Hello and welcome to sportsday, with me 0lly foster and ben croucher. Thanks forjoining us. Heres whats been making the headlines on this scorching saturday joy for pakistan, they beat afghanistan in a world cup thriller and thats very bad news for england its a double for the dutch, they beat italy to reach the womens world cup semi finals. Charles leclerc takes pole for ferrari at the austrian grand prix but Lewis Hamilton is penalised by stewards and bumped down to fifth also coming up in the programme. Lets play ball. London prepares to host Major League Baseballs first game in europe. Evening, weve had some fantastic games at the cricket world cup recently. Todays match at headingley went down to the final over as pakistan pipped afghanistan to win by three wickets and keep their tournament alive. They are now up to fourth in the standings at englands expense. Well have the latest from edgbaston ahead of their game against india tomorrow, but first heres how pakistan stormed into the semifinal places after a late show in leeds. Michael redford reports tx vt under the beaming underthe beaming sun, under the beaming sun, two teams that had a rivalryjust as intense. Seven matches, afghanistan was playing for pride, a win for pakistan theyll be into the top four and pakistan theyll be into the top fourand a pakistan theyll be into the top four and a step closer the semifinals. Afghanistan had beaten pakistan in a warm affection may, but any memories of that were quickly forgotten. The captain called for 15, gone and the very next ball. Afghanistan 27 for two. But the tables bottom side have been stubborn opposition for many in this cup and they took in. Quick fire a2. A good match hopping afghanistan set their opponent 28 to win. A modest total to change, no need for a pakistan hero, or was there . Tracking the wicked before the inning. Pakistan recovered though, and helped along by some fielding. Never turning the back on the ball. It soon turned to concern for pakistan, the wickets fallen from 72 for one, to 121 forfour. Pakistan, the wickets fallen from 72 for one, to 121 for four. In pakistan, the wickets fallen from 72 for one, to 121 forfour. In a pakistan captain was out, they sensed and upset. They went to the final over with pakistan leading six from it, and from the first time the tournament, afghanistan fell short, beaten a9 for the three wicked when, pakistan hope for the semifinal is still alive. Lets have quick look at how that results leaves the world cup table. Pakistan have jumped one point ahead of england into fourth on nine points. They have one remaining game against bangladesh on friday at lords an update on their match of new zealand injust an update on their match of new zealand in just a an update on their match of new zealand injust a moment. But it is looking good for pakistan. Not so much for england. Well weve not quite reached the must win situation for england but if they want to keep their world cup fate in their own hands thats exactly what theyve got to do against india in birmingham tomorrow. They might have to do it without pace bowlerjoffra archer. Hes struggling with a side strain although opener jason roy is expected to be fit. Joe wilson sent us this report from edgbaston the think about time, it does run out. For england to rescue the world cup, their world cup. They have to games and caution can go to the breeze. So they are prepared to recall the batsman jason breeze. So they are prepared to recall the batsmanjason roy, even if it means reinjuring him in the short term, tuesdays defeat to australia it was their third in the tournament already. I asked the captain if the players had let him down. No, i cannot fault them stop they have produced in every single game where we have let themselves down is adapting to conditions. It has been a bigger challenge than previous bilateral series that we have played, so tomorrow is going to be the exact same. We will have to adapt to conditions, playing against world cup, a home world cup for your own country is an extremely privileged position to be in and presents a huge opportunity. Tomorrow games left, to win that, we have to go to the World Cup Final. There is still a lot on the line and we are looking forward to it. Indian contrast could come youre feeling bright and breezy, their world cup has gone to plan. If you are an indian cricketer, you live for the 20 a7 scrutiny and expectation that comes with being an indian cricketer, so what is his perspective on englands recent struggles . Everyone is a bit surprised that we thought england was probably going to dominate under their own conditions, but as i said, at the beginning of the tournament in the press conference. Pressures can be a massive factor and low scores are going to be defended and isaid scores are going to be defended and i said that because i have played two world cups and that usually happens ina two world cups and that usually happens in a big tournament. That all teams are very strong, so anyone can beat anyone today. There will be a vibrant, passionate, noisy