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Villa had to sell homegrown talent Jacob Ramsey and were left scrambling around on Monday’s transfer deadline.

White-ball captain Brook and a handful of team-mates, including Ben Duckett, Joe Root and Jamie Smith, have run themselves ragged this summer.

A much-improved England came up five runs short at Lord’s as South Africa took an unassailable 2-0 lead in the three-match series

England took it to the final ball, with a welcome unbeaten 27 from Jofra Archer, but South Africa persisted for a thrilling win to take the series with a game to spare

England have now lost eight of 11 one-dayers this year.

The resurgent Tottenham Hotspur man is in line for an international debut with England

Britain appears to be a nation on the verge of Norman-conquest mania. In July, the prime minister and the French president announced that the Bayeux tapestry – the epic 11th-century embroidery that depicts the 1066 conquest of England – would be loaned to the British Museum in 2026-27.

A court in England on Thursday convicted an Ethiopian asylum seeker of the sexual assault of a teenage girl and a woman, a case that ignited weeks of angry protests.

South Africa shone at Lord’s after being put in by Harry Brook.