as they beat norway 2—1 in nice. at the cricket world cup a david warner century guides australia to a win over pakistan. and a—time tour de france winner chris froome is in intensive care after he crashed in a training ride ahead of the fourth stage of the criterium du dauphine hello and welcome to the programme where we start with footballing news from wednesday at the women's world cup in france. the hosts cemented their place at the top of group a with a second consecutive win beating norway 2—1 in nice. in the same group nigeria were 2—0 winners over south korea — while in group b germany are on maximum points after they beat spain. colm harrison rounds up all the action. france against norway was talk up as being one of the heavyweight clashes of the group phrase yet it took a

while to get going. a goalless and largely forgettable first half gave way to an eventful second in which the host nation was put in front within a minute. norway needed a way backin within a minute. norway needed a way back in and they were given it with an unwittingly supplied equaliser. the goal which decided this match was a contentious penalty, awarded after var review and converted to make it two wins out of 2 for the french. earlier in the same group, nigeria beat south korea 2—0 ending along world cup finals goal drought in the process but their first goal in more than five hours of tournament football wasn't even scored by a nigerian. it was volleyed past by one of the south korean players. the result was then put beyond doubt whether superb

second for the super falcons. nigeria are on the board to group a bitter second defeat for south korea means the last 16 is a long way off for them. elsewhere, germany means the last 16 is a long way off forthem. elsewhere, germany beat spain. the only goal of the game was scored just before halftime, putting the olympic champions on the brink of the knockout stage. despite this defeat, spain will still be expected tojoin them. on thursday in group b — south africa and china will go in search of their first points when they play in paris while in valonciennes australia know they need something from their game against brazil if they harbour hopes of progressing from group c. one other football line — real madrid have signed left—back ferland mendy from lyon in a deal worth up to $60 million, taking their off season spending to around $380 million. the 24—year—old french international has signed a six—year deal at the bernabeu and joins the belgium forward eden hazard and serbia striker luka jovic. australia beat pakistan by 41 runs to win their cricket world cup match on wednesday.

after two successive wash—outs, there was a full day's play in taunton as david warner's century proved enough to see his side to a third win, as patrick gearey reports. flood lights on, no sign of the son but least at last it was dry. after two rain drenched days, the world cup resumed in the gloom. thompson must‘ve felt a long way from australia but times aaron finch looked as though he was trying to hit it back there and together with david warner gave the aussies a superb start, warner scored slower but further, a man punished for a amis mistake getting away with one here. it brought up his first century for his country since that ball tampering band. as for pakistan, for a while, it was mr pakistan, for a while, it was mr pakistan but you can never stay mad at them for long because they were back to being this pakistan. helping them bowl australia out for 307 and it might be many more. pakistan

still had a chance especially hitting them like this. hard to believe that two balls after that effortless beauty, such a careless and was met. therein lies pakistan's problem. they can be two different teams, even in the same match, burning brightly but too briefly. they were seven down and headed for defeat that this is pakistan, you never know. but they have a number nine crew capable of creating chaos. his huge heave scott pakistan back into this but the hopes were ended by the slightest edge. fittingly, pakistan's edge ended with a mixup, give the aussies a miss fix —— give the aussies a glimpse and they tend not to miss. four time tour de france winner chris froome is in intensive care after he suffered multiple fractures in a high—speed crash when on a training ride ahead of the fourth stage of the criterium du dauphine. team principal dave brailsford explained what happened.

at the bottom of the descent, he came down, it was quite a technical descent, he came down and was riding with two of the pools alongside and signalled that he was just going to blow his nose, put his fingers on the side of one nostril to clear the nose and he took his hand off the bar to nose and he took his hand off the barto do nose and he took his hand off the bar to do that. it was really windy. this gust of wind took its front wheel and he lost control. we looked at as data. first things first, you have been operated on to make sure that first phase of medical care and we will manage it from there. meanwhile, the belgian rider wout van aert won wednesday's 11th stage of the criterium — a 21.6 km time trial in roanne.

