no wicket fell for more than two and a half hours. say it quietly: maybe . but english optimism on this tour is no sooner formed than shattered. the end of woakes, and, ultimately, hope. england dragged this into the evening. still there, jos buttler, the adelaide barricade. for so long, he d hardly put a foot wrong, until. 0h, he s thrown it onto his stumps. he has! watch the lights on the bails, hit wicket, the last in a series of backward steps. england s day five fight was too little, too late. australia win the test match! they go up 2 0 in the ashes. we can tjust leave it to the last day and expect to pull - off an enormous feat, which is what it - would have been today. the disappointing thing about this week is that we made the same . mistakes as last week. we just can t afford to do that. it s 4,000 days since they will last won a test in australia. to regain the ashes, they must now win three in a row. patrick geary, bbc news. time for a look at the weather. here s
bangladesh is grappling with a record deadly outbreak of dengue fever with nearly 300 people killed and tens of thousands infected this year. hospitals are struggling to make space for patients as the disease spreads rapidly in the densely populated country. now on bbc news: hello and welcome to sportsday i m paul scott at the bbc sport centre here s what we ve got for you. history beckons: england s netballers reach the world cup final for the very first time. the bhoys are back: celtic see off ross county as they make a winning start to the defence of their scottish premiership title. and comfortable wins for spain and japan, who are the first teams through to the quarter finals of the women s world cup. also coming up on sportsday. more success for great britain in the cycling world championships, three golds including in the mountain bike downhill for charlie hutton and a remarkable comeback from scotland, as they beat france in their world cup warm up. we begin wit
says the flooding there is the worst natural disaster in the country s history. now on bbc news sportsday with paul scott. hello and welcome to sportsday. i m paul scott at the bbc sport centre, here s what we ve got for you. history beckons: england s netballers reach the world cup final for the very first time. the bhoys are back: celtic see off ross county, as they make a winning start to the defence of their scottish premiership title. and comfortable wins for spain and japan, who are the first teams through to the quarter finals of the women s world cup. also coming up on sportsday: more success for great britain, as charlie hatton becomes mountain bike downhill world champion. and a remarkable comeback from scotland, as they beat france in their world cup warm up. we begin with bit of history for england s netballers. they re through to a world cup final for the very first time, after a nerve shredding victory over new zealand in cape town. there was nothing separatin
as ben stokes is to cricket. the england test captain will walk out tomorrow for his 100th match in the game s longest format. 11 years on from a debut that came at a time when the england selectors weren t convinced about him. it took until his second test and a first century. to change minds with both bat and ball he s had an impact. with swashbuckle at the very heart of it. a blistering double century in cape town. 0r his headingley heroics it all preceded the test cricket revolution he s spearheaded as skipper. 0ne that s facing a challenge like almost no other. a series in india. 0ur correspondentjoe wilson looks ahead to stokes making his latest century. just one thing concerns england captain, same as ever and where ever, how the team can win. could be his first test or his 100th. milestones, i have really enjoyed. i always enjoyed playing in india, just because of the contest it brings, the theatre it brings. bowls to ben stokes brings, the theatre it brings. bowls
have won the bundesliga and reached the final of the german cup and are in a healthy position to do the same in this competition. leverkusen, who knocked out west ham in the last round, have a 2 0 lead in their semifinal, heading into the second leg against roma after a victory in italy last week. finishing the job with a draw or better later will not only deliver a trip to dublin, but also extend their unbeaten run from the beginning of the season in all competitions to 49 games, breaking a european football record. there s only a handful of games left then for leverkusen to go the whole season without defeat. but roma have made a european final in each of the last two seasons while in the other semi final, atalanta and marseille are level at 1 1. atalanta and marseille their second match is in bergamo, atalanta beating liverpool in the previous round. england s women are preparing for their opening matches of the international summer. england take on pakistan on saturda