with the news that spin bowler jack leach will miss the whole series with a stress fracture in his back. joe wilson has more. we have been talking a lot in the build up to this ashes series about the need for england to have a squad of bowlers available but really focusing, referencing the faster bowlers, and in that regard, england seem fine. i mean, josh tongue came into the team to play ireland and did pretty well, but when it first became clear that jack leach had some kind of problem yesterday, the hypothetical question was asked, what would england do if leach was not available? never daring to think that this eventuality would arise, whereby he is not available for any of the ashes. it s particularly cruel for leach because this is a time in his england career when he is really blossoming under the captaincy of ben stokes. very clear that stokes trusts him and therefore leach has built up the confidence in himself. in terms of a bowler who can do that as a spinner instead of lea
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i ve got to come out here. even if i can t get a ticket to one of the games, i have to be here just for the culture, just for the environment just how exciting everything is. well, this place has become totally iconic around the world, as you can see now. ithink, more famous, you d have to say, than the rovers return or the queen vic. but, you know, this story isn t just about the present and the future. it s also about recognising the club s historical connection with the community of this town, now, a city indeed. and at the centre of that history is the former mining community, which is remembered herejust literally a stone s throw from the ground, at the miners rescue station. archive: the most terrible colliery | disaster this country has suffered | since the war was at gresford near wrexham. here they pay tribute to the 266 miners who died at gresford colliery in wrexham in 193a. many were football fans, who d swapped shifts to work that fateful friday night so they could go
won t be sitting back in bavaria. i understand the situation, to come herejust to defend i understand the situation, to come here just to defend something. we came to play one football game, 11 men against 11 men that try to do better than the opening in this specific game. if you think about just the result, whether in the past would be. staying with manchester city the club have submitted a planning application for a $370 million expansion of the etihad stadium. the club want to increase the current capacity by around six and a half thousand up to 60,000. proposals include a sky bar overlooking the pitch and a stadium roof walk experience, as well as a fan zone and hotel. the club say the project will take three years to complete. the second tennis grand slam of the year is on the horizon, with the french open next month. world number two carlos alcaraz has begun his clay court season