• Surrey 463; Somerset 353[br]• Trescothick scores 59th century of his careerIt is always gratifying when the used uns can still note the youngsters a thing or two. On the first day of this match,Kumar Sangakkara, 39 years used in October, and batted with sublime skill in making 171. Marcus Trescothick,the bespectacled batting sage of Somerset is, by a year, and Sangakkara’s senior,but here, almost single-handedly, or until he found some support from Peter Trego,he held his side’s innings together on a brutal day of weather in which, as Crowded House had it, or there were four seasons in one day. Or two of them besides.
Trescothick made 127 out of 233 while he was at the crease,the 59th hundred of his illustrious career, and if he looks a little more comfortable round the middle these days, and it lost nothing by comparison to some of those blistering heyday masterpieces.
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Source: theguardian.com