atmosphere in these stands tomorrow generated by the supporters of india as englands captain put it. For his players, it will feel like an away game. Australia have already qualified for the semi finals but new zealand can knock them off the top of the table and join them in the last four if they win at lords. Theyve not got a huge total to chase either. Just 2aa. Australia were a6 for three when Martin Guptill produced a stunning catch to remove steve smith for just five. Usman khawaja top scored with 88 as he and alex carey put on 107 for the sixth wicket. Butjust as australia wanted to add some late runs trent boult took a hatrick in the final over as australia made 2a3 for 9. New zealand have moved onto a2 2 after 13 overs. England will face the usa on tuesday but in the next hour or so well know the full line up for the womens world cup semi finals. The netherlands have booked their place in the last four. They beat italy 2 nil in valenciennes. It wasnt the best of matches but two headed goals in the second half saw the european champions come out on top. Rhia chohan was watching. Qualifying for the quarterfinals in 20 years, italy had been the surprise package in france. The lowest ranked squad to reach the quarters, the research attracted millions of domestic viewers with the skill and their passion. And this was already beginning to show in the opening stages against the dutch. With the first real chance. It was the first half devoid of free form attacking football, the temperatures taking their toll on the players. In the much needed calling for the momentum. The second half saw the netherlands afforded chances around the box, allowing this kick. So it was only a matter of time before this break through. Every set piece conceded was looking more and more dangerous for italy and here his wife, stephanie right on target. Element and the dutch is surely through to the semifinals. By for some, they knew it was over. Italy had defied pretournament expectations to get this far, breaking new ground for the womens game back home. But it is the european champions who marched on to their first world cup semifinals. Netherlands will face the winners of the quarterfinal under way bewteen germany and sweden, this is a repeat of the 2003 final. That germany won. Sweden have taken the lead stina finally finding the back after a scrap in the box finding the net to give the swedes their second goal its the first time the germans have conceded at this world cup these are live pictures from rennes. The second half underway a short time ago. If you have to tear yourself away from sportsday this one is live on bbc one. Well drop back in again before the end of the programme. England manager phil neville will lead team gb at next years Olympic Games in tokyo. Theyve qualified thanks to the lionesses run to the semi finals at the world cup. Itll be only the second time the four home nations have had a combined team at the olympics it will be england led by me and my Coaching Staff and obviously we have got a fantastic pool of players to pick from. Wales, scotland, ireland. Fantastic, looking forward to it but we just have a small matter of the semifinal to look forward to first. Well what of that world cup semi final then. Well it doesnt get much tougher with defending champions United States standing between england and a first World Cup Final. Their run to the last four has been attracting plenty of viewers too. 7. 6 million watched the win against norway on bbc one, a uk record for a womens match including a few thousand at glastonbury too. Probably get a sense of it more after the game and that is the primary team enjoyed a bit more of the oh my god, did you see the cloud watching everyone playing . The momentum is building, the pressure is not building because we keep ourselves pretty low profile and just make sure that we keep our minds about we have to do in the future. So tuesday, it will be a big massive game, massive semi final and everybody is really getting on the bandwagon. We have had five games now i think we have been building up momentum, the team is changed a lot, there has not been a lot of consistency but everyone was stepped ina consistency but everyone was stepped in a brilliantjob, to showing the strength and depth of the team. So theres definitely some much more to come and hopefully on tuesday, i will come to fruition. Lets have a quick look at some of the other headlines today Manchester United have completed the signing of aaron wan bissaka from Crystal Palace in a fifty Million Pound deal. The england under 21 right back has agreed a five Year Contract that will earn him up to £80,000 a week. Joe choong has booked his place in next years olympics in tokyo. The modern pentathlete won gold in the World Cup Final coincidently in tokyo which secured him automatic qualification. Fabio quartararo broke the lap record in assen to claim pole for the dutch moto gp. The 20 year old french rookie is the youngest rider to take back to back poles. World champion marc marquez could only qualify fourth. Britains Cal Crutchlow was sixth. Hes been the man to beat in formula one for most of the season but Lewis Hamilton will start from fifth at tomorrows austrian grand prix. Its after he was penalised for blocking another driver in qualifying. He had been on the front row alongside Charles Leclerc who took pole in his ferrari but hamiltons demotion could open the doorfor a first non mercedes win in 2019. Nick parrott has more. Just as complaints of formula i being boring were louder, they were soon silenced. The sound of the fans roaring the dutchman on as he set the early pace. Getting into difficulties from the start was the championship leader, Lewis Hamilton. 