hello and welcome to sportsday. it's been a bittersweet day for alistair cooke in the last test between england and india. it's the former captain's final game for his country and although he played some of his best cricket reaching a half century, it was india's bolwers who had the best of the first day at the oval as england were 198—7 at the close of play. joe wilson reports. for about two thirds of the day of test cricket was all about alastair cook, he walked out to a guard of honour, the indian players either side of them applauding and a warm handshake from the team captain, it seemed very appropriate and genuine and marked the respect for him across world cricket, and then he settled down for a typical inning, painstaking methodical patient, there was a time after lunch when

scoring almost stopped. cook got to 71 before he was dismissed, inside edge, delivery from their team, throws around the ground, never heard ending like that at an english test match. and yet will field that was a reward for the good bowling and lack of luck throughout the day, particularly survived many plays and missed as he made 50 before he was dismissed, but once cook was gone, england was all that see, and another inning, another dot forjo, could not tell england out it's down to them to take them to a decent first innings total. in general, the view from the england support is making her way home towards alastair cook, wait —— may well be missing you already. scotland were beaten a—nil by belgium in a friendly tonight as a warm—up for their uefa nations league opener against albania on monday. after holding off belgium's all stars for almost half an hour romelu lukaku opened the scoring befoer chelsea's edin hazard made it 2—nil after the break and then

chelsea's on loan mitchy batsuayi captialized on two defensive errors to make it a—nil. it's the fourth defeat from five games for scottish manager alex mcleish and scotland's heaviest home defeat for 45 years. meanwhile there were several nations league fixtures tonight, roberto mancini's first competitive game in charge of italy ended in a 1—all draw with poland. elsewhere russia's world cup form continued as they won 2—1 in turkey serbia beat lithuania by a goal to nil and the faroe islands won 3—1 at home to malta. after a world cup campaign in russia which won the hearts of many england fans, gareth southgate‘s side kick off their uefa nations league campaign against spain at wembley tomorrow. our sports correspondent natalie pirks has been at the grove in watford to hear from the manager and captain harry kane. all good things come to an end and

after a summer to remember england are back to work tomorrow against spain at wembley in the all new nations lead. this is their brainchild, a bit to get rid of meaningless friendly as it will not replace qualification for the euros altogether but it'll give a lower ranked aside a back door route to european qualification. england man had a great world cup, but for garrett southgate at least, it's time to move on and look to the future. the summer was brilliant it's great that we have a full house, and it's great that everyone will feel the appreciation and we can step out in front of our things again, but for us now the summer is finished and it's about the next step and challenges and sport does not stand still for anybody, you got to move forward, continue to evolve and increase the competition. i know the players have the same mentality

there of an age where what's next is there of an age where what's next is the most important thing. captain harry kane will play in a specially commissioned pair of blooming boots, the pick is a work tomorrow in front ofa the pick is a work tomorrow in front of a packed sell—out cloud, and while individual titles are great, he said he's played down any comparison with the likes of ronaldo and messy. to do that in a world cup, to finish top goal scorer which i'm very proud of, but no, i do not think i can be up there with those two, fascist my aim is to improve, and yet, the summer was great but i'iow and yet, the summer was great but now it's time to work —— go to more things. england up sixth in the world rankings spain in the night after disappointing exit at the hands of russia on penalties, they also lost three people to retirement. they're all gone and under new management, but they will still provide aids standard test for

an england side looking to prove the summer was an england side looking to prove the summer was not just an an england side looking to prove the summer was notjust an mere flirtation i was the start of something big. it's men's semi—finals day at the us open tennis and rafael nadal is in action right now hoping to make the final at flushing meadows. the defending champion nadal, is aiming for his 18th grand slam title, in his way juan martin del potro, and like much of this tournament, nadal isn't making it easy for himself. they are currently locked in a first set tie break. the winner will play either novak djokovic or kei nishikori in sunday's final. they just started the theyjust started the second set. it's the second week of matches in the domestic rugby union season and an exciting night in the pro14. edinburgh had blown a 17—point lead against ulster at ravenhill but then kicked this penalty in the final minute to go ahead again. there was another twist though, as ulster won their own penalty in overtime and john cooney stole the victory, the second time in two weeks he's converted a crucial late penalty. meanwhile glasgow warriors beat last year's runners up munster 25—3 at scotstoun.

scotland full back stuart hogg scored this try, as well as kicking two penalties and a conversion as warriors made it two wins out of two. just one game in the premiership where northampton beat harlequins 25—18 at franklin's gardens. england captain dylan hartley scored a try on his comeback from concussion to give northampton their first win under new boss chris boyd. warrington wolves have sealed their place in the super league play—offs. they held on to beat huddersfield giants 26—24. castleford tigers stay ahead of them in third place after easing to a comfortable 28—8 victory over hull fc. england'sjustin rose is second after two rounds of the bmw championship in philadelphia. rose finished the day 11 under, two off the lead of the american xander schauffele. northern ireland's rory mcilroy is on nine—under, one shot ahead of 14—time major winner tiger woods. the german olympic and world sprint

cycling champion kristina vogel has revealed she's been paralysed after a serious training accident back in june. vogel suffered spinal injuries after colliding with another cyclist while training in brandenburg. she won olympic gold in the track cycling team sprint at london 2012 and individual sprint gold in rio four years later. amir khan had to strip to make the welterweight limit today, ahead of his fight with samuel vargas in birmingham this weekend. this is khan's second fight of 2018, after nearly a two year absence from the ring. the 31—year—old is hoping a win tomorrow night will open the door to gettng back to the top of the sport. i've been lucky in my whole career winning three when pat —— world titres, and becoming the euna bided that unified champion as well, i

