Mercedes, whose drivers have won the last three championships, and Ferrari appear to be in a two horse race for the constructors’ title this year. Under him, India won a silver medal at the Champions Trophy last year for the first time in over thr. The first session had to be stopped and restarted only after the next two hours. The only two times Bangladesh have swept a series were against an under-strength West Indies side in 2009 and against a struggling Zimbabwe in 2014. There’s much mangling of pronunciations and names, before the Japanese hack spells out J W A L A and enquires about where she’s disappeared. The radios are buzzing with the Glasgow club’s demolition of Kazakh side Astana and the World Championships week straddles the away leg which doesn’t end too bad at all. NAME AND FAME The Japanese media is as meticulous in its preparation as Nozomi Okuhara was in winning her title. There’s consensus that she’d have given even Carolina Marin and Sindhu a run for their money. England were flattered by a late flurry of goals in Friday’s 4-0 win in Malta. Shivani NaikLouis Ross is in his 80s and part amused, part mortified that people nowadays take pictu.