England's selectors were entitled to spend the Bank Holiday weekend relaxing in their back gardens on sun-loungers, reflecting on a job well done with some nice cold glasses of Sauvignon Blanc.Whether Bangladesh should retain their Test status is not an issue for David Graveney, Duncan Fletcher, Rod Marsh and Geoff Miller to worry about. "But this is a long way down the line and the medical team are pretty confident that the treatment he is getting will deal with the problem."Against Bangladesh, England can accommodate the absence of Giles, and Gareth Batty can expect to take part in his second Test of the summer. But should the injury still be affecting the 32 year-old in a month England will have a problem.The fear is that if Giles spends too much time out he will have lost the confidence and form that, before this injury struck, had allowed him to make a superb start to the season.Giles - along with Andrew Flintoff - is England's most reliable bowler and Michael Vaughan will need him to be fit for the first Ashes Test against Australia on 21 July.. "In the long term he may require an operation," Fletcher said. "Ashley will not be ready for the next Test so we have decided to leave him out," Fletcher said."We are hoping he will be ready for the one-dayers in June but he was pretty downbeat when he left here the other day."The Warwickshire spinner sustained the injury three weeks ago and there is a possibility he may require surgery. Ashley Giles has been ruled out of the second Test against Bangladesh after failing to recover from the hip injury that caused him to miss England's first Test of the summer at Lord's.

The destructive right-hander sent a bouncer from Corey Collymore soaring over the scoreboard at mid-wicket and into the neighbouring district, as big a hit at the Kensington Oval as oldtimers at the ground could remember. King and Powell, who took over from Collymore, reduced Afridi's hectic scoring rate, a factor in Afridi's dismissal.The West Indies, without a win in their 2-0 Test series defeat to South Africa and the intervening eight one-day games against South Africa and Pakistan, are seeking to break a sequence of four successive Test defeats at Bridgetown.. He later hoisted Gayle into the leg-side stands off two successive balls, making the placing of five fielders on the boundary's edge redundant.He raised his third Test hundred off 75 balls with a massive straight hit off Powell that dropped onto the boundary rope but was signalled four by umpire David Shepherd.Gayle claimed the first wicket of the day with a slip catch that got rid of Asim Kamal for 55 after a partnership of 115 with Afridi.But the tall off-spinner conceded four sixes and seven fours in a spell of 11 overs for 74 before he was replaced by Reon King. Shahid Afridi blasted a typically explosive hundred, featuring some extraordinary sixes, but the West Indies remained on course for victory on the fourth day of the first Test against Pakistan yesterday. Durham had no answer to the magnificent bowling of Hall, whose 8.5 overs realised three wickets at a cost of just 17 runs.When Kent began their reply it also became apparent Durham had no answer to Hall the batsman. The skies had taken on a menacing hue and rain was expected, so, despite the loss of Michael Carberry and Martin van Jaarsveld early on, Hall hit the Durham attack all over the ground, making a great impression with his new county.He got them ahead of the Duckworth-Lewis total - calculated when the weather intervenes and cuts a match short once the side batting second has reached 10 overs.He found an able partner in Matthew Walker, the pair taking their third-wicket stand past 50 in very little time and increasing the odds of a home victory with Hall reaching an excellent half-century off just 46 balls..

Peng had already fallen by the time Mustard emerged, leg before wicket to Andrew Hall, making his one-day debut for Kent.Apart from Mustard there was little on offer from the visitors and had it not been for him the innings was in danger of stuttering to a standstill. There were just a dozen scoring strokes in the 25 balls he faced - four of them cleared the boundary, the rest of his 32 runs were taken as singles. However, that took a bit of a dent with Kent's miserly attack.It took Nicky Peng almost an hour and a half and 75 balls to reach his second successive half-century in this competition, and it was not until Phil Mustard arrived at the crease that there was anything for the Durham fans to cheer.Mustard added some serious hurry-up to Durham's progress. The birds are slowly but surely increasing in numbers, with 32 pairs now breeding through the Inner Hebrides from Mull up to Skye, and the days when the location of every eyrie had to be kept a closely guarded secret are passing.In partnership with other conservation bodies - Scottish Natural Heritage, Forestry Commission Scotland and the Mull and Iona Community Trust - the RSPB is operating a public viewing hide that looks directly on to the nest in the broken Sitka spruce; it is believed to be the only such hide in the world.You step in You look out You find your heartbeat quickening. "The eagles do have a profound effect on people who see them," Sexton said "It seems to affect people deep in their soul We had one woman who burst into tears when she saw them. Another couple wrote that it was the best day of their lives.