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“Are you going to have nightmares…” “Yes!” The question wasn’t even fully formed yet and Meg Lanning had provided the answer. No, she wasn’t going to sleep well after hitting the catch that would give footer Alana King a hat-trick, her country’s second in the women’s T20Is. To be honest, Lanning, the Australia captain, was a kind person about the situation, from burying his face in the Edgbaston grass there, where if you gave him 99 equal chances, he would take it, to grimacing in the background as reporters questioned King a few yards away. afterwards about the incident and then confronted the same reporters, knowing very well what was going to happen. “I’m going to have nightmares,” Lanning said. “I wanted to dig a hole and jump into it as fast as I could. I tried my best and I dropped it.” Softening the blow somewhat was the fact that Australia had one foot in the Commonwealth Games semi-finals with...

Devon Allen did not jump before the starting gun in the final of the 110m hurdles at the world athletics championships, but he was still disqualified for a wrong start. The 27-year-old hopes to clinch a world title before starting a three-season wide receiver contract with the NFL Philadelphia Eagles. He qualified fourth fastest for the final but was too soon out of the blocks. This is what it means in the world of athletics. Did Allen really leave the starting block too early? Yes and no. He doesn’t leave before the gun starts firing, but sensors on the block measure “reaction time” which is the amount of time it takes a runner’s leg to leave the block after the gun explodes. Devon Allen has signed a rookie contract with the Philadelphia Eagles. ( AP: Ashley Landis ) Obviously, leaving the starting block before the gun explodes is not an act, but the rules also say it is a false start if a runner leaves in 0.1 seconds after gun — the idea that no one might r...