Warwickshire were hoping to respond to Middlesex’s 432 for 8 declared at Edgbaston, but were also left frustrated by rain, with play officially suspended for the day at tea without a ball bowled.Northamptonshire were unable to resume their first innings on 142 for 2 as they were looking to make further in-roads on Lancashire’s 504 for nine declared.The home side still require a further 213 to avoid the follow-on with ex-Lancashire batsman Tim Roberts 85 not out.Play was abandoned between Gloucestershire and Kent with home side 202 for 6.. The pair had moved the total on to 99 before Hemp (20) was trapped leg before by Kevin Dean.Wallace was in no mood to capitulate, though, and aided by Mike Powell, Glamorgan had pushed on to 140 for 2 by the tea interval. He then brought up his century from 122 balls, hitting 14 fours and two sixes in his 145 minutes at the crease. Wallace’s resistance was finally ended at 105 by Welch, with 162 on the board.Powell went on to produce a composed knock of 79 not out and Matthew Maynard weighed in with an unbeaten 39 to helped ease the score up to 277 without further loss at the close, a lead of 288 runs.In the First Division, reigning champions Sussex had hoped to build on their lead of 141 over Surrey at the Oval, but the wet weather intervened. The third day’s play of the opening County Championship matches of the season was all but washed out by rain, with only one game able to see any action.
That was in the Second Division at Sophia Gardens, where a century from wicket-keeper batsman Mark Wallace helped Glamorgan extend their second-innings lead over Derbyshire.Following three inspections, play finally got under way after lunch, when the home side resumed 23 without loss, 34 ahead after Derbyshire had made 174 in their first innings reply.It was not long, though, before Australian Matthew Elliot was back in the pavilion without having added to his overnight score of three, caught by James Bryant off Graeme Welch.However, David Hemp then offered Wallace some support as the left-hander set about the visiting attack. The ICC then directed Muralitharan’s action to be examined by motion specialists at the University of Western Australia.They concluded that Muralitharan should be allowed to use his doosra until the completion of more biomechanical research into slow bowling..

“I think they think I am one of those fitness freaks who go running all the time.” In the men’s race Jon Brown claimed an Olympic place by finishing inside the qualifying time of 2hr 15min, recording 2:13.39 for 15th place. Dan Robinson also staked a claim for an Olympic place by finishing one place behind Brown in 2:13.53.. The Sri Lankan board has reported match referee Chris Broad to the International Cricket Council for allegedly attending a party given by the touring Australian team. But the pain did go off.” Now she needs to come to terms with a whole new world of possibilities.

Such as attending the British Olympic training camp in Cyprus later this year “Is that right?” she said. “So would I have to book that? I feel like we are talking about someone else, not me.” Morris will also have to work out with her employers how to fit in her running commitments. “I think they think I just go and jog around the block, so it might come as a bit of a shock for them,” she said. As it happened, she did.Her glorious run almost never happened, however. The night before, while getting out of a bath in her hotel near Tower Bridge, she had slipped and hurt herself. “I went flying across the floor and banged my ankle against the door,” she said “I bruised my back as well I thought: ‘Oh great’. “When I was 30, I thought to myself: ‘Things you do when you’re 30: I’ll do the marathon.’” Thus, five years ago, she took to the streets of London ­ but her application to run in this year’s event did not succeed and she would not even have toed the line had British coach Bud Baldaro not noticed her performance in winning the 10km Abbey Dash in Sheffield last December and asked her if she fancied entering this year’s London event as one of the ?te runners.

I was only told what I had done about five minutes later.” Morris had earned her glorious reward by overhauling Jo Lodge after 23 miles, and going past the naturalised Ethiopian Birhan Dagne with just over two miles remaining Her ambitions were far more limited when she set off “I just wanted to get to the end,” she said. “In the closing stages I was thinking: ‘Please legs, carry me to the end and don’t make a fool of me.’” They complied, earning her a total of £3,750, comfortably topping her previous highest race earnings of £250, a sum amassed at this year’s Helsby Half Marathon.Morris’s marathon career began on a whim. “I knew the qualifying time was 2.37, but beforehand I thought: ‘Well, that won’t be me’. When I finished, I thought two other British girls were ahead of me.