Sports Personality of the Year betting: Earps favourite for BBC award

England Women’s goalkeeper Mary Earps is the red-hot favourite in Coral’s BBC Sports Personality of the Year betting following the unveiling of the final six contenders today. 

The 30-year-old helped England reach the Women’s World Cup final in August before eventually losing 1-0 to Spain in the final.

Earps was awarded the Golden Glove by keeping three clean sheets throughout the tournament.

The Manchester United stopper is 1/7 to succeed England team-mate Beth Mead in taking the award to add to her other accolades.

She was named England Women player of the year, came fifth in the voting for the 2023 Ballon d’Or Feminin award – the highest ranking for a goalkeeper – and kept a Women’s Super League record 14 clean sheets for United last season.

Earps is joined on the shortlist by retired cricketer Stuart Broad, jockey Frankie Dettori, heptathlete Katarina Johnson-Thompson, wheelchair tennis player Alfie Hewett and golfer Rory McIlroy.

Broad is the second favourite in the Sports Personality of the Year betting and is 10/1 to become the first cricketer to win the award since Ben Stokes in 2019.

He became England’s second leading Test wicket taker with 604 before announcing his retirement on the penultimate day of the fifth and final Ashes Test and helping them draw the series against Australia at the Oval by taking a wicket with his final ball bowled and hitting a six off the last ball he faced.