Trescothick completes century with broken foot
[ad_1] Somerset 321 for 5 (Bartlett 110, Trescothick 100) vs Lancashire Scorecard Until just before three o'clock on the first day of this game one of England's best and best-loved cricketers was enjoying yet another lovely afternoon. Once again Marcus Trescothick was holding a Somerset innings together. He had batted with increasing assurance against a Lancashire attack including Jimmy Anderson and was only five runs short of his 96th century in all top-level cricket. Then Trescothick played defensively to a ball from Matt Parkinson and collapsed at the crease with what was later confirmed as a broken fifth metatarsal bone in his right foot. Scarcely half a mile from the other Old Trafford he had sustained an injury made famous by one of English football's more famous sons. Though we didn't know it, Banger had become Becks. After treatment on the field Trescothick carried on batting and managed to garner the runs he needed for his hundred. However, clearly tethered b...