also heard from max wilson, a local resident who filmed the fracas which followed on his mobile phone. he said the men involved clearly were drunk and acted he said like animals. tomorrow we may well hear from ben stokes, of course he was meant to be preparing to play in his second test match for england against india which starts on thursday at lord's but instead he will be back here. he denies the charge of affray as to his fellow co—defendants ryan hill and ryan ali. stokes was a matchwinner in the first test against india but will miss the second test at lords that starts this thursday. surrey batsman ollie pope looks set to make his england debut coming in for dawid malan who was dropped. two years ago, pope was still playing for his school side but now hopes to emulate the likes of alastair cook in the senior side. from the people have spoken to they have given me the confidence and i have given me the confidence and i have the confidence in my own game to ta ke have the confidence in my own game to take the next step. obviously you

hear stories of some of the greats of the game and people who made their debut at age 20. so it is not like it has not been done before. but hopefully i will take my chance. i feel confident but hopefully i will take my chance. ifeel confident in my but hopefully i will take my chance. i feel confident in my game and ready for the next step. there's a t20 double header at old trafford today. lancashire lightning are just getting started against durham jets and earlier in the women's super league, surrey stars came out on top against lancashire thunder by 55 runs. henry moeran is at the ground. this game was the equivalent of a six pointer in the super league. two sides in the middle of the table with aspirations still of reaching the finals day at home on august 27. for the surrey stars, they knew that victory was almost imperative if they were to realistically keep those hopes alive. the lancashire thunder, having had real trouble in this competition, in the last couple of years have won three matches in good form but crucially, had never won a game here at old trafford. as it was they were set a target of 168 thanks to the efforts in particular of the big hitting

south african, with seven 70 from just 37 deliveries over the surrey stars. the run chase staggered and stopped and eventually fell 55 runs short. a couple of wickets for briony smith, laura marsh and nat sciver, the captain for the surrey stars, also bowling well. it throws the competition wide open. those at the bottom end of the table, the yorkshire diamonds and the southern vipers, face—off against each other tomorrow and it means we have competition still with plenty of life left in it. let's just catch up wiuth some of today's other news. there was a heavy defeat for kyle edmund in the first round of the toronto masters in canada. the british number one was beaten 6—1 6—2 by argentina's diego schwartzman. after two seasons on loan at torino and west ham, joe hart has moved to burnley from manchester city for a fee in the region of £3.5 million. he's signed a two year deal at turf moor. and a study of last season's premier league matches has found that liverpool were the unluckiest

side, dropping 12 points in games affected by wrongly disallowed goals or incorrect penalty decisions. manchester united were the luckiest team. the study also found that huddersfield should have been relegated and not stoke. serena williams has revealed that the struggle to balance motherhood and professional sport was behind her decision to pull out of this week's rogers cup in canada. the 23—time grand slam singles champion reached the wimbledon final last month but suffered the heaviest defeat of her career to johanna konta last week. the wrote a long post on social media explaining "i just was in a funk. mostly, i felt like i was not a good mom. we have all been there. i work a lot, i train, and i'm trying to be the best athlete i can be." she went on to stress that such feelings were normal and urged other mothers not to suffer in silence. williams has been praised for so openly addressing the issue. the wales and tottenham striker sarah wiltshire is mum to 18 month old alexa—rose and returned to playing just weeks after giving birth.

i was playing for yeovil at the time and living in hertfordshire so it was a very long journey. so notjust training but the journey took up a lot of my time and i was away for quite a big part of the day and then obviously i would come back and she was asleep so i did feel i was missing out on those days that i was training. so that was hard. missing out on those days that i was training. 50 that was hard. from within training. so that was hard. from within the sport as well i guess you need clubs and fellow athletes to be very understanding of your situation and you still want to further your career, obviously motherhood important as well. to be honest it is not very common in women's football. there are a few of us with babies that comeback but a lot also

wait until they have finished their career. you found it tough going back and balancing your career as a sportswoman and also being a mother, do take heart from the fact that he is serena williams, one of the greatest sports women of all time who is also having her struggles? definitely, i was rooting for her at wimbledon and she did amazingly well. i'm sure that that training is so well. i'm sure that that training is so intense and she is a real athlete. so i really look up to her. how much further to you think sport has to go in general to be more accommodating for mothers?” has to go in general to be more accommodating for mothers? i think it does really because i think a lot of athletes feel they may be happy to wait until their career is over, i know your career can be quite sure it's maybe some people think they wa nt to it's maybe some people think they want to wait until they finished.

but hopefully in the future it will be more of a common thing. and the top story, stan kroenke is to take sole control of arsenal. that's all from sportsday. we'll have more throughout the evening. good evening. for many of us the heatwave has already been subsiding. we have still held onto the hot and humid weather. we've had a few showers in the north west and some sunshine as well. this was the scene in derbyshire but the heat wave is going up with a bang because we have

some big thunderstorms moving north across the english channel. they are pushing their way across hampshire, towards kent and berkshire. by the end of this evening they will push further north east. bringing the threat of some heavy rain as well as both thunderstorms and also some lying water possible. elsewhere we expect a giant like to come and looking a bit fresher than recent nights. still warm across the south east corner. that fresher air will push further east across all of the country through wednesday. the blue and green colours returning to the. on the day on wednesday a lot of dry weather and some scattered showers especially in the north and west. we

are still looking at the warmest weather across central and south eastern parts of england but even here around 10 degrees cooler than it has been today. around 23, 2a degrees. in two thursday and other mostly dry day with some showers across northern ireland and scotland and some more persistent rain possible across parts of the of england and east anglia. elsewhere it is dry. feeling fresh again on friday, some sunny spells and showers cropping up across parts of scotla nd showers cropping up across parts of scotland in particular. then into the weekend, things start to change as we shall in this area of low pressure the atlantic, pushing gradually across the country through the weekend. so we expect some quite blustery wind and much cooler

conditions than we have seen. so we're not going to be seeing those temperatures in the 30s any more, but some welcome rain for the areas that really didn't need it. —— really do need it. this is bbc world news today. our top stories... six men are found guilty of trying to smuggle albanian migrants across the channel. they were on suitably clothed for the passage, it was very overcrowded and they seem to be in a great deal of distress. theresa may tells boris johnson great deal of distress. theresa may tells borisjohnson to apologise for a newspaper article in which he said muslim women who were burqa look like bank robbers. the courtiers that the england cricketer pen strokes was not acting in self defence but with revenge,

retaliation or punishment in mind we follow a n retaliation or punishment in mind we follow an italian journalist who was ca ptu red follow an italian journalist who was captured by the so—called islamic state as he heads back to rack. he confronts the men he accuses.