bbc sport understands chelsea have agreed to loan romelu lukaku back to inter milan. the deal is yet to be confirmed, with inter paying a loan fee of around 8 million euros. england begin their third and final test against new zealand tomorrow, but their preparations have suffered a setback, with captain ben stokes missing today s training because of illness. the rest of the squad have been at headingly. england hold an unassailable 2 0 lead in the series. stokes is yet to name an official vice captain, butjoe root or stuart broad are two possibilities to deputise if he isn t well enough to play. rugby league has banned transgender players from women s international competition until further notice. the ruling follows a decision by swimming s world governing body, fina, to restrict trans athletes participation. international rugby league says it needs more time before
you need to be ready for this . sport and for a full round up, from the bbc sport centre. england have beaten new zealand by five wickets to win the first test at lord s. from 216 5 overnight, with a target of 277, the home side were taken to victory with help from a joe root century giving his successor, ben stokes, the perfect start to his reign . joe wilson is at lords. sunday morning and all things possible. a test match at its best, super intense, captain ben stokes knew all he could do was watch. every run mattered, four from knew all he could do was watch. every run mattered, fourfrom ben foakes, a leap forward, just 42 more to win now, everyone in the ground was counting the school, counting other batters who remained. who else would you want out there for england butjoe root? the calmest man outlaws. new zealand needed big hits
condition called mld, which causes severe damage to a child s nervous system and organs. gill dummigan has been finding out more about it from a family in cumbria. in cumbria, joe isjust a typical 11 year old. he loves computer games along with a bit of sport. paddle boarding. i enjoy doing a little bit of kayaking. butjoe s life has been anything but normal. at four years old he was diagnosed with mld, an incredibly rare progressive disorder, along with his oldest sister. there is a huge element of grief and guilt and i think you are injust a complete sense of shock. this is too unbelievable to think it has happened once, but for it to happen a second time, itjust defies belief. connie was already showing symptoms, but becausejoe wasn t, he was able to start an experimental
one go. i tend to agree with chris whitty rather thanjoe on this one. i do think people will do it. the point that chris whitty made at the press conference today was, if people can see a good reason for a restriction, they are happy to abide by it. so it feels that people will go back to masking up without too much of a problem. what is unfortunate is we did not do this before because even before this came along we still had really high rates of delta virus and part of the result of that is not having those extra restrictions in place. talking about putting extra restrictions in place. talking about putting the extra restrictions in place. talking about putting the genie extra restrictions in place. talking about putting the genie back - extra restrictions in place. talking about putting the genie back in i extra restrictions in place. talking| about putting the genie back in the bottle, you brought that up. front page of the sunday mirror. i know this is your paper and will com
what was that last meeting like compared to this meeting? there was more people. we had a young man get up there, make a preposterous statement, i and absolutely the posture statement that some unknown, ambiguous, - non masker killed his grandmother. that s laughable. and then want to close the meeting of about transparency and won t let somebody talk. how is that transparent? this is disgusting, - these people are sick. some politicians are trying to turn public safety measures, that is children wearing masks in school, into political dispute for their own political gain. intimidation and threats we re seeing across the country are wrong. butjoe biden s critics accuse him of playing politics. he won the white house by promising to unite america after the trump years, but his efforts to contain the pandemic through vaccine and mask mandates are only deepening