hello and thanks for joining us, here s your latest sports news only one place to start really, in spain where the champions league semi final between real madrid and manchester city is delicately poised after an entertaining first leg tie. it finished 1 1 at the bernabeu and our reporter olly foster was watching in the spanish capital. all square it is then as the two sides head to manchester next week for the second leg and it s manchester city who will be by far the happier of the two sides coming back to earn a draw. in this first leg, they started really brightly here at the bernabeu stadium, forcing thibaut courtois, the real keeper, into a couple of fine saves. early on, erling haaland had a couple of those chances, but for the most part they kept erling haaland quiet, some fantastic defending from real. fantastic defending from real. and it was them that took the lead, viniciusjunior, with an absolutely rasping effort from just outside the area that had ederson beat
international between ireland and bangladesh saw south africa pip ireland to the final automatic world cup spot. tuesday s match was abandoned due to rain with ireland on 65 3 after 16.3 chasing 2a7 to win. ireland needed to win this odi series 3 0 to retain hope of securing world cup qualification through this route bangladesh have already qualified. there are potential problems for england ahead of this summer s ashes series. fast bowlerjofra archer has returned home early from the indian premier league just five weeks before the series gets underway. the 28 year old has been struggling with a long term elbow injury making just five appearances for mumbai indians this year. archer has had surgery on the area five times in the past two years and the ecb say he will have a period of rest and rehabilitation . well archer s team mates were in action on tuesday and moved up to third in the table after beating the royal