from making changes, as patrick gearey reports. batsmen like policemen are getting younger, it seems. meet at the latest play for england, ollie pope, 20. england have seen enough in only 15 first—class matches for surrey to call him up and backed him at number four. that is a mark of confidence. really exciting concert. he has done really well for surrey and excited to see him go out and play exactly as he has done in the county championship. route and the selectors are shovelling a winning pack. the hero on that crucial morning, ben stokes is in court, so won't be bowling. 200 runs in the match from the indian captain but he doesn't believe he is carrying too many passengers. it is unfortunate that we have not been able to cross the line. it is the only thing we're

looking at as a side, how can we crossed the line? it doesn't if i get runs or crossed the line? it doesn't if i get runs oi’ anyone crossed the line? it doesn't if i get runs or anyone else in the batting order, as long as we crossed the line, that is all that matters. this week, cricket is coming home but what happens on this famous old ground could be crucial to what happens in this series. in the kia t20 super league england's tammy beaumont was the star as the southern vipers beat yorkshire diamonds by 16 runs. our cricket reporter henry moeran was watching at the aegeas bowl. this was a crucial match for both sides. at the bottom of the table, they knew that victory yesterday opened up the possibility they could push their way towards final day with victory today. winners in 2016, finalists in 2017 butjust one win so far in this competition this year and a series of injuries has left them on the back foot. today, four

wickets for the captain and a good run rate, it was a good game. and the end, the southern vipers on top. let's catch up with some of today's other sports news stories. england's match against brazil at the women's under—20 world cup ended in a draw. a penalty from manchester city's georgia stanway put england ahead in the 11th minute. but substitute ariadina struck in injury—time to snatch a point for the south americans. england top group b and need just a point against mexico on sunday to reach the quarter—finals. team sky rider gianni moscon has been banned for five weeks, after he tried to hit another rider during this year's tour de france. the italian has accepted his punishment and apologised, saying he "regretted" his actions. and johanna konta will play victoria azarenka in the second round of the rogers cup later.

that's after she beat the former french open winner jelena ostapeko in the first round in montreal last night. the level of violence against women and girls in sport needs to be given "urgent attention." researchers studying gender—based violence in sport say it remains unknown how widespread the problem is and are calling on worldwide sporting bodies to take action. katie falkingham explained to me earlier some of the findings of the report. this report was commissioned by the international working group for women and sport. they asked a team of international researchers to look at how the landscape of sport is for women and girls at the moment. it is research that happens every four yea rs research that happens every four years and the latest one look at a wide range of issues from participation to leadership, to media coverage and in particular

gender—based violence in sport. it found that there there has been progress over the last four years. organisations had made a difference since the last. 90% of the third said they had not implemented policies on the issue since then. —— 19% of the third. it shows there is still a long way to go. research still a long way to go. research still do not know the prevalence of gender—based violence in sport. it is about getting that research to try to ascertain the prevalence of the issue. i spoke to professor elizabeth pike and she explained exactly what gender—based violence is. it is violence directed against anybody on the basis of their agenda all violence that is disproportionately pointed to a

specific gender. non—accidental harm, deliberate harm against somebody. it is inclusive of verbal, non—verbal, physicalviolence somebody. it is inclusive of verbal, non—verbal, physical violence and sexual harassment and abuse. behind all of these statistics, some personal stories and you have been speaking to people that have been affected by gender—based violence. speaking to people that have been affected by gender—based violencelj spoke to karen who was a former irish swimmer who had big dreams of going to the olympics one day but between the age of ten and 17, she was abused by her swimming coach who was abused by her swimming coach who was then the irish olympic coach. she was emotionally, physically, psychologically and sexually abused by this man. even now, she is in her 40s, and she is still affected by this day today. everything i did, my whole life, he had total control over it. what he said went and he did it. because if you didn't do it, you knew that you were gone, you we re you knew that you were gone, you were out. i went to his swimming

clu b were out. i went to his swimming club isa were out. i went to his swimming club is a very good swimmer as a young girl with great potential and it turned out that i got worse and i left is not a very good swimmer. i didn't like what he was doing to me, he was hurting me. but ijust kept going. ididn't he was hurting me. but ijust kept going. i didn't tell anybody because all i wanted, my dream, i wanted to go to the olympics to swim for ireland and that is all. before we finish, let's bring you a hairy moment at the the european championships in berlin. swedish decathlete marcus nilsson was making his second attempt at the 4.70 metres in the pole vault when it went horribly wrong. mid—way through the jump, nilsson's pole snapped in two and he was went tumbling into the mat. luckily he wasn't hurt. that's all from sportsday. we'll have more throughout the evening. and evening. temperatures have been

down on yesterday which i am sure to many has been some relief. we have said goodbye to the meantime. that is still around close by but we have introduced transatlantic influence. that greece has cooled things off. it has been present in the sunshine still. cloud and showered around but not a great deal of rain. we do need some rain and what we will see for the rest of this evening and overnight isjust the rest of this evening and overnight is just showers. showers will mostly pester the north and west of scotland and northern ireland. elsewhere, temperatures will take away. it will be a co nsta ble will take away. it will be a constable might for most of those although the cloud beckons later on in the south bringing patchy rain to the southern counties of england. that is the story for tomorrow. how

much rain we will see. for most it isa much rain we will see. for most it is a day of sunny spells and shambles. the morning starts off with plenty of sunshine and the cloud will bubble up. particularly in the north and the west but it could turn quite wet across east anglia and the south—east later which will be welcome rain but makes for rather a miserable day, particularly if you have time off at the moment and are planning outdoor activities. they could be heavy rain and possibly thunder around. there could be some showers to the west of that as well. generally speaking, westerly breeze bringing showers. i pressure not to far away but we will be dominated by low pressure, particularly to the north, as we go towards the weekend. friday looks a little drier but there will be some big showers around. particularly scotland, northern ireland and northern central parts of england. temperatures around average for the

time of the year so very pleasant. the weekend brings the high—pressure bridge. it could become one and sunny, not as hot as it has been. the north and the west looks dominated by wind and at times some heavy rain. much—needed rain but not great at the weekend keeping those temperatures a little lower. further south, it looks like it'll be fine, dry and warm again. this is bbc news. i'm carole walker. the headlines at seven: boris johnson faces growing criticism of his comments about muslim women who wear the burka. when you demonise and dehumanise a minority who happen to be women, muslim woman of colour, i have a problem with this. more than three million british gas customers are facing a rise in prices for the second time this year. 100 years on — remembering

the battle of amiens: a ceremony is held to commemorate the centenary of the campaign which helped bring about the end of first world war. australia's most populous state is declared to be entirely in drought. the government has had to provide millions of dollars worth of emergency funding to help farmers in new south wales.