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Cricket World Cup 2023 This article is more than 3 months oldViewers turned off by empty stadium for England’s Cricket World Cup openerThis article is more than 3 months oldOrganisers happy despite huge number of empty seatsCrowd shuns exposed lower tier due to hot weatherCricket World Cup organisers said they were happy with the attendance at the tournament’s opening match between England and New Zealand despite the large expanses of empty seats in Ahmedabad that prompted a blend of criticism and derision from global onlookers.

Organ GrinderTelevision industryYour favourite TV shows of 2005So here it is, MediaGuardian readers' top 20 favourite TV shows of 2005. The list was compiled using a fiendishly complex formula, which involved totting up the points score for each show (five points if it was placed 1st, down to one for 5th), and then if programmes had the same points tally, ordering them according to the number of people who voted for each.

SportblogOakland Athletics This article is more than 8 months oldBaseball’s last dive bar: Farewell to the crumbling Oakland ColiseumThis article is more than 8 months oldBryan Armen GrahamThe stadium that’s prompted the Athletics’ move to Las Vegas was just as outdated and unfashionable as advertised. Naturally, I loved it Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, the fifth-oldest stadium in Major League Baseball and the home of the A’s since 1968, has been called baseball’s last dive bar.

6 Nov 202318.56 ESTMatch reportIga Swiatek back on top of world after WTA Finals demolition of Jessica PegulaRead more6 Nov 202318.31 ESTTumaini CarayolHere is Tumaini Carayol’s verdict – stay tuned for the full report. Iga Swiatek continued on the path to becoming one of the greatest tennis players of her time as she demolished Jessica Pegula 6-1, 6-0 to win the WTA Finals for the first time in her young, brilliant career.

TV reviewTelevision & radioReviewThe New World’s historical horrors get the Downton treatment in this sprawling period drama about settlers in small-town Virginia. It’s a storyteller’s goldmine There was a news story the other day about how a shortage of women on the Faroe Islands has led to men importing wives from Thailand. Jamestown (Sky1) is centred around the same sort of idea, only four centuries earlier: the men are British colonists in Virginia sending for wives from the old country.

World newsKiller's secret behind revenge attackGerman police yesterday began piecing together the secret life of the teenage killer who killed 16 people before shooting himself in a classroom bloodbath. Nineteen-year-old Robert Steinhäuser murdered more than a third of the teaching staff at his grammar school in the picturesque east German cathedral town of Erfurt, apparently in revenge for his expulsion two months earlier. His orgy of slaughter was launched on the opening day of the school-leavers' examinations, and yesterday it became clear why.

Australian theatreReviewEternity Playhouse, Darlinghurst Theatre Company This stage production sits among the best adaptations of John Ajvide Lindqvist’s novel, in which a lonely 12-year-old Swede falls for a centuries-old bloodsucker Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email For a novel less than 20 years old, John Ajvide Lindqvist’s Let he Right One In has spawned enough adaptations that its title now doubles as a guide: be careful, for not all versions of this Swedish horror romance are created equal.

TheatreObituaryMalcolm Tierney obituaryStage and screen actor who excelled in playing authority figures and appeared in TV shows such as Brookside and LovejoyMalcolm Tierney, who has died aged 75 of pulmonary fibrosis, was a reliable and versatile supporting actor for 50 years, familiar to television audiences as the cigar-smoking, bullying villain Tommy McArdle in Brookside, nasty Charlie Gimbert in Lovejoy and smoothie Geoffrey Ellsworth-Smythe in David Nobbs's A Bit of a Do, a Yorkshire small-town comedy chronicle starring David Jason and Gwen Taylor.

Mikaela Shiffrin This article is more than 1 year oldMikaela Shiffrin places fourth in Cortina downhill as record pursuit continuesThis article is more than 1 year oldSofia Goggia takes Cortina downhill as Shiffrin places fourthShiffrin remains tied with Vonn for women’s record on 82 winsAmerican skier Mikaela Shiffrin’s pursuit of a record-breaking 83rd World Cup victory will go on for at least another day. Shiffrin finished fourth, half a second behind race winner Sofia Goggia, in a downhill on Friday on the course that will be used for the 2026 Milan-Cortina Olympics.