LONDON -- The venue was familiar. The vantage point was not.

Few people on the planet know Stamford Bridge better than Frank Lampard, who turned the West London stadium into his own back garden during a phenomenal 13-year Chelsea career in which he won 11 major trophies and became the club's record goal scorer. But while he probably trampled every single blade of grass on the pitch during his time in Chelsea blue, he didn't spend much time in the dugout. Of the 218 Premier League appearances he made at the Bridge, only 15 came from the bench.

The bench, though, is his new domain, and it is was towards that area, just to the right of the players' tunnel, that all eyes in the stadium turned when the new Chelsea manager emerged shortly before kickoff in his side's 1-1 draw with Leicester City on Sunday. Wearing a white tracksuit top and dark blue tracksuit bottoms, he embraced Leicester manager Brendan Rodgers at the mouth of the tunnel before applauding all four sides of the ground, a chorus of "Super Frankie Lampard!" booming down from all around.

A photographic portrait of Lampard against a gold background adorned the front of the match programme. On the walk to the ground down Fulham Road, blue and white "SUPER FRANK LAMPARD" scarves hung from every stall. In the shadow cast by the chunk of wall from the back of the original Shed End, which runs along the stadium's southern perimeter, fans posed for photographs in front of a picture of a beaming Lampard brandishing the Champions League trophy in 2012. Win or lose, this day was always going to be about him.

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As it happened, Lampard spent most of the first half standing on the edge of his technical area, rather than sitting in the dugout, and it was from there that he watched Mason Mount give his side a seventh-minute lead that rewarded the hosts' aggressive start to the game. When Wilfred Ndidi turned his back on the play after receiving the ball from goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel, Mount pounced, nicking the ball off the Nigerian and brilliantly clipping a low shot past the flatfooted Schmeichel with his right foot.

Lampard punched the air with delight before turning to flash a telling grin at his coaching staff. Mount was with him on loan at Derby County last season, where Lampard launched his managerial career, and the 20-year-old academy graduate's integration into the Chelsea first XI is a central pillar of the former England midfielder's quest to make the West London club competitive despite the transfer ban they are under.

Lampard spoke out in defence of Mount after the midfielder's place in the team was questioned by Jose Mourinho, Lampard's former Stamford Bridge mentor, in the wake of Chelsea's 4-0 defeat at Manchester United on the opening weekend. This was vindication, but it would be fleeting.

Chelsea's transfer embargo meant that, contrary to previous seasons, there was only one new signing making his home debut. U.S. international Christian Pulisic had shown exciting glimpses of his talent in Wednesday's penalty shootout defeat by Liverpool in the UEFA Super Cup, but here he cut a peripheral figure and was withdrawn with 20 minutes remaining. By which time the game had changed completely.

Rodgers is no stranger to Stamford Bridge himself, having started his coaching career at Chelsea under Mourinho's tutelage, and as the game wore on his Leicester side assumed control.

Chelsea's commitment to front-foot football -- another tenet of the Lampard philosophy -- meant they kept leaving space in front of their back four, which Leicester's attacking players streamed into at will. After Hamza Choudhury and James Maddison had threatened, they levelled in the 66th minute when Ndidi found space between Kurt Zouma and Cesar Azpilicueta to head home Maddison's corner from the right and atone for his role in Chelsea's opener.

Lampard's response was to introduce Willian and Mateo Kovacic in place of Jorginho and Pulisic, having earlier sent on Tammy Abraham up front, but Leicester came closest to winning it when the dangerous Maddison skipped past Emerson Palmieri and blazed over. Although Chelsea continued to push, the final whistle brought more relief than frustration to the home supporters.

"That first patch [of the game] was how we want to play and the rest of the game was not how we want to play," said Lampard, who remains without a win after three games as Chelsea manager.

"In the second half we left far too many spaces for them. That was the disappointing thing for me, that we couldn't sustain that energy from the early part of the game.

