hello, i'm olly foster with the latest from the bbc sport centre. the indian premier league is back. ben stokes and moeen ali were the first england stars on show, but their chennai super kings were beaten by reigning champions gujarat titans in the opening match of the tournament's 16th edition. michael redford reports.

at the biggest stadium in the world, of the biggest of occasions, so much more thanjust a cricket condiment, it's full of global stars and plenty of home—grown talents. that was mohamed's 100 ipl wicket. the perfect start for the titans. but this wasn't his story. instead, step forward a batterfull of a batterfull of potential and potency. full of power, too. a super king producing super shots, the titans needing 179 to win. a daunting total, perhaps, but the titans have talent oozing through their team. led by giland led by gil and a half century put the titans in control. led by gil and a half when he went for 63, the runs it suddenly dried up, but this is 2020 and big hits changed everything. the titans off to a winning start, but onlyjust. michael redford, bbc news. the former yorkshire bowler azeem rafiq says

he feels "vindicated" after a cricket discipline commission found charges had been proved against five former players of bringing the game into disrepute through their use of racist language. the former england captain michael vaughan was cleared "on the balance of probabilities" of using racist language towards some of his former team—mates and rafiq. vaughan's lawyer has criticised the process and the toll it's taken on all parties. one of the criticisms that could be made around having to use the cdc proceedings is that it is adversarial, it will invite claim and counterclaim, it invites people to call each other liars because that's the adversarial process. that can be very damaging and a very harmful process. but ultimately, it can cause a lot of damage as well in the process. even though it's good at getting to the heart of the matter. after less than six months in thejob, the chairman of cricket scotland, anjan luthra,

has resigned following a row about progress on dealing with racism. a report last year found the leadership and governance of scottish cricket to be institutionally racist, with luthra promising to deal with the issue when he took up the role. he was criticised for claiming "significant progress" had been made, but in announcing his resignation, he "fundamentally disagrees" with the way governing body sportscotland is running the sport. sportscotland say they're "fully committed" to helping rebuild scottish cricket. let's have a quick look at some of the other headlines today. british athletes laura muir and jemma reekie have split from their long—time coach andy young, leaving their south african training camp early. muir and reekie, who are medal prospects at this year's world championships, have resumed training in loughborough. northern ireland's record goalscorer rachel furness is expected to return for next month's friendly with wales. she's been called up to the squad after stepping away

from international duty in august for personal reasons. chelsea's millie bright has withdrawn from sarina wiegman's england squad because of injury. arsenal defender lotte wubben—moy has been called up to replace her for the friendlies against brazil and australia. championship leaders burnley were held to goalless draw by sunderland in the championship on friday night. it was the visitors who came closest to scoring — amad diallo�*s deflected effort coming off the bar in the second half. the clarets need eight more points to seal promotion back to the premier league at the first time of asking. sunderland are now six points outside the play—off places. leicester tigers are through to the quarterfinals of rugby union's european champions cup after beating edinburgh. the english champions only led 3—0 at the break at welford road, but half—time replacement jasper wiese scored the game's only try — tigers winning by 16 points to 6. bristol's european campaign

is over for another season after they were beaten at home by clermont auvergne in the european challenge cup. french star damien penaud scored two tries as his side moved into the quarterfinals. super league champions st helens are up to fourth after thumping bottom side wakefield 38—nil. they ran in seven tries. hull kr were also winners tonight — they led iii—nil at the break against leeds rhinos and scored straight from the restart in the second half before holding on to win 20—12. despite that win, they slip to fifth below saints on points difference. oscar pistorius�*s bid for parole collapsed today after it emerged that he hasn't actually served enough time to qualify for early release. he has served six years of a 13—year sentence for killing his girlfriend reeva steenkamp in 2013. the six—time paralympic champion will remain in prison on the outskirts of pretoria for at least another year and half before he's eligible for parole.

