PAUL NEWMAN IN JOHANNESBURG: Jos Buttler's dismissal for just eight on Sunday might signal the end in Test cricket for England's most exciting player.

PAUL NEWMAN AND RICHARD GIBSON: Jos Buttler may be given a stay of execution by England as there are concerns over how Ben Foakes plays the short ball.

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW BY MARTIN SAMUEL IN JOHANNESBURG: Jofra Archer is staring wistfully out at the Wanderers wicket, the fastest track in the world to many, all thin air and bounce.

Jofra Archer has been dogged by bone stress in the right elbow throughout the tour, reducing him to a single appearance in the 3-1 Test series victory - the opening defeat in Centurion.

RICHARD GIBSON IN DURBAN: Chris Jordan has backed England's experimental one-day team to replicate their Test counterparts and complete a turnaround series victory in South Africa.

RICHARD GIBSON IN DURBAN: Jofra Archer revealed the heartache behind the injury which has ruled him out of the Test series in Sri Lanka after being diagnosed with a stress fracture.

Joe Root concedes he is losing the fight to make England's squad for the Twenty20 World Cup this autumn. He admits that he is not in the current best XI.

The England Test side are desperate for spin options. So Adil Rashid ruling himself out of next month's Sri Lanka tour will have been a painful blow. 

NASSER HUSSAIN: If you were picking a tennis squad to play on clay you wouldn't fill it with grass court specialists so I can see the argument for horses-for-courses selections.

England beat South Africa by two wickets to draw the one day international series on Sunday, with Joe Root and Joe Denly leading a successful chase.

RICHARD GIBSON IN JOHANNESBURG: The successful 223-run pursuit at Centurion which settled the Twenty20 series versus South Africa was the second biggest in their history.

The 29-year-old endured a difficult winter in red-ball cricket, with a top score of 43 in five matches across series in New Zealand and South Africa.

England's hopes of becoming double women's world champions suffered a serious blow yesterday when they lost a Twenty20 World Cup match to South Africa for the first time.

England left for Sri Lanka with captain Joe Root insisting the World Test Championship had been 'thrown wide open' by India's heavy defeat in New Zealand.

The 24-year-old, who helped England win the 2019 World Cup, screenshot racist messages from an individual and posted them on his Instagram story on Monday evening.

England's World Cup winning cricketers have come together to raise awareness about the importance of staying at home, protecting the NHS and saving lives.

SPORTS AGENDA: Liverpool's Jordan Henderson has admirably taken the lead in football over coronavirus, suggesting a fund be set up to help the NHS during the crisis.

The NHS Charities Together Cup has been organised to raise money to fight against the outbreak of the coronavirus, with the eight teams named after figures in Greek mythology.

The heads of the National Trust and the National Lottery Heritage Fund praised The Mail on Sunday's Save Our Parks campaign as they announced an £11.2 million project.

ANDREW PIERCE: Sir John Major is not often considered the most influential prime minister of the 20th century. But we shouldn't forget one achievement: the creation of the National Lottery.

The former Made In Chelsea star, 29, and the singer, 38, attended the National Lottery Awards 2019 at London's BBC Television Centre on Tuesday evening.

Sarah Cockings (pictured), 36, who lives in Whitley Bay, Tyne and Wear, with her partner and three children, won £3,045,705 on April 30, 2005, when she was just 21.

Ryan Hoyle, a 38-year-old joiner from Rochdale, Greater Manchester, has been revealed as the EuroMillions winner of £58million, seeing him rank ninth on the National Lottery millionaires' list.

Yahya Al-Saud (pictured), who is notorious for praising terrorism in Palestine, was greeted at Portcullis House by Labour frontbencher Fabian Hamilton.

Jnaid Salama, 30, also John D. Calvin, was arrested after his check for $10,995 surgery to change the shape and size of his nose was rejected. He gave it to a clinic in Seattle, Washington.

Stewart interviewed Rubio and said that, while he may have been passed over for the much-speculated vice presidential nomination, the comedian still has high hopes for the Republican Senator.

In a speech on foreign policy in South Carolina on Friday, Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio questioned the totalitarian regimes around the world.

Marco Rubio's campaign released its first early state television ad this morning and it's the candidate's father who's front and center through the spot, which is the campaign's first $20 ad buy.

Marco Rubio's campaign says the candidate's latest ad has struck a chord with American voters and that's why 'elitist members of the media' like MSNBC's Joe Scarborough aren't liking it.

Chris Christie didn't find a joke Marco Rubio made about this weekend's snowstorm to be very funny. Rubio said the upside of this snowstorm was that it would freeze Obama's veto pen.

Republican Senator Marco Rubio was in a heated clash with Inforwars' Alex Jones and threatened to 'take care of you myself' after the conservative commentator crashed his TV interview.

The Republican lawmakers threw their support behind the new Prime Minister and offered him and the British people their 'unwavering support' as the country prepares to leave the European Union.

Donald Trump continued to clobber his former national security adviser, claiming his dismissal of John Bolton would strengthen his approach to totalitarian leftist nations.

Former champion Jordan Spieth arrived at this week's US Open confident that his struggles on the course are firmly behind him after a string of three consecutive top-10 finishes.

JONATHAN McEVOY AT ROYAL PORTRUSH: For a few electrifying minutes mid-morning on Friday, Jordan Spieth was back as we remembered him when he was the boy prince of golf.

Sportsmail's IAN LADYMAN is at Royal Portrush and has provided five pieces of insight after round three of the Championship.

A majority of Americans disapprove of President Donald Trump's handling of the coronavirus, a new poll showed, with 55 per cent giving him a thumbs down.

Donald Trump's reelection campaign will release a nationwide ad Sunday touting his response to the coronavirus pandemic then a second wave of ads will issue attacks on Joe Biden.

President Donald Trump on Thursday continued his series of cryptic comments on the health and well-being of North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un.

President Donald Trump on Friday predicted more accusers would come out against Joe Biden and said he was 'sticking up' for the former vice president. 

President Donald Trump said Saturday he is 'glad' to see that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has supposedly returned to the public eye after rumors he was suffering ill health.

The singer, 41, spoke about his thoughts on the way Trump has handled the US's response to the global pandemic in an interview with GQ Hype , which was released on Monday.

Morning Joe hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski lashed out at the president in claiming he is 'not well' and should let Vice President Mike Pence take over while he gets checked out.

Senator Ted Cruz and MSNBC host Joe Scarborough Friday engaged in a bitter war of words on Twitter Friday evening.

It takes a fair effort to upstage Dina Asher-Smith, but Ojie Edoburun managed it with a combination of his deeds and words at the British Championships on Saturday.

HOT OR NOT: It's Hot or Not time again as Sportsmail's Riath Al-Samarrai reveals what's been making him feel warm and what's been leaving him cold this week.

Dina Asher-Smith claimed a historic hat-trick at the World Championships with a silver in the 4x100m last night in Doha. She is now the first British athlete to win three medals at the same Championships.

RIATH AL-SAMARRAI IN DOHA: While there were no obvious signs earlier this year of her resenting the attention that came from her Berlin wins, there tends to come a point when it is burdensome.

GREAT SPORTING MOMENTS OF 2019: In the fourth in our series of the greatest moments of the sporting year, we recall those two nights when two Brits claimed World Championship gold...

Asher-Smith could have a shot at three gold medals in a mad six-week stretch after Sebastian Coe revealed plans are being formulated to squeeze a trio of major events into the summer of 2022.