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In this week's issue of the Tuesday Sport Show, Sam, Justin, Barney, Luke and Gaffers hosted special guests the Fantasy Football Society, who unveiled this month's winner and gave information about what the Society is all about, how to join, and the funds that they raise for charity. They even gave a few tips for how to maximise your own gains in the fantasy leagues!

In this week's episode of The Saturday Sport Show Simona, Rob, Luke and Simon started by discussing the final race of a fascinating F1 season, in Brazil and we gave our opinions on how the championship will pan out. The England Cricket team are faring a little better in the 2nd Test out in India and the panel dissect the team changes that seem to be making a difference as well as our thoughts on the outcome of the match.

In this week's episode of the Thursday Sport Show the team welcomed Georgie from the Nottingham University Thai Boxing Club who spoke to us about what the University's Muay Thai practitioners get up to both in and outside the ring, as well as about the sport in general. She then faced off against the Sport Team's very own Chris Brown in a quiz about Thai Boxing - the results of which were quite surprising! We'll keep you up to date in future shows as to whether Chris makes good on his promise to pay the Thai Boxing Club a visit.

After the defeat against Ireland the England players hoped they would perform better against one of the favourites South Africa. Having won the toss and electing to bat England were hoping to set a decent total to defend. However Captain Strauss was out on the third bowl without troubling the scorers, England managed to score just 171 runs with Bopara top scoring with 60. England going into the break were defiantly looking like a team which wouldn’t make it to the knock out stage. South Africa’s first wicket stand of 63 gave them a great platform to go win the game. However Anderson and Broad managed to skittle South Africa out for 165 and England won by 6 runs. Anderson whose previous figures include 0-72 and 1-91 bowled a fantastic spell ending on 6-0-16-2, Broad’s figures were also good as he ended on 4-15. Hopefully England can maintain this momentum going into the Bangladesh game.

In other news Kevin Pietersen who bowled 8 overs against South Africa has been ruled out of the tournament due to a hernia injury which will require surgery. Eoin Morgan has been called up as his replacement, and was in good form before he picked up an injury prior to the world cup. Will Matt Prior return to opening the innings?

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England suffered an incredible loss against the cricket minnows Ireland yesterday. Having set Ireland 327 England looked in the hot seat going into the break with Trott getting 92 and Bell 81 England must have thought they had it in the bag. Having got Ireland to 111-5 with Swann getting a few quick wickets and Ed Joyce already back in the pavilion, one would assume the England players were cruising and thinking about what to have for supper that evening. However the pink haired Kevin O’Brien pulled of a magnificent innings, breaking the record for the fastest world cup centaury of just 50 balls getting the last of those 50 runs of just 20 balls. He was finally run out for 113 of 63 balls, however the damage was already done with Mooney hitting the final runs of the first ball of the final over, to win by 3 wickets.

Jubilant Ireland players celebrate a historic world cup win: photo courtesy of BBC Sport