Defeat in five matches so far. Batting first, england were 45 without loss before dawid malan� s wicket began a miserable slide, which included joe root running himself out for just three as england were in disarray. Ben stokes couldnt save them, managing 43 as england were all out for just 156 with nearly a third of their 50 overs left to play. In reply, sri lanka eased to an eight wicket victory. England are now second from bottom in the table and must win all their remaining games, including against unbeaten hosts india, and summon an unlikely set of other results to reach the knock out stages. Its Neverfor A Lack of effort, its Neverfor A Lack of hard work or preparation. I look around the room and its not a lack of talent. A lot of experienced guys and fantastic cricketers, so absolutely, its a huge frustration. This tournaments gone nowhere near the way we wanted it to. Its been a. Yeah, a huge disappointment. So, after such high hopes coming into the tournament, what has gone wrong for the reigning one day and T20 World Cup champions . Heres the former england assistant coach paul farbrace. Its not through lack of effort, its not through lack of, as i say, experience or know how. But confidence plays a huge part in sport at this level. Unfortunately, the first defeat against new zealand was such a heavy defeat, it really was. They played well in the bangladesh game, but then the last two games, south africa, afghanistan, have been two really poor defeats. And sometimes in sport at this level, when you lose an early wicket, it can erode the confidence. And i thought root would come in, everybody probably thought the same thing, you know, root would come in, he would calm things down, he would settle things down, he got run out and from that moment on, as i say, Everything Unravelled very, very quickly. And confidence, you know, just like it seeped away from the team. And i do think that the previous defeats have really hurt team badly. Its been a busy night of european football action liverpools perfect start to the Europa League continued with a 5 1 win over toulouse. West ham are still top of group a despite losing 2 1 to olympiacos. But brighton were 2 nil winners over managerless ajax. Rangers got a point in prague against sparta. And the German Bundesliga leaders Bayer Leverkusen beat qarabag 5 1. All the scores are on our website including the Europa Conference League results. The newcastle and italy midfielder Sandro Tonali has been banned for ten months by the Italian Federation for breaching betting rules. Tonali moved to the Premier League from ac milan this summer for £55 million. Hes the Second Player to be sanctioned following the investigation. It means he wont be eligible to play again until august which rules him out of next summers euros, should italy qualify. Still with football, and the womens Nations League swings back into action on friday with 2a matches around europe and more to come next tuesday. Details of all the games are on the bbc sport website. World cup runners up england are at home to belgium. Our Reporterjo Currie has been at St Georges Park ahead of the match. The lionesses have been putting in the final touches in training this morning at a rather misty and grey St Georges Park ahead of this double header against belgium. There was one big absentee from training chelsea forward laurenjames, well, she was missing through a concussion. The arsenal defender did train but she is being assessed after picking up a minor ankle knock. Forjames, though, that concussion will rule her out of these next couple of games against belgium. Unfortunately, not everyone� s fit. Laurenjames is not ready. She wont be ready for tuesday also. She picked up a concussion. And as you know, we have to be very careful for the protocol, as we always do. Its really too short for the two upcoming games. Walsh is on the pitch, you saw that the other day, but shell be on the pitch and well assess her today and hopefully she gets through that. Everyone else is good. Having won and then lost their opening couple of womens Nation League fixtures, england know the next couple games against belgium are crucial. The lionesses need to top their group to give team gb any hope of qualifying for next summers Olympic Games in paris. For one player, the fact that tomorrow nights game is played at a sold out Leicester City is going to be a very special evening. Its great. I have no doubt the midlands will come out in big numbers. Its always special to play close to home. Ive not really had the opportunity to do that in nottingham yet. Hopefully that is on the cards one day soon. Hint hint, nudge nudge. But i think leicester, that was the club i grew up with, that was my centre of excellence. I know we dont call them centres of excellence any more, but that was the team i felt i did a lot of my developing in my younger years. So its really special to go back in an england shirt. Im really looking forward to it. My gran can come as well, so thats a huge bonus, im really excited about that. She never gets to come to games. Today marks sarina wiegman� s birthday, and whilst we werent given exact details, mary earps said there were big plans in place for this evening and in fact celebrations got under way a little earlier this afternoon when our colleagues at Bbc Radio Leicester delivered wiegman a Regional Food and drink camper to give her a real taste of the midlands ahead of that game at leicester, were told, including pork pies. On to rugby union, and england have accused the sports world governing body of denying tom curry a fair hearing over his allegation of an On Field Racial Slur by south africas Bongi Umbonambi. World rugby cleared the hooker allowing him to play in saturdays final against new zealand, ruling there was insufficient evidence. Joe lynskey has more. Its World Cup Final week in rugby union, but through all the build up, two teams still look back. Saturdays semifinal sent south africa through but it then brought allegations. Englands tom curry said he was abused on the field by bongi ungbonambi. If that claim was upheld, he may have missed the