It mattered not that he was facing Shane Warne, the cricket spin-king famed for delivering the "ball of the century" to Mike Gatting. Advertising overlord Sir Martin Sorrell isn't a man who likes to be beaten by anyone. The chief executive of WPP is used to gobbling up hundred-million-pound companies for breakfast. So when the two squared off against each other at Sir Victor Blank's annual charity cricket match in Oxfordshire on Saturday against Sir David Frost's XI he refused to be intimidated by Warne's 708 Test wicket scalps. In fact Sorrell had a score to settle after being dismissed by Warne after five balls the last time the pair met. After two "imperious" sweeps (well, according to Sozzer) – for a four and two – Warne caught Sorrell on the front foot with a "flipper". Lord Digby Jones, umpiring the match in aid of the Wellbeing of Women charity featuring celebrity, business and sporting types included Brian Lara, Mark Ramprakash and Sebastian Coe, duly gave Sorrell out LBW and sent him on his way for 16. "It wasn't out but there was no appeal technology to beat it," bemoaned Sorrell, lobbying for the unlikely introduction of the international cricket's Umpire Decision Review System for next year's charity clash.
