Not a squad brimming with international potential, but left-arm spinner Liam Wharton continues to learn his trade.DurhamThere is promise galore at the Riverside which utterly belies their woeful position. "If young lads are coming in with a lot of talent they should be rewarded like everybody else. If it could happen to Benny Ball, it could happen to anybody."I thought that if ever I was going to be in a squad it would be for one-day cricket, where I have made a much sounder case," he said.Of course, he has had some magnificent moments, being part of the Gloucestershire team who won five one-day trophies in the two summers of 2000 and 2001. He played for England at Under-19 level, by which time he had already been in Gloucestershire's first team ("I'd played county rugby and football, but when I was 17 and 18 everything I touched at cricket turned to gold") But it has mostly been a journeyman's existence since. They want to ensure cricketers have proper pensions and alternative skills if careers end. With a downturn in the economy and a lot of companies out there laying off people there's probably less money coming into the game through sponsorship.

They turn estate agents and reporters into exemplars of probity. Easy money, not terribly good at the job, far too many of them playing for too many clubs, loads of dodgy practitioners from outside and nobody cares much about any of it. After he snicked a wicket-keeper's catch off Jason Gillespie, the solid right-hander Daren Ganga was Lara's ideal foil in a third-wicket partnership of 185.Ganga outlasted his captain to complete his own hundred, 113, his first in his 18 Tests before a careless stroke off the left-arm spin of Darren Lehman cost him his wicket after five and a quarter diligent hours in which he hit a six and 19 fours.It brought the number of hundreds in the match to five, following Shivnarine Chanderpaul's in the West Indies first innings and those by Justin Langer and Ricky Ponting for Australia, emphasising the nature of a lifeless pitch and parched, fast outfield that combined to yield 156 fours and nine sixes over the three days.. His seventh Test hundred against his favourite opponents and his 19th overall took 157 balls and included 20 fours, helping to put the West Indies in the lead and back in contention. The resolve that the hint of adversity and the sight of Australians stir in Brian Lara's complex consciousness in equal measure surfaced once more on the third day of the First Test yesterday. Here, it was on and off for the last five miles." Radcliffe told the BBC's Sue Barker: "I feel rough now.

I hope that the military gain in Iraq can be turned into a political gain for the people of Iraq and for the international community."And while Mr Blair said the United Nations should have a "key role" in the reconstruction of Iraq, Mr Schr? said it should take place "under the UN umbrella" ­ an idea opposed by the US.Mr Blair hoped that broad agreement could be reached on the UN's role with the details to be settled later. He said: "There will always be conflict over what form [the overthrow of a dictator] takes. Tony Blair and Gerhard Schr? agreed last night to work together to bring democracy to Iraq and to rebuild bridges between Europe and the United States in their first meeting since the war, but failed to mask their differences over the conflict. Their rather awkward body language at a brief press conference in Hanover showed the strain caused by the Allied invasion had not yet eased.Mr Schr? declined to endorse the military action by the United States and Britain. This is the right club for me." It is becoming increasingly clear that Vieira is also the right captain for Arsenal.. The mighty metro-politan sophisticats of Arsenal to lose an FA Cup semi-final to some lower-division oiks from oop north – couldn't happen, could it? It did 30 years ago this month, when Sunderland's goalkeeper Jim Montgomery defied them at Hillsborough, then did the same to Leeds United in the final.