For only the second time in 27 years, a Kiwi has won the Supercars Championship series

Scott McLaughlin's second place in yesterday's final race was enough to secure a maiden championship, beating compatriot Shane van Gisbergen by 71 points.



Lewis Hamilton has ended his fifth title-winning Formula One season with victory from pole for Mercedes in the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.

Kiwi Brendon Hartley's finished 12th for Toro Rosso and Nico Hulkenberg escaped a crash unhurt early on.



New Zealand are 24 without loss at stumps after Pakistan declared at 418 for five on the second day of the second cricket test in Dubai.

Colin de Grandhomme has finished with the side's best bowling figures of two for 44 - Haris Sohail top-scored for Pakistan with 147 and Babar Azam was unbeaten on 127, his maiden test century.



England are six wickets from a 3-nil test series defeat of Sri Lanka after reducing the hosts to 54 for four at stumps on the third day of the third test at Colombo.

The hosts are chasing 327 to win.



Australia has suffered a spin-induced collapse to see India win their Twenty20 finale in Brisbane, hauling in a target of 165.

Virat Kohli top-scored with an unbeaten 61 to deliver a six-wicket win with two balls remaining.

The three-match series was drawn 1-all after the second game was washed out.



The New Zealand Breakers have lost 91-86 to the Wildcats in Perth, their fourth consecutive basketball defeat of the NBL season.

The Breakers late-game struggles continued, blowing a nine-point lead entering the fourth quarter.



The Auckland Tuatara have split the final two matches in their series against the Brisbane Bandits in the Australian Baseball League.

The Tuatara took out a rain-sodden opening game 4-0, before falling 4-2 to the Bandits in the second game which went to a 10th inning.



A mixed final day has capped off a trying week for Ryan Fox and Mark Brown at the World Cup of Golf in Melbourne.

The Kiwi pair carded a two-under-par 70 in the fourth round, to finish tied for 18th overall, 15 strokes behind winners Belgium.



Arsenal has closed in on fourth-placed Chelsea in English football's Premier League with a 2-1 win at Bournemouth.



The Football Ferns have finished top of their group in the OFC Nations Cup in New Caledonia after beating Fiji 10-nil.



The Netherlands have cemented their status as the best team in women's hockey with a 5-1 Champions Trophy final win over Australia in China.



A goal in the fifth minute of stoppage time has lifted the Perth Glory to a 3-2 win over the Central Coast Mariners in football's A- League.



Croatia has won tennis' Davis Cup for a second time, defeating France 3-2 in Lille.



Joelle King has won squash's Hong Kong Open.

She's defeated Egyptian Raneem El Welily - who's about to become world No.1 - in three games after six championship balls in the final of the platinum series event.

King becomes the fourth New Zealand woman to win the title after Dame Susan Devoy, Leilani Rorani and Carol Owens.



Tonga will benefit financially from next year's Rugby World Cup warm-up test against the All Blacks.

The Pacific Island nation will face the world champions in Hamilton on September 7.

The union has been battling money issues in recent times.