Lancashire were in trouble when Keedy joined him and his mix of massive defence and thunderous attack had a good crowd on their feet when he reached three figures. After so much late frustration Surrey looked both short-tempered and sulky by the close and got a slow handclap for their pains.During a bright morning Jon Batty duly became the first Surrey player to carry his bat at Old Trafford since Harry Jupp in 1870. Lancashire, despite a confident debut from their 23-year-old opener from Cheshire, Mark Currie, did crack down the middle and were saved from a considerable first-innings deficit only by a valiant century from Carl Hooper, who, with Gary Keedy, added 79 from 19 overs for the last-wicket. Hooper loves a crisis. Surrey wavered but did not break yesterday afternoon. I think they should look internally rather than complain about English county cricket."County cricket is the hand that fed Michael Vaughan.". They have got all the help in the world with physios, psychoanalysts, dieticians and managers."They've got everything and they still can't get out there and play the game. We have given them central contracts, brought in two divisions in the County Championship and National League, made one-day cricket 45 overs.
You need guys who turn up mentally tough with a great attitude and I'm not too sure our system is allowing that at the minute."Elliott said: "We have done everything for them. "Maybe it's mental and maybe to do with attitudes and the way we are brought up in our game. Michael Vaughan's criticism of county cricket is still drawing reaction, the latest coming from the Worcestershire chairman John Elliott who said the England captain was "totally out of order". Vaughan blamed the county game for England's inability to take advantage of several chances to push for victory in the fourth Test against South Africa at Headingley, a failing which allowed the visitors to take a 2-1 series lead."English players have long had a laid-back attitude where we play so much county cricket that it can get boring," Vaughan said. The 28-year-old former Commonwealth champion finished eighth and last in his heat in a time of 20.79sec nearly half a second slower than he ran in Birmingham last month. Cuba's Ivan Pedroso, seeking a fifth consecutive title, also went out with a foot injury.Mexico's Ann Guevara, favourite for the 400m, lived up to her billing by taking gold with a personal best 48.89sec, eighth fastest of all time, in a race where Britain's Lee McConnell finished seventh in 51.07.Chris Rawlinson reached tomorrow's 400m hurdles final as he finished second to defending champion Felix Sanchez, recording 48.56 to the Dominican Republic athlete's 48.16.The 200m quarter-finals saw an unhappy exit for Julian Golding, winner of the AAA trials after two years of problems with illness and injury.
"I have been injured and have tried to compete with it, which is so hard. People don't know what has been going on injury-wise behind the scenes Touch wood it is behind me now. I have just had two weeks of really good training."Fellow Briton Nathan Morgan, who jumped 8.26 last month, failed to join Tomlinson, managing a best of only 7.83. Now Tomlinson, 6ft 6in of only partially-realised potential, has other matters to attend to as he finds himself in a major final as the second best qualifier behind Spain's Yago Lamela."I just went out there and things came together," Tomlinson said. It left his confidence so low that he had made plans to sightsee when tomorrow's final takes place.
