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On This Day in Sport (02 September 2010):

1893: Liverpool beat Middlesbrough Ironopolis to claim their first win in the Football League. The Reds have since won more league titles (18) than any other club.
1973: England legend Ian Botham played his first game for Somerset when he turned out in a Sunday League game against Sussex at Hove.
1980: John Arlott, the `voice of cricket', commentated on his last Test match on the occasion of the Lord's centenary match between England and Australia.
2000: Michael Owen came off the bench to score an 86th-minute equaliser in England's 1-1 draw with France in Paris.
2001: John Daly secured his first tournament win for six years with victory in the BMW International in Germany.

Headlines (02 September) :

Pakistan trio dropped
Suspected Pakistan 'spot-fixing' trio ruled out of the T20 and ODI series v England - but officials stress they're not suspended
McLeish future 'in doubt'
Birmingham vice chairman says Alex McLeish is 'not Jose Mourinho' after contract talks stall over Scot's wage demands
Ranting Roddick crashes out
Andy Roddick bellows at a line judge after a foot fault and throws rackets into the crowd after being knocked out in the US Open second round
Rio set for Goodison comeback
Rio Ferdinand set to be available for Manchester United's next Premier League match at Everton on 11 September after a run-out for the reserves
Murray: New York heat was 'brutal'
Andy Murray defies "brutal conditions" in New York to cruise into the second round of the US Open at Flushing Meadows
KP defeated on Surrey debut
Kevin Pietersen shows glimpses of his best at The Oval but his Surrey debut ends in disappointment as Worcestershire win their CB40 clash
Arteta ineligible for England
Everton midfielder Mikel Arteta's chances of playing for England are over after the FA deem him ineligible
Baltacha hopes for breakthrough
Elena Baltacha must wait to discover if she has broken into the world's top 50 after bowing out of the US Open with a defeat to Petra Kvitova

International Results Roundup

Dateline 01 September 2010

FOOTBALL
Football League Trophy
Northern Section - First Round
Sheff Wed 2 Notts County 1
Football League Trophy Southern Section - First Round
Brighton 0 Leyton Orient 2
CRICKET
Durham v Nottinghamshire LV County Championship : Division One at Emirates Durham ICG
Durham 372 all out 103.5 ovs Nottinghamshire 274 - 7 99.3 ovs In Progress
Lancashire v Hampshire LV County Championship : Division One at Liverpool
Lancashire 398 all out 134 ovs Hampshire 160 all out 47.4 ovs 39 - 0 15.4 ovs In Progress
Warwickshire v Kent LV County Championship : Division One at Edgbaston
Warwickshire 294 all out 84.4 ovs 140 all out 33.1 ovs Kent 111 all out 31.3 ovs 161 - 7 44.3 ovs In Progress
Gloucestershire v Derbyshire LV County Championship : Division Two at Bristol
Gloucestershire 156 all out 35.1 ovs 70 all out 24.3 ovs Derbyshire 44 all out 16.1 ovs 236 all out 73 ovs Derbyshire won by 54 runs.
TENNIS
US OPEN
Men's Singles - Second Round
Gael Monfils (17) 6 6 6 - - Igor Andreev 3 4 3 - -
Janko Tipsarevic 3 7 6 7 (7) - Andy Roddick (9) 6 5 3 6 (4) -
Gilles Simon 6 6 6 - - Donald Young 1 4 2 - -
Tobias Kamke 2 6 2 4 - Philipp Kohlschreiber (29) 6 4 6 6 -
Sergiy Stakhovsky 6 (8) 7 6 6 - Peter Luczak 7 (10) 5 4 2 -
Ryan Harrison 6 6 (4) 6 6 - Ivan Ljubicic (15) 3 7 (7) 3 4 -
Andy Murray (4) 6 6 6 - - Lukas Lacko 3 2 2 - -
Ruben Ramirez Hidalgo 4 6 (6) 5 - - Dustin Brown 6 7 (8) 7 - -
Juan Ignacio Chela 6 4 6 6 - Yen-Hsun Lu 4 6 3 3 -
Mikhail Kukushkin 3 2 2 - - Stanislas Wawrinka (25) 6 6 6 - -
Sam Querrey (20) 6 4 7 6 - Bradley Klahn 3 6 5 4 -
Marcel Granollers 2 5 6 6 6 Andreas Seppi 6 7 3 2 3
Guillermo Garcia-Lopez 6 6 7 (7) - - Lukasz Kubot 3 2 6 (4) - -
Potito Starace 6 4 4 6 (5) - Nicolas Almagro (14) 4 6 6 7 (7) -
Mikhail Youzhny (12) 6 6 6 - - Andrey Golubev 2 3 3 - -
Dudi Sela 7 (7) 7 6 - - Xavier Malisse 6 (1) 5 2 - -
Jack Sock 1 4 6 1 - Marco Chiudinelli 6 6 1 6 -
Frederico Gil 4 3 4 - - John Isner (18) 6 6 6 - -
Victor Hanescu 6 6 6 - - Carlos Berlocq 2 4 3 - -
Michael Llodra 7 (7) 6 6 - - Tomas Berdych (7) 6 (3) 4 4 - -
Women's Singles - Second Round
Francesca Schiavone (6) 6 6 - - - Maria Elena Camerin 2 1 - - -
Melanie Oudin 2 5 - - - Alona Bondarenko (29) 6 7 - - -
Petra Kvitova (27) 7 (7) 6 - - - Elena Baltacha 6 (5) 3 - - -
Sybille Bammer 3 4 - - - Elena Dementieva (12) 6 6 - - -
Sara Errani 6 6 - - - Alisa Kleybanova (28) 2 3 - - -
Gisela Dulko 5 - - - - Victoria Azarenka (10) 1 - - - - Match won by retirement
Tsvetana Pironkova (32) 4 0 - - - Mandy Minella 6 6 - - -
Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (20) 6 6 - - - Sania Mirza 2 4 - - -
Sally Peers 2 1 - - - Kim Clijsters (2) 6 6 - - -
Shahar Peer (16) 6 6 - - - Pauline Parmentier 2 3 - - -
Samantha Stosur (5) 6 6 - - - Anastasia Rodionova 1 4 - - -
Agnes Szavay 1 4 - - - Flavia Pennetta (19) 6 6 - - -
Daniela Hantuchova (24) 5 6 6 - - Vania King 7 3 4 - -
Marion Bartoli (13) 5 4 - - - Virginie Razzano 7 6 - - -
Rebecca Marino 6 (3) 3 - - - Venus Williams (3) 7 (7) 6 - - -
Ana Ivanovic 6 6 - - - Jie Zheng (21) 3 0 -
HOCKEY
England made it two wins from two Pool B matches at the World Cup in Argentina with a single-goal victory over China on Wednesday. They got off to the perfect start as Hannah Macleod's goal in the first minute following a penalty corner put them in control. Goalkeeper Beth Storry then performed heroics to keep the Chinese at bay.
ATHLETICS
Tyson Gay blew away the field and made light of his anticipated duel with Nesta Carter to win the IAAF World Challenge event in Zagreb tonight. Carter equalled Gay's season-best time of 9.78seconds in Rieti last Sunday, but he was blown away by the American who finished 0.15secs ahead of him. Gay clocked a time of 9.92secs, into a slight headwind, with Jamaican Carter second and Mike Rodgers third.