International

Key events 25th over: England 118-3 (Root 45, Brook 51) Root and Henry, two poster boys for any Nice Guys Finish First movement, have a good-natured chat about the wicket that wasn’t. “I think with Brook that it’s not necessarily hate,” says Andy Flintoff, “but, much like Botham’s feats of heroics, he might come to […]

Key events 34th over: New Zealand 147-2 (Nicholls 70, Ravindra 57) Root bowls a wider delivery to Ravindra that turns straight to first slip. There was always a chance this would happen, that we’d be lamenting the absence of Shoaib Bashir, but in the absence of Ben Stokes it was impossible for England to pick […]

Key events “This is not a true links, but it’s playing like one,” says David Howell as he joins the TV coverage. Ewen Murray is suggesting that 73 will be a good score today and that seems to be a widely held view. The course has been watered, there was fog early and yet the […]

Senate committee defies Trump ‘cancelling’ Clayton confirmation, saying hearing will go ahead as planned The Republican senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas, who chairs the Senate intelligence committee, has said that the committee intends to go ahead with Jay Clayton’s hearing as scheduled – defying a surprise announcement by Donald Trump that the hearing was “cancelled”. […]

Healey says DIP ‘well short of what’s required’, and UK’s enemies ‘don’t follow timetable set by Treasury’ Healey said Keir Starmer knows what is needed. double quotation markThe prime minister knows what the country needs for defence. He spelled out the threat this month when he said it is our intelligence assessment and the assessment […]

Trump’s UFC fights at White House marred by misogynistic smear aimed at Michelle Obama Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog. Donald Trump’s UFC fights held on the White House lawn were marred by a misogynistic smear aimed at former first lady Michelle Obama last night. Beneath a giant steel canopy known as […]

Trump says Israel’s attack on Beirut ‘should not have happened’ In a Truth Social post, Donald Trump has criticised Israel for attacking the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital Beirut earlier today seeing as Washington and Tehran are “so close” to a peace deal. Trump said there should be no more attacks on Lebanon, something […]

Key events 4th over: South Africa 22-2 (Wolvaardt 8, de Klerk 9) Wolvaardt gets very lucky as she tries to flick Garth over midwicket. It catches a thick edge which could have gone anywhere. Rather than nestle in the hands of an Aussie it flies over the fielders behind square on the off-side and trickles […]

Key events Justin Kavanagh gets in touch? “Can it be a coincidence that Scott McTominay goes down with a stomach problem around the times when TV’s most bellyaching, bombastic, and English-accented chef shows up in the Scots’ camp?” Share Myke Bartlett writes: “I was once like you. How I mocked grown men – and occasionally […]

Key events Reuters report: The World Cup fan zone on Mexico City’s Zocalo square will broadcast the tournament’s opening ceremony and match on Thursday despite protests across the capital, President Claudia Sheinbaum said. “We’re going to try to go to Zocalo,” Sheinbaum told a press conference. Share Who has Turkey as their dark horses? Well, […]