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Travis Head has won the Allan Border Medal for the second straight year, and yet the man scoring six hundred and twenty nine runs as an Ashes opener still won't call himself a true opener. Head says the role is an evolution, not an identity, and with twenty Tests on the horizon across Bangladesh, South Africa, and beyond, Australia will need him comfortable wherever he stands.
Turning now to deeply sobering news out of Japan, where Fijian rugby player Saimoni Vunilagi has died at just twenty six years old after suffering suspected heatstroke during a training session with Kyushu Electric Power Kyuden Voltex in Fukuoka. He fell ill on Monday, was hospitalized immediately, and passed away Friday. The rugby world is mourning a young man taken far too soon.
And in the Championship transfer market, Middlesbrough have secured goalkeeper Radek Vitek from Manchester United for an undisclosed fee. The twenty two year old Czech spent last season on loan at Bristol City, making forty one league appearances. He becomes the seventh signing for Boro as they build serious depth ahead of what they hope is a push up the table.
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