he clocked 33 minutes and 38 seconds — to win by more than half a minute from tejay van garderen. great britain's adam yates finished trhe stage in 6th place — but that was enough to take the yellow race leaders jersey. the third men's golf major of the year gets under way at pebble beach in under 2a hours time. brooks koepka is chasing a hat trick of wins in california which would be the first time at this tournament since 1905. but this is a course where tiger woods won the same tournament here 19 years ago, and returned to his best with a stunning win at the masters in april. looking ahead to what's in store, here's joe lynskey. this year, golf and after augusta, he goes for more majors on pebble beach. on the california coast, more heights. he won the us open by 15

shots. the american knows he is not 24 shots. the american knows he is not 2a anymore but it hasn't changed his result. but still one of the challenges. how do you compete again kids born in the 2000? they were born after i won the dam tournament. that is one of the beauties of this game and i've always said, if you are around for the conversation, you've done well. right now, the talk in this sport is on the records before brooks koepka. his one majors in two years in the last two us open ‘s. no man has won three and a row in more than a century but that's still not enough for everyone. one of the leading us networks didn't feature brooks koepka in one of our promo ebden he says he deserves more. a commercial rent now that i'm not even in it. it's like, really? how do they forget that? this would

be the coolest thing ever to win three in a row and to win a third wa nted three in a row and to win a third wanted pebble. it would be incredible. at one of golf's iconic courses, one of golf's iconic champions could win. the california waters won't be calm for long. now to rugby union and warren gatland has been confirmed as head coach of the british and irish lions for a third time. the 55—year—old new zealander will stand down as wales coach after the world cup finishes in november. he'll take charge of the lions planning from next year and lead them to south africa in 2021. gatland has already taken the lions to a series win in australia in 2013, and a drawn series in new zealand four years later. when i thought about it and thought about the lions. it would have been ha rd to about the lions. it would have been hard to say no to something we regretted. the approach came and we

thought about it. wow, this is something to lead three lions tours, to try and go undefeated as a head coach. i couldn't walk away from that. game 6 of the nba finals heads out in california on thursday with toronto raptors leading the best of seven series 3—2 against golden state warriors. but the warriors will be without star man kevin durant who after being carried off in game 5 has posted this to say he's undergone surgery for a ruptured achilles tendon and that his journey back starts now. much needs to be said about the motivation that we are going to have tomorrow, to protect and feed off oui’ tomorrow, to protect and feed off our crowds tomorrow, to protect and feed off oui’ crowds energy. tomorrow, to protect and feed off our crowds energy. to try to keep oui’ season our crowds energy. to try to keep our season alive. the nhl stanley cup final, st louis blues lead 1—0. looking for the first ever championship at this level. st louis

lead 1—0. can they went for the first time ever? until next time, it is goodbye for now. hello. our very unsettled spell weather is set to continue as low pressure is still dominating our weather out there at the moment. now this picture was taken on wednesday by one of our weather watchers in herstmonceux, east sussex. grey skies there, we've had some heavy showers around. much of the country has already seen heavy rain and we have still got flood warnings in force with more persistent rain to come over the next 24—48 hours. now the area we are most concerned about during the day on thursday is this region, the south—east of scotland where there could be 80—100 millimetres of rain falling falling over the highest ground. so that means disruption to travel, and flooding is likely. if you have a look through the course of thursday, that rain really will be quite relentless, only slowly easing away

as we head through the latter part of the day. but let's take a look at the whole of the uk on thursday, lots of blue on the map. lots of wet weather. across central and northern parts of england, southern and eastern scotland, some heavy downpours. northern ireland having a bit of a drier day, as does the far west of scotland too. south—east of england should stay mostly dry, but there'll be a few heavy showers and temperatures not doing great still, only around 11—16 degrees. lots of cloud around, really, across the board. now as we move through the course of thursday evening and into friday, we keep the cloud, we keep the patchy outbreaks of rain, probably not quite as heavy or as persistent as the rainfall during the day on thursday. but more downpours across england and wales, heavy showers rattling into northern ireland, too. and temperatures below what they have been in recent nights as those winds are set to fall light, too. now low pressure still with us as we move through the day on friday, it'sjust drifting towards the north—west a little bit. not as many isobars on the map

as there has been recently, so not quite as breezy. but through the day on friday, it's another unsettled story. again, a lot of cloud to start the day. some showery rain here and there across england and wales and some further rain showers piling in across parts of western scotland and northern ireland, too. a little bit more sunshine by the time we get to friday afternoon, lifting temperatures about 13—19 degrees, not quite as cool as they have been. as we head through into the weekend, then, still a fairly unsettled story. on saturday, we've got some showers in the west but eastern parts of the uk, sunny spells and just one or two isolated, scattered showers. temperatures starting to creep up by a degree or so, there's still a noticeable breeze around on saturday. and then as we look further ahead into the course of next week, eventually we should lose the showers, at least from the south. still fairly unsettled across the north, but temperatures on the rise. bye— bye.

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