While the hotshots have blazed away, often brutally, Ward has played the role of rifleman, picking off runs steadily and without fuss.Twice already this summer he has scored match-winning hundreds, and over four hours here he was a study in concentration and single-mindedness as he laid the foundations for what should be a match-winning total. For all that eight Surrey batsmen have supplied a total of 17 centuries to the championship cause – Ian Ward’s fourth of the season yesterday being the most recent – it is remarkable that they have not gained maximum batting points on more than half dozen occasions coming into this game.
The bowlers, in contrast, have not failed in the 14 matches to date to pick up their requisite bounty, although they did allow Warwickshire’s final wicket a lot of leeway before finally winkling out Melvyn Betts for 47.Surrey’s batting line-up – the majority of which is home–produced from the fertile hinterland south of The Oval – is an awesome collection of strokemakers, but under-pinning them all season has been Ward. Somerset did reduce the target by 21 in the remaining nine overs before the close but crucially lost their captain Jamie Cox for one, lbw to Peter Martin.. Openers Mark Chilton and Alec Swann were both back in the pavilion with just six runs on the board.David Byas and Chris Schofield then took over with an assured sixth-wicket stand of 122 as Lancashire posted a formidable target of 408. Somerset set nerves jangling by striking twice early in the second innings. Lancashire took a giant stride towards First Division County Championship survival at Blackpool while pushing Somerset nearer to relegation yesterday.
Somerset will resume today needing another 387 with nine second-innings wickets remaining for a win which began to look increasingly unlikely throughout a second day’s play dominated by the hosts.James Anderson put Lancashire in firm control by polishing off Somerset’s first innings with a four-wicket burst that earned him figures of 6 for 41 and his side a lead of 111. Yesterday, after a dream start in which they scored in the second minute, the Dutch ran out of steam and were held to a 2-2 draw by New Zealand..

Mel Clewlow was the pick of an overworked English defence.After today’s rest day England play the Netherlands tomorrow in the last of their pool games. We are definitely on a steep learning curve.”Although missing her two first-choice goalkeepers, Heberle has 11 of her first-choice Commonwealth Games players in Macau and while she might not have expected to have won many of the games she would have hoped to have converted more chances.Yesterday the Australians began the game in confident fashion, with Joanne Banning opening the scoring in the 19th minute after sustained pressure and Wendy Alcorn putting them further ahead in the 31st minute. Australia’s win yesterday gives them the opportunity to advance to Sunday’s final while England can only contest the wooden spoon.England’s Australian coach, Tricia Heberle, said: “The last four games have shown us where we are and that we have a lot of hard work to do before the World Cup Better to do it here than find out at the World Cup. England are now firmly anchored at the bottom of the table of this six nations ?te event.
England have now failed to score in their last 227 minutes of hockey. Australia avenged their Commonwealth Games semi-final defeat earlier this month in Manchester when they beat England 2-0 in Macau in the fourth round of matches in the women’s Champions’ Trophy. As if to compensate for the delay, the German course designer has put his own indelible mark on the event by including no fewer than 26 new obstacles on the 32-fence cross-country course..

Law’s pair include Diamond Hall Red, who won the event in 1999 when ridden by New Zealand’s Mark Todd.Wolfgang Feld had been due to design the course last year until foot-and-mouth worries led to a reduced budget and put his appointment on hold. That was the eventual Badminton winner, Supreme Rock, who will be her mount in Jerez.Funnell’s three team-mates for the World Games – Jeanette Brakewell, William Fox-Pitt and Leslie Law – will also be riding two horses. Cornerman, who is a year older, had been due to run at Badminton in May until Funnell injured her left leg in a fall and sensibly decided to ride only one horse there. Targets do not save one child from water-borne diseases,” an American official said yesterday.. Developing nations including Botswana want the summit to adopt a further target for halving the number of people who lack adequate sanitation – an initiative flatly rejected by the United States.”Targets are worth discussing but they are only lofty rhetoric. That resolved to halve by 2015 the proportion of people who were unable to reach, or to afford, safe drinking water. They are among the 2.4 billion people who lack access to basic sanitation and the 1.1 billion who have no access to clean drinking water, according to the United Nations human development report published this year.Although the Batswana and Tswana are too preoccupied with their own struggle for existence to worry about the Earth Summit, the talks may help to decide ways of achieving the Millennium Development Goals laid out in the United Nations 2000 Millennium Declaration.

They do not want to keep on relying on one erratic source of water for their supplies. They say Barolong’s depleted water reserves are the result of the Batswana owning too much livestock and having huge families, which draw large quantities of water.Both the Batswana and the Tswana want an immediate solution to their dispute, even a temporary one, as both sides are running out of water and their livelihoods are in danger.Ronald Sebego, MP for Barolong, said: “If the government does not intervene [to find a solution], this can lead to a serious conflict between the two countries.”In the long term they need a permanent answer. Their livestock and some village families rely on the same dam for water. Pippa Funnell rates the chances of Cornerman and Primmore’s Pride, the two horses she rides at the Burghley Masterfoods Horse Trials that begin today in Lincolnshire, as just about equal.
The dual European champion, a member of Britain’s three-day event team at next month’s World Equestrian Games in Jerez de la Frontera, was runner-up at both Gatcombe and Punchestown on nine-year-old Primmore’s Pride. “I would not be involved with Wayne if I thought that there was a problem.”. “The board has wasted two years of my life and now I just have to get back on with my career and win another world title.”"It has taken a longer than it should have to resolve this issue,” said Frank Warren, who will be in charge of this the latest and possibly final stage of the boxer’s career. Ten years ago Belfast’s Wayne McCullough won a silver medal at the Barcelona Olympics, seven years ago he won the World Boxing Council bantamweight title in Japan and two years ago his career looked over when he failed a routine brain scan and lost his licence to fight in Britain.