day, the such a hot and humid day, the temperatures are slow to fall, particularly in towns and cities but u nfortu nately particularly in towns and cities but unfortunately they act like a storage heater and as you are aware, you don't want to keep the he picked off the heating on overnight. 28 degrees in central london, this is 11 o'clock at night so quite unpleasant for getting to sleep. weekend, we have more of this hot and sunny weather across england and wales, scotland and northern ireland ever get into that humid air and here it will be more comfortable with more sunshine to come as we go through saturday for northern ireland and scotland. in the sunshine, temperatures climbing into the low 20s and could be the odd shower popping up anywhere at some point this weekend but there won't be very many of them and for most it will just stay dry. be very many of them and for most it willjust stay dry. up to 35 celsius in london so very hot and humid once again and temperatures easing around the eastern coasts with onshore winds. a few storms on saturday night into sunday but not many, most

of us having a dry second half to the weekend. and it stays very hot and humid and with that ability and the highest temperatures reserved for england and wales, seeing highs of 32 in london and further north temperatures reaching the high teens oi’ temperatures reaching the high teens or at low 20s. the heatwave will last not just through or at low 20s. the heatwave will last notjust through the weekend but for some of us even into the early pa rt but for some of us even into the early part of next week. 28 degrees tonight in london! thanks for that. that's it, so goodbye from me. now on bbc one, time for the news where you are. have a very good evening. hello and welcome to sportsday, — i'm jon watson. england's bowlers give them a fighting chance for the first test against pakistan at old trafford. nicola sturgeon criticises

the aberdeen players who've tested positive for cornavirus. football has been given the go—ahead on the strict condition that clubs and players abide by the guidance that has been agreed. if they don't do that, they put at risk the return of the professional game. and the next step for city as they chase champions elague successs the british boxer in line to make history once again tonight. good evening. pakistan are on top in the first test with england at old trafford. not for the first time england's top order failed with the bat, bowled out for 219, giving the visitors the chance to add to their lead of 107 — which they've done moving

223 runs ahead. henry morean is at old trafford. henry, we will come onto the bowlers ina minute, henry, we will come onto the bowlers in a minute, but disappoint with batting today? no question about it. and when‘s batting just hasn't been good enough in this test match. i/2—century, from ollie pope, in the top four, the highest score was just 14 top four, the highest score was just 111 runs. that's just couldn't —— not good enough and home test match, england have had three test warming up england have had three test warming upfor england have had three test warming up for this to be like against the west indies over the last few weeks. it's a huge disappointment from the top border in particular and only the hitting of ali pope, a few lusty blows, gave them anything like a total that they can feel in the game with. so a huge frustration for being the's went to become although they are facing an excellent bowling attack, they would be expected to do better. it was useful, wasn't it, henry, and wasn't long before he was back out and had to do the business

with the ball as well. he gave england a fighting chance with an early we get commanding on‘s bowlers have all contributed really today as well stop bill particularly chris woke some is superb. picked up a couple of wickets. i think perhaps the only weak link has been the off spin who has been expensive in the last half an hour so interestingly, the last couple of minutes, england have turned to ben stokes with the ball. 70 who is not featured as a bowler at all on this test match. we heard he was only playing as a batsman. and we have decided now is the time to turn to the talisman to see if you can break this chain. they are headed toward a sort of lead that gets out of it when ‘s region this game. 220 three rands is where it stands at the moment. i've wickets down, their 118 for five and the second innings, 225 orfive is a more accurate representation of where they are in the game. and anita wickets, they turned to ben stokes and you sense may one or two before the close in the play of 25 minutes. that's what england need to keep alive in this test. i make absolutely come it will certainly change the complexion of the days

play. when announcements coming off the field today. next yea r‘s women's world cup being pushed back to 2022? they'll make it was due to be early next year. england of course of the reigning world champion, one in 2017 beating england in that memorable —— memorable final at lourdes. as i say come early next year, that's been pushed back a year, and the thinking is from the governing body that new zealand needed an answer because they had to get all the plans in place, and if it needed to be covert secure, and they needed to work out exactly how it was going to work. so by pushing the tournament back a year, it gives everybody an opportunity, take stock, see where the game is at that point, then ensure that things are ready to go, figures crossed in 2022. after that as well, we haven't even worked out to exactly as going to be at the tournament because there is a qualifying competition due to take place earlier this year that still hasn't been able to happen because of public crisis. what make obsolete, so much style up and they are the moment, but a key announcement nonetheless today.

