Commonwealth Games 2022 LIVE: Laura Muir storms to 1500m gold after England win women’s hockey title

England’s women are getting their cricket campaign underway against Sri Lanka - that’s just started and England are bowling at Edgbaston. The cricket is a T20 format remember.

Katherine Brunt is winning her 100th T20I cap in this match - absolute legend of the sport.

FULL-TIME: England 12-0 Ghana

A complete thumping by England as they score four goals in the final quarter to seal a 12-0 triumph over Ghana in the women’s hockey competition.

Grace Balsdon, Anna Toman, Hannah Martin and Laura Unsworth netted in that fourth quarter. Job done.

A huge relief that Truman and Glaetzer are both moving and hopefully no long-lasting damage has been done. They’re in safe hands with the medical personnel.

In the carnage of the crash, they’re taking the result of the heat as it occurred so close to the end, meaning Shah Sahrom of Malaysia, Trinidad’s Kwesi Browne and Jack Carlin of Scotland advance to the men’s keirin final.

The track is cleared and tidied and the second semi-final can commence. There’s a bit of an edge to the atmosphere (understandably) at the Lee Valley Velodrome but it’s a second Trinidadian, Nicholas Paul, who wins it, while Callum Saunders (NZL) and Matt Richardson (AUS) also advance in second and third.

CRASH! This looks really, really nasty for England’s Joe Truman.

In the first men’s keirin semi-final, on the final lap, Australia’s Matt Glaetzer goes down after clipping the bike in front, right in front of Truman, who can’t avoid him and goes down hard. Truman’s body seems to go limp as he slides down the banking and he doesn’t move for a couple of minutes as medics surround him. It’s scary stuff

Eventually he sits up, amid huge roars from the crowd. That’s a huge relief. He is put into an oxygen mask, transferred into a wheelchair and wheeled off the track.

Glaetzer also went down hard - his skinsuit is in an absolute state, torn to shreds but the two-time Commonwealth keirin champion was able to get up of his own accord and walk back to the Australian pen.

They were probably travelling at 70kph when the crash happened.

Saaga Malosa and Ampex Isaac could be forgiven for not being too concerned by talk of the relevance of the Commonwealth - or these Games. They are more worried for the future of their nation, writes James Toney in Birmingham.

Tuvalu - population 11,931 - is the third smallest country in the world, behind only Nauru and Vatican City. Compromised of just nine islands and thinly-populated atolls, it faces extinction because of climate change.

Rising seas and deadly storms have started to swamp the islands, specks in the Solomon Sea, and fears are growing that Tuvalu will be soon uninhabitable or may vanish completely.

There is even an emergency plan to evacuate the entire country to a few uninhabited islands that currently belong to Fiji.

All of which puts a 21-10, 21-12 defeat to England’s Javier and Joaquin Bello in the beach volleyball preliminary rounds into rather stark contrast.

England’s Charlie Tanfield misses out on bronze in the men’s 4000m individual pursuit as Australia’s Conor Leahy edges him by over a second in the bronze medal race.

Tanfield has to settle for fourth, meanwhile it’s another bronze for the Australian medal tally.

A home nations humbling at the Commonwealth Games has only exacerbated the turmoil in rugby sevens ahead of next season’s merger of England, Scotland, and Wales, writes Andy Baber in Birmingham.

Only Scotland’s men made it through to the knockout phase at Birmingham 2022, with Team England’s men and women both falling short of the medal matches in Coventry.

This year’s hosts claimed double bronze at Gold Coast 2018 but comprehensive defeats to New Zealand in their final group games ensured there would be no repeat four years later.

Those results come off the back of the decision from the three unions to combine once again to form Great Britain men’s and women’s teams for the 2023 World Sevens Series.

And opinion amongst the players was mixed on the future direction of the sevens game.

England 8-0 Ghana

England are hammering Ghana in the women’s hockey now and double figures are well within sight.

Tess Howard, Hannah Martin and Lily Owsley have added goals since half-time and we’re now at the end of the third quarter.

Valiant efforts from both Emma Finucane and Sophie Capewell in the second heats of their best-of-three women’s sprint semi-finals after losing the opener but ultimately to no avail.

They both get pipped on the line, meaning it will be England vs Wales in the bronze medal contest later this afternoon, with Ellesse Andrews (NZL) and Kelsey Mitchell (CAN) battling for gold.

The men’s keirin first-round repechages are underway and England’s Joe Truman wins his repechage ahead of Scotland’s Alistair Fielding to reach the second round.

Only the winner of each repechage advances and England’s Hayden Norris misses out as Australia’s Thomas Cornish beats him on the line.