"There are moments in games where we have to show personality. That's something we can all work on. I don't want to be an attacking team who can be given a sucker punch. There are strong lessons from today."

Lampard said tiredness in the wake of the 120 minutes played against Liverpool in Istanbul "had to be a factor" in the way his team's performance tailed off, but he refused to use it as an excuse and said he didn't want to bemoan Chelsea's transfer ban either. If these are the tools he must work with, then work with them he will.

Leicester's powerful second-half showing will have given Rodgers encouragement that his side, who drew 0-0 with Wolverhampton Wanderers last weekend, have what it takes to upset the established order in the Premier League by turfing teams like Chelsea out of the top six.

"I thought a point was the least we deserved," he said. "For us to play with that confidence was particularly pleasing. We played like a big team."

Nottinghamshire 41 for 0 trail Yorkshire 232 (Tattersall 92, Bresnan 58, Wood 5-67, Patterson-White 4-34) by 191 runs

Time was when Scarborough had a therapeutic effect on its visitors. There used to be a spa near the South Sands and Turner's painting of the town shows a beach busy with work yet luminously calm. Until they defeated Surrey in July such tranquility had eluded Yorkshire's cricketers in modern times. Rather than a stronghold, North Marine Road had been a stopping-off place for three successive county champions, and any nervousness was rekindled in the first hour of this game when the home side slumped to 38 for 5, all the wickets taken by the left-arm new-ball bowler, Luke Wood.

Yorkshire's fortunes were revived and their supporters' blood-pressure stabilised by Jonny Tattersall and Tim Bresnan's 121-run stand for the sixth wicket but Nottinghamshire still shaded a fascinating first day of a match they must surely win if their chances of avoiding relegation are to be grounded in more than mere arithmetic. Their coach, Peter Moores, can thus take some comfort from the four wickets taken by Liam Patterson-White, the slow left-armer preferred to Samit Patel for this game. And he can be even more encouraged by the calmness with which Jake Libby and Ben Slater put on 41 in the final 17 overs of the day. There is a great deal of work for the visitors to do if they are to record their first victory of the season but they have at least laid some foundations.

It could, of course, have been even better for Chris Nash's side. Had Tom Moores caught Tattersall's edge off Jake Ball instead of gloving it to the boundary at the Trafalgar Square End, Yorkshire's wicketkeeper would have been in the pavilion with only four runs against his name instead of the 92 he carefully accumulated. But by the time that catch was dropped, Nottinghamshire had already grabbed an initiative they never quite surrendered.

That it should have been so was entirely to the credit of Wood, one of whose many virtues being that he eschews the luxury of a loosener. Every ball in his first over compelled a response and in two instances, the shot played was inadequate. Adam Lyth nicked a fine outswinger to Moores before Gary Ballance, disconcerted by extra bounce, thick-edged a catch to Libby in the gully. Overjoyed by each success, Wood probed for more. In his second over Tom Kohler-Cadmore played for inswing but was bowled by one that held its line. Ten minutes later Harry Brook's atrocious waft outside the off stump merely gave a catch to Moores and Yorkshire's subsequent tentative recovery was ended on the hour when Will Fraine snicked Wood to Nash at third slip.

The remainder of the morning and much of the afternoon session was dominated by the batting of Tattersall and Bresnan, two batsmen whose contrasting style were complementary. Bresnan is such a battle-hardened old dog that he may not remember the last time he learned any new tricks. His 58 at Scarborough this afternoon was filled with the meaty clumps, two of them off Paul Coughlin, of the type one recalled from his salad days - another alien concept where Bresnan is concerned. But his innings was still a mightily effective effort and his stand with Tattersall offered home supporters by far their best watching of the day.

