and warming up for wimbledon — britain's number one johanna konta into the last sixteen after beating maria sakarri at eastbourne. good evening — welcome to tonight's programme. the pressure is really on england now. it looks like they'll need to win both their last two world cup games to ensure a place in the semi finals after they slumped to their third defeat in this tournament. and a bad one at that. they were beaten by australia by 64 runs at lords and our correspondent joe wilson was there. what was the entertainment for the crowd here in lourdes today, while they have their opportunity to blewett david warner and steve smith if they want to do, and several

people dead, i'm not sure if it undermines those batsmen, australia in any case were underpinned by aaron finch, who increased his reputation as a batsman, and was a captain in this match. he made 100 still. australia's total of 285 by modern standards seemed modest, but then england's in income a second ball, jason darren derf selected by australia for this match, clean ball, for not, and that really set the tone. time and time again, australia's fielding skills and bowling skills were just superior to what we saw from england in this game. and that really was emphasised in the standout moment i think of the entire match, when mitchell got rid of ben stokes with a beautiful in swinging, it was really only stokes, who has stood between australia and victory, when he was out, england were also out. once again, we have to ask the questions of england's ability to play under pressure. in this, their home world cup, they now face the real

possibility of elimination before the knockout stages. but this game in the last, we struggled with the basics of what we call our batting mantra. showing intent, building partnerships, and doing it in our own way. and we haven't done those for long enough periods of the game in order to either chase down, or chase down to 80, and that's disappointing. as you might have imagined, there have been plenty of opinions on englund's defeat on social media. former batsman kevin pietersen accused eoin morgan of being ‘scared' of mitchell starc. a past england captain, michael vaughan said that australia were better in all departments today while aussie legend shane warne says australia had too much intensity for england and added the aussies are ‘going to be hard to stop now‘. he's not wrong — look at that table. that results makes australia the first team to book a semi—final spot.

but for england, it means they might need to win their last two games — against the tournament's only two unbeaten teams, india and new zealand — to guarantee qualification. they stay fourth in the table after that defeat, with the top four teams progressing, but can still be overtaken by bangladesh, sri lanka and pakistan. on to the women's world cup — and there was heartbreak forjapan as late penalty saw them lose 2—1 to netherlands in the last 16. the dutch opened the scoring in the first half after lieke martens gots a brilliant flick on with the back of her heel. butjust before the break, yui hasegawa equalised forjapan with perhaps one of the goals of the tournament so far. after that, the japanese hit the woodwork twice before this handball in the 90th minute allowed martens to clinch a place in the quarter finals where they'll face italy.

that game will take place on saturday, that's after italy beat china 2—0 earlier. valentina giacinti had a goal disallowed early on but this one after 1a minutes did count and put the italians in front and they doubled their lead with a long—range effort from aurora galli in the second half. it's the first time in 28 years italy have made it to the last eight. so this is what the last eight of this year's women's world cup looks like. netherlands taking on italy. that game on saturday when we'll also see germany face sweden for a place in the semi finals. on friday, it's the hosts france against the favourites, the united states, while england have their quarterfinal with norway on thursday. 0ur reporterjane dougall is with the england camp. the england squad have been doing some team bonding here on this beach. a little bit of light—hearted fun beach. a little bit of light—hearted fu n after beach. a little bit of light—hearted fun after a very physical cameroon match. i think they'll never squad to have some downtime, and they are

staying at a beach resort, saw earlier today, the women were given a game to play involving toy guns. i'm sure you want surprised that it got competitive. the hard work sta rts got competitive. the hard work starts again tomorrow, because norway will be the toughest test so farfor england norway will be the toughest test so far for england in norway will be the toughest test so farfor england in this norway will be the toughest test so far for england in this quarterfinal match. norway train today, they've had one extra day over england to prepare for the match. they are a very technically gifted side, so england will not be able to make the m ista kes england will not be able to make the mistakes that they made against cameroon. the referee for that match has come under some scrutiny, she's chinese, her name is quinn laying, and she's been criticised for allowing the cameron players to threaten to walk off twice and for holding up the restart of the match. the defender was on the bench for the cameroon match, and she gave us her interpretation of what happened. the referee did what she could come into the best of her ability, i think it was a difficult game. but i think it was a difficult game. but i think she handled it, and obviously, you know, she's got to offer the

decisions, what she things his best, that's all we can go with, whether it's for or against. you know, you have to just stay and focus on what we can do, and why we are here. we are here to play our world cup, and that's what we would like to focus on. one of the main concerns for england is the fitness of captain, steph horton, there was a very dangerous tackle towards the end of the cameroon match, and she could be aduu the cameroon match, and she could be adult for this crucial quarterfinal. we will get an update from phil on her condition tomorrow. staying with football. cameroon began the defence of their africa cup of nations crown with a 2—0 win over guinea—bissau in ismailia in north east egypt. it was goalless until the midway through the second half when yaya banana opened the scoring for the five time champions. stephane bahoken capitalised on a defensive mix—up three minutes later to seal the victory for clarence seedorf‘s side. derby county have granted permission for chelsea to speak to frank lampard about the vacant

manager's job at stamford bridge. the derby boss is the favourite to replace maurizio sarri, who left to take over atjuventus earlier this month. lampard only embarked on his first foray into management last season, leading the rams to the championship play—off final where they lost to aston villa. his former manchester city team—mate vincent kompany has backed lampard to succeed at stamford bridge. soi so i know what the impact is of frank lampard on a team, and i'm trying to have the same impact when i come now as an older player, in terms of his intelligence, he is up there with the most intelligent footballers. so the match is natural with chelsea, i completely support him, yeah. time now to take a look at some of the day's other sport headlines. the commonwealth games in birmingham will cost 778 million pounds the government's announced. it's just above the 750 million pound initial estimate but below the figure of nearly a billion

for the 2018 games on australia's gold coast. the football agent involved in the deal that brought emiliano sala to cardiff has been charged with fraud. willie mackay is due to appear before magistrates in manchester onjuly 31st but it's unrelated to the sala case. breakdancing has taken another step towards inclusion in the olympic games. the ioc voted in favour of adding it to the list of events at the paris games in 2024 along with surfing, skateboarding and sport climbing. andy murray suffered a first defeat since starting his comeback in doubles in the first round of the nature valley international at eastbourne. murray and his brazilian partner marcelo melo lost 6—2 6—4 to colombian top seeds robert farah and juan sebastian cabal. murray struggled on serve, being broken three times out of four.

better news in the women's singles forjohanna konta though. she's into the last 16 after a straight sets win over maria sakkari of greece. she will play tunisian 0ns jabeur in the next round. there were also wins in the men's draw for britain's dan evans and cameron norrie. the former world heavyweight boxing champion vladimir klitschko has been rescued by the spanish coastguard after the luxury yacht he was onboard caught fire.klitschko posted a video of the rescue operation on social media. he was on holiday off the coast of majorca with family and friends when the fire took hold. this is his commentary. three o'clock in the morning. we are in the sea, getting rescued. the boat was on fire, we are hanging out side. just finally, the former world

snooker champion shaun murphy has made an audacious bid to qualify for the open golf championship. murphy won the world snooker title in 2005 at the crucible. he plays golf off scratch but describes himself as more than a social golfer. he was unable to progress to final qualifying after shooting a 12 over par 84 at county louth. he described it as one of the greatest experiences of his life. that's all from sportsday. coming up in a moment, the papers. goodbye for me.