Hollioake hit four sixes and seven fours from only 93 balls.Earlier Hampshire resumed 178 ahead at 150 for 4 in their second innings and were able to declare after Robin Smith and Paul Terry had put on 154 for the fifth wicket.Surrey lost Darren Bicknell to Stephenson at 58 and Jason Ratcliffe was lbw to Shaun Udal at 115, the first of three wickets to fall for four runs. Shahid and Hollioake came together with Surrey halted in their quest by losing two wickets in consecutive overs to reach 119 for 4.
But then, with growing confidence, they saw off the Hampshire bowling with a stand of 195 in only 28 overs for the fifth wicket. Shahid was eventually bowled by John Stephenson after hitting 101 from only 95 balls. But Hollioake was still there when Brendon Julian hit the winning runs off the first ball of the last over. He needed some time to compose himself, but McCague, who had been warned earlier in the innings for bowling two bouncers in one over, was quick to apologise.. Surrey were set a target of 330 in 54 overs and they accomplished their task with five balls to spare. Acting captain Adam Hollioake and Nadeem Shahid each hit centuries as Surrey beat Hampshire by five wickets at Southampton to go joint top of the Championship table yesterday.
Kent 445 & 245 Derbyshire 292 & 162-5 Match drawn
Frustration was the name of the game for Kent yesterday. With a victory and maximum points beckoning if they could capture the last five Derbyshire wickets, they were restricted to a mere 11 overs and what had been a highly entertaining game was abandoned as a watery draw.
But even the 55 minutes that it took Kent to bowl those overs were crammed with incident with Martin McCague first damaging the helmet of the nightwatchman with a short-pitched delivery and then collecting a warning for bowling – accidentally – a beamer next ball.If Harris was disconcerted by the first ball, he was visibly shaken by the second which whistled past his nose very rapidly. But, he added, “we knew we needed one or two wickets in one or two overs and we’d be among the lower order batsmen. That’s exactly what we did.”Mushtaq bowled brilliantly,” Wasim said “Waqar I don’t have to mention anything.
He’s a world-class bowler and he came back into his rhythm at a crucial moment.” This in spite of a hamstring injury “It was sore but I put ice on it,” Waqar said England’s wounds may take a little more soothing.. Whether we should have saved it or not is neither here nor there.”For the five days the Pakistanis played the better cricket and got into a position to win the match, and they won it with a killer blow on the last afternoon. It’s disappointing for us, but that happens – it’s not a criminal offence. But it’s one match down with two to go and we’ll be hoping to come back strongly at Headingley.”Wasim Akram, the Pakistan captain, admitted that at lunch, with Atherton and Alec Stewart well set, “we were a little desperate”. “It happens sometimes that you lose one wicket you lose a couple,” the England captain said.
“That’s why you don’t play a poor shot when you’re in.”We were confident of saving the game both at the start of the innings and at lunch It was a game I’d hoped to save. “It was a classic case of one wicket brings two brings three.”
Mike Atherton apportioned no blame other than to himself. Surely the Olympics should focus on what marks out the athlete; remarkable strength, power or stamina?Physical achievement is a lonely business. Whether it is swimming 100m faster than anyone else or overcoming pain and walking to the shops – with those legs, negotiating those stairs and that high kerb by the postbox – in only four minutes and 23 seconds Now, that’s a record. It may not be an Olympic record, it may not be an athlete achievement, but it does show that physical achievement is defined only by the parameters we set.Ooh, so you can run really fast and jump in that itsy bitsy little sandpit after three hops. (Why three? Why not four? Let’s see what happens to our triple jumpers in the quadruple jump.) I mean, how pointless. Call that a challenge? If you are 7ft tall, a career in high jumping is the easy way out.
Losing your legs, your sight, your job: now, there’s a challenge!Disabled athletes are not a distinctive type of competitor requiring separate games. The events in which disabled athletes excel may be different, but their status as Olympian standard athletes has to be the same. What if the wheelchair race was won by an able-bodied athlete? Surely, that’s why it’s called competition The disabled are not a distinct category like the over-40s. Losing a leg or being diagnosed with MS is not equivalent to being a Commonwealth citizen, or turning 40 Disability is not a status, it’s a physical fact. Being a 7ft high jumper is not the same as being French.To argue for integration on some “good-as-you ticket” misses the point.