ms steenkamp�*s parents had opposed his parole request, claiming he hasn't been rehabilitated. pistorius continues to maintain that he shot ms steenkamp at their home by mistake, believing she was an intruder. russian and belarusian players will be able to compete at wimbledon this summer after the all england club lifted the ban it imposed last year. the players will be able to feature subject to competing as neutral athletes and complying with certain conditions. they were banned last year in response to russia's invasion of ukraine and the support provided by belarus. the decision also covers other british events held in the run—up to wimbledon, most notably the tournaments at queen's and eastbourne. former world champion anthonyjoshua has weighed in at a career—high 18 stone 3 lbs for tomorrow night's fight against the americanjermaine franklin at london's 02 arena. joshua has fought twice over the last 18 months, losing both times to

the world champion 0leksandr usyk. american franklin is almost two stone lighter than when he lost to dillian whyte in november. ifjoshua wins, he says he'll target a title fight against world champion tyson fury. and that is all the sport for now.

this is bbc news. we'll have the headlines and all the main news stories for you at the top of the hour, straight after this programme. there were rumours that the inspection hadn't gone well. 32 years summed up in one word. i would do anything i could to sit down and tell her what - an amazing teacher she was. when you hear it, it hurts because it feels like one of our own. her impact on the community

isjust huge and her loss isjust huge on the whole caversham primary community. it's terrifying cos, you know, you can hold it to yourself. and it's your secret at that point, but you know at some point it's going to go public. - she died because she was so sad and she was so sad because of what somebody had said about the school that she loved. i think you'll enjoy what the children have prepared. ruth perry — teacher, mother, community leader. i would like every child to look back on their school days with as much fondness as i have, and if we achieve that, then... ..then i'll be very happy. education was her vocation. 32 years summed up in

one word — inadequate. itjust preyed on her mind until she couldn't take it any more. in november 2022, everything changed. she texted me back and said, "i can't speak now, "but the worst day of my life. "the 0fsted inspection inspectors have been in and it's dreadful." and that was it. so, i sort of said, "it can't be that bad." she said, "yes, i think it is. "it's about as bad as it can be." 0n the first day of their two—day visit, inspectors downgraded caversham primary school in reading from outstanding to inadequate — the lowest level. all during that process, every time i spoke to her, she would talk about the countdown. i remember clearly one day saying, "52 days and counting." so, every day, she had this weight on her shoulders hanging over her and she wasn't officially

allowed to talk to her family. and i remember the very first time i saw her, rather than just speaking to her on the phone a couple of days after the end of the 0fsted inspection, she came, she was... she sighs. she was an absolute shadow of her former self. two months on, the pressure became too much. this one—word judgement was just destroying 32 years of her vocation. ruth took her own life on the 8th of january. a former pupil at the school, its deputy and then head teacher, her sudden death shocked the school and local community. i heard the news via a whatsapp from someone and was in utter shock.

the fact that she took her life wasjust... ..just threw me. i didn't think it really kind of sank in for several weeks that, actually, it was possible. itjust didn't make sense. her impact on the community isjust huge and her loss isjust huge on the whole caversham primary community. sorry. it's ok. you 0k? take your time. she sighs. she wasjust one of us, wasn't she? she was a parent. she was one of us. the report found leaders at the school had a weak understanding of safeguarding

requirements and procedures. a lack of oversight, staff training and poor record—keeping were also highlighted. it said these weaknesses posed potential risks to pupils. many other areas of the school werejudged to be good. some felt its conclusion was unfair. i think we're patronised as parents. nobody can look at a report - unless it has a one—word summary. | the entirety of a school's fabric, | its staff, the education provided, some summarised in one word — itjust is a nonsense to me. - caversham primary is an excellent school, and my children, they can attest to that and our experience of it. and it still is. its leadership is doing wonderful work to carry on the ethos and the work of the school, and to

have thatjudged in a snapshot of experience and to have that judgement given is heartbreaking because it is a very good school providing a wonderful service and love and support and care for the children of the community. for more than a decade, schools graded outstanding became exempt from inspection. but since 2020, re—inspections have led to hundreds of previously outstanding schools being downgraded. ruth perry's school, which hadn't been inspected for 13 years, is one of five out of 359 to be moved to the bottom grade since september 2022. news of ruth perry's death started a nationwide conversation. teaching unions, school leaders and members of the education community called for inspections to be suspended.

