the only person she knew was shane warned. —— warne.tually quite nice to talk to somebody who had no idea. what are her qualities that have brought you back from the bank? you know, she listened. her empathy. her understanding. but mainlyjust, as a friend, she knew that i was a good guy in a very bad place and she lived on christmas island, she was one of those who, when the boat people came in, she was there to help the refugees, so she just had a lot of empathy and she could see that i was a decent guy too. probably the only one at the time. a couple more points. the first is this incident which occurs several months, i'm a bit confused with the time, you are back in the same hotel, on the balcony, you had contemplated ending your life and suddenly... geez, i mean, rob, you mention it and to try and relive that, i try and remain strong but having walked along the beach, i visualised exactly what i was going to do and how i was going to end my life. and then three years later, when i was clean, wasn't drinking, and i was approached by

captain, michael vaughan said that australia were better in all departments today while aussie legend shane warneaustralia had too much intensity for england and added the aussies are ‘going to be hard to stop now‘. he's not wrong — look at that table. that results makes australia the first team to book a semi—final spot. but for england, it means they might need to win their last two games — against the tournament's only two unbeaten teams, india and new zealand — to guarantee qualification. they stay fourth in the table after that defeat, with the top four teams progressing, but can still be overtaken by bangladesh, sri lanka and pakistan. on to the women's world cup — and there was heartbreak forjapan as late penalty saw them lose 2—1 to netherlands in the last 16. the dutch opened the scoring in the first half after lieke martens gots a brilliant flick on with the back of her heel. butjust before the break, yui hasegawa equalised forjapan with perhaps one of the goals of the tournament so far. after that, the japanese hit the woodwork twice before this handball in the 90th minute allowed mart

while aussie legend shane warne says australia had too much intensity for england and added the aussiesing to be hard to stop now". there was late drama at the women's world cup, where the netherlands scored a 90th minute penalty to beatjapan and reach the quarter—finals. they'll face italy in the last 8 on saturday, after the italians beat china 2—0 to reach the quarter finals for the first time in 28 years. rounding up the action, here's holly hamilton. since these are two at the same stage four years ago, their fortunes have been very different. japan went on to the final but have been in decline ever since. in contrast, the netherlands have turned themselves into european champions and they quickly showed by many fancy them as champions. lieke martens, the barcelona's star, first of the tournament. and before the break, yui hasegawa made it 1—1. the second half looked like japan where the most likely to get a winner with yuka momiki getting close. when the woodwork was not stopping them sari van veenendaal was. eventually the netherlands will get their chance. a penalty for handball

shane warne, now a friend of yours, rhoda forward to your book, one of the greatest spin bowlers thatd. was at fair criticism? that you could not play spin bowling?” fair criticism? that you could not play spin bowling? i think it was. if you were brought up in south africa and thinking back now there was only probably about two or three half decent spinners in south africa. maybe someone like dennis hobson. but the conditions we played under were never conducive to spin bowling. we were brought up on fast ha rd bowling. we were brought up on fast hard wickets. and you take a comparison to the england players. the england players are brought up on dust bowls. —— indian players. and they are not encouraged to bowl fast because you cannot bowl fast in india. and all these indian players learn how to play spin bowling beautifully and then they come to australia or england and they struggle with the see movement and swing and it is the same. wherever you are brought up in the world, you become accustomed to those conditions and that is where you become better players, in those conditions.