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“I also encouraged him, already this morning, that he should have these women in the Oval Office. They deserve to be there.”

Ravi Bopara rolled back the years with a stunning 45-ball century as Northamptonshire beat Surrey by seven runs in a rain-shortened T20 Blast quarter-final at The Oval.

The US president told reporters in the Oval Office that he had "a good relationship" with President Xi Jinping and that China "needs us more than we need them".

Since then, he had three days off before a month captaining Northern Superchargers in the whirlwind of The Hundred, right up until Saturday night's late-night rain-thwarted elimination at The Oval.

Her face is in a gold, oval frame and the viewer’s eyes follow hers to other aspects of the piece — an assemblage of large and small photos taken by Gray in places around the world, including Versailles, Norway and Ghana.