but 0fsted rejected this. the groups also called for a formal inquiry into caversham primary�*s report. 0ne head teacher decided to take more direct action. 0fsted protester head says she'll refuse entry to school inspectors tomorrow following the suicide of a fellow head teacher. ruth perry took her own life ahead of the publication of a critical 0fsted report. inspectors were eventually allowed in and the protest called off. some parents, friends and former colleagues said change might be necessary. now, i absolutely feel that there needs to be regulation in schools just like any other sector, but i think that 0fsted now is a very, very blunt instrument and it's a very punitive way ofjudging somebody�*s entire teaching life. we've got to stop this name, blame and shame culture that we're living in. change the system.

0fsted need to come in and have more of a holistic approach, _ suggest ways to improve rather than saying, - "you need to improve," and then walk off and leave them. - it's about nurturing and supporting those kids and being by their side, and itjust seems that 0fsted maybe need to be a bit more like that or a bit more like how ruth was to me and how she supported me when there were areas that i needed improving. james pope knows the pressures of teaching leadership. he resigned from his job at a rural comprehensive in gloucestershire, which had been graded inadequate by 0fsted. his story was told in a bbc documentary. good afternoon, colleagues. thank you for your time. sorry to cut off your conversations. i just want to come straight out with this. so, ijust wanted to call you to a meeting this afternoon to let you know that i'm stepping down as head teacher of marwood school.

good pause there. i'll let that sink in for you and also for me. if you don't mind, if ijust take a little bit of a breather, then that would be nice. some of you have heard me refer to marwood as child number five. children one, two, three and four have been missing out a little bit on daddy time over the course, especially over the last 12 months. what we found when we came back in the september, which happened to coincide with the period of time that the television cameras were there for that academic year, what we then found is just a huge unravelling of the culture that we'd created. so, if you tell children that they're inadequate, how are they going to behave? and so, we noticed huge drop—offs in our behaviour, we noticed huge drop—offs in the attendance of children, all things that we'd worked really hard to resolve. and i'm painting a fairly dark picture, and this is my point about i don't think thatjudgement is representative at all. actually, everybody was still working very hard, but some of those subtle things, those nuanced things that bind a school community together that

we'd worked so hard to create, i described it at the time, it was literally like watching sand drift through your fingers. you know, all of that stuff that you built and you'd done... and you can't you can't hold on to it. it's very difficult to hold on to. you know, when you're in the 0fsted window, when you're waiting for 0fsted to come, the feeling is constantly one of fear, of, "they're going to find out that i'm not doing a very good job," or "they're going to say that i'm not doing a very good job". and so you spend all of your time worrying about it. then the inspection happens and the feeling is very much because of the way the 0fsted operate during that one or two—day window where they're inspecting your school. it feels all of the time like they're trying to find out that you're not doing a very good job. so, it's this sort of negative culture that exists, so you're rubbish until you prove that you're not rubbish. in a statement, 0fsted said...

it has changed over the last 30 years, and i'm sure it will continue to change, and the great debate now is whether we continue with grades and particularly the the summary and particularly the summary or overall effectiveness of grade or not. and there are problems in doing away with that which i think the next chief inspector will have to address because a judgement of good is what parents want to see. reports are written not just for schools, but for parents. they want to know whether they're sending their children to a good school or not. the department for education added...

