and rory mcllroy is four shots of the lead heading into the second round of the scottish open in north berwick. hello there and welcome to the programme, where we start with the news that hosts england are through to the cricket world cup final for the first time since 1992. they demolished reigning champions australia by eight wickets and will now face new zealand in sunday's final at lords. watching in birmingham was will perry. "cricket‘s coming home" was the chant from the england fans as they left edgbaston having watched their side thump their old rivals australia by eight wickets to book their place in the world cup final on sunday against new zealand. australia won the toss. it looked a good toss to win this morning. they put themselves into bat. regrettably

they may be thinking that was not they may be thinking that was not the right thing to do. they were 1a /3. david warner went cheaply. added peter handscomb. then they had steve smith get them into a position to fight against england. the only australian batsmen to go past 50. run out a85 runs. the australia tail went pretty quickly. there were some decent bowling from jofra archer. 22a was the target for england and they knocked it off very co mforta bly. their opening partnership, 12a between jonny bairstow and jason roy. jonny bairstow eventually going for lbw — bowled by mitchell starc, which he reviewed, and that meant that england were out of reviews whenjason roy really needed one, because pat cummins bowled, caught behind, he didn't get anything on it, was given out, and he was on his way back to the pavilion. that wasn't to matter. eoin morgan, the one—day captain, and joe root, the test captain, saw england over the line

with morgan hitting the winning runs to put england into that showpiece finale against new zealand. england have been to three world cup finals before, they've lost all three of them, the last one back in 1992 when they beat south africa in sydney to get to the final against pakistan. that wasn't to be for england. 27 years on they've certainly put the semi—final hoodoo that's been over england this summer and last summer to bed. and england, can they go to lords and get their hands on the world cup trophy? i think the performance in the last three games, we have got better and better as a group. we talked before the tournament that we would have to do that in order to get to the semi—final and final and actually be contenders. so i think today was, i suppose, a step further in the performance and adding on the two we have built already it was important that we do that. now to tennis, and it will be serena williams up against simona halep in the women's final at wimbledon on saturday as both players eased through

in their semifinal match ups. wrapping it all up is holly hamilton. two semi—finals, two demolition jobs from two, while number one ‘s. one is no stranger to filezilla, serena williams who was taking on another vetera n, williams who was taking on another veteran, 33—year—old barbora strycova in her first ever gross semi—final. serena has 72 of them. that showed. she dismantled the checkin that showed. she dismantled the check in straight sets in less than 60 minutes. serena making her presence known this year, through to the finalfor presence known this year, through to the final for the 11th time. presence known this year, through to the final for the 11th timeli presence known this year, through to the final for the 11th time. i love what i'd do. they wake up every morning and they get to be fit and i get to play sport and they get to play in front of crowds like at wimbledon. not everyone can do that. it's like if you reallyjust break it down a have a greatjob and they love what they do and i'm still pretty good at what they do, i guess. ijust enjoy it. it'sjust a remarkable experience every time. simona halep was the first qualifier

after she comfortably beat the number eight seed, elina svitolina was up early into that much you could be forgiven for thinking it could be forgiven for thinking it could go all the way. 20 crawling minutes in they registerjust two games on the scoreboard. —— ruling. simona halep found herform and dispatching the ukrainian are straight sets in just over one hour to reach her first straight sets in just over one hour to reach herfirst wimbledon straight sets in just over one hour to reach her first wimbledon final. it's an amazing feeling. and i'm really excited and also nervous because of this. it's one of the best moments of my life. i'm trying just to enjoy as much as possible and to be happy that i could go through the final. so the women's final takes place on saturday, before that we have the mensah semi—finals with the defending champion novak djokovic to defend his crown. he will be taking on roberto bautista—agut. then we have roger federer and rafael nadal who face each other at wimbledon for the first time in11 face each other at wimbledon for the first time in 11 years. so expect some fireworks. on to cycling, dylan teuns won stage six — the first mountain stage — of this year's tour de france,

beating italy's giulio ciccone by 11 seconds. the 27—year—old belgian celebrated a maiden tour stage win in his first year at the race, while ciccone took the yellow jersey from julian alaphilippe by six seconds. defending champion geraint thomas now sits in fifth place overall a9 seconds off the lead. tunisia and algeria have taken the final two places for the africa cup of nations semifinals after both picked up wins on thursday. our sports reporter piers edwards is in cairo. tunisia ended the fairytale run of tournament sensations madagascar with a convincing 3—0 win against the side that seemed to have run out of ideas and run out of energy. much of ideas and run out of energy. much of the buildup this quarter—final centred on whether the tournament debutantes could centred on whether the tournament debuta ntes could defy centred on whether the tournament debutantes could defy the odds to reach the last four. they were ranked amongst africa's six west teams just two years ago. madagascar had been to nigeria and dr congo

