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Sport 4 20 OBSERVER SUNDAY 19 JUNE 1988 ADRIAN MURREU. SCYLO BERRY at Lord's and twice drove past mid-off. England's new captain might consider that the best place to catch Richards out is on the extra cover boundary. Emburey was able to maintain some order in the morning, if not when Richards and Logie and Dujon took their fill. Dilley was SPECTATORS at Lord's last evening did not throw their cushions on to the ground as they had done on Friday.

Yet they had every reason to feel exasperation at the increasingly irritating inability of English cricket to make use of its resources. Fallible catching, naive strategy and dull selection have been England's weaknesses in the second Corn-bill Test. It hardly matters that their team persevered through a long day in the field to limit the West Indian lead to 398 with five wickets remaining. The best opportunity England have had since 'blackwash-ing' began had long since been squandered. If a single thing has become apparent during the last two and a bit series between England and West Indies, it is that five English batsmen followed by assorted cannon fodder are not sufficient to withstand four West Indian fast bowlers.

Often 10 batsmen aren't enough, but you can select six, and four bowlers, as well as your best wicket-keeper. West Indies had Gus Logie at No.6 and Jeff Dujon at seven to score 130 together in the first innings and add an unbeaten, even time 114 in a second innings partnership which irrevocably closed the door. Viv Richards does not think that five batsmen are adequate. It must be asked whether anybody in authority was watching the first Test. England saved it because Graham Gooch.

in 1 'rcWrft? jgeBxSffKBXKKS 'v lY-v them unless the weather intervenes. A four-hour century by Gordon Greenidge was the first stage of the process. It was a worthy hundred, deserving all the adjectives of commendation. However, as he has been all bis West Indian career, the opening batsman found himself pushed into the wings by Viv Richards, who simply did not have it in him to fail on a sunny Saturday afternoon in front of a full house. Richards hit 72 runs off 81 balls in conditions which at last became favourable for batting.

As at Trent Bridge, he bit a six off John Emburey and 12 fours in all, but it was not the occasion it had been in the first Test where bis cricket and indeed his character had changed the course of the match. Yesterday Richards had only to consolidate on his team's first innings lead of 44. In only his second over at the wicket he took a step and a shine to Emburey and, though not quite there, flicked him into the Tavern. The West Indian captain can burn as brightly as ever, though not for so long. He struck four boundaries off as many balls from Gladstone Small, who suffered a recurrence of his thigh strain.

Richards clipped and pulled, WEST INDIES FM laaJag 209 (ft tagto 81, Outoa S3; 0 May 5-59. 6 Smtll 4-64) SECOND MNMOS (Overnight 16-0) Oreenldge Emburey OMey.lol DCHoyiteec Downton bONley Richardson Prlngl I A RKJurdJb Prlngla 72 Mooper Dowiton Jsnrlo .........11 A Logie not out Dujon not .45 Total im Fail of artckats: 1-32. 2-115, 3-1 5440. Bowline: MUey 22-8-57-2, Sawn 1M-IM, Jarvta 20442.1, Imburar 15-1-424, Prlnole 21-4-40-2. ENBUUiD FM Innings 165 (M 0 Msrshal 8-32).

In the driving seat: Greenidge, the century-maker, makes England suffer with a four off Small as Downton looks on. Captain's choice bias with positions two, three and seven occupied by Williams, Fraser and Cowans respectively. (Cowans was Football referees are to seek genuine' life bans for players and club officials to combat the ever-increasing number of assaults on match referees and linesmen. Delegates to the Referees' Association conference at Coventry heard of one incident last season investigated by the Essex FA when a car was driven across 'the pitch at a referee by a player who had been sent off. John Hill, a 53-year-old signwriter from Gloucester, defeated seven other con-' -tenders, including world champion Bill Seebold, to win the first semi-final and qualify for today's Mitsubishi British power-boating Grand Prix in Bristol.

