tv Sport Today BBC News June 26, 2019 1:45am-2:01am BST
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a 90th minute penalty takes the netherlands into the quarter finals of the women's world cup. and ahead of wimbledon, a setback for america's sloane stephens, who's knocked out of the grass court event at eastbourne in the second round. welcome to the programme, thanks forjoining us. england's dream of winning the cricket world cup on home soil is fast turning into a nightmare, after australia beat them by 64 runs to become the first team into the semifinals. england did well to restrict the aussies to 285 for 7 at lords, only to have the heart ripped out of their top order which left their chase in tatters. it was the first match between the arch—rivals since steve smith and david warner came back from their year—long bans for ball tampering. our sports correspondent
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joe wilson was there. the world cup may be hosted here but one nation has dominated. how many times have australia won the world cup? six. five. five, i think it is. how many times have england won the world cup? the clue is, it is below one. it's a zero, it's a duck egg. all that history but the crowd remember sandpaper... david warner was introduced and booed. booing. warner had been serene here to 53, until, wow, mis—hit tojoe root. captain aaron finch underpinned australia with his hundred but 285 seemed a smallish total. fast forward to england's innings, james vince gone to the second ball. attack, cried england, a catch, replied australia, and that was eoin morgan gone. five men out.
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stokes still going, cramp in his calf but belief in his bat, until, this... against mitchell starc, sometimes no bat is good enough. and england were soon all out. 64 i’u ns and england were soon all out. 64 runs short. from this game, where? they insist they can win their final two group games but they are tough once and elimination threatens. australia miguel can start to ponder another world cup victory. it would be for the record, there six title. this is how the table currently looks. australia are through to the semi finals. new zealand will be if they beat pakistan on wednesday. should say pakistan, bangladesh and sri lanka all still have a chance of making the semi finals. england meanwhile, may have to win both their remaining matches now to qualify, against india and new zealand.
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the competition is still very open. england is still a great side and firm favourites into their home country. is something we aspire to continue playing good cricket. this game and the last, we have to look at the basics of what we call our batting mantra, showing intent, building partnerships and doing it in ourown building partnerships and doing it in our own way and we have not done those for long enough periods of the game in orderto those for long enough periods of the game in order to get the chase down to 80 and that is disappointing. well, there have been plenty of opinions on england'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".
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there was late drama at the women's world cup, where the netherlands scored a 90th minute penalty to beatjapan and reach the quarter—finals. they'll face italy in the last 8 on saturday, after the italians beat china 2—0 to reach the quarter finals for the first time in 28 years. rounding up the action, here's holly hamilton. since these are two at the same stage four years ago, their fortunes have been very different. japan went on to the final but have been in decline ever since. in contrast, the netherlands have turned themselves into european champions and they quickly showed by many fancy them as champions. lieke martens, the barcelona's star, first of the tournament. and before the break, yui hasegawa made it 1—1. the second half looked like japan where the most likely to get a winner with
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yuka momiki getting close. when the woodwork was not stopping them sari van veenendaal was. eventually the netherlands will get their chance. a penalty for handball and lieke martens scoring. next up italy, a tea m martens scoring. next up italy, a team who surprised a lot of people. they beat china with a goal in each eye. valentina giacinti put them ahead after just a eye. valentina giacinti put them ahead afterjust a quarter of an hour. after the break, aurora galli, mated a 2—0, her third goal of the tournament after coming on as replacement. a starting place on saturday against the netherlands may be coming her way. so here's the confirmation of the last eight. norway and england kick things off on thursday. then it's the big one — the hosts france against the defending champions the usa. and the quarter—finals conclude on saturday, tonight's winners italy and the netherlands
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and then germany against sweden. it's the first time no asian team has made it this far. cameroon have begun the defence of their africa cup of nations crown in egypt, with victory over guinea—bissau. clarence seedorf‘s side scored two goals in three second—half minutes to seal a 2—0 win. meanwhile in the other game in group f, andre and jordan ayew were both on target for ghana but they had a man sent off and in the end were held to a 2—2 draw by benin. vincent kompany has promised to be as driven as pep guardiola as he begins his management career. the former manchester city ca ptain‘s given his first press conference since becoming player—manager at belgian side anderlecht. i have been a player— managerfor most of my career. i have just been managing other stuff now i get to manage something related to football which happens to be something i know
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more about than the other stuff i was managing so in reality it is, same old, same old. the former us open champion sloane stephens has been knocked out of the wimbledon warm—up event at eastbourne, after losing to jelena 0stapenko in three sets. the american was playing her first match of the grass court season after reaching the quarterfinals at the french open, and won the first set 6—i before 0stapenko found her range and won the next two 6—0, 6—3 to make it into the third round. also into round three is the wimbledon champion angelique kerber, who's never won the title at eastbourne, having twice reached the final. she beat australia's sam stosur 6—4, 6—4. and the home favouritejohanna konta is also through to round three, beating greece's maria sakkari in straight sets 6—4 7—6. the world number two rafael nadal says "it doesn't seem right" that he could be seeded behind world number three roger federer at wimbledon. the seedings will be announced on wednesday.
