butjulian alaphilippe maintains the overall race lead. and top seed dominic thiem moves through to the quarter—finals of the hamburg open. hello and welcome to the programme where we start with cricket — and ireland had the better of the opening day in their one—off, four—day day test match against england at lord's. the home side batted first after winning the toss — and suffered the embarrassment of being bowled out before lunch forjust 85 — by an irish side playing in only their third ever test match. on a day when 20 wickets fell, the tourists made 207 in reply — leaving england trailing by 122 runs. our sports correspondent, joe wilson reports.

how could england, the newly crowned world champions, albeit in a different form of the game, be bowled out for 85 ireland? the a nswer bowled out for 85 ireland? the answer is tm murtagh. he bowls with answer is tm murtagh. he bowls with a nagging accuracy. too much for england here today. we also have to remember the level of mental fatigue within the english dressing room. conspicuous by theirfailures, the members of the english test team here were also part of the world cup squad. is that an excuse? of course not but it is part of the explanation. in their reply, ireland had to bat sensibly and they did. contributions from stuart broad who was trying to get back in the ashes frame and ollie stone who is in the queue of fast bowlers trying to get into testing permanently. but ireland are in such a strong

position now because of bowling england out so cheaply. forget the ashes, england have a fight on their hands here. and what does day to promise? all in hand and more mayhem potentially for murtagh. bowling them out for 80 in one session. growing up as a child i dreamt of being on the board. probably not in the dressing room but as it worked out it is a bit more special now. just a fantastic feeling walking off at lunchtime and holding the ball having taken five wickets in the first session is good feeling as have had in my career. naturally we were disappointed. there is no real excuses for us to be bowled out for 85. against ireland. but congratulations to

ireland. but congratulations to ireland today. they had a fantastic day. put us under pressure and they did not let us off. they put the ball in the right place and we didn't respond to it either. julian alaphilippe retains the race lead at the tour de france with three mountain stages to come, with italy's matteo trentin picking up the win in stage 17. the bbc‘s simon brotherton was watching. another day on sunbaked road for the cyclists who face 200 kilometres into the foothills of the alps and it looked like prime territory for a breakaway and so it proved. 33 ryder group gained a sizeable advantage and that eventually whittled down with matteo trentin launching a successful low bid for victory in the final kilometres. the contenders tried to save energy for the rigours ahead, finishing 20 minutes behind the

winner today. nothing has changed at the top of the leaderboard with julian alaphillippe one minute and 35 minutes ahead of second place geraint thomas. there were five gold medals at the world aquatics championships in gwangju, south korea, on wednesday. they included a win for great britain's adam peaty in the men's 50 metres breaststroke. it was his second gold of the games, following his victory in the 100m breaststroke earlier in the week. in the mixed a—by—ioo metres medley relay, gold went to australia ahead of the defending champions usa. while italy's federica pellegrini won gold in the women's 200 metres freestyle, retaining the title she won in budapest two years ago. it's the sixth world title of her career. now to football where matthijs de ligt scored an own goal in his first start since joining juventus as they beat inter on penalties to win their international champions cup match in china. the dutch defender cost around 84 million dollars when he joined from ajax last week. but, ten minutes into the game against their fellow italians the 19—year—old put the ball

past his own goalkeeper. an equaliser came in the second half from cristiano ronaldo — his free—kick deflected in. and the game went to a penalty shootout. 21—year—old turkish defender merih demiral scored the crucial spot kick to win the shootout 4—3. it is good. when we play against a tea m it is good. when we play against a team it is always a good game, a tough game. they are fantastic with a fantastic coach and it is difficult. we do like to compete with the best, and we deserved to wind in my opinion. neymar has arrived in china with his paris saint germain team—mates for their preseason tour. the squad signed autographs for fans on arrival at their team hotel. the brazilian is with the team despite on—going transfer speculation that he is set to leave the french champions. staying with football, celtic look well—placed to reach the 3rd round of the european champions league.

