will be on bbc one from 7 o clock this evening the headlines on bbc news. we are sorry. england cricket chief apologise unreservedly to the former player rafik after he exposed institutional racism in the sport. they also pledged to win back trust in the game. it comes out another cricketer, alex hale has apologised for wearing black face makeup and a party in 2009. austria is reimposing covid 19 knockdown and will make vaccinations compulsory as it faces record numbers of infections. coming up on bbc news, cricket chief in england and rate whales see racism is a blight on the game and the apologise unreservedly as they need to address the scandal involving this point. campaign down as australia test captain before the
season now they may struggle to play any more top level cricket this year. we have . these two players going play. the scandal began during australia s match against south africa when batsman cameron bancroft was caught scraping the ball with sandpaper that can affect the way the ball moves in the air and could have given australia s bowlers an advantage. smith later confessed that leading figures in the team were behind the plan straight his cricket chief admitted the saga has hurt the team s reputation. but clearly this is caused a huge amount of damage to the game of cricket as a whole and certainly destroyed in cricket and that s the fans confidence and faith in cricket back home the players face more outrage even the country s prime minister had strong words for the trio this cheating is is