PAUL NEWMAN AND RICHARD GIBSON: Jos Buttler may be given a stay of execution by England as there are concerns over how Ben Foakes plays the short ball.

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW BY MARTIN SAMUEL IN JOHANNESBURG: Jofra Archer is staring wistfully out at the Wanderers wicket, the fastest track in the world to many, all thin air and bounce.

Jofra Archer has been dogged by bone stress in the right elbow throughout the tour, reducing him to a single appearance in the 3-1 Test series victory - the opening defeat in Centurion.

Eoin Morgan leads out his England team as world champions for the first time on Tuesday refusing to discount fronting their title defence in India in 2023.

RICHARD GIBSON IN DURBAN - England's resolve to use the one-day series as a sink-or-swim trial for emerging players will occur in Johannesburg after wet weather wrecked the second match.

Eoin Morgan's world champions will hope to avoid their first ODI bilateral series defeat in three years when they take on South Africa in Johannesburg.

Adil Rashid has ruled himself out of contention for the Test tour of Sri Lanka to leave England with a paucity of spin options for next month's two-match series.

MIKE KEEGAN - SPORTS AGENDA: Sports Agenda can reveal that Liverpool decided to hand their share of the gate receipts from the drawn FA Cup tie at Shrewsbury to the League One club.

INTERVIEW BY MIKE KEEGAN: David Willey was not surprised when the phone rang. On the other end of the line, Ed Smith, national selector, delivered the grim yet inevitable news.

NASSER HUSSAIN: If you were picking a tennis squad to play on clay you wouldn't fill it with grass court specialists so I can see the argument for horses-for-courses selections.

BBC Test Match Special are on the verge of signing a deal which will see them broadcast live ball-by-ball coverage of England's tour to Sri Lanka, according to The Telegraph .

RICHARD GIBSON IN JOHANNESBURG: The successful 223-run pursuit at Centurion which settled the Twenty20 series versus South Africa was the second biggest in their history.

England begin their attempt to become double women's world champions on Saturday with new coach Lisa Keightley declaring they are 'planning for the final' and 'excited' about tournament.

England's hopes of becoming double women's world champions suffered a serious blow yesterday when they lost a Twenty20 World Cup match to South Africa for the first time.

EXCLUSIVE BY KISHAN VAGHELA: Pat Brown maybe hasn't been in professional cricket long enough to look retrospectively at what he has already achieved with ball in hand.

England's trio of young spinners led them to the Women's Twenty20 World Cup semi-finals on Sunday with six wickets between them in an emphatic 46-run victory over West Indies.

England left for Sri Lanka with captain Joe Root insisting the World Test Championship had been 'thrown wide open' by India's heavy defeat in New Zealand.

NASSER HUSSAIN - VERDICT: The first thing England's women should do ahead of Thursday's Twenty20 World Cup semi-final against India is do whatever the opposite is of a rain dance.

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: The young and the fit are supposed to be better placed to deal with the coronavirus but Jack Leach, who suffers from Crohn's disease, is taking no chances.

In 1998, the Marylebone Cricket Club finally opened their doors to women. This is what it's like to be a female member of the club that has long been dominated by men.

SPORTS AGENDA: Liverpool's Jordan Henderson has admirably taken the lead in football over coronavirus, suggesting a fund be set up to help the NHS during the crisis.

With the Indian government extending the national lockdown until May 3, tournament organisers have informed the eight franchises that there is now no date in place for the 13th edition.

England are hopeful of returning to international action on July 8 for a three-Test series against West Indies behind closed doors following the coronavirus pandemic.

ECB chief executive Tom Harrison has laid bare the severity of the financial implications if there is no cricket played in England due to Covid-19 - stating it would result in losses of £380million.

The heads of the National Trust and the National Lottery Heritage Fund praised The Mail on Sunday's Save Our Parks campaign as they announced an £11.2 million project.

ANDREW PIERCE: Sir John Major is not often considered the most influential prime minister of the 20th century. But we shouldn't forget one achievement: the creation of the National Lottery.

Sir John Major decided ministers should be seen buying tickets to publicise the launch of the prize in November 1994.

A British holiday resort is due to reopen as it completes the 10-month £2.7million restoration. Great Yarmouth's Waterways was a big hit in the 1950s and people say it is 'magnificent'.

The Venetian Waterways reopened today after a 10-month £2.7million restoration. The mayor cut the red ribbon at the celebratory gala as boats and pedalos once again took to the water.

Sam Lawton, 19, won £120,000 in the National Lottery's newest game, Set For Life. The father-of-one data analyst, from Leamington Spa, won £10,000 a month after matching five numbers.

The move follows a study showing chain stores are closing outlets at a record rate of 16 a day, ripping the heart out of communities and creating ghost towns.

Giles Knibbs (pictured) who worked at Camelot in Watford, told his ex-partner John Coleyshaw that Edward Putman had not paid him his agreed share of the fraudulent winnings.

Edward Putman, 54, of Kings Langley, Hertfordshire, is accused of working with an insider to con the lottery operator Camelot into handing over an unclaimed jackpot.

Ticket holders around the UK are anxiously checking their numbers as the balls for one of the largest ever prizes is revealed. The numbers are: 40, 18, 11, 02, 46, and the Lucky Stars are: 04, 01

The National Lottery website has crashed as punters try to make last-minute bids to grab a record £169m EuroMilions jackpot that must go tonight.

The excitement has been building so much for the blockbuster jackpot that lottery players managed to crash the website earlier this evening in the scramble to get a ticket.

Jane Park, 23, from Edinburgh, took to Instagram on Thursday morning to reveal the sad news and said that her 'pregnancy just wasn't meant to be'.

Anwar Batson, 29, of Notting Hill, West London, used a hacking program called 'Sentry MBA' while carrying out the offences. He admitted four charges at Southwark Crown Court today.

Anwar Batson has been jailed for nine months after pleading guilty to four offences under the Computer Misuse Act, at Southwark Crown Court today. He used 'Sentry MBA' programme.

Rebecca McGoff, 37, from Manchester, told FEMAIL she came up with the concept for Buump Active after she felt lonely and isolated after both her pregnancies.

Sofina Sarwar, 34, of Leicester, denies knowing anything about the money Haroon Cassim, 36, took from Camelot and Yopa Property while he worked for both firms between 2010 and 2018.

The National Lottery is set to join the fight against coronavirus by distributing up to £300million in funds to support the most vulnerable across the UK during the crisis.

Ryan Hoyle, a 38-year-old joiner from Rochdale, Greater Manchester, has been revealed as the EuroMillions winner of £58million, seeing him rank ninth on the National Lottery millionaires' list.

The National Lottery website and app are back up and running ahead of tonight's £5million draw after being down for nine hours today due to a power failure.

Richard Millett, 50, launched libel action after Mr Corbyn made comments about him on television that he viewed as defamatory, MailOnline revealed last year.

Yahya Al-Saud (pictured), who is notorious for praising terrorism in Palestine, was greeted at Portcullis House by Labour frontbencher Fabian Hamilton.

AOC, who serves as US Representative for New York's 14th congressional district, made the comments during an appearance on hip-hop program 'Ebro in the Morning'.

Trump tweeted Friday about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: 'Like it or not, Tlaib and Omar are fast becoming the face of the Democrat Party. Cortez (AOC) is fuming, not happy about this!'

A 17-year-old Palestinian and Harvard freshman who was denied entry to the US last month has been allowed into the country to start classes at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass.

Celebrating the art of embroidery, Mochi was established in 2013 by Ayah Tabari to support stitching communities across the world.