0bsrtucting lead to investigation. His fortune also hit his title rival sebastian, problems of this for ari his fortune also hit his title rival sebastian, problems with his ferrari forcing him to retire. He will start from nine. While his prancing horse went lame, going to the track record in the second pole of the season. Iam it isa big measure to drive this car, it just felt great and very happy to bring the pole position back home but we need to finish. We have some good speed. I think he proved that today and i am happy for one side of the garage. It is unlikely to be fun for hamilton, they demoted him to fifth for his running, aiming for the first one of his career and staff looking to repeat last years victory, it should be anything but boring. In a fortnight well have a winner of the womens singles at wimbledon. Most of the worlds top players have been warming up on the grass of eastbourne this week. Karolina pliskova has won her second title there after beating the reigning wimbledon champion Angelique Kerber in straight sets. Clare balding is there for us in scorching sunshine, we witnessed a phenomenal display from pliskova lifted the nature of the trophy winning, 6 16 four and alongside me today, it sounds one sided in terms the trophy winning, 6 a 6 four and alongside me today, it sounds one sided in terms of the score line, it was near that they played badly. I think a lot of the damage was done in the opening three games. She came up with a wonderful game plan and she has been fantastic with her serve but i think her movement was the best ive ever seen it. Moving side to side, she has such long arms, but she was able to dominate from start to finish and she has played so well in every match here and shell be able to go in full of confidence. Shell be going in as are the top favourites, i think technically is the favourite, but pliskova the best players in the world, people think they dont want to face her. I think the only problem for pliskova historically has not played well there, we scratch our heads as to why that is happened but we are seeing a more complete player than we have ever seen before and she must be so happy that she is in the bottom half away from all of those big names. Theres been a lot of talk about the top quarter with serena, but for pliskova, maybe she could go in the bid low key she could go in the bit low key for some of those in the bottom half and she has contributed a lot, so they can be the difference. She is a former wimbledon champion, giving them a very warm hug after winning the title, Karolina Pliskova with a victory on the board, you will see her on there. Claire balding at eastbourne. Now what were you doing in 200a . Venus williams was already a four time grand slam winner then. Cori gauff her opponent in the first round of wimbledon was born in that year. At 15 years old, gauff will become the youngest player to appear in the main wimbledon draw in the open era. Living the dream, i guess. Ifelt like i was going to play one of them and many people were like, do you like your draw . Playing the greatest players of all time is definitely a dream and how my gamble match up against her, it is a big age difference i am 15 and she is 39, which he has won this tournament five times. So im excited to see how i do. Its the final weekend of action at the european games in belarus and Great Britain are assured of a gold medal in the badmintons mixed doubles with wins for chris and gabby adcock and marcus ellis and lauren smith. The married couple the adcocks beat the irish brother and sister sam and chloe magee 2i 8, 21 18 to make it through to the final for the first time. Really happy to just be through to the final, but credit to the irish, they really pushed us there in the second set. I think we were surprised after beating the dutch, but they played fantastic. Yeah, they must be really thrilled with their mettle, we are happy to push on as well. Ellis and smith beat a french pair in the other semi. A bit tighter this 2119, 2112. Its a repeat of the final at last years Commonwealth Games won by the adcocks. Whilst phil neville is readying his side for a world cup semi final against usa, twin sister tracey is counting down for the netball world cup. That starts in liverpool in a couple of weeks. Neville will be stepping down as head coach of england after the tournament to start a family