Fans of The Hundred were invited to meet, greet and eat with cricketers from Birmingham Phoenix this weekend at Indico Mailbox, as well as get their hands on exciting goodies from the region’s sports team.

Teaming up with award-winning street kitchen and bar, Indico, the team visited the Mailbox-based restaurant yesterday (Saturday 27 August) from to celebrate the special Birmingham Phoenix ‘Brum-Wala Dhaba’ dish on the menu, which was available for a number of fans to enjoy for one day only.

A printing and packaging firm is set to put Wednesbury on the global map after signing up to be one of the sponsors of the ITF World Tennis Tour W100 event at Shrewsbury.

Quantum Print and Packaging, in the West Midlands town, is sponsoring the much-anticipated event which takes place at The Shrewsbury Club in October and will see international and leading British tennis players compete in what will be the biggest women's indoor tennis event in the UK this year.  

A volleyball match which saw China's national women's team compete while wearing N95 masks has caused a stir on Chinese social media.

Many netizens expressed their anger, suggesting that the health of players was being sacrificed for the sake of the country's zero-Covid strategy. The players later took their masks off for the second set and went on to win.

Sportslens.com has put together some interesting numbers about Premier League football players and their nationalities. According to their calculations, only two Premier League clubs gave more than half of their game time to English players in 2021-22. Premier League champions Manchester City afforded only 24.5% of playing time to English players in the Premier League.

For most football fans around the world, the English Premier League (EPL) is the pinnacle of the sport. And with good reason – the EPL is by far the most lucrative league globally. According to a Safebettingsites data presentation, the EPL generated a staggering €3.5B in broadcasting revenue in the 2021/22 season. 

PXG, a global research and development company dedicated to creating the world's finest golf equipment and apparel, recently opened its first custom build and distribution centre in the United Kingdom. A state-of-the-art facility, PXG UK is key to expanding the brand's international footprint and ensuring even more golfers throughout Europe have quick and easy access to the exceptional products PXG delivers.