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Ben Stokes scored 30 runs in his final Test innings before losing his wicket to Zakary Foulkes |
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Nick Hoult Chief Cricket Correspondent |
It started with a murmur. A day that was dull and uninspiring was about to explode as news spread around Trent Bridge that Ben Stokes was retiring.
The mid-match announcement stunned cricket. All the crowd could do as Stokes stood ready to bowl his 11th over of a mammoth spell was cheer their champion to the crease. With the first ball after the resignation was made public, he took the wicket of Zak Foulkes. It was “the most Ben Stokes thing you will ever see”, according to Joe Root, totally nailing the moment.
It sparked the craziest three hours of cricket you will ever see. As Daryl Mitchell ground out a hundred, and New Zealand set England 373 to win, Stokes decided to “create some chaos” and open the batting. It ended in glorious failure but was fun while it lasted.
Now at 103 for four England are staring at a series defeat, their first at home in a three-Test series since the 2012 London Olympic summer.
Why now? It is quite something to give up the chance to be the captain in next year’s Ashes. Stokes has fallen out of love with the job, but that has only happened because of the fallout with those above over the last few weeks. “I actually said to my wife, ‘I don’t think I have any more fight left in me’,’’ he said.
The curfew row was not mentioned but it all added up for a man exhausted by the captaincy.
“That whole week at Lord’s for me was a very, very strange week. That was the start of all of this questioning. This is brutal, what we do: physically, mentally. Even the stuff away from it, the stuff you have to put in and the hard work. Even that’s just getting a bit tiring these days. I’m 35. I feel like I have to do so much physical work to keep myself doing what I do out there. Again, do I have that in me? That fight in me to keep doing that?”
He will have to fight from the changing room today. This will be Stokes’s final day as an England player, but he won’t bowl, bat or field. You can follow England’s attempt to rescue the series in our live coverage.
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England’s tournament just beginning, while Raducanu pulls outAs well as all of the cricket drama, it’s been a big weekend in the world of sport. Below, our team bring you the latest from the World Cup and Wimbledon.
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Luke Edwards Northern Football Writer |
If football is indeed coming home this summer, it will have to be done the hard way.
England’s reward for topping their group after Saturday’s 2-0 win over Panama is a horrendously tricky path to the final. Should Thomas Tuchel’s side beat DR Congo in the round of 32, they will probably face co-hosts Mexico, at the Azteca Stadium at altitude, in the round of 16 before potentially meeting Brazil.
Stephen Eustaquio (centre) scored two minutes into added time to send co-hosts Canada in to the next round |
A semi-final against Lionel Messi’s Argentina is on the cards, ahead of a potential final with France. If you’re going to be crowned world champions, you have to beat them all.
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Simon Briggs Tennis Correspondent |
Emma Raducanu has withdrawn from Wimbledon at the 11th hour after developing a stress fracture in her right shin. The news came late last night, after the 23-year-old had previously indicated her intention to play through the pain in her scheduled match against Antonia Ruzic this afternoon.
Emma Raducanu practised yesterday but has since been forced to withdraw through injury |
“I can’t believe I’m saying this,” Raducanu wrote in a post on Instagram, “but sadly I’ve had to withdraw from this year’s Wimbledon. I’ve done everything possible to try to get to the start line tomorrow but after a final scan tonight, the niggle I’ve been managing has developed into a stress fracture and I’ve been medically advised to stop pushing through.”
