Peter Bowler

Somerset's Peter Bowler, the oldest player on the county circuit, has announced he will retire from first-class cricket at the end of the season

The nous and obduracy of Somerset's Peter Bowler, hitting his 45th first-class hundred, proved too much for a largely anodyne Essex attack, meaning that both these counties remained winless in the Championship

With the likes of JK Lever, Neil Foster, John Childs and Peter Such helping out behind the scenes at Essex, you would have thought the bowling department was sorted, but, on today's evidence, that was far from the case

It is one of the never-ending frustrations of this game that even when the sun is shining there is no play

With the first class season just underway, the official Somerset website is launching a regular feature entitled `hero of the week'

Regarding Peter Bowler's innings he said: "it's the best I've seen him play in one-day cricket