Oxfordshire's Steve Kerton, 35, produced the day's fastest time in the second semifinal to earn pole position, with America's Chns Bush second' and another Briton. out of sight die off-stump will almost Mark Wilson, third. hal Pakistan and India; famteml unfit for this match because of sunstroke he should be so lucky.) Fraser was the pick of the crop yesterday with four for 58, although the heir-apparent to the Middlesex spin tradition, Philip Tufnell, twirled his left arm through almost 39 overs for two wickets. The wind eventually swept the clouds away and the Northants followers were duly cheered by the sun and spirited batting in equal quantity. Allan Lamb's understudy, Neil Stanley, struck nine boundaries in a championship-best innings of 62 and tail-enders Winston Davis and David Ripley rode their luck in a bellicose partnership of 62 for the ninth wicket.

Apart from the siting of the hospitality marquee, right in front of the scoreboard, it was a grumble-free, thoroughly pleasant and entertaining day's cricket. now seemed ready to take on the umpire as well. Certainly the finger had to be raised several times before he accepted that a low slip catch had not been taken on the bounce. Birch merely made playing Connor and Andrew look difficult while the rest made it -seem quite impossible until Cooper and Millns contrived a productive partnership. That last-wicket stand called into question the quality of the earner batting and Hampshire's openers soon demonstrated that there was little venom in the pitch.

Despite lively opening spells from Stephenson and Cooper, Terry and Chris Smith went serenely past the 50. The wily Hemmings, undaunted by being driven for a straight six by Smith, then teased Terry into giving a simple catch and Nicholas into playing no stroke to a straight ball. That left Robin and Chris Smith to continue playing Hampshire into a commanding position. oucieu w. nost tne iwi" cricket World Curt with a to reports trom New ueuu.

A tbird-minute coal bv Ian Jennings from Paul Bar.r ber's penalty corner gave England victory over France in Lille yesterday in a hockey match in which few reputations were made apart I fflW I again admirable, and had Haynes caught behind off the ideal outswinger, although he did not have the nip-backer' which enabled Marshall to move both ways. England took to six the number of catches they have dropped when Richardson was missed by Lamb from a middled cut and dropped by Downton off Emburey. fif England require two spinners at Old Trafford, which may be the one shot left in their locker, Down ton's position may be no safer than his standing up. Greenidge demonstrated to Richardson that planting the front foot down the pitch and playing round, it is not the method best suited to English wickets. Greenidge judged nicely which ball to leave and when he played it he would occasionally open his shoulders for a ferocious drive that kept his own score mounting at two runs an over.

Greenidge reached his 15th Test hundred when he drove to mid-off and Pringle missed tne ball with his boot. It was his sixth Test century in England, against none in Australia which sug gests he likes our lack of bounce. The entertainment did not diminish once Greenidge had gone, and Richards had erupted. In the light of evening Logie and Dujon offered strokes which were sometimes gorgeous. They maintained the tradition of Caribbean batting that is not brute force as exemplified by Headley, Worrell and Butcher.

England let the cat out of the bag when they failed to take a first innings lead here. As Dujon forced away off the back foot or Logie skipped down the pitch to drive, confidence visibly returned to the West Indian body that had so recently been ailing. certainly come close to win ning tne We' now have hour upon hour of this kind of attack, to the point of boredom. A spinner is rarely seen and one of the glories of the game, its variety, has all but disappeared. The authorities must take a thorough look at the way the game is played, before it dies of tedium.

Turning to England, the wisest decision the new captain John Emburey made was to wear a helmet while facing Malcolm Marshall. Marshall reminds me of Keith Miller, as fast bowlers they share an ability to deliver a ball that the batsman simply doesn't see, rather like the punch the boxer fears most. Miller hit me twice with deliveries I lost and I have never forgotten the experience. Looking at England's overall performance I can foresee changes very shortly. Lamb isn't quite the player he was, and one or two others must be in danger of being dropped.