Tattersall is a deft batsman in red-ball cricket. Though plainly capable of the straight drives he executed off both Ball and Luke Fletcher he is more likely to proceed by way of well-timed tucks off the hip or the skilful deflections which keep the scoreboard moving, even when big shots are not possible. He prospers almost by stealth. Such attributes made Nottinghamshire's failure to take the chance he offered all the more regrettable even if the let-off did not seem critical at the time.

That the century partnership was raised by a no-ball from Wood symbolised both Yorkshire's recovery and Nottinghamshire's apparent failure to capitalise on an increasingly distant first hour. But just when the home side seemed likely to control the day entirely Patterson-White turned one just enough to take the edge of Bresnan's bat and Moores completed the dismissal. Before tea Keshav Maharaj had gone, too, yorked by Fletcher, and when Tattersall's cut only presented Moores with his fourth catch of the day, Nottinghamshire were all but sure they would be batting this evening.

What they would make of it was far less certain. Of the top-order batsmen at Trent Bridge only Nash has an average above 30 this season. But Slater and Libby did all that was required of them and those eventless evening overs offered some hope to supporters whose travails have been many.

Northamptonshire 140 for 3 (Wakely 63*, Keogh 53) trail Worcestershire 186 (Leach 53*, Hutton 6-57) by 46 runs

Brett Hutton took 6 for 57 to help Northamptonshire bowl Worcestershire out for just 186 on the first afternoon at Wantage Road before Alex Wakely and Rob Keogh shared a century stand for the third wicket as the home side then replied with 140 for 3.

Hutton's first five wickets came in the opening 50 minutes of play as he shot out the visitors' top order. But from 108 for 8 just after lunch, Jack Leach made a 38-ball fifty to help cobble something together for Worcestershire after choosing to bat first.

Twice Hutton was on a hat-trick as he claimed his eighth first-class five-wicket haul on a breezy day in Northampton. He began with a perfect delivery that moved away to flick the off bail of Championship debutant Jack Haynes and soon trapped Callum Ferguson lbw for 1 shuffling across his stumps.

Alex Milton nicked a lifter to wicketkeeper Adam Rossington and although Riki Wessels survived the hat-trick ball and sliced an edged at catchable height past between third and fourth slips, he soon fell for 6, lbw to Hutton. Next delivery Ben Cox edged to Keogh at third slip but in his next over, Moeen Ali kept out Hutton's second hat-trick ball of the morning.

Moeen's return for Worcestershire was unconvincing. Very short of form this summer, he looked unsure, driving loosely and twice in successive balls from Hutton, on 12 and 16, should have been held behind the wicket, slicing past third slip's shoulder and then between the wicketkeeper and first slip. He also drove in the air through cover before eventually slapping Nathan Buck to extra-cover. His 42 may have looked reasonable on the card but in terms of playing himself back into form, this knock would have counted for little.

By contrast Ed Barnard looked very assured, leaving the ball well and surviving 79 deliveries for a calm, composed 27 before he dragged Dwaine Pretorius into his stumps.

His was the second wicket to fall after lunch after Hutton struck again just after the break, finding the outside edge of Wayne Parnell whose chancy 30 was ended by Keogh's catch. But Worcestershire added useful runs from the tail, including a 52-run stand for the 10th wicket.

Leach led the progress making a merry unbeaten 53, playing positive but never reckless strokes. Josh Tongue providing competent company in making 20 before edging Buck to first slip.

In reply, Rob Newton dragged Tongue into his stumps for 2 and Ben Curran was given out lbw to Parnell for 10 - but replays suggested the ball would have missed leg stump and was possibly high too.

But Wakely and Keogh ensured Northants ended the first day firmly on top. Wakely skipped down the wicket to lift Moeen over long-on for six and turned Leach through square-leg for a sixth four to reach fifty in 101 balls - his third in the Championship this summer.

Keogh wristily drove Leach through the covers to raise the half-century stand and punched Moeen past extra-cover before competing his own fifty in 60 balls. But with six overs remaining in the day, went to work Parnell through midwicket and got a leading edge that was sharply held by Mitchell at second slip.

