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tv   Sportsday  BBC News  June 7, 2024 12:45am-1:01am BST

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we're only a few days into the t20 cricket world cup — but we could be looking at one of the shocks of the tournament. after the co—hosts, the usa stunned pakistan — after the match went to a dramatic super over. the hosts set the tone from the off, steven taylor taking this superb catch as they restricted pakistan to 159 for 7 in their innings and the chase went all the way to the final ball, nitish kumar hitting a boundary to take the game to the super over, much to pakistan's frustration. and the usa went onto successfully defend 18, to win their second game of the tournament and spark wild celebrations in dallas. we are not playing good in all department. we are better than that in the bowling. we are not in 66 overs, you know, taking wickets in the middle of us.
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lam upset, i am upset, when not playing good — i am upset, when not playing good. we're better than that in the bowling. we're not in texas, _ the bowling. we're not in texas, six overs that's good. not — texas, six overs that's good. not taking wickets, that's on us. not taking wickets, that's on us after_ not taking wickets, that's on us. after ten overs we will come _ us. after ten overs we will come back. but i think the way they— come back. but i think the way they finished the game on the super— they finished the game on the super overs,.... in thursday's late match scotland beat namibia by 5 wickets. brad wheal took three wickets as the scots restricted the african side to 155 for 9. scotland knocked off the runs with 9 balls to spare. captain richie berrington won the match with a six and finished unbeaten on a7. onto tennis — and it's familiar territory for french open defending champion iga swiatek who is once again through to the women's final. she'll play jasmine
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paolini on saturday. swiatek beat coco gauff despite the american saving three match points in the second set, the world number one eventually closed out victory 6—2, 6—4. she could join monica seles and justine henin as the only women to win three straight french open women's titles during the open era. i don't think there's like one specific thing, but i think i was, you know, pretty intense and putting pressure on coco and even though i got broken in the first at the beginning of the second set, i knew that i can come back quickly and i got my level of intensity a little bit higher to do that. and i think most of the things overall in my game work today, in my game worked today, so i'm proud of myself. well there was a moment of controversy in the second set, when gauff argued with the umpire over a line decision. after the match gauff stressed her belief that tennis needs to use a video review system. it's almost ridiculous that we don't have it.
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not alsojust speaking because that happened to me, but ijust think, you know, every sport has it. and also there are so many decisions that are made and it sucks as a player to like go back or online and you see that you completely right. and it's like, you know what does that give you in that moment? and i definitely think as a sport we have to evolve and we have the technology. they're showing it on tv. so i don't get why the player can't see it. paolini meanwhile, saw off the challenge of 17—year—old mirra andreeva in the other semifinal, the twelfth seed winning in straight sets 6—3, 6—1. the italian had never previously gone beyond the second round in paris, but will now play in her first grand slam final on saturday. i was watching, you know, grand slam finals. i was watching the other italians make it in the finals and also won grand slams. but imagine that can
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be myself was tough. of course, i wish it there. i wish it. but now it's something, you know, it's something crazy for me, really happy. the european championship is just over a week away — and england earlier named their 26 man squad for the tournament, with some big names missing. manchester city's jack grealish is left out, and harry maguire won't be going due to injury. manchester united defender maguire hasn't recovered sufficiently from the calf injury which kept him out of united's fa cup final victory over city last month. the centre—back hasn't played since april and was expected to miss tomorrow's final warm—up game versus iceland. as for grealish — he's struggled to break into city's starting line up towards the end of the league season. he remained on the bench throughout the cup final, and for key premier league matches against tottenham and west ham. he did feature for england as a substitute on monday — in their win over bosnia—herzegovina. harry has made some progress.