New batsmen are needed but the selectors have my sympathy, for the dozen or so candidates are all of a similar capability. There are no obvious choices. LencseMre Gloucester AtOMTraflord Lancashire won loee LANCASHIRE: First Innings Mendie Romanies Alleyne ..161 Fowler Athey Balnbrldge 17 Speak Wright Lloyds 36 Fairbrother Lawrence 64 Watkinson Ibw Lawrence 0 0 Hughes Alleyne Graveney 22 ANHayhuratnotout .....21 1 0 Austin not out .9 Extras (b 4, lb 10, 1. nb 5) .0 Total wkta dee). 329 Fall ol wickets: 1-84.

2-148, 3-236, Bowling: Lawrence 16-6-50-2, Greene 1S-349-0, 13-2-49-1, Graveney Alleyne 13-0-44-1, Lloyds 19-446-1. onus points: Lancashire 4 Glee 2. Score at 10S overs: 307- GLOUCESTERSHIRE: ftst Innings A Stovold not out 11 A Wright not out a Total (0 wkt; 5 ,1 Hampshire Notts At Southampton Notts won toes NOTTINGHAMSHIRE: First tantoge Newell Terry Connor 24 Pollard Parka Andrew 8 Johnson Maru Ayllng .49 Stephenson Nicholas Connor 10 Randall Parks Andrew .8 Birch Connor 36 Evans Maru Andrew 6 CW Scott Connor 5 Homminga Cowley Connor ....13 Cooper Ibw Cowley 21 Millns not out 7 Extras (lb 7, 1, nb 4) ....12 Total (72.1 .197 Fall of wickets: 1-10. 2-88, 388, 4-101, 5-111, 6-125, 7-147. 8-167, 9-178.

Bowling: Andrew 18-2-54-3, Connor 22-6-70-5, Ayllng 1939-1. Maru 12-3-Z7-0, Cowley 1.1-1-0-1. Bonus Points: Notts 1 Hants 4 HAMPSHIRE: First Innings Terry Newell Hammings 23 Smith not out .69 Nicholas Ibw Hammings 2 A Smith not out 4 Extras (b 4. lb 6, nb 4) ....14 Total (2 wkta; 41 overs) 112 Fall of wickets: 1-64. 2-73.

TODAY'S MATCHES REFUGE ASSURANCE (2.0 -7-0 unlsss ststed): Knyeersley: Derbyshire Worcestershire: Beelngetoke: Hampshire Nottinghamshire; Old Trafiord: Lancashire Gloucestershire; Leicester: Leicestershire Sussex; Luton: Northamptonshire Middlesex; Bath: Somerset 6.30): Edobaeton: Warwickshire Kent; 8M-Yorkshire Eases. both innings, batted out of bis skin. To escape defeat here, regain some poise and live to fight another day at Old Trafford and Headingley, England had to strengthen their frail batting; instead of which, they further weakened it by merely replacing Gat-ting with Moxon. So, having blown their chance, England yesterday could do nothing except dot the 'i-s' in missed opportunity and wait for tomorrow or Tuesday when they can cross the 'f in the defeat which awaits A LORD'S Test match against West Indies for me always evokes memories of 1950, the time of Ramadhin and Valentine, those two little pals of mine. Since then this magnificent ground and the game have changed considerably, but at least they are still recognisable.

Thirty-eight years ago, the majority of overs in the Lord's Test wen bowled by the spinners, for England by Jenkins, Wardle and Berry. Both teams played only one specialist seam bowler, Bed-ser and Prior Jones. West Indies won by 326 runs and 8 calypso was composed. A dozen theories can be advanced for such dramatic changes in the playing of a Test match the condition of the pitch, the ball, the laws but for West Indies there is a much simpler explanation: they have always favoured fast bowlers. In 1939 they brought over Constantine, Martindale and Hylton, but a decade later they had fallen, for them, npon an extraordinarily lean period.

