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
what all. this england side aren t easily phased though, minutes later they went route one millie bright to lauren hemp, who took advantage of some poor defending to put england back in front. there followed a scare, or two, mary earpsjust about doing enough here. and sam kerr will still be thinking about this one, she should ve brought australia level. and england then went up the other end with another of their standout players at the tournament. alessia russo putting the game beyond doubt, wrapping up a 3 1 win. j°y joy and delight for them. heartbreak for sam kerr and tears for australia. much for them to reflect on. but for england july, world cup final. and what a job this woman has done, sarina wiegman not even two years and she took over and it s back to back world cup finals for when she was in charge of the netherlands. can she do it with