The 35-year-old is alleged to have tested positive for cannabis and will today learn his fate.. There was grim news on the South Coast and it was not confined to Warwickshire’s rocky reply to the sizeable Sussex first innings yesterday, although the loss of the captain, Nick Knight, and the England hopeful Ian Bell were telling blows on another deceptively cold day here. Giles explained: “It built up yesterday, came on quite sharply and it was quite painful.”According to Gerhard Mostert, the Warwickshire physiotherapist, the injury is not too serious. The England left-arm spinner went to hospital for a scan, the results of which will not be known until today. It was an ambition, I’ve got 5,000 first-class runs but wondered if this would happen.”I was getting very nervous out there. Shane Warne yesterday proved he can turn a game with bat as well as ball when he hit his maiden first-class hundred. The Australian leg-spinner bailed Hampshire out with 107 not out to take Hampshire from 130 for 7 to 328 all out against Kent at Canterbury.
Warne’s 72-ball hundred in 100 minutes puts him in pole position to win the 2005 Walter Lawrence Trophy for the season’s fastest first-class hundred.
His innings included 16 fours and 3 sixes.Warne said: “Now I’ve got the first one out of the way, I am hoping there will be a few more around the corner. HYperion’s selections for today’s other meetings: Carlisle: 6.00 Bold Tiger 6.30 Viewforth 7.00 Thornaby Green 7.30 Fly To Dubai 8.00 Blue Patrick 8.30 Polish PowerLudlow: 5.40 Royal Prodigy 6.10 Curtins Hill 6.40 Absolut Power 7.10 Montifault 7.40 My Pal Val 8.10 Rift Valley 8.40 Tessanoora Richard Edmondson Nap: Dickie Deadeye (Yorn 4.45)NB: Quito (York 3.00). Two Guineas are already in the bag and Derby horses seem to be emerging from behind every curtain. O’Brien was able to report that Gypsy King, his long-time personal Blue Riband favourite, was in perfect form despite some wild trading on the betting exchanges on Tuesday.
The Chester winner was laid at 129-1 at one point, a price which you would only offer if the horse was dead on the floor in front of you “He’s fine,” O’Brien reported. “As far as I know, he couldn’t be better.”The trainer pulls another challenger from his quiver in this afternoon’s Dante Stakes, which promises to be the most informative of the Derby trials.Ballydoyle’s Albert Hall goes into battle with, among others, the recently well backed Proclamation and the ante-post Epsom favourite, Motivator. After One Cool Cat had failed, yet again, the trainer looked as though he would happily have taken the pearl-handled revolver.Now though, for him and Spencer, happy days are here again. We’ll just have to keep kicking.”I’m happy as long as I’m riding winners. Even now if I come home after riding seven losers I feel the world is falling in on top of me again.
I’d describe myself as very much an up-and-down person.”But you can’t lie down in life I don’t ever look for pity and I don’t ever want it. I just want to keep improving and become as good as I can be. That will take me at least 10 years.”The Kiddykid’s success was an immediate reward for his trainer, David Evans, who had taken four and a half hours to drive the box up from Ty Derlwyn Farm, near Abergavenny, on the edge of the mountains in South Wales. I thought it would be a good deal harder than it has been to get back on the winners’ board. I feel I’m a stronger person now and I’d like to think I’m a better rider for it all.”I’ve been getting plenty of support and so many people have been so good.