scottish first minister nicola sturgeon said aberdeen players broke the rules after being out on saturday night in the city which led to two positive coronavirus tests. it's led to their match with st johnstone tomorrow being postponed. a total of eight players are having to self—isolate after being out in a bar in the city, which has since gone into lockdown. chris mclaughlin reports. in perth, it's game off with just 2a hours notice. just one week into the new season, hours notice. just one week into the new season, scottish football is already struggling due to coronavirus. this could be why. i packed city centre pub in aberdeen on saturday night. eight first team players were insights, two have since tested positive for covid—19. they had broke the rules between the sfa that's pfl and the scottish government which to put it mildly is com pletely government which to put it mildly is completely unacceptable. football has been given the go—ahead on the strict condition that clubs and

players abide by the guidance that has been agreed. if they don't do that, they put at risk the return of the professional game. the players are now self isolating, they have been disciplined, and the club is investigating. lessons, they say, will be learned. the players are full of regret, they have made a real bad error of judgement. everyone i spoke to our feeling it and rightly so, and the angerand feeling it and rightly so, and the anger and disappointment comes because they've put themselves in that position. the club is also in the position where it finds itself with no match just two weeks into the season, eight first—team players missing and doubts over future fixtures. grey ever since this began, these players should have been doing the same. lots of people have broken the rules in recent weeks and months all over the country not just in recent weeks and months all over the country notjust in aberdeen, so, you know, but he who is without sin cast the first stone, i suppose.

there is a wider concern for the game though because today the first minister also said that a football can't adhere to the protocols then all bets are off. essentially, she's issuing a yellow card, the next time it'll be read, and it will be scottish football that's off. chris mcglocklin, bbc news. manchester city return to champions league action tonight in tehir last 16 tie with real madrid 2—1 up from the first leg. madrid, the newly crowned spanish champions will be without gareth bale, who chose not to travel with the team. patrick gearey reports. four months they pressed pause and in doing so, frozen time a football match. you will blows his whistle, and what a landmark night for manchester city. their first ever manchester city. theirfirst ever win manchester city. their first ever win against rail madrid here in the burn about. manchester city's to win over madrid was a night in another world, so do

they still have an advantage in a game where everything is changed. i don't know, it was a long time ago that we play the first leg. it's a different game, we knew it. after the game. so, we have another when we are going to play here at home. but at home. trying to do the game. across a champagne drenched decade, there have been so many glorious days and nights for city, the champions league is the final 5532125219. league is. 15524512! 7 undiscovered git? fans conquering” gift: fans send mnqueriug" gift: fans send == mnqueriug" ci’cfg fans send == tend waring" cit? fans send == tend to inf; europe, city fans send —— tend to see it as an optional extra. the champions league as the nice icing on the cake and it is ultimately a cup competition, so we can't come i don't like getting too hung up on the best team that's when the champion late. it's one of those things where it would be a nice piece of the jigsaw to add. this though is a puzzle real madrid know how to solve. they've won the european cup 13 times. what's more, they are now spanish champions and

arrive at city united. one man stands apart though, gareth bale once the worlds most of expensive a bar no longer worthy on this squad. translation: people say a lot of things, we have respect between us. the only thing to say, and this is a personal conversation between us, is that he preferred not to play. the rest remains between me and him. the main prospect of football looks to be in a wales church, his relationship with his boss now seemingly a silent stalemate. you see images of him laughing on the bench, pretending to fall asleep, itjust the bench, pretending to fall asleep, it just looked the bench, pretending to fall asleep, itjust looked like he wasn't taking anything seriously. that didn't go down well. they are at the point now where they won't even talk to each other. they eat nor each other in training and around the club. no bail, no fans, a strange night manchester awaits followed by stranger still is the

