ended his profession at Previous Trafford because the most-decorated participant in English soccer historical past.

As a participant, Giggs made a club-record 963 appearances over 23 years for Manchester United, profitable 13 Premier League titles and two Champions League trophies.

He then started his teaching profession at Previous Trafford, taking non permanent cost on the finish of the 2013/14 season after David Moyes was sacked earlier than working as an assistant to Louis van Gaal for 2 years.

Giggs was appointed Wales boss in January 2018 and helped them safe qualification for Euro 2020, simply their second main event look because the 1958 World Cup.

His trial opens shortly earlier than one other courtroom case involving a star footballer, Manchester Metropolis defender Benjamin Mendy.

The Frenchman is ready to go on trial on Wednesday in Chester, northwest England, accused of rape and assault in a case involving seven girls.

Mendy, who has been suspended by Metropolis, denies the allegations.