the match will take place on the margaret court arena, and will be open to the public.y begin their tour of the west indies in the next week or so, but they'll host the world cup this summer before the ashes series starts in august. 0ur sports correspondentjoe wilson was at lord's today, where ashley giles was speaking publicly for the first time since taking over as the ecb's director of cricket. well, as england was mad men for the caribbean, lords awaits the summer. potentially of course, this could be english cricket's biggest ever year with the world cup and the ashes being staged in england and wales. ashley giles told me that essentially, his job is to steer england's ship as managing director. he paid tribute to the work that andrew strauss had done in that role, in particular the way that strauss had overseen a step change in the way that england use white ball cricket, of course the pinnacle of white ball cricket is the 50 over world cup, staged this year in england and wales, so the question for ashley giles, as we sit here now, do you believe that england wi

that was one of the reasons it was on margaret court arena and that was why it started so late. it wassionals, i know, but you can imagine people being put off. you don't know when you are going to start, because you are waiting for matches to finish. all this means it's good night to british hopes at this year's australian open before the third round has started. all eight have gone. konta's match started 12:30am, the latest start ever at melbourne park. garbine muguruza took the first set 6—4, but konta battled back to take the second on tie break. but the two—time grand slam champion broke in konta's final service game to win the decider. imean, i i mean, i think ideally both of us probably would have wanted to plate earlier. this is no—one's ideal schedule to play in the wee hours of the morning. but again, we don't make the schedule, unfortunately, and we both dealt with the same challenge. overnight, roger federer progressed to the third round with a straight‘s set win over american taylor fritz. england's rugby union head coach eddiejones says he's picked the strongest squad of

the match will take place on the margaret court arena and will be open to the public. for nothing!i think we have found ourselves in the past running into world cups with suddenly a bit of a meltdown going on and change. that is not the case this time round. if you talk about my role again, as much as anything, that train is moving quickly along the tracks for the world cup and i need to make sure that down the line it‘s clear and there is no interference which will derail us. sounds like he should be working for network rail rather than the ecb! that is all the sport for now, more in the next hour. thank you very much. the prime minister has suffered another commons defeat in her plans for brexit. mps have said she has to come back in three days if her deal is rejected when voted on next tuesday. it was backed by 308 mps to 297. mp5 tuesday. it was backed by 308 mps to 297. mps have become anotherfive days of debate on the prime minister‘s brexit deal. what will they be weighing up and what is at sta ke ? they be weighing up and what is at stake? chris morris has this assessment.