could not lay a glove on tunisia. in truth, the tunisians were a class apart. they have got better and better as the tournament has gone on. this was their first win in 90 minutes, thanks to a counter—attack. for the first time since winning the title itself into thousand and four, they are into the semifinals. they will meet senegal on sunday. later that day, algeria will take on nigeria after the north africans squeezed past ivory coast on penalties after the game ended 1—1. the four guys in the shootout for the 2015 champions. it means it is west africa against north africa twice on sunday. it should be some day. we deserved to win this game so we keep our concentration until the end. you have to keep focus until

the end to win. because if you lose concentration you miss opportunities and you are out, you are not qualifying. to golf, and there's a four way tussle at the top of the leaderboard heading into the second round of the scottish open in north berwick. matt kuchar is one of them, the american finishing with two eagles on the back nine to hold a joint one shot lead on 8—under. south african trevor immelman was one of two players who fired a hole in one on the 15th. he's three shots back on 5—under. while one shot adrift of that, on a—under, is northern ireland's rory mcilroy as he prepares for next week's open championship at royal portrush. on the lpga tour, there's a two way tie at the top after the first round of the marathon classic in ohio. canada's alena sharp and south korea's chun youngin are on 7—under — and they lead

a group of four which includes two—time major winner stacey lewis, who only had one bogey to show in an otherwise fine round, with world number four lexi thompson, who's gone five years without a major, keen to get back in the winner's circle, she's 5—under with the penultimate major, the evian championship in france only two weeks away. the netball world cup gets under way in the english city of liverpool on friday as countries look to break the southern hemisphere dominance. defending champions australia are looking for a 12th win in this tournament and they'll need to get past the hosts and commonwealth games champions england who are among 1a teams if they're to succeed. it definitely is the most competitive and i think that makes it so exciting for the fans. have seen a it so exciting for the fans. have seen a massive increase in people turning on tv and really getting involved in apple at the highest level. and i think it's because there are so many opportunities for

these internationals to get out and play against each other, that is happening in our son cork seven a bilyk in australia. —— suncorp stadium super netball league. in saudi arabia, amir khan and billy dib held their weigh—in on thursday for their bout on friday to decide the winner of the vacant wbc international welterweight title. both were fully clothed for the event in jeddah, having had a private weigh—in earlier on thursday. khan had originally been set to face neeraj goyat, but the indian fighter pulled out after a car crash last month. australian dib, who had announced his retirement from the sport last year, stepped in to replace goyat, moving up three weight divisions to take on khan at welterweight. it is australia against england in everything at the moment. lucky lie have both passports. australia got knocked out of the cricket world cup to go through the final at lourdes on sunday. in the netball world cup gets under way in the coming hours as well. —— the lord's cricket ground. bye—bye.

hello. thursday brought us a warm and humid day across many parts of the country, but we also had some heavy showers and some thunderstorms, too. friday won't be quite as warm or quite as humid, there'll be a mix of sunny spells and just a few showers around, mainly across eastern england and eastern scotland, too. but many of us will avoid the showers. so we've got an area of low pressure which is pushing off towards the east. higher pressure waiting out in the west and that will dominate more as we head on through the weekend. so friday morning, then, a reasonably dry start to the day, dry in most places. more cloud for northern ireland and the north—west of scotland will bring a few spots of drizzly ran, a bit mistiness — particularly around the coasts, too. the bulk of england, wales, and southern scotland should be dry with some sunshine. but there'll be some afternoon showers bubbling up anywhere from east anglia and lincolnshire through north—east england, towards eastern scotland, too. in the sunnier spells, top temperatures will reach around 25 degrees down towards the south—east. just a small chance of, perhaps, catching a passing shower at wimbledon. but in general, for the final three days of the championships,

we're expecting a lot of dry, settled weather with some sunshine. not quite as hot and humid for the players or the spectators =— certainly compared to the past couple of days. but we couldn'tjust rule out one or two passing showers at wimbledon during friday afternoon or saturday afternoon. as we head through friday night into the early hours of saturday a lot of dry settled weather, once again, with some clear spells. the overnight temperatures will be a little bit lower than recent nights. so not quite as warm and humid as we start off the weekend. through the day on saturday, still the chance of one or two showers lingering, particularly in the east. but this area of high pressure is going to be building in from the west as we move through saturday and on into sunday. bit of a change in wind direction. we've had the winds coming in from more of a westerly direction. but on into saturday the winds turn more north or north—westerly, bringing a few spots of rain initially to the north—west of scotland and then it's parts of eastern scotland, north—east england, down the spine of england that we'll start to see a few isolated showers cropping up.

most places will avoid them. some long spells of sunshine and temperatures 17—23 degrees. not quite as hot or as humid as it has over recent days. heading on into sunday, as high pressure builds it's looking largely dry and settled. not many showers around at all. a little cooler with the breeze coming in off the sea around the east coast. the warmest of the weather probably towards the south—west. top temperatures there in cardiff around 25 degrees. just the odd chance of a passing shower but most places will avoid them. and then it stays largely dry and settled into the start of the new working week. a chance of things turning more unsettled with further showers cropping up during the middle part of the week. that's it for now. bye— bye.

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