It rewarded a sustained period of pressure from Parnell and Moeen and forced Buck to come out as nightwatchman to see out the day - he got within three balls of doing so before ducking into a bouncer from Tongue, forcing play to a marginally premature end.

Durham 368 for 5 (Lees 181, Burnham 86) v Leicestershire

A superb innings of 181 from Alex Lees has handed Durham the perfect start to their Specsavers County Championship Division Two match against Leicestershire at Emirates Riverside.

Without Cameron Bancroft, the home side needed a performance from one of their frontline batsmen. Lees came to the fore with his best display since signing for the club last year, notching his highest score for Durham.

Lees batted at an excellent tempo throughout, working in partnerships with the upper and middle order to move Durham into a dominant position at the end of the day. Jack Burnham fell just before the close for an innings of 86, handing a rare moment of joy to the Leicestershire bowlers, who toiled all day at Chester-le-Street.

The home side were inserted after an uncontested toss, and Lees was assertive in his approach from the off to allow Durham to settle into their innings. He and Cameron Steel were able to safely see off the threat of the new ball, reaching their fifty partnership in the 15th over.

Lees settled into a rhythm and scored successive boundaries through the off side to notch his half-century. Steel's innings came to end on 24 when Gavin Griffiths found his outside edge and Colin Ackermann took the catch.

Angus Robson joined Lees at the crease on his Durham debut. The two players guided the hosts over the 100-run mark before Robson was pinned lbw by Will Davis. Peter Handscomb, replacing Bancroft in the line-up, found his form at the crease to ease the pressure on Lees. It allowed the opener to move seamlessly through the 90s.

Lees eased his way to his third century of the campaign from 137 balls by pulling a delivery from Chris Wright through the leg side to the fence. He survived a near miss when he edged a delivery behind from Wright later in the over, although for the second time in the day it travelled between Harry Swindells and Paul Horton. Handscomb was proving to be a good foil at the other end in a stand worth 77 as the Aussie made his way to 29 before he was removed lbw by Wright.

Lees was undeterred and carried his team to their first batting point before he and Burnham upped the ante before the tea break. The duo put the Leicestershire attack to the sword, elevating the run rate beyond four per over, reaching the fifty partnership for the fourth wicket in just 51 deliveries. The second batting point was achieved just before the interval with the hosts adding 159 runs in the afternoon session alone.

After the restart, Lees quickly notched his 150 - the first time he had achieved the milestone as a Durham player. Burnham's aggressive style at the other end propelled the hosts towards the 300-run mark, notching his fourth half-century of the campaign cutting a short Davis ball to the fence. Burnham brought up the century stand in style, smashing a short Davis delivery, but this time over the rope.

Durham worked their way past the 300 to secure a third batting point as Lees and Burnham continued to pile on the runs. Lees survived a good shout of lbw from Abbas on 170, but after adding 11 further runs the seamer snagged his wicket trapping him in front of off-stump, ending an outstanding innings from the Yorkshireman.

Burnham and Liam Trevaskis added the fourth batting point, although the former fell just before the close.

England 258 (Burns 53, Bairstow 52) and 258 for 5 dec (Stokes 115*, Cummins 3-35) drew with Australia 250 (Smith 92, Broad 4065) and 154 for 6 (Labuschagne 59, Head 42, Archer 3-32, Leach 3-37)

In a match featuring such high drama, there had to be a twist or two. So there was as England dominated an Australia side missing the concussed Steven Smith, threatened to snatch victory via Jofra Archer's fireballs and then succumbed to some dogged batting by Smith's replacement as the second Test ended in a draw - but not before the hosts threatened for a second time to steal the win.

Smith was ruled out before play on the final day at Lord's after waking with symptoms of concussion, despite initial assessments having cleared him to resume his innings the previous day after suffering a nasty blow to the neck from an Archer bouncer. After rain delayed the start by more than an hour, the sun broke through to reveal a continuation of the thrilling contest this match had become after a washed-out opening day.