final. For now, theres resolution. In a statement, world rugby said. That was met by this response from england. The rfu said they were deeply disappointed by that decision, and they said curry should have been heard by an independent panel. The rfu has expressed great disappointment at world rugby� s decision. That disappointment is shared by tom, his team mates, the Management Team everybody associated with this team shares that bitter disappointment at world rugby� s decision. Tom curry has done nothing wrong. Lets be clear on that. We have a victim of a situation whos not been able to have his voice heard. World rugby accepted curry made the claim in good faith. He has since been abused on social media. South africa too have made their stance clear in a statement. They said Bongi Umbonambi is an experienced, respected, and decorated player and hes denied the allegations. They have absolute faith in his honesty and integrity. For tom to go through what hes going through, we as players, we know because we all experience it at some point. For tom to go through what hes going through, we as players, we know because we all experience it at some point. All we can do is show support towards him. Things like this are not good for anybody to deal with. Weve just tried to be supportive towards tom. To call out stuff like that. Isnt easy and as he seen, when you do something courageous like that, l you put yourself out there. And hes been absolutely fantastic in that regard. I is there any process by which you could take this further or make more representations to world rugby . We will leave that with the rfu. That Statement Today as far as were concerned. Were getting on with that. This is not the way this sport wants to count down to its showpiece and more twists may lie ahead. Curry will start for england in their third placed playoff. His team want to use it to launch a new era. This has been the world cup where theyve defied expectations. They now want to end it looking forward. Joe lynskey, bbc news. And finally Borussia Dortmund may have beaten Newcastle United in the Champions League this week, but the city council got a little bit of revenge by issuing a Parking Ticket for the german sides team bus. North Tyneside Council confirmed the vehicle had been fined for parking in the wrong place. Newcastle are playing in the Champions League for the first time in 20 years and will travel to the German Bundesliga club for the Reverse Fixture next month. They need to be very careful where they park their bus theres more on those stories and all the latest sports news on the bbc sport app and our website. But from me and the rest of the team here at the bbc sport centre, good night. Hello there. We have more unsettled weather on the way for the last few days of october with more rain falling on very saturated ground in areas which still have flooding. And were likely to see further issues at times. So unsettled, rain at times, but especially wet for Eastern Scotland. Its all down to low pressure anchored to the west of ireland. Its a huge area of low pressure with showers and bands of Rain Spiralling around it, and even some little low pressure systems running around it, such as this one, which could impact parts of england and wales on Saturday Night to bring a spell of very wet and windy weather. Now, watch out for some very dense fog patches across the East Midlands into eastern england, certainly for lincolnshire, certainly through the morning rush, but they should tend to lift into low cloud. We start off with some sunshine, and then well see showers develop across southern and Western Areas where itll be quite breezy in the southwest. Some of these showers could be on the heavy side. And it stays wet for Eastern Scotland with some persistent rain there, maybe a little bit of brightness across the highlands and islands, but it stays windy here, too. Now, as we head through friday night, the rain keeps on coming across the east of scotland. Furthersouth, plenty of showers rattling their way into southern and Western Areas. But, again, parts of the midlands could stay dry with some low cloud and some mist and fog where the winds will be a little bit lighter. Temperatures ranging around 7 ii celsius. Into saturday morning, then, similar story, we hold on to windy conditions across the north and east of scotland with some persistent rain here. Elsewhere, we start off with some sunshine, and then well see showers going into the afternoon, some of which will be heavy and thundery. And then, later in the day, an area of more persistent rain starts to push up from the south. Temperatures, again, 10 15 celsius. Now this area of wind and rain will spread northwards across the country on Saturday Night. Sunday looks particularly wet across the north of the uk. But youll notice even into monday, the last day of october, we hold low pressure close by to bring further showers at times. So sunday then looks particularly wet across northern england, scotland, particularly Eastern Scotland, start to tap into some colder airfrom scandinavia. So some wintriness likely over the high ground. Northern ireland, england and wales, another day of sunshine and showers, most of them towards the south and the west. Better chance of staying dry towards the east. Top temperatures, 14 15 celsius, but much colder across the north. And then youll notice from the outlook here, as we head into the first week of november, things stay unsettled as low pressure continues to bring showers or longer spells of rain with some strong winds, too. This is bbc news. Eu leaders call for humanitarian causes in the fighting to get aid into gaza as food and supplies run dangerously low. Police surround the home of the maine Shooting Suspect as they step up Shooting Suspect as they step up their hunt for the gunman who killed 18 people on tuesday. Us Secretary Of StateAntony Blinken welcomes his chinese counterpart to washington in the latest high level efforts to stabilise relations. Breaking news from china, former premier li keqiang has died at the age of 68. According to state media, he died of a sudden heart