Sporting pictures of the Week :- 15 August

It hasn’t been a great week in Aotearoa but probably not as bad as it was for Lionel Messi.

Self-isolation corner.  Sonny Bill Williams and family in Sydney.

The Kirwan family doing it right in Auckland.

Apparently David Beckham is planning a Netflix documentary along the lines of The Last Dance.

You have to wonder what angle it will focus on.

It has been a winter of relaying cricket pitches.  University Oval in Dunedin.

From The Archives.  Gavin Larsen nailing the 1990s.

Here are three even bigger cricket stars from the 1990s at various stages of the ageing process.

46 years ago this week saw the most memorable Charity Shield match of all time.

They even wrote a book, and made a movie about it.