Hello and welcome to sportsday this wednesday night. Im chetan pathak. Coming up on tonights programme. One game away from being World Champions england beat australia to reach sundays final in sydney. Incredible. Weve didnt say where dreaming of the semi but now this is what is the World Cup Final with this group, yeah buzzing. As lionesses fans on both sides of the world celebrate well bring you reaction from australia and england. And with the Cricket World Cup on the horizon, ben stoke reverses his decision to retire from the one day game. Also coming up on sportsday before 7. Well be looking ahead to the Rugby Union World cup too as scotland reveal their squad for the start of the tournament in france next month. Welcome along, thank you forjoining us. As youve been hearing england are World Cup Finalists. The lionesses will awake in sydney in the coming hours and begin their preparations for one more match. If they can beat Spain On Sunday The European champions will be World Cha
after all the speculation, it s been confirmed today ben stokes is returning to england s one day side after reversing the decision he took last summer to step away from the 50 over game. stokes recently indicated he d be taking some time out after the ashes to address his long term knee problem but he s now been included in the 15 man squad for the upcoming series against new zealand, and will also play at the world cup in india in october. i ve been getting the thought s of our cricket correspondent jonathan agnew. huge role haiti had in 2019. he was at world cup final day. clearly the kneeis at world cup final day. clearly the knee is an issue. they worked at a time frame in which they can get that treated because his long term plan is to take england to the ashes in three years time. that s really what he wants, he s gotta get to that point put these world cup still come out very often. i don t think it took much sway, it didn t take any persuasion to get him to come