<p>Having spent 79 years lamenting Davis Cup tennis as an arcane peculiarity, Great Britain went union jack-waving mad for the newly discovered Most Important Contest in World Sport as Andy Murray led the team to a <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2015/nov/29/andy-murray-davis-cup-great-britain" title="">3-1 victory over Belgium</a> in the final in Ghent. Murray won both his singles games over Ruben Bemelmens and David Goffin, as well as a doubles win with his brother Jamie to seal Britains first triumph since 1936. Ive been pretty upset having lost matches before, he said in the aftermath, but Id say thats probably the most emotional Ive been after a win. Its incredible that we managed to win this competition. I didnt know that would ever be possible. Its great.</p> <h2><strong>Russia accepts athletics ban</strong><br /></h2> <p>After a harrowing month for world athletics, the sport made the first steps towards rebuilding its image as the Russian federation <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2015/nov/26/russia-full-indefinite-ban-world-athletics-doping-scandal" title="">accepted a ban from international competition</a> and promised to cooperate with changes to its drug-testing regime. Shockwaves from corruption allegations at athletics world governing body continued to resonate, though, forcing IAAF president Lord Coe to <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2015/nov/26/sebastian-coe-iaaf-nike" title="">resign an ambassadorial role with Nike</a> despite insisting there was no conflict of interest. In more signs of the broadening scandal, Kenyan athletes <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2015/nov/23/athletes-storm-athletics-kenya-protest" title="">stormed the headquarters</a> of the sports national governing body in an anti-corruption protest, while <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2015/nov/27/emily-chebet-kenya-doping-ban" title="">six Kenyans</a> received four-year bans for failing dope tests.</p> <h2>First day-night Test <strong>goes </strong>to Aussies<br /></h2> <p>Armed with a new fluorescent pink ball and special permission to stay up past nine oclock, Australia won crickets first day-night Test match, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2015/nov/29/emotional-siddle-ices-nerve-jangling-trans-tasman-trophy-win-for-australia" title="">beating New Zealand by three wickets</a> in Adelaide to wrap up a 2-0 series win. Australian bowler Peter Siddle overcame the emotion of his grandmothers death during the match to hit the winning runs as the game ended inside three days on an Adelaide pitch where matches rarely finish early, perhaps an indication of how floodlights will affect the longer form of the game. In Nagpur, South Africa slipped up on a spin-friendly pitch as <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2015/nov/27/ravichandran-ashwin-india-series-victory-third-test-south-africa-nagpur" title="">India won by 124 runs</a> to take an unassailable 2-0 lead in the four-Test series. England, meanwhile, continued their new-found mettle in the T20 form of the game with <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2015/nov/27/england-pakistan-second-t20-international-match-report" title="">a series win over Pakistan</a>.</p> <h2>Rosberg ends season with <strong>another </strong>win<br /></h2> <p>A season that epitomised many of Formula Ones inherent problems ended in Abu Dhabi, with <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2015/nov/29/nico-rosberg-lewis-hamilton-abu-dhabi-grand-prix" title="">Nico Rosberg</a>s third successive win. Drivers champion Lewis Hamilton finished runner-up for another Mercedes one-two, but with the German team having monopolised the sport for the past two seasons, who other than F1 diehards could relish yet another year of such lopsidedness? Apparently not <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2015/nov/28/fernando-alonso-season-break-mclaren-f1" title="">Fernando Alonso</a>, the two-times former drivers champion who has endured such an uncompetitive season with McLaren that he is reportedly contemplating a sabbatical from the sport.</p>