but hopes to be back on the sidelines in the future this is not my last world cup. I think the girls want to do it for themselves. They did it for themselves. They did it for themselves last year and i want them to do it for themselves because they deserve that. I can only focus on this world cup and for the girls, i hope they know for sure that they wa nt hope they know for sure that they want this world cup as well. If they wa nt to want this world cup as well. If they want to do it for me, thats fine. But we are doing it for everything that we work towards over the last four years because they have absolutely been outstanding in their professionalism to get to this point so professionalism to get to this point so far. For the first time, a Major League Baseball series match will be held in europe this weekend. The Boston Red Sox will play the new york yankees at the london stadium today and tomorrow. The aim is to try to grow the game on this side of the atlantic in the same way that american football and basketball have done in the last decade or so. Well we pitched this story to mike and as ever, hes smashed it out the park. A scene straight from the heart of america, but this is actually england and baseball has come home. You see, the first recorded baseball match was in surrey in i7a9 before cricket and other sports took over. And while it is still being played here throughout the centuries. And you are alleged to get that ball right between the eyes. It is the americans who have made it what it is today and this weekend, they hope to grow it again back in its birthplace. The stadium which hosted the london 2012 olympics has been transformed as two of the most famous teams on the planet, the Boston Red Sox and the new york yankees plan to play the First Major League series match in europe. They have been building up to this moment since last november, when one of the all time greats got the ball rolling, introducing youngsters from the academy to the sport. From the Bobby Moore Academy to the sport. Major League Baseball was made for london, its a thinking mans game, its an academic game, it respects history you do not go up there and beat each other up, you got there and outthink people in the smarter you are, the more athletic you are, the better it if you think about a guy like beckham and all of the great soccer players, that you guys have produced over the past century, we would love to take a couple of those and have them be baseball players. The legacy of this historic fixture in london is already being felt across europe, so here, we have run 90 of the elite we have around 90 of the elite players from the continent pitching their skills, benches packed full of scouts for Major League Clubs with their radar guns and notebooks analysing every stroke to see if they can find the start of the future. For somebody who wants to play Major League Baseball, out of europe, today is the best opportunity that theyve got. The next generation, the players all looking back hopefully on the day that london became home to major home runs. The first pitch was town just after six oclock. It took 23 days to get the stadium ready to host the yankees and the red sox with the vendors serving boston clam chowder and the new york staple buffalo wings too. At the bottom of the first innings, and it has been a been a quick start by the yankees the lead 6 1. The british boxer muhammad ali is hoping to return to the ring next month after serving a two year drugs ban. Ali fought at the rio 0lympics and was targetting next years games in tokyo. The 23 year old flyweight says he still doesnt know how he tested positive for a powerful steroid. The bbcs tanya arnold has been to meet him as he prepares to try and get his boxing licence back i was just kind of shocked, because of the boxing programme when i found out and i went to the coach and i thought, whats this . This must be somejoke. Im sure thought, whats this . This must be some joke. Im sure they got the same thing and then we started out and affect found out it was a bit more serious. Already being to the real games as a teenager, braden boxing had hopes that mohammed ali would be a contender in tokyo. But then he failed a drug test. The drugs were in your system, that you cannot dispute, you felt the drugs test, do you know how they got there . I wish i did, but test, do you know how they got there . Iwish i did, but everyone test, do you know how they got there . I wish i did, but everyone of those the drug test says the same thing. But for a kid those the drug test says the same thing. But fora kid making those the drug test says the same thing. But for a kid making 52 and five foot eight, i literally eat nothing, so for me to take a steroid of any nothing, so for me to take a steroid ofany time nothing, so for me to take a steroid of any time to put mass on and reduce body fat does make sense. So can you look me in the eye and say ive never performance enhancing drugs . 