Marnus Labuschagne, the first concussion replacement in Test history under play conditions introduced on August 1, withstood more Archer barrages to score a half-century which was pivotal in helping Australia avoid defeat after Archer and Jack Leach had nullified the tourists' top order. Labuschagne's 59 was Australia's top score for their second innings and came after he had been hit flush on the helmet grille by a ball from Archer on the first legal delivery he faced.

Archer picked up where he left off in Australia's first innings, which fell just eight runs shy of England's 258, unleashing serious heat on the visitors, who needed 267 runs to win after Man of the Match Ben Stokes' impressive unbeaten century turned the hosts' paltry lead into a healthy one.

David Warner's lean Ashes continued when he prodded an Archer length ball to gully, where Rory Burns took a strong, low catch. Out for 5, it was Warner's fourth single-figure innings in the series so far.

Archer immediately set about peppering Usman Khawaja, greeting Australia's No. 3 with three balls of 90mph or more. It wasn't long at all before Khawaja was out edging Archer to Jonny Bairstow behind the stumps for 2 off just six deliveries. Cameron Bancroft put up some resistance with Labuschagne before Leach trapped Bancroft lbw with one that kept low and rapped him on the shin shortly after tea. That extended Bancroft's run of poor returns this series to four innings also with scores of 8, 7, 13 and 16.

From there, Labuschagne and Travis Head put on an 85-run stand for the fourth wicket, which became a sub-plot in itself. Labuschagne wore a few body blows and survived an lbw appeal, turned down and then reviewed by England with the DRS showing Chris Woakes' ball struck him too high on the back leg and outside the line. Head, meanwhile, was dropped on 22 by Jason Roy in the slips off the bowling of Stokes when Australia were 96 for 3.

But it was Labuschagne's dismissal that provided the next spike in tension. As the batsman swept a Leach delivery onto the leg side, the ball bounced off Jos Buttler's thigh at short leg and sailed just forward of square leg, where Joe Root claimed the lowest of catches. After a soft signal of out and a lengthy review the dismissal was upheld, with replays not entirely conclusive as to whether the ball had made contact with the grass first.

Matthew Wade, caught at short leg off Leach's next ball - the first of his subsequent over - and Tim Paine fell cheaply, although in Paine's case, spectacularly, with Joe Denly plucking the ball one-handed from the sky as he leapt to his left at mid-wicket to give Archer his third wicket of the innings and fifth of the match.

At that point there were seven overs left with England needing four wickets but Head remained unbeaten on 42, alongside Pat Cummins, when the sides shook hands on the draw with three balls unbowled. Archer finished the innings with 3 for 32 and Leach 3 for 37.

Earlier, Stokes had given England the chance of pressing for victory. Moving up one place in the order to No. 5 ahead of Buttler, Stokes' unbeaten 115 off 165 balls included three sixes and 11 fours after he had resumed the day on 16. Buttler, who resumed not out 10, produced a controlled 31 off 108 balls but he failed to add to his score after lunch. Jonny Bairstow added 30 off 37 balls in support as Stokes neared his century and, once the milestone was reached, the pair swung freely until Root made the declaration a short time later.

Smith, who scored twin centuries in Australia's first-Test victory at Edgbaston, will undergo continued testing to determine whether he is fit to play in the third Test, starting at Headingley on Thursday.

DENVER -- Colorado Rockies right-hander Scott Oberg has been treated for a blood clot in his pitching arm for the second time in his career.

Manager Bud Black said Oberg had a procedure to dissolve the clot at a hospital on Saturday and remained there overnight. The Rockies put Oberg on the 10-day injured list Sunday.

Black said the 28-year-old Oberg started feeling heaviness in his arm on Saturday and alerted the training staff. They sent him to the hospital for an examination and the clot was discovered.