think it's time to win another title and then hopefully battled and my whole boxing career really well, i met a great career up to now, i've been over ten years a professional boxer, but 2004 is where i started from that seems like forever now, things like such a long time but so much as happened since then, i want to win another title that's my dream. one of the heroes from super saturday at london 2012 will be hanging—up his spikes up for good this weekend. greg rutherford, who won the long jump title at the olympic stadium, will compete for the final time at the great north city games. of course it's sad, but i'm ready to retire and move onto new things, my bodyis retire and move onto new things, my body is most certainly ready to retire and move on. getting out of bed in the morning is quite difficult, so i need to recover properly and move onto something new, i'm old enough now i've done it long enough, it's time to let the youngsters take over and push it onto a new level. that's all from sportsday. we'll have more sport throughout the weekend. good night.

hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me arejohn rentoul, chief political commentator at the independent, and henry zeffman, political correspondent at the times. many of tomorrow's front pages are already in. the ft suggests high spending cuts may be on the horizon with the treasury set to demand an extra four—billion pounds from the budget to cover a shortfall in public sector pensions. the daily mail leads with borisjohnson‘s personal life, and how that could affect a potential bid for the tory leadership.

meanwhile, the mirror claims that borisjohnson is "clearing the decks" ready to challenge theresa may. the times reports that fault—based divorce is set to be scrapped in the biggest shake—up of family laws in 50 years. the daily telegraph has a report which accuses iran of infiltrating labour and undermining a pro—israel mp, who, the paper says, faces being ousted from parliament. the end of cold calling? that's the lead in the express, which says new government law means customers cannot be contacted by businesses unless they opt in and the guardian sports back—page pictures alastair cook who made 71 in his final match for england on day one of the fifth test at the oval so we have a lot of different stories making the front pages to kick start the weekend. henry, let's start with you and at

times, divorce law, big shake—up a p pa re ntly times, divorce law, big shake—up apparently it's something that's a long time coming some would say. essentially it's about correcting an anachronism, a strange what i suspect lots of people did not know was still the case. it's something that the times has been campaigning on recently, there was a case, they came to particular prominence recently, many people remember to no end to have been married 40 years wa nted end to have been married 40 years wanted to leave her husband, but the husband said no, and the court ordered under the current law she have to effectively wait a certain period of years. at present, a spouse who wants to file for divorce must actually provide evidence of adultery or unreasonable behaviour 01’ adultery or unreasonable behaviour or desertion, and some people say that effectively is institutionalized perjury, because people who just want to quickly get through the system and have to pretend, so thejustice secretary

wa nts pretend, so thejustice secretary wants no force diverse to get out of that old—fashioned system. wants no force diverse to get out of that old-fashioned system. it's hanging around it seems for some time this idea they should be reformed only just happening time this idea they should be reformed onlyjust happening now.|j do not realise the law was passed in 1996, underjohn do not realise the law was passed in 1996, under john major, do not realise the law was passed in 1996, underjohn major, but it was never put into effect, i must say what i saw this headline i thought it was something to do a boris johnson, i thought maybe the government is clearing the way to make it easier for borisjohnson government is clearing the way to make it easier for boris johnson and marina. editing the government bring smi was colin because this is the case of an era, as you say funny it was the foundation but never got put into play, do you think that was it squeamish about it because time has changed. i do her member tony blair got himself caught on wanting to be a sort of profamily government and also wanting to promote equal rights for gay couples and for women in

general, and and for women in marriage, and you know he got himself sort of hooked on this business of whether the tax system should be favouring marriage or not, and so he decided this was too difficult and left it, so perhaps we should give some credit to david for grappling with the. the suggestions are going to be some sort of consultation on this, i guess the keeping will possibly provoke some argument is how long even with no fault, how long you have to wait. absolutely it also says consultation was leaked amid fears that it could run into opposition with some conservative party and church, goes back to the question of why did not happen in 96, actually do not quite buy that this is where the country is in sense of it might still be some squeamishness about it, i think given we do have liberal divorce laws and divorce execs, i do not actually believe there will be

significant ground on anywhere in the country this is anything other than bringing the law or practise up to date with what actually happened. john take us to the independent different story here, they've got their own investigation essentially it looks like these figures they've got from the gmb, all about the kind of attacks ads the school workers go under. it's terrible, half of all school workers have been attacked by pupils, i mean this is mostly about teaching assistants who are more than teachers in the front line because they have to supervise playtime and backhanded thing. but the figures are —— that kind of thing. the figures are frightening, examples are awful, i don't know how serious these attacks all are, but it does suggest that there is still

you know i really deep—seated problem in the schools. absolutely, 70,000 support teachers are victims of assault, 23,000 a week, i mean it's always very hard with stories of big numbers to get us skit —— a sense of scale, but that many teachers getting assaulted every week is just teachers getting assaulted every week isjust a teachers getting assaulted every week is just a really extraordinary and it does make me asjohn says, really eager to know whether this is a problem that's worsening and if so, why because clearly the problem is not something you sort of address byi is not something you sort of address by i don't know giving teaching assistant protection or something there something much more deep—seated going on about children behaviour and perhaps what's going on in the family background generally and governments should be desperate to address that. this is a story where we are desperate to get the extra pages they get inside