now on bbc news, it s time for sportsday. hello and welcome to sportsday. our headlines this evening. fran kirby kick starters chelsea s season as the wsl champions get their first win. early wickets holt england s progress as they try to take a 3 1 lead in the t20 series against pakistan. and joe joyce announces himself as the latest heavyweight talent with a world title shot on the cards. hello again, welcome to sportsday. the wsl season is riding a wave of popularity as the women s game enjoys a post euro buzz, but so far it has been pretty unpredictable. to teams who surprisingly lost their opening match is at last weekend played this afternoon, with the champions chelsea beating manchester city to belatedly get their first victory of the campaign. having lost their opening game of the season, there was little room for error for there was little room for error for the champions against manchester city and they nearly had the perfect start. fran kirby could not take advant
facing a target of 230 herbert losing the early wickets suggested otherwise. the dismissal proved decisive, hitting 3a from just 16 balls. he was then caught out but forced to watch on as pakistan s harris ralph removed debbie tenant 0llie stone with his next ball and with a dramatic finish, topsy turvy game of cricket ended and the series tied at 2 2. meanwhile, cricket s lawmakers have reiterated the rule that charlie dean fell foul of yesterday in england s women s 0di defeat to india when she was run out at the non striker s end. the mcc have formalised the relevant law and it will come in officially next month but in the meantime have called for batters to remain in their crease until they say they have seen the ball leave the bowler s hand. the reaction has been widespread and pretty passionate on both sides, as stuart broad noted. very happy for others to feel differently. a pragmatic approach from him, perhaps not from liam livingstone who highlights the confusion t
olympic silver medallist began to stamp his authority, as a cut open above parker s right eye. joyce took advantage of that, huge left hand sending the new zealand are crashing down to the canvas. he failed to make the count, as the juggernaut danced in delight after sending the perfect message to his rivals. molar danced in delight after sending the perfect message to his rivals. littoral perfect message to his rivals. now i aet perfect message to his rivals. now i net the perfect message to his rivals. now i get the credit perfect message to his rivals. now i get the credit l perfect message to his rivals. now i get the credit i deserve perfect message to his rivals. now i get the credit i deserve from - perfect message to his rivals. now i get the credit i deserve from this i get the credit i deserve from this fight and it makes me at the elite level, there is no argument, so i m happy. level, there is no argument, so i m happy- i level, there is no argument, so i m happy. i e
more sunshine around, fewer showers, lighter showers and as a result, temperatures are just beginning to creep up a little bit. still only around 1a, 15 degrees. as we head into thursday, the low pressure that was it wringing wet weather across the uk is going to be pulling away, heading towards southern parts of scandinavia and we will start to see the weather changing out the worst, with cloud coming in from of the atlantic to northern ireland, threatening some rain later. some sunshine in between all that wet weather, temperatures continuing to creep up a little. for a while the jet stream will be quite light, not doing much wednesday and thursday but then the pattern changes for the end of the week. much strongerjet will be propagating across the atlantic and that will change the weather pattern. it will pick up an area of low pressure, looks like it will deepen it, so the winds are going to be strengthening and we will have some rain on friday as well. on the face of it, does not
company and goodbye for now. the weather over the week ahead is going to be dominated more by low pressure and it is going to be a windy start to the week as well. following this weather front here which is sweeping rain southwards we are going to have a northerly wind, strong northerly wind on monday which will bring colder air down from iceland. it will bring a mixture of sunshine and showers, some of the showers will be heavy and probably more frequent across sun too, but the winds will be strong and gusty and perhaps touching gale full is in northern parts of scotland and here temperatures are struggling to make double figures in the afternoon. 16 at best in the far south, but generally 13 or 1a degrees and for all of us it will feel cold in the