August 2005 in Sports - 12 August 2005

12 August 2005

• Cricket:
  • 2005 English cricket season:
    • County Championship, Division One:
      • Warwickshire (545 for 7 dec. & 3 for 0) beat Glamorgan (239 & 308) by 10 wickets. (BBC)
      • Sussex (365 & 264 for 5 dec.) beat Gloucestershire (224 & 179) by 226 runs. (BBC)
    • Bangladesh A in England in 2005: Surrey (336 for 5 dec. & 332 for 6 dec.) drew with Bangladesh A (336 & 113 for 1) in the second Tour match at the Oval. (BBC)
    • Australian Women in England in 2005: England Women (273 & 172 for 7) drew with Australia Women (355 & 223) in the first Test at Hove. (BBC)
    • Sri Lanka Under-19s in England in 2005: England Under 19 (294 & 280) beat Sri Lanka Under 19 (227 & 164) by 183 runs in the second 'Test' at Scarborough, taking an unassailable 2–0 lead in the series. (BBC)

• Athletics (track and field): World Championships: Totally outperforming the competition, Yelena Isinbayeva of Russia betters the world record in women's pole vault by 1 centimetre, to 5.01 m, winning the gold medal in the Championship event in Helsinki. Isinbayeva also had the previous world record, set only three weeks ago in London. (IAAF Website)

• Golf: US PGA Championship: Phil Mickelson shot a five-under par 65 to take the lead after two rounds of the 2005 PGA Championship, the final major on the golf calendar. Play was delayed on the fourth hole when a branch of a tree fell following the group with Tiger Woods teeing off, injuring three people, including two CBS Sports employees, one of them with a broken leg. Woods will make the cut (set at four-over par) continuing his streak of not missing a cut at any of the four majors. (Official PGA Championship Website)