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but, you know, that's been complicated and we definitely wouldn't have had him in the group stages. and there was too many hurdles to get through without really being clear of where we might get to. so... and given that we've, you know, we've not got a clean bill of health across the rest of the backline as well, then that became, you know, we need cover. we need players that are fit and ready to go from the start. so again, another really difficult call, you know, how i feel about harry maguire and what he's done for england and what he's done for me as a manager. of course, mathers and jack both give us something different as well. so they've been tough calls. they've been calls that we've gone over and over and over as a group of staff. the fact is, we've got some players who have been playing extremely well all season in the league and we just feel other players have had stronger seasons and particularly
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in the last six months or so. so here's confirmation then of the players that have been left out of gareth southgate�*s squad having been named in the provisional group of 33, harry maguire, jack grealish, james maddison, curtisjones, gerald quansah, james trafford and jarrad branthwaite goalkeeper craig gordon and defenderjohn souttar. goalkeeper craig gordon and defenderjohn souttar are the scotland players set to miss out on the tournament. new york red bulls' lewis morgan and bristol city forward tommy conway have been added to the squad after striker lyndon dykes and winger ben doak withdrew through injury. the scots face finland at hampden on friday in a final warm—up match before taking on the hosts germany in the opening match of the tournament next friday. premier league clubs in england have voted to keep var at their annual meeting. the vote was triggered by wolves, who said the technology has led to "unintended negative consequences". but none of the 19 other clubs backed the proposal — 14 were needed in orderfor it to be scrapped. here's our sports
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editor dan roan. wolves have suffered an overwhelming landslide defeat of 19 to i here at the luxury hotel just outside harrogate, where the premier league had their annual general meeting today and held a vote, a vote that wolves had brought last month when they proposed that var be scrapped and abolished after five years of use in the premier league after a season of mounting criticism and scrutiny. some very notable errors. they felt that they've been on the rough end of some contentious var decisions as well, and that's why that motion was brought. there had been some suspicion that the vote may not happen, and certainly it was never expected that wolves would get the required 14 votes that would have seen that motion passed. but nonetheless, it has definitely sparked a debate. and following that 19 to i defeat, they did say that while disappointed, they welcomed the fact that the debate had happened and that the other clubs had
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committed to certain improvements. and the premier league in their statement said that they did acknowledge that improvements were needed in order for the interests of the game and fans to be protected. now six key areas have been identified for improvements. they include, for example, trying to speed up decisions through semi—automated offside technology that's due to be brought in next season. better communication and transparency by having announcements by referees where they explain decisions to fans in the stadium, maintaining what's described as a high threshold for var intervention and also what was described as more robust training for var officials. now, whether or not that is enough to convince wolves in the long term and also many fans who have grave misgivings about this technology remains to be seen. and interestingly, the football supporters association today also issued their own
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statement, and they said that enormous changes were now required. and they said that two thirds of the fans that they had surveyed had lost faith in var. but thanks to that vote today, for now, it's here to stay, i suppose. here to stay. just before we go, a reminder of a our top story scenes of wild celebration in dallas as the united states stun pakistan at cricket's t20 world cup to make it 2 wins out of two. the match went down to a super over and the usa prevailed to pull off one of the sport's biggest shocks. you can get all the latest sports news at from the bbc sport app, orfrom our website — that's bbc.com/sport. from me and the rest of the team at the bbc sport centre, goodbye.
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welcome to newsday, reporting live from singapore. the headlines... world leaders and veterans mark the 80th anniversary of d—day — a day that changed history. with atrocities continuing in myanmar, the bbc gets rare access to a region affected by the violence. donald trump says his recent court case was rigged in his first campaign appearance since his criminal conviction forfraud. and a successful test flight for spacex with a bumpy journey back to earth.
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hello and welcome to the programme. world leaders — and some of the last surviving veterans — have taken part in ceremonies in france to commemorate the 80th anniversary of d—day. onjune 6th, 191m — along sword, juno, gold, omaha and utah beaches — tens of thousands of troops took part in the largest ever seaborne invasion. it helped drive nazi forces from france, ahead of germany's eventual defeat the following year. today, president macron hosted a centrepiece event close to omaha beach; us president, joe biden, warned that democracy in europe was once again under threat, in the wake of russia's invasion of ukraine. unlike 10 years ago at the 70th commemorations, russian president vladimir putin was not invited. our europe editor, katya adler,
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has been watching as world leaders remember.

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