Oberg (6-1) replaced struggling Wade Davis as the team closer two weeks ago and picked up his sixth save in Friday night's win over Miami

Oberg has previously dealt with an axillary artery thrombosis, more commonly known as blood clots. In 2016, he had two surgeries to remove them from his right arm and shoulder. He was prescribed blood-thinning medication and missed the last six weeks of the season.

The Rockies recalled righty DJ Johnson from Triple-A Albuquerque.

Houston Astros infielder Aledmys Diaz was placed on the 10-day injured list after he was hospitalized overnight because of dizziness, manager A.J. Hinch said Sunday.

Hinch said Diaz was experiencing dizziness and was light-headed on the team's bus on the way to RingCentral Coliseum in Oakland on Saturday morning. He was sent to the hospital and was kept overnight to undergo testing and is "fine," Hinch said.

The Astros are "taking every precaution imaginal to make sure he's OK," Hinch said, adding that Diaz should travel back to Houston with the team after their game against the Oakland Athletics on Sunday.

The Astros activated right-hander Brad Peacock (shoulder) from the injured list and recalled right-hander Cy Sneed from Triple-A Round Rock in corresponding moves. The team had an open roster spot after optioning right-hander Rogelio Armenteros to the minors after Saturday's game.

The 29-year-old Diaz, who has started games at first base, second base, shortstop, third base and left field this season, is hitting .267 with seven home runs and 28 RBIs in 45 games.

Heptathletes separated by single centimetre as Olympic champ breaks Belgian best for Diamond League victory ahead of Katarina Johnson-Thompson and Ivana Španović

The clash between Nafissatou Thiam and Katarina Johnson-Thompson in Doha in six and a half weeks’ time looks even more mouthwatering after the pair were separated by just a single centimetre in an exciting Müller Grand Prix long jump competition in Birmingham.

They might have been competing in just one event rather than their usual seven, but the head-to-head at the Alexander Stadium whet the appetite ahead of October’s global battle, when Olympic champion Thiam will look to retain her heptathlon title at the IAAF World Championships and Johnson-Thompson will seek outdoor victory to go with her world indoor win.

On a blustery day featuring sunshine and showers, the two heptathletes lined up alongside long jump specialists including world indoor champion Ivana Španović and Brits Abigail Irozuru and Lorraine Ugen, and they more than held their own.

Thiam opened with 6.44m (+0.1m/sec) which placed her third at the end of the first round as Španović leapt into an early lead with 6.70m (+0.2m/sec) and Johnson-Thompson recorded a foul.

The next round saw Thiam soar out to 6.74m (-0.3m/sec), breaking her own Belgian record, but Serbia’s Španović responded by going four centimetres further into a -1.8m/sec headwind. There was a second foul for Johnson-Thompson, but the Briton turned things around with her next jump.

After watching Thiam further improve her national record to 6.86m (+0.9m.sec), Johnson-Thompson launched herself out to 6.74m (-0.9m/sec) while Španović recorded 6.85m which would prove to be the Olympic and world bronze medallist’s best of the competition.

Johnson-Thompson wasn’t done, however, as she saved her best leap until last and soared out to 6.85m (+0.4m/sec) to match Španović’s mark and place third on countback.

The jump was Johnson-Thompson’s best since 2015 when she set her PB of 6.93m indoors and would score 1122 points in a heptathlon, just three points off Thiam’s 1125 for 6.86m.

Just behind her in fourth was Irozuru, who was pleased to have achieved the world championships qualifying mark having been just two centimetres off it at the European Team Championships.

Ugen finished seventh with 6.61m.

“It was a really good competition,” said Thiam, who will celebrate her 25th birthday in Birmingham before returning home on Monday.

“It gives me confidence because of the performance I had.

“Being first or second didn’t matter. Španović was 6.85m, so only one centimetre difference. It was great to be in competition with jumpers and with Kat and we’re always really pushing each other.”