It was coincidence, and good fortune for them, that in the gap between Con- Northants Middlesex AlUHon Nortfiantswontoae NORTHAMPTONSHIRE; that tntHooa Cooke Getting Williams .3 LaiMna Roaeberry GattJng .38 Ballsy Ibw Fraser .19 Capal Brown Hughes .02 Williams Brown Williams 14 Wild Oattlng Frasar 1 A Stanley Tufnell Fratar 62 Ripley Slack Tufnell .49 NOB Cook Butcher Frasar 6 Davis Carr Tutnall .40 A Walker not out 1 Extras (b 1, nb 6) Total Fall ol wickets: 1-4, 2-41. 3-111. 4- 160. 5-161. 6-189, 7-283, 8474, 9-336.

Bonus points: NorttuHite 4 MM 3 BowHng: Williams 204-77-2: Frasar 2-6-58-4; Hughes 18-1-79-1: Gatting 103-42-1; Tufnell 32.6-10-76-2. MIDDLESEX: First kwkiga WN Slack not out 33 Carr not out .16 Total (no wkt. 10 oven) -38 Derbyshire Worcester AIDerby Worceolerenlro won leas WORCESTERSHIRE: First Innings Curtis Sharma Mortensan .0 Lord Mahar Newman A Hick Goldsmith Roberts .47 d'Ollvelra Goldsmith A Neale Ibw Nswmsn 126 Weston Maher Newman 20 Rhodes not out 97 Extras (b 1, lb 12. 2) ....16 Total (wkta) .332 Fall ol wickets: 1-1. 2-61.

3-61. 4-86. 5- 126.6-332. Seen at 100 ewe: 3S2-S Bonus Points: Wares 3 Derby 2. Spinning MICK CLEARY at Luton maximum batting points in a total of 338 all out and Middlesex pegging away for their three points' worth.

On a' grey, trouser-billow-ing morning, the spectators were warmed by a muscular knock of 92, which included 12 boundaries, from the former England all-rounder David Capel. It may have come 10 days too late to impress Mike Gatting, but he is not without influence in the Emburey ear. Gatting, a man more Sunned against than sinning in recent tunes, was without blemish yesterday, holding two sharp chances and even getting his arm over for .10 overs of gentle seam, picking up his second championship wicket of the season in the process. He gave a terse 'no comment' on the farrago over his book. No doubt the full answer will be serialised somewhere.

The rational bowling averages have a heavy Middlesex -n'of TONYPAWSON at Southampton he was insistently accurate, tall enough to get some bounce, and had the ability to move the ball. His first spell of 10 overs cost a mere 13 runs and the frequency with which he beat the bat deserved one wicket at least. In contrast to the somnolent batting it was all action in the press box as part of the ceiling fell in on Perhaps this was due to vibrations caused by the explosive comments of a colleague as he battled with a malfunctioning portable which is meant to record as he types as it transmits. As we recovered from our head and earbashing, play also livened up on the field. Terry and Nicholas atoned for their earlier errors with excellent catches to remove the obdurate Newell and the powerful Barbadian, Stephenson.

Johnson had made the few belligerent strokes of the morning and THE official handbook of women's tennis lists Martina Navratilova as the owner of homes in Texas and Colorado. Perhaps someone on the Eastbourne Corporation should consider ceding her a piece of Devonshire Park for another residence after she crushed Natalia Zvereva 6-2, 6-2 yesterday to win the tournament for the seventh time. It was Navratilova's ninth appearance in the final here. On the other eight occasions she has marched straight up to London and won wimble-don. Omens, anyone? Told that the odds for the women's singles were 4-6 Steffi Graf and 13-8 against her, Navratilova suggested: 'I would put money on me right now.