competition becomes a mini tournament held in portugal. the champions league can finally press play again, but the volume's turned down. patrick gearey, bbc news. it is one of two games, juventus the other, traililing lyon 1—0, who will be without much match practice after the french league opted to end tehir season early due to the pandemic. tomorrow, chelsea will attempt to overturn a three goal deficit to bayern munich. barcelona and napoli is one all from the first leg. clubs in league one and league two have voted in favour of introducing a salary cap, which will come into effect immediately. for clubs in league one the cap level has been set at £2.5million, with wages and bonuses all included for sides in league two, the cap level is at the lower level of £1.5 million the efl say clubs will be fined or face further sanctions if they exceed the spending limits. the pfa says it is "disappointed"

and has served notice of arbitration on efl and says "the legal advice we have received is clear that the salary cap envisaged by the efl would be unlawful and unenforceable". paul scally is the gillingham chairman and says he's disappointed by that response. what they need to take on board is if we don't have some kind of control in football, then pfa will eventually die out because they wont be any clubs for their players to play at. their membership will go down, the players will suffer because they won't be paying for them, and ultimately their wages will be done anyway. quite if they are finding salary—cap a big problem, other than the fact that they're trying to get more fans and players through subscriptions, i suspect. it's beyond me. because anyone with any sort of sense would look at it and go, well, if we don't have football clu bs, look at it and go, well, if we don't have football clubs, we haven't got jobs for our players. i'm not a

massive lover, doesn't particularly affect us. they should be because i know that's about the right level. i think it's an extension of the discussions that will be ongoing, talking about how we can get football back into a sustainable model so that the peer amid that we currently a re model so that the peer amid that we currently are part of is not so shaky and builds on weak foundations. it needs to be strengthened, needs to have sustainability. we are going to have to try to level the playing field between the three divisions, and the championship which has the most problems needs to fix a figure whether it's 16 million from 18 million, and also have some kind of a cap, so that wealthy owners or fa ns a cap, so that wealthy owners or fans can't stop the competition. that is paul scally, the chairman of jailing him speaking today following that announcement. three of the top ten players in women's tennis have now pulled

out of this month's us open, which will be played behind closed doors in new york. world numberfive elina svitolina and kiki bertens — seventh in the rankings, joining the word number one ash barty to sit out at flushing meadows. russell fuller is with me. that evening. quite a significant announcement comments are some of the big names in women's tennis goes, three noticeable absentees. yes, the us tennis association would have been delighted to have be able to publish an entry list on tuesday which showed 19 of the top 20 women in the world into the draw for the us open, but they will have known that entering does not necessarily meana that entering does not necessarily mean a player will turn out. after ash pa rty‘s mean a player will turn out. after ash party's decision not to play publicly last week, now come as you say, alina and kiki burtons, burton says that she's been told anybody returning to the netherlands from the united states would need to quarantine for two weeks and that that would put her preparations for what she describes as her beloved clay hockey tournaments in jeopardy. svitolina says she just doesn't feel

co mforta ble svitolina says she just doesn't feel comfortable and thinks she's putting her team at high rents by travelling to new york. the other major doubters over the world number two simona helens come i don't think she will travel to new york, she's pretty much said that, so some big big names already missing i think from the women's draw. russell, we know that rafael nadeau will be defending his title either in new york. i guess the big question is we could see it —— what sort of tournament would sort of grand slam will we actually see? well, novak djokovic plays, than there will be one of the big three in the draw, and even though he's still to make up and even though he's still to make up his mind for sure, roger federer is out injured, in the winners draw, serena williams is the big star attraction from the united states point of view, and if she does when the title, it could be a 24th on record equalling grand slam singles title. we will have to wait and see how many people play in the event. i think of djokovic didn't play either, then clearly, you will a lwa ys either, then clearly, you will always your member the us open in 2020 and