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wimbledon‘s diferent from the other slams in that it doesn't always seed by following world rankings and takes grass—court performances into account too. speaking to spanish tv station #vamos, nadal said... if he is seeded third, nadal might have to face both federer and novak djokovic. it isa it is a little bit surprising to be honest, even though it is roger and roger is the greatest of all times, he has one the most wimbledon titles of any player in the history and if anyone deserves that it is him but at the same time it is rafael nadal and his taking over the second seed so and his taking over the second seed so it is surprising, to be honest,
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but it is what it is. breakdancing has moved a step closer to being in the 2024 olympics after its inclusion was approved by members of the international olympic committee. they voted unanimously at their annual meeting to include it at the paris games in 2024. a final decision will be taken by the organisation's ruling executive board at the end of next year but it's thought to be highly unlikely tuesday's vote will be overturned. skateboarding, surfing and sport climbing were also approved although they're already part of the tokyo 2020 games. 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.
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that said from us. you can get all the latest sports news at our website. but from me and the rest of the sport today team, goodbye. hello, that's the stormy weather over with for now. and for the rest of the week it is turning warmer and sunnier for many though the flow of air around this area of high—pressure coming in towards north sea coastal counties will keep it relatively cool here compared with elsewhere. rather misty and murky at times. some cloud around to start wednesday across much of england and parts of wales, muggy in the southern areas, single figures for some in scotland. and for wednesday it's scotland and northern ireland that will see the lion's share of the sunshine. north—west england, southern england brightening up, the odd shower in the far south—west. the midlands and east wales rather cloudy, misty, a bit drizzly in some spots. this flow of air from the north
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is turning things fresher. quite windy through the english channel coast and the flow is coming into the north sea coast, that's why temperatures here are towards their midteens in some spots. but from western scotland, northern ireland and west wales, southern england, the warm spots here will be into the low 20s. and becoming warmer and sunnier to come as we go through the rest of the week. overnight into thursday, some cloud dipping into england and wales, rather misty and rather drizzly in some spots. warm and muggy it is going to be fresher as it is going to thursday morning. the air coming towards north sea coast, western scotland and northern ireland and southern england are warming up into the low 20s in some places and it gets warmer still for the rest of the week. overnight and into thursday areas of low cloud, parts of england and wales having drizzle in some spots, it will be a colder night across southern parts and it will feel pressure out
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and about on thursday morning. the low cloud should disappear for most of us. elsewhere you can see abundant sunshine, rather cloudy in the north of scotland. getting warmer in the west on thursday, there will be some spots creeping into the upper 20s, high pressure moving out towards the north sea on friday so we will tap into some even warmer air across western parts of the uk in particular. a lot of sunshine around, here is going to be a little warmer on friday. it is going to be the warmest day in the west where some here in north—west scotland, for example, could be near 30 degrees celsius. now western areas will turn cooler over the weekend. the weekend starts with something hotter to the east and particularly in south—east england with temperatures peaking into the low 30s on saturday, but if you don't like the sound of that, thank goodness you're not elsewhere in europe with these temperatures on the cards this week as the european heatwave hits hard.
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