they were one of two former winners of the competition in action on wednesday and ryan christie scored twice as the scottish champions thrashed nomme kalju of estonia 5—0 in the first leg of their tie in glasgow. meanwhile, the 1991 champions red star belgrade scored a goal in each half as they beat hjk of finland. the second legs take place next week and there are still two more rounds after that, before the group phase. top seed dominic thiem is through to the quarter—finals of the hamburg open after a straight sets victory over marton fucsovics. the unseeded hungarian saved eight break points in a hard—fought opening set which thiem eventually won 7—5. the world number 4 then raced through the second set — for the loss of only one game injust 28 minutes — to seal his place in the last eight where he'll face russia's andrey rublev. the defending champion nikoloz basiliashvili is also

through to the quarter—finals — but he was taken to three sets byjuan ignacio londero. basilashvili won the opening set 6—4 before the argentine levelled the match by taking the second. the number 4 seed from georgia then won the decider 6—3 — to set up a quarter—final against the frenchman jeremy chardy. the fourth of the women's golf majors tees off in france on thursday. the evian championship is the first of two major championships to be played in a week with the british open starting next thursday. american angela stanford heads out as defending champion while her compatriotjessica korda says she's tried to conserve as much energy as possible ahead of the opening round. i want to keep warm. that was my first three in a row this year and i felt good so after that i made the decision that i would play down. we we re decision that i would play down. we were signed up for but waiting to see how i was feeling. and, you

know, coming here we have played this golf course before so i know i don't need to play i8i8i8 this golf course before so i know i don't need to play 181818 or grind it out. if i go out here in time i can adjust quickly and be ready for the golf course, just seeing how it's playing versus the other years. the first players are out at 0530 gmt. world number one sung hyun park goes off with lexi thompson and minjee lee. the winner of the last major hannah green is in the seventh group to go and the australian led from start to finish in her victory at the pga championship injune. during the kpmg i played well and my scrambling was good so my ball striking was not as good at the beginning of the year so that is what i am working on, my swing. i had a solid two weeks off and then two weeks working with coaches. so i am feeling good and it is nice to be

back out here. i feel like a month was needed but it has been a long time. it is really nice to be back at beautiful avion. in major league baseball the tampa bay rays beat the boston red sox 3—2 in florida but confusion reigned in the top of the eighth inning due a to a series of defensive changes to the home side. the rays relieving pitcher adam kolarek came on for charlie morton which prompted boston manager alex cora to protest the game as kolarek was then sent to first base after his stint in which he removed the designated hitter. the win allowed the rays to avoid a sweep in the three—game series and broke boston's five—game winning streak at tropicana field. you can get all the latest sports news at our website — that's bbc.com/sport. but from me and the rest of the sport today team, goodbye.

thursday looks like being a day of extraordinary perhaps even unprecedented heat across some parts of the uk. thejuly record looks like it will be broken but this is the one also in danger, the uk all—time record for the heatwave of 2003 because we could beat that and get very close to 39 celsius somewhere around the london area. not guaranteed but there is a good chance that that is going to be broken. that is the temperature that will make the headlines but there is plenty of hot weather to come elsewhere. plenty of sunshine from the word go and we know it is going to be a very warm and muggy start and those temperatures will just rocket as we go on through the morning. we are keeping more cloud close to northern ireland with the weather front here and breezy as well. chance of a bit of rain the further west you are and it will be breezy elsewhere as well butjust coming

from a hot direction, that breeze, so there will not be a lot of relief. and, yes, the temperature close to london will make headlines but we will be close to 30 celsius if not above elsewhere in england. eastern parts of wales, up towards the central belt in scotland as well with the low 20s into northern ireland and a little more cloud around. there are some storms around to end the day. central and eastern parts of england could see them. they will be hit and miss, more likely through parts of northern england and scotland. the risk of torrential rain, hail and disruption. still warm night going into friday morning, of course, after the heat of the day so bear in mind that the later stages of thursday into the night there could be some disruptive thundery downpours in places. but then it is all change. this weather front moves through and this is the cold front. colder stretch but it is the leading edge of cool air coming in on friday. there will be some cloud moving east and the chance of seeing some showers. they may turn heavy on thundery

towards parts of eastern england later in the day. it will still be warm if not hot and humid towards east anglia but most other places will see lower temperatures in some spots by quite a large margin. going into the weekend, that weather front looks like it will reinvigorate and hang around the eastern side of the uk in particular with the zone of cloud and pulses of rain. still some uncertainty in the exact positioning of that and could still be there affecting some of us into sunday as well so we will keep you updated on that. but where temperatures have been close to a0 celsius, they come back to the more comfortable 20 degrees. and relax.

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