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even got close to — bowled out for 122 to lose by a margin that, for england, is their largest in terms of runs since 193a and india's biggest win that way in their history. it's a very good feeling to win a game like that, and especially with such a young team as well — two debutantes and not a lot of test matches among the playing 11 as well. but a lot of credit to these young boys who have come in and showed a lot of character. looks like they actually belong here and they want to stay here as well. india's huge win has given rise to more questions about england's approach to test cricket, but not from within the camp itself. captain ben stokes is remaining optimistic, insisting the team knows what they have to do to get back in the series and that it wouldn't be helpful to dwell too long on
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what went wrong in rajkot. i've played 100 test matches now, and i know that, you know, thinking too deep into certain things can actually send you on a downhill spiral. and it's about what we do the next two games. i said after the first game that, as good as what it was, as good of a feeling as it was, we need to move on to the second game. i said it after the last game and i'll say it after this game as well. we put everything behind us and we focus on what's going forward, and obviously it's the next two games for us. so england need to win one of the remaining two matches to prevent a series defeat. our chief cricket writer stephan shemilt is in india and explained what changes they might make for the next test, which starts on friday. the damage had already been done on that third day. it was very similar to what happened at visakhapatnam. england collapsed in the first innings there. it was also really similar to what happened in the second
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ashes test at lord's, when england were responding to australia's total, nathan lyon got injured and it was obvious he wasn't going to play any further part in that game, but england collapsed on that occasion as well and found themselves 2—0 down in an ashes series. on that occasion, they did improve, they did learn. they could have maybe won the ashes, had it not rained in manchester. so, can england now do the same thing in india? we know india have got such a formidable home record — they have not lost a home series since 2012 — but england are still in this contest. they're 2—1 down with two test matches to play. can they learn from the mistakes of the past two tests, going into that fourth test in ranchi starting on friday? well, certainly, england have had to work very hard in this third test in rajkot. they have been in the field on every day of the match, so that means fast bowlers in particular, like james anderson and mark wood, have had to suffer in the heat. and it's reached 35, 36 degrees in rajkot over the weekend.
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it has been sapping, draining for the england bowlers and the england fielders, and there is a short turnaround to the fourth test in ranchi — that begins on friday. this was the first time in the series that england had picked two seam bowlers. they had gone for three spinners and one seamer in the first two tests, so that might be another option in ranchi depending on the pitch. shoaib bashir could come into the equation. and if england want to freshen up their bowling attack, they've got ollie robinson and the uncapped gus atkinson, a bowler who's got a lot of pace, waiting in the wings. one thing that would help ben stokes straight away is winning the toss, because so far in this series, the three test matches have been won by the side that won the toss and batted first. manchester united scored after just 36 seconds and went on to win for a third time in a row in the premier league. rasmus hojlund got that early goal and then a second six minutes later to give united an eventual 2—i victory at luton. the danish striker has now
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scored in six straight games, with his team staying sixth in the table. we have to stay focused during all game. when you switch off — and i will not even say switch off, but do a little bit less — then you get punished. and we can't afford this, so we have to be, all—time, ioo% focused. do yourjob, work together, in and out of position, then you can control the game. otherwise you give what could have been an easy win, now it was a difficult win. we created chances, we found a way back into the game. 2—1 at half—time, i really felt that we could go and notjust get something from it, go and win it, but we didn't. and it's not from lack of effort, it's not from lack of endeavour from the players, it wasjust maybe a little bit that final little bit of quality was missing today. sheffield united have now conceded five at home for three consecutive matches, with brighton the latest to subject the bottom side to a hammering at bramall lane.
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sheffield united had mason holgate sent off when it was 0—0. brighton were unstopppable after that. a week after winning the africa cup of nations, simon adingra got two in a 5—0 victory which moves brighton up to seventh. we played with the right mentality, especially in the second half, because we didn't concede a counterattack — or one, i think, maximum two. because sometimes you can lose something if you are playing one player more or you are winning 2—0, but football, you know, it's strange and you can open the game when you think the game is closed. it's not like this. you have to accept these things might happen. like i said, it's happened to other teams over the weekend. no time for pointing fingers, time to analyse, of course, and look at the goals and look at certain things.
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and obviously mason's part in that will be looked at, and i think he'll understand, especially with his attitude, what he has been in the changing room afterward. he understands that he's made it double difficult for us to get a result. the pressure continues to grow on bayern munich manager thomas tuchel after his team lost for a third time in a row. they hadn't suffered three successive defeats since 2015, but a 3—2 defeat to bochum means they're now eight points behind bundesliga leaders bayer leverkusen. kevin schlotterbeck�*s header gave bochum a lead they never relinquished, while harry kane scored a late second for bayern, who ended the game with ten men. and tuchel admitted afterwards the title was "not so realistic right now". we wanted to close the gap before the week, and the opposite happened. we wanted to win those three matches — we lost all three, which is of course way below our expectation and demands to ourselves. again, this one today does not sit in the story from the last two matches.
