CSB - While you were asleep

Producer Mark runs you through what you missed while you were sleeping.

• Plunkett Shield updatete.
• A couple of former US Open tennis champions have been confirmed for the women's ASB Classic.
• The All Blacks have lost Sam Cane and Mark Tele'a to injuries for this Sunday’s test against France, now their hosts have also had to scratch two likely starters. 
• F1 news.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
While you were sleeping. Yes, good morning sports fans and
happy a Wednesday. Logan van Beek has starred on the
second day of the Plunket Shield season for Wellington. He's
created the forty seventh instance of a player in the
country's first class game, as complied by the New Sound
Cricket Almanac, to score a century and also take a

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five wicket bag in the same match. Six of those
were by players representing overseas teams against the New Zealand side.
Van beaks five for fifty three and one oh one
for the host against Auckland, back up a similar effort
for Canterbury that he did for Cannaby against Otago back
in two thousand and fifteen. The visitors are one seventy
one for six in their second innings, a lead of

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eighty five runs Otago. They will resume on three for two,
trailing Central Districts by one hundred and fifty three runs.
In Napier and Northern Districts they are two hundred and
ninety one for eight seventy runs are still chasing, trailing
Canterbury and christ Church in that one. A couple of
former US Open Tennis champions have been confirmed for the

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Woman's ASP Classic. Twenty twenty one. Singles winner m Radakana
returns to Auckland for a third straight year, and we've
got doubles specialists in Kiwi Iaran Routlift and their Canadian
partner Gabby Dabrowski, who won the crown at Flushing at
Meadows last year, are also locked and loaded to rugby
now the All Blacks. They have lost Sam Kine and

(01:27):
Mark Talia to injuries for Sunday's test against France. Now
their hosts have also had to scratch two likely starters.
French wing Damien Pinot is out with illness. He was
also a late woodrowl in the win over Japan on Sunday,
and then Flanka Francis Cross was removed at halftime in
that match with concussion symptoms and will not be fit

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to take his place. Like the All Blacks, France name
their team on Friday morning. New Zealand Time and Formula
One News. Reno's alp and Formula One team will use
Mercedes engines and gearbox from the Sports New Era starting
in twenty twenty six, said in a statement. The power
Unit agreement would run until at least two thousand and
thirty and Neils, which has left his role as a

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Formula One race director with immediate effect. The German, who
was a replacement for Michael Massey back in twenty twenty two,
has stepped down from his position to pursue new opportunities.
The FIA said in a statement to BBC Sport overnight
he will be replaced in the next race in Las Vegas,
which is next weekend, by rue Marquez, most recently the
race director for F two and F three. The surprise

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move has happened very quickly. FIA staff are only told
Tuesday morning UK time