signed a six—year deal at the bernabeu and joins the belgium forward eden hazard and serbia striker luka jovicn by 41 runs to win their cricket world cup match on wednesday. after two successive wash—outs, there was a full day's play in taunton as david warner's century proved enough to see his side to a third win, as patrick gearey reports. flood lights on, no sign of the son but least at last it was dry. after two rain drenched days, the world cup resumed in the gloom. thompson must‘ve felt a long way from australia but times aaron finch looked as though he was trying to hit it back there and together with david warner gave the aussies a superb start, warner scored slower but further, a man punished for a amis mistake getting away with one here. it brought up his first century for his country since that ball tampering band. as for pakistan, for a while, it was mr pakistan, for a while, it was mr pakistan but you can never stay mad at them for long because they were back to being this pakistan. helping them bowl australia out for 307 and it might be many more. pakistan still had a chance espe

their summer spending so far to almost 300 million after the previous arrivals of eden hazard, luka jovicen's javelin record holder goldie sayers will belatedly receive her 2008 olympic bronze medal at next month's anniversary games in london. sayers was upgraded after russian mariya abakumova was stripped of silver in 2016 after a reanalysis of her sample from the beijing games tested positive for a banned substance. we've had another update on the progress of andy murray, as he eases his way back into tennis. his recovery from having his hip resurfaced injanuary is going well, with murray due to play in the doubles at queen's next week. but he's told david law that a return to singles action will take longer but he's hopeful it can happen by the end of the year, although the us open in august will be too soon. when you're in pain for a long time it's hard to remember what it was like before hand and i'm back to being pain free again, it's just nice, ican being pain free again, it's just nice, i can go and do and enjoy things. 0ften nice, i can go and do and enjoy things. often on the te

five—year contract and is expected to form a new front line for the club alongside another new signing luka jovics a different level. i had a lot of success with chelsea. and they wa nted of success with chelsea. and they wanted to win a loss as well with madrid. —— and i want to win a lot. just to be here is a new challenge. but i am ready for that. elsewhere, the build—up to the africa cup of nations continues. the tournament gets under way in egypt on friday the 21st ofjune. the defending champions are cameroon, who'll play in group f along with ghana, benin and guinea—bissau. the indomitable lions, who'll be bidding to win a sixth cup of nations, face fellow qualifiers mali in a friendly in qatar on friday. and the mood in the camp is good ahead of their title defence. well, i think for now, until now it has been going on really good, because we have been working hard, having good coaches, without having to show us our strategies and so on. despite the weather conditions, we are working on that. it is the same whether we will meet in egypt. for now things are going all well —— weather. it's t

france and the fee could rise to over 61 million dollars and he joins the likes of eden hazard and luka jovicca cup of nations under way next tuesday in egypt when they take on guinea bissau. the hosts who were runners up two years ago play their opening game on friday in cairo against zimbabwe. they're seeking a record—extending eighth title but their hopes rest on the form of liverpool's champions league winner mohamed salah. new zealand captain kane williamson led his side to a four wicket win over south africa at the cricket world cup. the victory takes the black caps up to the top of the table while all but condemning south africa to an early exit and patrick gearey was watching. for nearly three weeks, birmingham has weighted its own. they world cup has weighted its own. they world cup has gone on around it. but after the now obligatory rain delay, how was this for a start? when did o'clock bowled trent. they gain ground slowly, but lost a stumps rapidly. faf du plessis next. and after 50 hashim amla two. no escape for the men in black. it took until the 42nd over and to break free. tha