CSB - While you were asleep

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

• NRL Grand Final team lists out.
• Test cricket
• Luna Rossa has staged a stunning comeback to keep the America's Cup challenger series final tied against INEOS Britannia.
• James O’Connor to the Crusaders? 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
While you were sleeping.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
Yes, good morning sports fans and happy a Wednesday. The
squads have been set for Sundays n r RAL Grand
Final between the Melbourne Still Mad and the Penrith Panthers.
Melbourne have na named prop Till We Come a come
Atha to start in place of the suspended Nelson A
Sofa Solomona or Lazareth Vanapuli adjoins the interchange bench. The

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Panthers have named the same seventeen that beat the Sharks
in the prelim final, although Kiwi backer Scott Sorenson has
been named in the reserves in a bid to return
from a hamstring injury to America's Cup action now on
Lunar Rossa has staged a stunning comeback to keep the
America's Cup Challenger Series final tied against any US. Britannia.
Disaster to struck the Italian Challenger early in the day

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on the opening.

Speaker 1 (00:46):
Race, massive splashdown Italian team and a huge breakage on
board Lunarossa massive structural.

Speaker 2 (00:58):
Failure Yes and those Die so A nosedive caused damage
to their AC seventy five, forcing them out of that race,
but after a frantic hour of repairs, which included taping
up the damage that always works. The Italians capitalized on
a pre race era by the British to take Race
eight by sixteen seconds. The best of thirteen race series
is now for all to cricket now in India have

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taken an eight point lead at the top of Cricket's
World Test Championship after ceiling a teen series winner for Bangladesh.
The host have wrapped up a seven wicket win and
a rain hit second Test and come por skittling bangalodest
for one hundred and forty six and reaching their ninety
five run target in seventeen point two overs on Day five.
The win came courtesy of that record at breaking peneltrament

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day that saw India become the fastest team to reach
the fifty run mark all the way up to the
two hundred and fifty run mark in the Test. It's
India's record extending eighteenth consecutive home Test series win and
we'll host the Black Cats of three Tests from later
this month. Like he us the Crusaders, they're in talk
to sign high profile x Wallaby for the twenty twenty

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five Super Rugby season. Newstork ZBI and the Herald understand
James O'Connor is in line to join the fourteen time champions.
The Queensland Reds confirmed last month that the thirty four
year old was leaving the club to join an overseas club.
The Crusaders are in the market for a first five
following the departure of Fergus Burke to Saracens. O'Connor has

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expressed a desire to play on the side of the
Tasman in the past, made an approach to join the
Chiefs back in twenty twenty one, only for a deal
to be vetoed by Rugby Australia. O'Connor would become the
latest Crusaders overseas recruit, joining the likes of Welshman Lee Halfpenny,
Argentinian Pablo Materia and fellow Ossie Digby Ewani