Jamie Overton recalled to squad for England’s decisive Oval Test against India

  • Surrey seamer offers cover for weary bowling lineup

  • India’s Rishabh Pant replaced by Narayan Jagadeesan

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.

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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.)

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Murdoch v Trump: why the flawed media titan could be the final protector of press freedom | Jane Martinson

His companies may have hacked phones and broadcast lies, but Murdoch appears ready to battle the president to uphold editorial freedoms

Years before Rupert Murdoch bought the Wall Street Journal, the writer John Lanchester suggested that his primary motivation – more than ideology or even money – was a “love of crises, of the point when everything seems about to be lost”.

More than two decades later, is the crisis in the US media, one in which everything seems about to be lost, motivating Murdoch to take on the most powerful man in the world? It is as good a reason as many of those given over the past week for the fact that the billionaire whose Fox News channel has acted as a Trump cheerleader throughout is now, alone among US media titans, preparing to do battle in the courts.

Jane Martinson is professor of financial journalism at City St George’s and a member of the board of the Scott Trust, which owns the Guardian Media Group

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Thailand and Cambodia agree to ceasefire, Malaysian prime minister says

Neighbouring countries accept ‘immediate and unconditional’ ceasefire after worst fighting in a decade

Thailand and Cambodia have agreed to an “immediate and unconditional” ceasefire, the Malaysian prime minister has announced after holding peace talks.

Anwar Ibrahim, who hosted leaders from both countries, said the ceasefire will start at midnight local time on Monday.

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Christopher Nolan criticised for filming in occupied Western Sahara city

Organisers of local film festival warn production of The Odyssey in Dakhla could normalise repression by Morocco

The organisers of the Western Sahara international film festival (FiSahara) have criticised Christopher Nolan for shooting part of his adaptation of the Odyssey in a Western Saharan city that has been under Moroccan occupation for 50 years, warning the move could serve to normalise decades of repression.

The British-American film-maker’s take on Homer’s epic, which stars Matt Damon, Charlize Theron, Zendaya, Lupita Nyong’o and Anne Hathaway, is due to be released on 17 July 2026.

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