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'Job not done' for Lions despite series victory, says Russell
Finn Russell says "the job is not done" for the British and Irish Lions as they hunt down a series whitewash. Andy Farrell's men held their nerve to overcome Australia 29-26 in the second Test and clinch the series on Saturday. But Russell, and his teammates, are looking to finish with a 100 per cent record, a feat that has not been achieved since 1927. "Everyone here has been gunning for this for their whole career," Scottish fly-half Russell said of the series victory."To get to the Lions is one thing and then to get a series win is another."This is my third tour and I've not won one so it's special to get this, bringing four nations together to be a family for five, six weeks."So to get the series is amazing, but the job's still not done yet. We need to go and try and finish it off. "Even though we've got the series, we want to finish on a high. Everyone wants to play in that game."
The Guardian
28 minutes ago
- The Guardian
Jamie Overton recalled to squad for England's decisive Oval Test against India
Jamie Overton has returned to England's squad for the final Test against India, which starts at the Oval on Thursday, to provide cover should the seamers who toiled through the drawn fourth fixture fail to recover in time. Chris Woakes and Brydon Carse have both played the first four games of the series, while Jofra Archer returned to the Test side after a four-year absence to play the most recent two – and had never previously bowled as many overs in a single game as the 49.1 he laboured through at Old Trafford. In the Lord's Test Ben Stokes bowled 44 overs, a number he has bettered only once in the last decade – in Barbados six years ago. 'You look at how long we've been out in the field and the overs we've bowled as a bowling unit – everyone will be pretty tired, so there'll be an assessment of everyone,' Stokes said on Sunday. 'These recovery days will be pretty important, and we might have to make a few decisions to get some fresh legs in. It will be two or three days' recovery for everyone, and we'll give everyone the best chance we can. I'm not going to hide from the fact it has been tough for the bowlers.' Overton was in the squad for the first three games of the series, having last been called up for in 2022, when he made his only previous appearance against New Zealand at Headingley. He was released before the fourth fixture of this series to play in the County Championship, where he bowled just 14 overs for Surrey in a draw against Yorkshire at Scarborough. The squad contains two other seamers who did not play at Old Trafford in Josh Tongue and Gus Atkinson, who has not played a senior first-team game since the one-off Test against Zimbabwe in May but who continued his recovery from a hamstring injury by playing for Surrey's second XI against Somerset seconds last week – he bowled 30 overs, taking three wickets. England Ben Stokes (capt), Jofra Archer, Gus Atkinson, Jacob Bethell, Harry Brook, Brydon Carse, Zak Crawley, Liam Dawson, Ben Duckett, Ollie Pope, Joe Root, Jamie Smith, Josh Tongue, Chris Woakes India Shubman Gill (capt), Yashasvi Jaiswal, KL Rahul, Sai Sudharsan, Abhimanyu Easwaran, Karun Nair, Ravindra Jadeja, Dhruv Jurel, Washington Sundar, Shardul Thakur, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Siraj, Prasidh Krishna, Akash Deep, Kuldeep Yadav, Anshul Kamboj, Arshdeep Singh, Narayan Jagadeesan England lead the series 2-1 First Test, Headingley England won by five wickets Second Test, Edgbaston India won by 336 runs Third Test, Lord's England won by 22 runs Fourth Test, Emirates Old Trafford Match drawn Fifth Test, The Kia Oval Takes place 31 July-4 Aug India have confirmed that Rishabh Pant sustained a fracture in his right foot when he was hit by a Chris Woakes delivery on the opening day at Old Trafford. He has been ruled out of the final Test and replaced by Narayan Jagadeesan, a 29-year-old wicketkeeper with a first-class batting average of 47.50 who has never represented his country at senior level. Dhruv Jurel, who stood in as wicketkeeper in the last two games because of injuries to Pant, remains in the squad.
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Richard Rusbridger obituary
My brother, Richard Rusbridger, who has died aged 75 from brain cancer, was a leading British psychoanalyst in the tradition of Melanie Klein. He taught, wrote and lectured, in the UK and abroad, as well as training many future analysts. But it was his clinical work over the course of 40 years or more that gave him the greatest satisfaction. Richard started formal training as what was sometimes called a 'post-Kleinian' in the late 1980s. His training analyst was Elizabeth Spillius, who had also been an anthropologist and who was herself one of the foremost Klein scholars. (Richard was later to co-edit her papers.) Once established in private practice, he saw patients in his north London home. When his death was announced, several of his patients took to social media to say what a profound effect their time with him had had. One wrote: 'He completely changed my life, my relationship with myself and with my family.' Another said: 'Richard was my life witness. It's a sad and scary world without him in his chair behind my head, occasionally saying 'quite'.' Richard was born in Lusaka, in what was then Northern Rhodesia, where our father, GH Rusbridger, was deputy director of education and our mother, Barbara (nee Wickham), was a nurse. Our parents returned to the UK from Africa; they had no permanent home here, and another brother, Guy, who had been born with severe disabilities, needed intensive nursing care. So when Richard was only eight, he was packed off to board at a prep school in Taunton in Somerset. Once the family was settled, in Guildford, Surrey, and after Guy's death, Richard returned to live at home. He was a chorister at Guildford Cathedral under the redoubtable Barry Rose, and sang at the building's consecration in 1961. He progressed to become a music scholar at Cranleigh. One of Richard's near contemporaries, James Harpur, wrote a fine volume of poems about the school they both knew, which included the stanza: 'Each night I prayed / for protection / from arrest and sadism / each day believing in / my random luck.' They were lines that would have spoken to Richard. At Magdalene College, Cambridge, he struggled to choose between his two loves, music and literature. One close friend at the time recalled: 'He did incredibly little work, but he was fascinated by other people and the contrast between what we pretend to be and what we are.' After a brief period of teaching he began his long immersion in the world of professionally helping others: as a social worker, as a child psychotherapist and then a child analyst and training analyst. He was, his colleagues said, a skilled clinician, with a combination of sharp clinical perception and sympathetic humanity. He was also a popular supervisor, an inspiring trainer of future analysts, and was appointed honorary reader at University College London. His interest in music and literature surfaced in a number of papers exploring artistic works through the lens of psychoanalysis, including studies of Mozart's Don Giovanni, on narcissism in King Lear, and comparing Shakepeare's Othello and Verdi's Otello. In 1982, he married Gill Philpott, a psychotherapist; they had two children, Charlie and Alice. They all survive him.
