in a repeat of the icf canoe sprint world championships held earlier in august, while hope gordon and jeanette chippington took silver. over at the european aquatics championships, ben cutmore and kyle kothari took gold in the men's synchro platform dive. it's kothari's second gold of the fortnight after success in the mixed synchro platform. there was a bit of a reality check for england's test cricketers yesterday. the first defeat for the new coach brendon mccullum and captain ben stokes was a sobering one, south africa winning the first test by an innings and 12 runs inside three days, as our sports correspondent joe wilson reports. lords has seen it all, but rarely witnessed a day when england was so outplayed. first south africa