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tv   Sportsday  BBC News  February 19, 2024 2:45am-3:01am GMT

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that set england a total of 557, which they never 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 history. 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. you know, two debutantes and not a lot of test matches amongst the playing 11 as well. so a lot of credit to these young boys who have come in and shown a lot of character. it 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
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knows what they have to do to get back in the series and that it wouldn't be helpful to dwell too long on what went wrong in rajkot. 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. you know, and it's about what we do the next two games. i said after the first game that you know, as good as what it was, as good 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. you know, 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. very similar to what had happened when england collapsed in the first innings there. it was also really similar
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to what happened in the second ashes test at lord's when england were responding to australia's total. nathan lyon got injured. and it was obvious that 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 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've 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 starting on friday? certainly, england have had to work very hard in this third test in raj kot. 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,
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and it's reached 35, 36 degrees in rajkot over the weekend. it's been sapping, draining for the england bowlers and the england fielders. and there is a short turnaround to the fourth test which begins on friday. this was the first time in a series that england had picked two seam bowlers. they'd gone for three spinner and one seamer in the third test. so that might be another option depending on the pitchment bashir could come into the equation. and if england want to freshen up the attack, they have 0lly robinson and atkinson a bowler with a lot of pace waiting in the wings. one thing that would help ben stokes straightaway with winning the toss. because so far in this series, the three test matches have been won by the side that has won the toss and batted first. manchester united scored afterjust 36 seconds and went on to win for a third time in a row in the premier league. rasmus hojlund got that early
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goal and then a second, six minutes later to give united an eventual 2—1 victory at luton. the danish striker has now scored in six straight games with his team staying sixth in the table. we have to stay focused during the whole 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 the whole time, 100% focused, do yourjob, work together, in and out of position. and then you can control the games. and otherwise, you give what could have been an easy win and now it was a difficult win. we created chances. we found our way back into the game 2—1 at half time. i really felt that we could go and notjust get something from it but go and win it. but we didn't. and it's not from lack of effort. it's not from a lack of endeavour from the players. it wasjust maybe a little bit of that little bit of quality was missing today. sheffield united have now conceded five at home for three
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consecutive matches with brighton the latest to subject the bottom side to a hammering at bramall lane. sheffield united had mason holgate sent off when it was nil—nil. brighton were unstopppable after that. a week after winning the africa cup of nations, simon adingra got two in a 5—nil victory which moves brighton up to 7th. we plead with the right mentality, especially in the second—half. because we didn't concede the counterattack. 0ne, maybe 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 that the game is close. it's not like this. we have to accept these things might happen. like i said, it's happened to other teams over the weekend.
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no time for pointing fingers. time to analyse, of course, and look at the goals and look at certain things and obviously mason's part in that will be looked at and i think that he'll understand, especially with his attitude to what he has been in the change room afterwards. 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. tuchel admitted afterwards the title was "not so realistic right now". we wanted to close the gap before the week. the opposite happened. we wanted to win all three matches. we lost all three, which is, of course, way below
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our expectation and demands to ourselves. again, this one today does not fit in the story from the last two matches. meanwhile in spain, la liga leaders real madrid dropped points at rayo vallecano, giving hope to their nearest rivals. joselu opened the scoring afterjust 3 minutes. but raul de tomas hit back with a penalty 1—1 is how it finished. madrid are 6 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 0pen. 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. matter how big the title is, it means a lot. and for sure, i had a little bit more attention.
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but this is also, i guess when you earn something, you know, you also have to deal with that. and i felt like i was trying just to put the 100% effort in everything that i've 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
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an impressive season with second, giving her an overall position of third in the series standings. in the men's competition alex ferreira of the united states clinched his fifth straight world cup gold to win the crytal globe as season overall points leader. much more from our website and plenty watching england's test team at the moment, if not from within the camp itself. head there for more. that's it for sportsday. goodbye 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 31mm of rain. 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.
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that's 8 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, southeast england, but very weak. just an odd patch of rain left over and a stripe of cloud. further northwestwards, 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. again, a weather front here bringing some fairly heavy rain, but again, not lasting too long.
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the weather front moves its way southwards and eastwards while 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 60mph 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 southwesterly winds for cooler northwesterly 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
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or hail lower down.
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live from washington, this is bbc news. a senior israeli official has said that unless hamas releases all hostages in gaza by march 10, israel will launch an offensive in rafah. the world health organization says gaza's second—biggest hospital is now completely out of service following an israeli raid. 150 people are sentenced to jail in russia following protests over the sudden death of opposition figure alexei navalny. hello. i'm erin delmore. israeli war cabinet member
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benny gantz has said that a ground offensive will be launched in rafah if hamas does not release all hostages by march 10. it is the first time israel has warned when its troops might enter gaza's southernmost city where an estimated 1.3 million civilians are sheltering. earlier, the world health organization said gaza's nasser hospital has ceased to function following an israeli raid. israel defense force troops entered the hospital on thursday, saying intelligence indicated that hostages taken by hamas were being held there. the who said it hadn't been allowed to enter the site. in a post on x, formerly twitter, the director—general of the world health organization tedros adhanom ghebreyesus said: "nasser hospital is not functional anymore. "the who team was not permitted to enter the hospital to assess "the conditions of the patients." our diplomatic correspondent paul adams is injerusalem and says facilities at nasser hospital are close to collapse.

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