whatever comes next, many say ruth perry has left a lasting legacy. my children mention a memory when they went on a camping trip. she always did the overnight shifts, so she would sit up by the campfire during the overnight so that the other teachers could have a rest and that she would do that shift, and that was her thing that she could offer in that trip. and she was very good at that. if there was a child, they were taking them swimming and one needed one—to—one, she was in the water. and she did that extra mile. and i remember very strongly what she wrote in the yearbook for our children when they'd left, the preface that she wrote and she told them to follow the school's core values,

but she said the most important was compassion. she said, "you should always be kind," and she told them to go out to the world and make it a better place for everyone. i would do anything i could to sit down with ruth perry and tell her what an amazing teacher she was and how i have seen material benefit from her governance and her leadership in that school. but you can't. that's the... ..the finality, the tragedy of the situation. we can't go backwards, but we can go forwards and say, "things have to change." she was my sister. - she was my little sister. and she was a mother- who doted on her daughters, and she was a lovely aunt. she was a daughter. my parents are still here and they've had to live l

with this, with losing their daughter. - and it's...it's terrible. it's heartbreaking. - hello there. after a very dry february right across the country, march has more than made up for the lack of rainfall, certainly across england. in fact, in the south—east quadrant of england, some areas have seen more than three times the march average, and the latest met office stats for march suggest that england has been the wettest since 1981. that's all about to change, though, as we lose low pressure, start to see higher pressure into the start of april.

this weekend and into next week, we'll see more drier and brighter weather across the country. but in the short—term, we still have friday's low pressure system clearing off into the near continent. it left a legacy of cloud and some weather fronts, which will bring further rain throughout saturday, certainly for northern ireland, parts of south wales, south—west england. thicker cloud also affecting eastern scotland, eastern england, with some spots of rain on it, will continue to plague these areas throughout the whole day. and it'll be quite chilly as well here with the onshore easterly breeze, and further west, although that weather front will be fizzling out with a bit of brightness, it won't be as warm as it has been of late. and as we move through saturday night, it looks like those weather fronts will tend to fizzle out. we'll see variable amounts of cloud and clear spells, and the reason for those weather fronts being squeezed out is because high pressure will be building in across the country for sunday. so, a dry start for most areas,

and with us importing some slightly drier air from the near continent, certainly, the cloud should tend to break up. we'll see quite a bit of sunshine around. lighter winds, too. early on, we could see more of a breeze in the south—east, but those winds will fall lighter. bit of cloud for northern scotland, northern ireland. despite the temperatures still on the low side, 9—12 degrees, when you factor in the strong early april sunshine, it'll feel quite pleasant. as we move out of sunday into monday, so the first working week of april, high pressure still dominates the scene for most areas. there will be variable amounts of cloud, i think, for scotland, northern ireland, closer to these weather fronts out in the atlantic, which will make inroads for tuesday and wednesday. but, again, much of england and wales certainly will be dry, widespread sunshine, and i think temperatures will be creeping up a little bit with the abundance of sunshine. we could be close to the mid—teens — i'd say 11—13 celsius. then some subtle changes tuesday and also wednesday. high pressure starts to pull away, and we'll see low pressure and its weatherfronts pushing into northern and western areas. so scotland, northern ireland, northern and western england and wales will see some splashes of rain.

a bit of cloud getting in towards the south—east, but there'll still be some sunny spells here. 0urairsource, though, coming in from the south—west, so a mild direction, as temperatures range from around 12—14 celsius. wednesday, similar story — northern and western areas plagued by some weather fronts. high pressure never too far away from the south and the east, but we will see further splashes of rain across northern and western areas on wednesday. but as the fronts push eastwards, they will be pushing into higher pressure, so they'll tend to weaken, fizzle out, to become no more than a band of cloud. but, again, another mild day on wednesday, around the mid—teens, 111—15 degrees. and then, as we go beyond, the run—up to easter, looks like higher pressure wants to build back in, trying to keep these weather fronts at bay, which will scrape into the north—west at times. but this is the easter weekend. it, at the moment, looks like it could be fine and dry. the run—up to the easter weekend will also be fairly fine. perhaps a bit of rain for the north and west of the uk, but for the easter weekend itself, at the moment, it's looking pretty promising

with quite a bit of sunshine. take care.

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