Him, but is for sure, he embodied everything that we are trying to do in white ball cricket and that has been his cell focus. He is for sure, he embodied everything that we are trying to do in white ball cricket and that has been his cell focus. Hes not worried about that for four yea rs hes not worried about that for four years and pushed and driven the team to get over the line. Do you think a focus on one form of cricket is detrimental to test cricket or do you think that they can play hand in hand . You think that they can play handinhand . I think the australian tea m handinhand . I think the Australian Team in the late 90s and early 2000 is demonstrated you can be number one in all formats and dominate and that will be the ambition for us. I a lwa ys that will be the ambition for us. I always felt test cricket is here and 50 over cricket is there and we need them both now to be there and so i do not think you have to prioritise one and not both. But we have a lot of work to do in test cricket, were not where we need to be winning away from home, but there is a struggle and we need to keep focusing on that. Well strauss who lost his wife to cancer in december has since set up the ruth strauss foundation. And the second day of the lords ashes test will support the charity with supporters asked to wear red. Its not the first time that Something Like this has happened in the cricket world, australia have done something similar in memory of the late wife of former cricketer glenn mcgrath. I have been forced to look at spirituality a bit more in the past six or nine months and so maybe more in tune to looking for signs and sunday for me was a sign. Just an incredibly emotional day and to have my kids there, my son, he had his 11th birthday and he was watching it unfold. And sometimes you get the rub of the green and you feel there is someone up there looking down on you and i did feel that notjust for me but for all english cricket that day. There is just over a year to go until the tokyo 2020 olympics begin and several of the british teams are currently injapan to test the venues and get a taste of what to expect at next years games. World record holder adam peaty is one of the swimmers checking out the Team Gb Olympic holding camp just outside of tokyo and bbc sports nick hope has been in japan for for us. Welcome to the university here about an hour south of tokyo where the majority of the team gb athletes including the swimmers are selected for the olympics next year will compete final preparations before heading into the athletes village. Tokyo 2020 will be very different for a variety of reasons. Specifically for adam peaty it will be the first game is that he goes into as defending champion and that brings added attention and pressure. But that is something that he is relishing and feels being here a year ahead of the olympics will be a massive advantage. Japan is a special place in terms of their culture, how they treat each other, they are so respectful and the amount of investment they put into facilities. We were treated like royalty a nd facilities. We were treated like royalty and i think that is just down to the kind of upbringing and culture. It is a great place, what better place to have that feeling and have great facilities. The british team are testing at the venue british team are testing at the venue this week and also completing their final preparations for the world swimming championships beginning on the 21st ofjuly. Siobhan Marie Oconnor is an action and desperate to rediscover the form that saw her become olympic silver medallist back in 2016. that saw her become olympic silver medallist back in 2016. I had achieved my dream of winning an olympic medal, and i did not then have the hunger or the drive after that. But i think everything that has happened since, it has taken me to this point, i wish i had realised earlier but all i want is to get back to my best and just prove to myself i can do it. I want to make the most of it. The Team Gb Squad had a similar setup to this in brazil three years ago with the majority of the athletes heading through one before going on to achieve 67 medals. The British Olympic Association help by replicating that somewhat for tokyo that they can beat their target and achieve another record haul come the games next year. In the tokyo games are going to roll around quickly thats all from sportsday. Well have more throughout the evening. Good evening. The best of the sunshine today lifted temperatures to 27 degrees. But we did not all have those brilliant blue skies. In other places there was a lot more cloud. We can see some speckled cloud. We can see some speckled cloud from elliott satellite pictures and that behind me a more continuous area of cloud cover bringing some wet weather into tomorrow. Still some clear skies around at the moment and as we head through this evening still a chance to see that partial lunar eclipse. Look towards the south eastern skies. We keep hold of clear spells heading deeper into the night but through the small hours you will see quite a lot of clout in Northern Ireland and western scotland with some outbreaks of rain by the end the night. Temperatures overnight between 11 and 1a degrees for the soap going into tomorrow this frontal system is going to bring some soggy weather. Arriving in Northern Ireland through the first pa rt Northern Ireland through the first part of the morning, so pretty disappointing wednesday morning commute in belfast. The heavy rain getting into western parts of scotla nd getting into western parts of scotland with the art rumble of thunder. By the middle of the afternoon much of scotland seeing outbreaks of rain and some brisk southerly wind in association with that frontal system. Something brighterfor parts that frontal system. Something brighter for parts of aberdeenshire. Rain beginning at the same time to pull away from the western side of Northern Ireland and moving in across north west england and wales. Further east high cloud tending to roll across the skies with the sunshine turning increasingly hazy. But the warmth and swept away to some extent on thursday as the last re m na nts of some extent on thursday as the last remnants of that frontal system clear east. Then we have a mixture of sunshine and quite heavy showers across the north of the uk. Into friday here comes another area of low pressure, another frontal system bringing more rain even down to the south where it has been pretty dry lately. For the weekend unsettled with outbreaks of rain at times but not all the time. 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