June 2005 in Britain and Ireland - 5 June 2005

5 June 2005

• Rugby union:
  • In their North American tour, Wales defeats the USA in East Hartford, Connecticut by a record 77 points to 3, despite two-thirds of their regular team being unavailable through being on the British and Irish Lions team currently touring New Zealand. (BBC)

• 2005 English cricket season:
  • Bangladesh Tour, 2nd Test:
    • England (447 for 3 declared, Ian Bell 162*, Marcus Trescothick 151, Graham Thorpe 66*) beat Bangladesh (104, Steve Harmison 5/38, and 316, Aftab Ahmed 82*, Javed Omar 71, Habibul Bashar 63, Matthew Hoggard 5 for 73) by an innings and 27 runs to win the second Test at Riverside, Chester-le-Street. England win the two-Test series 2-0 to cement their ranking as the second-best Test team in the world. Bangladesh remain tenth.
  • Australian Tour of England:
    • The Australian team has landed in England to start their tour of England
  • National League, Division One:
    • The match between Glamorgan (2pts) and Nottinghamshire (2pts) is abandoned without a ball being bowled
  • National League, Division Two:
• Boxing:
  • Ricky Hatton defeats Kostya Tszyu to become the new IBF Light Welterweight champion of the world at the MEN Arena in Manchester, England. Tszyu was behind on the cards of all three judges when he failed to answer the bell for the 12th, and final, round. (BBC)
• Football (soccer):
  • Women's Euro 2005
    • Sweden and Denmark battle to a 1-1 draw in the opening match at Bloomfield Road in Blackpool. (BBC)
    • In the day's second match, a competition-record crowd of 29,092 at the City of Manchester Stadium watches England defeat Finland 3-2 in a match in the same group. The Finns came back from 0-2 at half-time to tie the match 2-2 when Laura Kalmari scored with two minutes to go, but England's 17-year-old striker Karen Carney scored the decisive goal in injury time. (BBC)