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meanwhile in spain, la liga leaders real madrid dropped points at rayo vallecano, giving hope to their nearest rivals. joselu opened the scoring afterjust three minutes, but raul de tomas hit back with a penalty and 1—1 is how it finished. madrid are six points clear of second—placed girona, who play on monday. jannik sinner will climb to a career—high third in the world rankings after beating alex de minaur to win the rotterdam open. the australian open champion will become italy's highest—ranked male player in history on monday after beating de minaur 7—5, 6—4. it is a 12th career title for sinner, who has now won 15 consecutive matches to start the year. every time when you win a title, it doesn't really matter how big the title is. it means a lot. yeah, forsure, i had a little bit more attention, but this is also... i guess when you earn something, you also have to deal with that, and
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i felt like i was trying just to put the 100% effort and everything i have done, and that's the result for this week. ethiopian runners dominated the proceedings at the seville marathon on sunday. before the start of the event, a moment of silence was held to mark the passing of marathon world record holder kelvin kiptum, who was killed in a car accident last week. once the action got under way, the men's race was won by deresa geleta ulfata in a course record time of two hours, three minutes and 26 seconds, while the women's race was comfortably won by azmera gebru hagos in two hours, 22 minutes and 13 seconds. china's double olympic champion eilieen gu won a second straight freeski halfpipe event to claim the overall world cup title. she took the gold in calgary ahead of great britain's zoe atkin, who completed an impressive season with second, giving her an overall position of third in the series standings.
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in the men's competition, alex ferreira of the united states clinched his fifth straight world cup gold to win the crystal globe as season overall points leader. there is much more at our website. plenty of introspection from those watching england's cricket test team at the moment, if not from within the camp itself. head there for more. that's it for sportsday. thanks ever so much for watching. bye for now. hello there. sunday started the day on quite a wet note for large areas of england, but it was tibenham in norfolk that was the wettest place in the country with 31 millimetres of rain.
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once that cleared, most of the uk had some decent spells of sunshine and it was an exceptionally mild day. the highest temperature, in hampshire's gosport, was 17 celsius. that's eight degrees celsius above average for this time of the year. it'll stay pretty mild as well as we go through the next few hours. a band of rain crosses scotland and northern ireland. the rain heavy for a time, but it won't last very long. eventually, we'll start to see that rain encroaching in across parts of northern england and wales as we start off monday morning. a mild and frost—free start to the day, temperatures typically around 7 or 8 degrees. now, through the rest of monday, this band of rain reaches east anglia, south—east england, but very weak. just an odd patch of rain left over and a stripe of cloud. further north—westwards, a ridge of high pressure follows. so for most of the uk, again, we're looking at some fairly lengthy spells of sunshine, a few showers for western scotland. it'll turn a bit cloudier in northern ireland, but i suspect the clouds going to be quite high through the afternoon, so still staying dry and bright. now, for the middle part of the week, we've got further weather systems coming in off the atlantic, so it will be quite wet and windy at times. tuesday, the wettest weather through the morning will be across scotland and northern ireland.
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again, a weatherfront here bringing some fairly heavy rain, but again, not lasting too long. the weather front moves its way southwards and eastwards whilst weakening, with a mixture of sunshine and showers following to scotland and northern ireland through the afternoon, so that's probably why we'll see some of the best of the sunshine. there'll be some bright weather, though, for central and eastern england and it will be another very mild day. it then turns a lot windier through wednesday, gusts of wind reaching 50 or 60 miles an hour for northern scotland. quite windy for wales and western england, some heavy rain here as well. over the hills of wales and western england, we could see around 50—odd millimetres of rain, and that will be enough to bring some renewed concerns that we could see some further localised surface water flooding. it stays mild again, but the mild weather won't last much longer because we swap those mild south—westerly winds for cooler north—westerly winds through thursday and into friday, and that will really drop the temperatures back close to average for the time of year. so thursday, some wet weather moves its way eastwards. quite a windy day. as the rain clears, we'll see lots of showers moving in, and in the colder air, some of those showers will start to fall as snow across the hills in the north, particularly above 300 metres elevation, although you could see a bit of sleet or hail lower down.
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welcome to newsday, reporting live from singapore. i'm mariko oi. the headlines: the world health organization says gaza's second—biggest hospital is now completely out of service following an israeli raid. a member of israel's war cabinet says unless hamas releases all hostages in gaza by the 10th of march, israel will launch a ground offensive into rafah. translation: we came back to no electricity, i no food for today. we report on people like tala, and her brother yazid — whose journey we've been following —
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and who've been waiting in desperation to get out. and the bafta goes to... ..oppenheimer. cheering and applause and — it's oppenheimer�*s night at the baftas — it led the pack with seven gongs. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. it's newsday. welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to viewers in the uk and around the world. we start in the middle east, we begin in gaza, where the world health organization says the nasser hospital has ceased to function following an israeli raid. intelligence indicated hostages taken by hamas were being held there. the who said it hadn't been allowed to enter the site. meanwhile, a member of israel's
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war cabinet has said the

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