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NHS hospitals are continuing to allow some transgender patients to use female-only wards and facilities, despite a Supreme Court ruling on the meaning of sex in equality law. Ministers are now under pressure to clarify the rules, as trusts await long-delayed national guidance on how the ruling should be applied. Michael Searles, our Deputy Health Editor, has the story. Continue reading ➤ |
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Jannik Sinner discusses his extraordinary tennis rise, his rivalry with Carlos Alcaraz and why success hasn’t changed him |
The French Open proved that World No 1 Jannik Sinner was human after all, but his dominance in men’s tennis in 2026 has grown from “impressive” to “laughable” as the year has gone on, Guy Kelly writes. Now, with his frenemy Carlos Alcaraz struck by injury, it will take an almighty upset to stop Sinner defending his Wimbledon title. I met him in Monaco, and found a man who may have the weight of the world on his shoulders, but he shrugs it off better than anybody. Continue reading ➤ |
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Britain’s debate over China’s proposed London “mega-embassy” has focused on spying, but Taiwan’s envoy to London has other concerns, writes Adrian Blomfield, our Chief Foreign Correspondent. He warned me that hidden chambers beneath the vast complex could be used to hold captured dissidents and activists as Beijing looks to widen its campaign of transnational repression. For subscribers only ➤ |
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“Heart-warming” cringe-fests have dominated British cinema for more than a decade now. They have patronising “feel good” messages and appear precision-engineered for middle-class couples who live in the Home Counties and shop at Waitrose. They may seem well-intentioned and harmless enough, but they’re a disaster for British culture and an insult to the elderly, as David Alexander explains. Continue reading ➤ |
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What to read this summerEvery day this week, one of our critics will share their recommendations for this summer’s best books.
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Lucy Thynne Deputy Literary Editor |
On Saturday, we revealed our essential 2026 summer reading list. It has recommendations for everyone, from fiction to history, science to biography.
Personally, I need absorbing fiction. More and more, I’m reaching for short stories over novels: the form is having a real moment. You can’t go wrong, for instance, with One Sun Only, the darkly funny collection by the young French-American writer Camille Bordas. On the Books desk, we loved her old-fashioned sentences and wisecracking dialogue.
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I’ve also been recommending Colm Tóibín’s latest suite of emotional stories, The News from Dublin, to everyone I know. The Brooklyn writer just gets better and better.
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The great seat debateWhile Orlando Bird, our loyal reader correspondent, is away, Kate Moore is on hand to share an off-piste topic that has brought out the best of your opinions and stories. Kate writes...
If you want to raise the temperature even higher than it has been of late, one surefire way to do it is to start a conversation about bad behaviour on trains.
We had hundreds of replies to Rowan Pelling’s piece about the etiquette of taking up more than one seat, after a man’s complaint against a young woman who barricaded herself in with her luggage went viral. Rowan’s view is that seat-blocking is an egregious act worthy of a day in the stocks. Surely readers would agree?
The response was impressively nuanced. “Personal view only: seat-blocking is acceptable only if there are plenty of other seats available,” said John Davis.
Some admitted to the deed themselves, with mitigation. “Loads of people plonk their bag on the seat next to them to keep an eye on it, including me, but will very happily anticipate the seat being needed if the seating space fills up, and move it spontaneously,” wrote Jeremy Weatherhead.
As Ben Gunn pointed out: “There is a problem of comically inadequate luggage space. You see huge numbers of bewildered tourists with massive suitcases and nowhere to put them.”
Hilary Deighton was one of many to take a hard line against the bag-wielders. “If you use public transport you accept that you will need to sit next to people, that is what it is for. Sometimes, those people are very annoying, sometimes they are charming, frequently they do the decent British thing of acting as if you and they exist in non-contiguous universes. However, you can’t block seats you haven’t paid for.”
Perhaps it’s time that old strategies were revisited. Frances Braithwaite recalled his time travelling into Waterloo from Kew Bridge, on a busy 5pm train. “The guard used to fight his way through checking tickets and would ask very loudly, ‘Has this case got a ticket? If not, it cannot remain on a seat.’ It always worked and a grateful commuter got to sit down.” Is seat-blocking ever justified? Tell us what you think here.
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1850 | Sir Robert Peel falls off his horse. He dies of his injuries three days later
2001 | Steven Spielberg’s film A.I. Artificial Intelligence is released
2009 | Financier Bernard Madoff sentenced to 150 years in US maximum prison over his Ponzi scheme (see the front page of our business section the following day)
Birthdays: Jude Bellingham (23), Eberechi Eze (28), Katherine Jenkins (46)
Plus, in the news today, a rare German Messerschmitt fighter has flown alongside a Spitfire for the first time this century at an airshow. Where was the show?
Red 12, the restored Messerschmitt, and a Spitfire from the Shuttleworth Collection |
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