Johnson-Thompson was also pleased with her own performance and said: “I haven’t jumped that far in a long time and I’m really happy with that showing.

“It spurs me on going up against her (Thiam) in an individual format like today.”

The women’s 200m had also been highly anticipated as another world championships warm-up, with a stellar field taking to the track.

Britain’s triple European champion Dina Asher-Smith lined up alongside Olympic 400m champion Shaunae Miller-Uibo, multiple Olympic and world gold medallist Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, two-time world champion Dafne Schippers, current world No.2 Blessing Okagbare and US champion Dezerea Bryant.

Asher-Smith got a strong start but Miller-Uibo used her power to pass the British record-holder down the home straight, with the Bahamian clocking 22.24 (+0.4m/sec) ahead of Asher-Smith’s 22.36, as Fraser-Pryce finished third in 22.50, Schippers fourth in 22.81 and Okagbare fifth in 22.83.

“I am really happy to have finished second in that race although having said that, I am a competitor so obviously I want to win every race!” said Asher-Smith.

“To maintain my form and finish strongly against arguably the best 400m runner in the world is good. So, all in all, I am happy with that race.”

Bryant ran 22.84 in sixth, having earlier finished as runner-up in the non-Diamond League 100m in 11.21 (-0.9m/sec) behind Germany’s fast-finishing Tatjana Pinto.

USA’s Teahna Daniels was third in 11.24, while Rachel Miller was the leading Briton in sixth in 11.42, as Kimbely Baptiste ran 11.71 in seventh and Bianca Williams 11.77 in eighth.

Britain’s T38 world record-holder and Paralympic champion Sophie Hahn won the women’s T35-38 100m in 12.67 ahead of world long jump champion Olivia Breen in 13.28.

Over in the Millicent Fawcett mile Konstanze Klosterhalfen broke the oldest women’s meeting record, which was Sonia O’Sullivan’s 4:24.27 recorded in Sheffield in 1992, with a German record of 4:21.11. The race was missing British 1500m record-holder Laura Muir due to a calf injury but her training partners Gabriela DeBues-Stafford and Jemma Reekie were both in action and they respectively clocked 4:22.47 in second and a PB of 4:27.00 in sixth.

Eilish McColgan placed third in a PB of 4:24.71.

Another meeting record fell in the 3000m steeplechase, with world record-holder Beatrice Chepkoech winning in 9:05.55 as Britain’s Elizabeth Bird was 13th in 9:50.97, Rosie Clarke 15th in 9:54.25 and Aimee Pratt 16th in 9:58.68.

World leader Danielle Williams was almost a record-breaker, too, as she equalled the 100m hurdles best with 12.46 (-0.2m/sec) ahead of world record-holder Keni Harrison with 12.66.

Williams (12.53, +2.1m/sec) and Nia Ali (12.81, +0.5m/sec) had earlier been heat winners, with Harrison only placing fourth in her heat but advancing to the final thanks to her time of 12.93.

Britain’s Cindy Ofili, Heather Paton and Alicia Barrett had also raced in the heats, with Ofili clocking 13.15 and Paton 13.25 for sixth and seventh respectively in the marginally windy heat two and Barrett running 13.64 for eighth in heat one.

USA’s Ajee Wilson won the 800m in 2:00.76 as Britain’s Lynsey Sharp finished strongly for second in 2:01.09 and Alex Bell placed fifth in 2:02.41.

In tough conditions for pole vaulting, Olympic champion Katerina Stefanidi secured success with a clearance of 4.75m and called it a day after one attempt at 4.85m.

British record-holder Holly Bradshaw finished sixth with 4.55m and was happy after having decided to use a 10-step approach.

World-leader Yaime Pérez claimed discus victory thanks to her third-round throw of 64.87m. That mark was enough to put her ahead of fellow Cuban and current world No.2 Denia Caballero (64.59m) and Croatia’s Sandra Perković (63.80m), who continues her comeback after injury.