I am a heck of a good bet. Not as good as 1978 (when she won there for the first time) when I was 16-1, but a good In deference to the Texas segment of her life, Navratilova was sporting a grey stetson with JR trimmings and a blue turquoise stone when she made these remarks. Earlier it had been strictly battle-gear headband, rimless glasses and a determined expression as she overpowered Zvereva without ever managing to mtimidate her. MICHAEL CAREY at Derby day's NatWest Trophy game against Sussex, Derbyshire rested Holding and Warner: but. they are very concerned about Malcolm, now widely regarded as the English-qualified bowler in the country, who has a suspected stress fracture of his right sun.

Those that remained rattled through their overs at an impressive 20 an hour, but after a tight start which yielded only two runs in 10 overs they found there was no margin of error on this pitch and tended to bowl at least one bad ball an over. It looked like being a ridic ulously umair contest when Hick, the one man with the power and class to take bowl ers apart in these conditions, made an effortless. 47 with eight thunderous fours but, trying for too much too soon, ne was caught at square leg. kept Westongonento much use of the inside edge, began to punch and dip 'the ball away off the middle of the bat and with Rhodes's jaunty support left his side in a position from which they can already contemplate another championship win. rietcner, wno took a career-best six for 42 as Essex reached 135 for seven.

Batsmen had a happier time at Old Trafford, where opener Gehan Mendis scored 1S1, his first championship hundred of the season, as Lancashire made sure of maximum batting points against Gloucestershire. Kent's Chris Tavare also made a hundred, a dogged four-and-a-half-hour effort against Warwickshire that saw Kent to 327 after half the side had been dismissed for 136. Maybe not, but a few people would be prepared to eat her stetson, turquoise stone and all, if it doesn't work out that way. Christo van Rensburg, the amateur magician who conjured defeats of Wimbledon seeds John McEnroe and Andrei Chesnokov at Hoy-lake, ran out of tricks in the final of the 115,000 Wirral tournament, losing in straight sets 7-6, 6-4, to American David Pate. West German Christian Saceanu beat India's number one Rainesh Krishnan 6-4, 2-6, 6-2, in the final of the Bristol Trophy.

Wimbledon tomorrow Centra Court (2pm): Cash (Aust)vT Woodbrldge (Aust): Forget (Fr) Edberg (Swe): Frawley (Aust) Becker (WGer). Court 1 (2pm): I Lendl (Czech) Felgste (GB); McEnroe (US) Skoff (Austria): Connors (US) Shirss(US). Court 2 (12.30pm): Mayotte (US) Anger (US): Svantesson (Swe) Leconte (Fra); Garrison (US) Whits (US): A Olkhovsky (USSR) Smld (Czech). Court 3: Holmes (US) A Fulwood (GB): A SimpkJn (GB) MsJseva (Bui): Nijssen (Nsth) A Jarryd (Swe); Berger (US) Luna (Sp). Court 4: Potter (US) Lap! (It): Navratil (Czech) 8 BotfleM (GB); Davis (US) Dyke (Aust); Lake (GB) Adams (US).

Court 8: Ivanisevic (Yugo) A ana-do rf (Israel); J. Stoltenberg (Aust)v Ooumbla (Mall): Petchey (GB) Moralng (W Ger). Wimbledon p18. previews, 31 jPSP I j3igKjjwg0 TAKE a grindingly slow pitch, sprinkle it lightly with medium-raced bowling just short of a length and you have the recipe for the kind of cricket that reduces even championship aspirants to working class batting, having to graft for runs like beggars waiting for handouts on street corners. That was Worcestershire's lot at Derby yesterday.

Inevitably, there were errors from a side used to operating on quicker pitches at home but once it dawned on them that the formula involved 90 percent perspiration and 10 percent inspiration the championship leaders worked out how to do it and ended formidably placed at 332 for six. For Neale, their captain, found the soothing nature of. the pitch ideal for groping his way back to form. His 125 was his highest score of a hitherto lean season and helped by Stephen Rhodes, unbeaten on a career best, he was able to take a toll of increasingly wprltf wary.bowling in a 'partnership of one sjage Worcestershireji shue were never able to maintain the pressure with a below-streugth attack which was further weakened when Morten-sen hobbled off with a torn calf muscle after' removing Curtis with a good ball in his third over. With ah eye on Wednes- AS England's quicks tilted quixotically at West Indian, wmdmills at Lord's, two familiar names produced hatful of championship wick-' ets to re-state their claims ta a place.

