MARTIN Brockman's dream came true when he was on Tuesday named in the England team competing at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi

The 22-year-old Medway and Maidstone athlete will line up in the decathlon.

He actually received the news last Thursday from Darrell Bunn, the national head coach for combined events.

"It came in a phone call when he simply said 'you're in'. I've been working towards this for a number of years and it's going to be a fantastic experience," said Brockman.

Selection owed everything to his performance at the North West Combined Events Open event which took place in Manchester a few days earlier.

For the Maidstone-born athlete it was a last chance to gain the qualifying standard of 7300 points

He had already clocked a personal best in the 100 (11.35) and matched his top high jump (2.10) before being made aware, with two disciplines remaining, that he would have to produce PB's in both to have a chance of bettering the 7429 total of Edward Dunford (Birchfield Harriers) who at the time was the third-ranked decathlete in England.

Brockman's response? He first threw the javelin 50.08 metres (previous best: 48.99) and then ran the 1500 in 4:26.90 (4:29.13) for a magnificent total of 7433. That was also a personal best and it earned him a plane ticket to India.

"To be honest my first reaction was fear about going," he added, "but now I'm really looking forward to it.

"Chris Bowman, my coach, will be there, and it certainly makes all of his hard work and that of my physio Mark Heffernan worth while.

"I can't promise anything except to say I would hope to finish as high as possible."

The Games take place from the first week in October and Martin, whose own coaching exploits are well known since he guides the likes of Frances Lammas, Tom Howlett and Francesca Baylis, will be the first member of M&M (or Medway AC) in the competition since 1998 when Kirsty Morrison, then also 22, won a javelin bronze in Kuala Lumpur.

Guernsey, Aug 21

100m: 1 Andre Wright 11.48, 4 Gary Carr 11.77; 200: 2 Wright 23.05, 5 Carr 24.15; 400: 5 Alex Wharfe 57.68, 4 James Davies 53.53; 800: 4 Andrejs Safars 1:58.45, 2 Ben Tyler 1:57.08; 1500: 5 Safars 4:09.59, 4 James Hogg 4:10.91; 3000: 5 Tyler 9:05.47, 3 Tom Collins 9:15.99; 3000SC: 3 Collins 9:41.28; 400H: 5 Mark Cryer 59.18, 4 Davies 65.87; HJ: 4 Dan Alexander 1.80, 4 Cryer 1.55; PV: 5 Martin Brockman 3.00, 5 Wharfe 2.60; LJ: 2 Josh Brown 6.71, 2 Darren March 6.36; TJ: 1 March 14.25, 1 Brown 13.66; SP: 3 Brockman 44.75, 5 Wharfe 8.79; DT: 3 Brockman 38.94, 4 Alexander 24.23; HT: 6 Brockman 17.57, 6 Steve Hesketh 16.91; JT: 3 Brockman 44.75, 4 Wharfe 33.51; 4x100: 4th 47.31 (Davies, Wright, Alexander, Carr); 4x400: 6th 3:38.05 (Cryer, Wharfe, Hogg, Safars).

Match: 1 Channel Islands 251.5; 2 City of Glasgow 226; 3 Mansfield 213; 4 Bedford & County 192.5; 5 Victoria Park & Tower Hamlets 183; 6 M&M 178.

Final positions: 1 City of Glasgow 22; 2 Channel Islands 20; 3 Mansfield 14; 4 Victoria Park & Tower Hamlets 12; 5 Bedford & County 10; 6 M&M 6

Bedford, Aug 21/22

U17 boys 800: 7 (ht) Adam Gilbert 2:01.15.

U15 boys 400: 5 (ht) Ole Erogbogbo 55.24. 3000: 12 James West 9:48.53. LJ: 8 Ola Erogbogbo 5.27. TJ: 6 Ola Erogbogbo 11.75. JT: 9 (qp) Oliver Woodham 43.04.

U17 girls 300: 4 (ht) Annie Waghorn 43.92

Eltham, Aug 18

Men's 1500: 4 Ben Tyler 3:59.1, 9 Tom Collins 4:02.6