Murray Goodwin followed for three, making way for Alistair Campbell to anchor the innings while Whittall, Andy and Grant Flower and finally Johnson blazed away at the other end.Earlier, the young Nottinghamshire opener Guy Welton superbly held together the innings with an excellent 94, surviving all but three balls of the allotted 50 overs.Welton opened with Usman Afzaal and the pair gave the home side a good start by putting on 50 inside 11 overs. Afzaal, however, was snapped up with the score on 52 by Paul Strang who took an excellent low catch at gully from Johnson’s bowling. Jason Gallian then departed in identical fashion in the next over. Chris Read, the wicketkeeper, was pushed up the order to No 4 and hit an attacking 39, but it was not to be enough to tax the tourists.. Alan Mullally produced his best bowling analysis since rejoining Hampshire with perfect timing on yesterday’s first day of the First Division match against Surrey at Southampton. Alan Mullally produced his best bowling analysis since rejoining Hampshire with perfect timing on yesterday’s first day of the First Division match against Surrey at Southampton.
Mullally, recalled by England for the triangular one-day tournament next month, took 6 for 75 against Surrey after the visitors had chosen to bat first.Surrey were all out for 331 in the 100th over after threatening a much larger total, Alastair Brown top scoring with 71 and Martin Bicknell hitting 56.

Hampshire were left with two awkward overs at the end of the day to negotiate but closed on six without loss.Elsewhere in the First Division play moved into the second day, and an unbeaten second-wicket stand of 112 between Rahul Dravid and Robert Key enabled Kent to reach a confidence-boosting reply to Somerset’s impressive 475 all out at Maidstone.Requiring 326 to avoid the follow-on, Kent, with only two batting bonus points so far this season, ended comfortably placed on 128 for 1. Dravid finished on 73 not out off 145 balls, including 11 fours, while Key was unbeaten on 42.Centuries by Simon Katich and Paul Collingwood helped Durham to 479 for 9 and a lead of 328 against Derbyshire at Darlington. The captain Nick Speak chipped in with 78 while the pace men Melvyn Betts and Steve Harmison smashed two sixes each as the bowlers wilted late in the day.In the Second Division, Glamorgan took the honours over Worcestershire on the second day at Swansea. Australia’s Matthew Elliott, with his second half-century of the match (57), plus a fine unbeaten 60 by Michael Powell left Glamorgan on 156 for 3.. The focus yesterday was on the ancient and the modern, but Angus Fraser and Phil Tufnell (the former) and Stephen Peters (the latter) were definitely not reading from the same hymn book. The focus yesterday was on the ancient and the modern, but Angus Fraser and Phil Tufnell (the former) and Stephen Peters (the latter) were definitely not reading from the same hymn book.
The 21-year-old Peters has been promising a great deal for far too long – he marked his debut in 1996, when he was 17, by scoring a hundred against Cambridge University, the youngest Essex player to do so on his first-class debut – but on this showing the other 17 counties should brace themselves for delivery.Peters entered the fray with Essex in dire straits, four wickets down and not many more runs than that on the board.

He then shouldered the burden of steering Essex past the danger and humiliation of the follow-on and into the relative respectability of a double-figure deficit.All the time he was gritting it out the two 34-year-olds, Fraser and Tufnell, were wreaking havoc with Peters’ team-mates. Four wickets apiece and a grudging 70 runs between them emphasised not only their class, but also the quality of Peters’ three-and-a-quarter hour innings.While others just scratched the surface Peters dug deep. He and Mark Ilott defied the probings of the Middlesex attack for more than two hours as they compiled 58 precious runs in 30 overs either side of lunch.It might not have been pretty to watch, but it was pretty absorbing. The value of those runs underwent an exponential increase when the Essex bowlers waded into the Middlesex batsmen for the second time in the game.Thanks to Peters’ unbeaten 54 off 189 balls, Essex had finished 86 runs in arrears, so when the Middlesex advantage had been increased by a paltry 20 runs, the loss of their openers, Andrew Strauss and Mike Roseberry, sporting a badly bruised knuckle from the first innings,were two telling blows.Essex’s first innings hero, Peter Such, entered the attack and had Owais Shah caught by the wicketkeeper Barry Hyam before the spectators had settled into their seats.

When the captain, Justin Langer, soon departed it needed some stonewalling from Paul Weekes top avoid a similar refrain to their first innings.. Six Newcastle United football fans who took the club to court when their personal seats were moved to make way for corporate entertainment facilities face an £80,000 legal bill after losing their case. Six Newcastle United football fans who took the club to court when their personal seats were moved to make way for corporate entertainment facilities face an £80,000 legal bill after losing their case.
The Lord Chief Justice, Lord Woolf, agreed a judgment at the Court of Appeal that the club did have the legal right to move the fans “however sympathetic one may feel” towards them.Because the six, who brought the test case on behalf of 250 others who objected to being moved, had their appeal dismissed, they now face paying the legal costs of the whole action. They had taken out insurance against failure, but still face a shortfall of £80,000 on the estimated £200,000 costs that the club’s lawyers are demanding.Richard Cramer, of the solicitors Messrs McCormicks, representing the fans, said after the hearing: “We shall not be claiming any of our legal costs. It is now up to Newcastle United as to whether they wish to make these fans bankrupt and put them at risk of losing their homes. This would fly in the face of earlier promises from the club which said the last thing they wanted to do was to take the houses from these individuals.”In 1994, the club offered season ticket holders a bond guaranteeing a seat at the season ticket price for 10 years if they paid £500.But when the club decided to increase the capacity of the stadium from 36,700 to 52,000 with more expensive seats nearby for corporate hospitality, it sent out notices in 1998 to the bondholders affected. They were told there was a condition in the bond bywhich the club had the right to move them from one seat to another.A judge in Newcastle rejected the fans’ claim and said the club had established that it was justified in moving them.Lord Justice Waller, whose judgment was agreed by Lord Woolf and Lord Justice Clarke, said he was “sympathetic” to the fans being asked to move but agreed with the judge in Newcastle that “time does not stand still in the world of competitive football”..