
Tour de France 2025: Van der Poel wins stage two and takes yellow jersey – as it happened
Mathieu van der Poel won a dramatic sprint finish to claim the yellow jersey after a rain-hit ride to Boulogne

Mathieu van der Poel won a dramatic sprint finish to claim the yellow jersey after a rain-hit ride to Boulogne

England were well beaten in the second Test at Edgbaston, India winning by 336 runs as Akash Deep finished with 6-99 and 10-187 overall

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