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On This Day in Sport (15 May 2010): 1862: The first baseball stadium was opened at the Union Grounds, Brooklyn, New York. 1929: England lost their first international soccer match outside the British Isles when they were defeated 4-3 by Spain in Madrid. 1963: Tottenham became the first British winners of a European trophy when they beat Atletico Madrid 5-1 in Rotterdam to take the European Cup-Winners' Cup. 1986: Formula One Italian driver Elio De Angelis died in a Marseille hospital the day after a crash in his Brabham at the Paul Ricard circuit in France during a test session. 2002: Zinedine Zidane scored one of the finest goals Hampden Park has ever seen, netting with a 20-yard left-foot volley into the top corner, to crown Real Madrid European champions for a record ninth time when they beat Bayer Leverkusen 2-1 in the Champions League final. 2003: Culture secretary Tessa Jowell confirmed London was to bid for 2012 Olympic Games. 2004: Arsenal completed the Premier League season unbeaten. South Africa were awarded the 2010 football World Cup. 2006: Chelsea signed Germany midfielder Michael Ballack on a three-year contract. Headlines (15 May) : Australia reach final Mike Hussey smashes 60 off 24 balls as Australia chase down 192 and set up a Twenty20 final against England on Sunday Becks to get coaching role David Beckham confirms he is hoping to take up an offer from Fabio Capello to join the England coaching staff at the World Cup Benitez leaves Blues Birmingham City decide not to take up the option of signing on-loan striker Christian Benitez on a permanent basis Cook takes charge of Lions Alastair Cook will captain the England Lions when they play Bangladesh in next week's four-day warm-up match in Derby Clijsters out of French Open Kim Clijsters withdraws from the French Open due to an ankle injury - "It's a shame to give up on Roland Garros" Fabregas wants future resolved Cesc Fabregas wants his future to be resolved before the start of the World Cup finals, but is in no rush to leave Arsenal for Barcelona Chaos at Khan weigh-in The war of words between Amir Khan and Paulie Malignaggi develops into chaos at the weigh-in ahead of their WBA light-welterweight title bout Venter in hot water again Brendan Venter is charged with conduct prejudicial to the interests of the game following Saracens' win at Leicester International Results Roundup Dateline 14 May 2010 FOOTBALL International Mexico 1 Angola 0 Coca-Cola Division One Play-off Semi-Final 1st Leg Swindon 2 Charlton 1 CRICKET Australia v Pakistan St Lucia ICC World Twenty20 Semi Final Australia beat Pakistan by 3 wickets. Essex v Bangladesh Tour Match : Three Day Match at Chelmsford Essex 83 - 2 29 ovs Bangladesh 231 all out 60.4 ovs Close of play GOLF Ladies European Tour German Open Collated second round scores & totals in the Ladies European Tour UniCredit Ladies German Open, Golfpark Gut Hausen, Nr. Munich, Germany(Swe unless stated, par 72): 134 Linda Wessberg 70 64 135 Melissa Reid (Eng) 70 65 137 Lee-Anne Pace (Rsa) 68 69, Christel Boeljon (Ned) 69 68 140 Caroline Masson (Ger) 72 68, Rebecca Hudson (Eng) 69 71, Karen Lunn (Aus) 74 66, Rebecca Coakley (Irl) 71 69 141 Nikki Garrett (Aus) 72 69, Ashleigh Simon (Rsa) 71 70, Helen Alfredsson 70 71, Becky Brewerton (Wal) 74 67, Iben Tinning (Den) 67 74 Bell Micro LPGA Classic Collated second round scores & totals in the LPGA Tour Bell Micro LPGA Classic, RTJ Golf Trail, Magnolia Grove, The Crossings, Mobile, Alabama, United States of America(USA unless stated, par 72): 135 Se Ri Pak (Kor) 69 66 136 Brittany Lincicome 70 66, Wendy Ward 71 65 138 Azahara Munoz (Spa) 65 73, Sun Young Yoo (Kor) 68 70, Haeji Kang (Kor) 69 69, Suzann Pettersen (Nor) 68 70 139 Jee Young Lee (Kor) 66 73, Shi Hyun Ahn (Kor) 69 70, Na Yeon Choi (Kor) 69 70, Meena Lee (Kor) 67 72, Janice Moodie (Sco) 67 72 Open Cala Millor European Tour Open Cala Millor (Gbr & Irl unless stated, par 70): Note: Second round play has been suspended & there are seven golfers still to complete, the round will restsrt at 08.45hrs local time 135 James Kingston (Rsa) 65 70, Pelle Edberg (Swe) 71 64 138 Alejandro Canizares (Spa) 68 70, Stuart Manley 70 68, Gonzalo Fdez-Castano (Spa) 70 68 139 Jamie McLeary 70 69, Andrew Marshall 70 69 140 Peter Gustafsson (Swe) 71 69 141 Chris Wood 69 72, Branden Grace (Rsa) 72 69, Steven O'Hara 72 69, Jose Manuel Lara (Spa) 69 72, Daniel Vancsik (Arg) 73 68, Peter Hanson (Swe) 72 69, Marco Ruiz (Par) 70 71, Scott Hend (Aus) 72 69, Mark F Haastrup (Den) 72 69, Manuel Quiros (Spa) 70 71 ATHLETICS Asafa Powell laid down a challenge to his 100metre rivals by clocking a wind-aided 9.75seconds as the IAAF Diamond League got under way in Doha. The Jamaican former world record holder, running his first 100m of the season, recorded the time in his heat before winning the final in a windy 9.81sec at the inaugural meeting in the series at the Qatar Sports Club. CYCLING Australia's Matthew Lloyd won stage six of the Giro d'Italia after a day-long break as Vincenzo Nibali held on to the race leader's pink jersey for a third successive day. Lloyd (Omega Pharma-Lotto) went clear along with Switzerland's Rubens Bertogliati (Androni Giocattoli), but attacked on the final climb of the 172-kilometres stage from Fidenza to Marina di Carrara to claim his first Grand Tour victory.