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Updates from the day-night Test at the Waca in Perth
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35th over: Australia 129-3 (Perry 58, Sutherland 38) Gaud is keeping it neat, tempting Australia. Sutherland, winner of the Belinda Clark award last year, square drives with elegance for three.
34th over: Australia 125-3 (Perry 57, Sutherland 35) Now Sutherland gets in on the act, a straight drive off Sayali to ice a wedding cake. From the commentary box to the crowd, everyone purrs.
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© Photograph: Stefan Gosatti/Getty Images

© Photograph: Stefan Gosatti/Getty Images
The plot rumour led to the former cabinet minister’s arrest, but while BVI officials avoid comment, residents wonder why anyone believed it
Is it really plausible that Peter Mandelson could have hatched a daring plot to escape to the British Virgin Islands? In the capital of Road Town for the last week or so, the question has been on many minds. And even if the UK’s Commons speaker, Lindsay Hoyle, came away with that possibility in mind from a recent visit, very few of them are convinced.
“It seemed strange to me,” said one bemused local official who had met Hoyle at a function a few days earlier, “that if you were going to flee, it would be to a British territory. From a logical point of view, you’re still more or less in the UK. It’s like fleeing to Southampton.”
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© Composite: Artwork by Alex Mellon and Guardian Design. Source Photographs by Getty Images/AFP

© Composite: Artwork by Alex Mellon and Guardian Design. Source Photographs by Getty Images/AFP
A classic fried tofu stir-fry that’s bang-full of flavour
My funny, curious, panda-loving daughter, Arya, is turning nine this week. So I wanted to write a recipe to celebrate her and some of her favourite things to eat. Arya adores the chewiness of udon, the bounciness of tofu, the sweet, sour saltiness of sweet soy and tamarind, the crunch of cabbage and she’d put chilli (in any form) over her breakfast cereal if she could (although it’s optional in this recipe). Happy birthday, Arya.
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© Photograph: Louise Hagger/The Guardian. Food styling: Emily Kydd. Prop styling: Jennifer Kay. Food styling assistant: Eden Owen-Jones.

© Photograph: Louise Hagger/The Guardian. Food styling: Emily Kydd. Prop styling: Jennifer Kay. Food styling assistant: Eden Owen-Jones.

© Photograph: Louise Hagger/The Guardian. Food styling: Emily Kydd. Prop styling: Jennifer Kay. Food styling assistant: Eden Owen-Jones.

© Illustration: Becky Barnicoat/The Guardian

© Illustration: Becky Barnicoat/The Guardian

© Illustration: Becky Barnicoat/The Guardian
He’s television’s most daring documentary-maker, known for asking questions others wouldn’t. But Theroux doesn’t seem to like it when the tables are turned
On the pavement outside the Netflix office, I stand in the rain, confused. Was that interview a little off? Louis Theroux seemed not to like my questions, which were typical interview questions, related to him and his big glossy Netflix debut, Inside the Manosphere. He seemed, I don’t know, prickly? A bit testy? I’m prone to rumination, so perhaps I am overthinking. Because Louis Theroux is a good guy, right? He skewers the bad guys. And yet here I am, baffled. The only thing to do is sit in a cafe and replay the tape.
Theroux is solicitous, lightly ironic in tone. “Louis,” he says. “How do you do?” I am fine. Looking forward to our chat, as you may imagine. Theroux, 55, might be north London dad in appearance – specs, grey T-shirt, black jeans, sneakers – but he’s the grandmaster of both the immersive documentary and interview form. The son of American writer Paul Theroux (a nepo baby before they existed), he has built a 30‑year career in television, much of it at the BBC, making a virtue of being a socially awkward verbivore, hyper‑curious, super-funny.
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© Photograph: Pip/Courtesy of Netflix

© Photograph: Pip/Courtesy of Netflix