fernando verdasco prevails in the battle of the veterans at the barcelona open. hello and thanks for joining us on sport today. we start in the english premier league where chelsea missed a chance to tighten their grip on a top 4 spot. they were held to a 2—2 draw at home to burnley. in a breathless start, jeff hendrick opened the scoring for the visitors afterjust 8 minutes before ngolo kante and then gonzalo higuain gave chelsea the lead with 2 quickfire goals. that was all before the quarter of an hour mark. it didnt stop there — ashley barnes drawing burnley level on 2a minutes. thats how it stayed. chelsea, who had manager maurizio sarri sent to the stands, were unhappy with what they perceived to be time—wasting tactics by the visitors but burnley with a precious point, are now almost certainly safe from relegation. technical players cost a lot of money. we have to develop players, we have to develop a team and wherever we go in the country. it's very difficult. you saw the start tonight, fantastical stop in the early pa rt tonight, fantastical stop in the

he will play either grigor dimitrov or fernando verdasco in the third round.second round at the stuttgart open after beating fellow latvian jelena ostapenko for the first time on tuesday. at one set each sevastova won the decider 6—0 and she'll now face either lesia tsurenko of ukraine or german wild card laura siegemund, who was runner up in 2016. that is about all we have time for. you can get all the latest sports news at our website — that's bbc.com/sport. but from me, tulsen tollett, and the rest of the sport today there is a change on the way, it's certainly going to feel a lot cooler, but not really until the end of the week. today, wednesday, it's actually not going to be too bad. temperatures could still get up to around 20 degrees but some of us will need our brollies. there are showers on the way, there could be some thunderstorms too. a lot of cloud on the satellite image, these are weather fronts, they are heading in our direction and for the rest of the week, we will see a succession of weather fronts approaching us and those will be giving showe

fernando verdasco prevails in the battle of the veterans at the barcelona 0pen.s on sport today. we start in the english premier league where chelsea missed a chance to tighten their grip on a top 4 spot. they were held to a 2—2 draw at home to burnley. in a breathless start, jeff hendrick opened the scoring for the visitors afterjust 8 minutes before ngolo kante and then gonzalo higuain gave chelsea the lead with 2 quickfire goals. that was all before the quarter of an hour mark. it didnt stop there — ashley barnes drawing burnley level on 24 minutes. thats how it stayed. chelsea, who had manager maurizio sarri sent to the stands, were unhappy with what they perceived to be time—wasting tactics by the visitors but burnley with a precious point,

of the best men's players are in barcelona and in a first round meeting between two spaniards fernando verdasco defeated for the fianna lopez six four six three the final score. was. the cricket world cup is a little over a month away and one nine hundred ninety two champions pakistan will face england in a short series as a warm up the pakistanis open their world cup campaign on may thirty first against the west indies but a five match one day series against the english will help them get used to the conditions that they'll face during the tournament the last time the world cup was hosted in england pakistan finished as the runner up. we believe as well as we possibly could and we believe that i believe. in time and it and believe that we have the skills to be really successful operation has been outstanding our preparation now leading into this will comp is brilliant with the series against the world's number one ranked side in the on conditions that will give us an opportunity to really to start cells that will give us an opportunity to start combinations it's been a long time coming for a g

of the best men's players are in barcelona and in a first round meeting between two spaniards fernando verdasco defeated feliciano lopez six four six three in the final score. oh my god. the twenty one thousand world athletics championships will be held in doha and some of his best athletes are in the qatari capital preparing for the big event later this year on the second day of the asian athletics championships on monday the home crowd were given something to cheer for at the honey for international stadium when . powered his way to the gold medal in the men's four hundred meter hurdles it was a date to savor for qatar. a bolo would then make it to gold medals on the day as he took first place in the men's eight hundred meters these championships are being seen as a trial of end for the world championships that certainly september. the n.b.a. champions golden state warriors are only one win away from reaching the second round of the playoffs they took game four against the los angeles clippers on sunday to leave their series three one kevin durant's scored thirty three points and klay thompso

and i'm we're hardeen in doha with all the day's sport as fernando verdasco comes out on top of an all spanish affair against tracy on a lopez at the barcelona open that and more coming up later this news hour. to begin in sri lanka where emergency powers have not come into force following sunday's coordinated bomb attacks two hundred ninety people are known to have been killed among them citizens from at least twelve countries the limited state of emergency gives police and the army extensive powers to detain and interrogate anyone without a court order earlier another bomb was found in a van near one of the churches targeted on sunday it went off as experts tried to defuse it police have so far as to twenty four people in connection with a tax which some in the government had been warned about weeks ago. he has more from colombo. soldiers back on the streets of colombo a decade after sri lanka's long running civil war ended their presence was brought on by a series of bomb blasts across the island on sunday that targeted hotels and churches at hospitals there was confusion and grief