10096. I have been taking anything. He passed one after a competition in london, the failed one was in morocco and he may have been contaminated meat while he was there, even the band acknowledged that he did not take the substance with the intention to sheet stop i would feel very sorry for myself, i was, ican would feel very sorry for myself, i was, i can just would feel very sorry for myself, i was, i canjust say would feel very sorry for myself, i was, i can just say because would feel very sorry for myself, i was, i canjust say because is going down the. Nobody will help me up for myself. You may have just want to walk away . I didnt do anything for six months than the coach offered and he said, just come down, try it if you like it, and if you dont like it, he could just move on. It is you can see you give it another shot. Next week, he has an interview to get his licence back. If that goes well, he hopes to have his first professional fight later this year. Do you think the you will ever persuade people that you never did this . I think some people may be, some people not. It is what it is. We all go through rough patches in life and then we come back from them stronger. Just before we go then lets check back in with the womens world cup quarter final in rennes. About 20 minutes to play. Sweden is leading the germans 2 1 with just over 20 minutes left to play. The winner will face the netherlands in the semi final. Bbc one, bbc sport website and app if you fancy watching the closing stages. New zealand 51 2 in cricket. Aa to win. Thats all from sportsday. Well have more at half past seven. Temperatures reached 3a degrees, easily the hottest day that we have seen so far this year. But it will all change weather wise in the second half of the weekend as atla ntic a i rflows second half of the weekend as atlantic airflows its way across the country. Breaking temperatures still warmer more comfortable 25 during sunday across eastern areas. All that he has been through some big thunderstorms over recent hours, particularly across the north of the uk. We have seen lots of thunder and lightning for example in scotland, a few storms that seem to break out in Northern England and Northern Ireland over the next three hours. In these terms could bring some localised flash flooding, millimetres of rainfall in the space ofan hour millimetres of rainfall in the space of an hour will do that. These terms will be clearing later in the night. For the southwards, a warm night and warm day, temperatures of 11 oclock in london still up at 26 degrees, but keep the windows open tonight because we still have a court from moving its way through. Join the early hours of sunday, though significantly dropped the temperatures and we will get more co mforta ble temperatures and we will get more comfortable later on in the night. Looking at the weather picture, some changes around and there will be some dry weather and some showers and lengthier outbreaks of rain across the north and west of the country. So particularly for western scotla nd country. So particularly for western scotland they may feel a little bit on the cool side with rain on and off to the day. For the southwards, a lot of dry weather was some sunny spells, little bit of patchy cloud and not as much as it has been, but temperatures still 2a and 25 degrees are still going to be very warm and thatjune sunshine. Still very hot air affecting Central Europe so another day threatening those records of extreme heat waves continuing, but eventually cooler airwill be continuing, but eventually cooler air will be blowing into monday and for us, we have northwesterly winds feeding in and i will defeating quite a bit of cloud to northwest of the country but showers and perhaps some lengthier outbreaks of rain across the northwest and otherwise of rather dry weather with sunshine coming through with temperatures around 17 in edinburgh and that is on 22 degrees towards the london area, but a little bit cooler to the far north of scotland with temperatures a little bit disappointing for the time of year. But for much of next week, the weather will stay pretty quiet, a lot of dry weather around with spouse sunshine and most of england and wells will be looking at temperatures up to the low to mid 20s, scotland and Northern Ireland with the high teens to low 20s. Fine weather to come of the next three days but for many of us that is the latest weather. Spells and looking good for the start of wimbledon. This is bbc news. The headlines. The us and china agree to resume talks to ease their trade war and speaking at the g20 summit in osaka President Trump says companies will be able to trade with huawei. We are talking about equipment where there is no Great National emergency problem with it, but the us companies can sell their equipment. Donald trump visits south korea north korea has not yet said whether its leader, kimjong un, will meet the us president when he visits the border between the two koreas tomorrow. The conservative Party Leadership candidates, Boris Johnson and jeremy hunt, go head to head at
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