At Grace Road, a paradise for fast bowlers this season, Leicestershire's Phillip DeFreitas grabbed five for 38 as Sussex slumped to, 159 all out. Essex's Jleil Foster, recovering from a knee injury, did even better, tak ing six tor 55 as Yorkshire failed to show the necessary steel on a bouncy Sheffield pitcn ana collapsed to 133. But the team propping up the countv table found a hero in 24-year-old Stuart at Eastbourne glance towards her coach and coterie after breaking Zvereva to love in the opening game of the second set. The Soviet was prepared for a hammering on Navratilova's favourite surface, but doesn't think it's always going to be like that. Martina, who missed three match points when leading 5-1 40-love, admitted: 'I took it for granted that I was going to win and didn't concentrate'.

But in the next game, on her own serve, the end came with a service winner and a smash, underUning the strengths which had brought her the title yet again. 'I guess I will be avenging that Paris defeat for the rest of my life against the she smiled. 'I got two of them this Zvereva, who has met Wimbledon's top two in successive finals and should therefore know of what she speaks, fancies Navratilova to win there. But Navratilova is not so sure. 'I don't think it is as lopsided as everybody makes it out to she cautioned.

'There is no guarantee that we will both be in the 3)3 LUTON lifted its restrictions on away supporters yesterday, which meant that the Middlesex and Northamptonshire sides could both see some friendly feces among an appreciable crowd at Wardown Park. Perish the day when cricket will ever have to resort to football's siege-like sanctions, particularly at this charming and civilised oasis of green in a concrete hinterland. Northamptonshire have supported this cultural mission across the county border for the last three years and have been rewarded on each visit by a peach of a pitch. This strip was no exception; some pace for the batsmen, some lift for the bowlers and a tweak or two in it for the spinners. It is lovingly tended by a NatWest Bank official who takes a fortnight's leave to prepare for.

the occasion. Overdrafts or over rates, neither of them easy to influence. As befitted the honorable pitch, honours were more or less shared: Northants with HOME supporters may well have preferred Marshall and Greenidge to be exercising their remarkable talents at Southamriton rather than shredding England at Lord's, but Hampshire is well enough without them. Their medium pace attack was suf ficiently penetrative to rush Nottinghamshire out for 197 on a pitch made to look more treacherous than it was by all except Johnson and Birch. Andrews's rapid dismissal of Pollard deprived Notts of the good start to which they have been accustomed when Broad and Robinson are available.

The subsequent repair work by Newell and Johnson was worthy but tediously slow. They only survived for a 50 partnership by courtesy of the fielders as the usually reliable Parks dropped a simple chance from Johnson and Newell was missed in successive overs by Nicholas and Terry. Ayling has an ugly action, employing more arms than 1 WawrtcksWra Kent At EdfljoMilOT WsfwtctrsMre won teas KENT: First Innlnss Benson Smith Zl Teylor Ibw Donald .6 SHInksb Smith .27 Tavare Humpage Parsons. ...103 Plenssr Humpage Donald 19 Cowdray Donald Smith .4 Cowdrey Glrford 78 A Marsh Humpage Parsons 4 Ellison Reeve Parsons 5 Pann Donald Gilford .2 Davla not out 2 Extras (b 6, lb 16, 9 nb 9) Total am Tall of wickets: t-9, 2-83, 348, 4-121, 5-136, 6-305. 7-309.

8-323, 9-323. Bowling: Oonald 20-3-45-2, Munton Reeve 1S-4-90-O. Smith 22-2-58-3. Parsons 28-8-71-3, Qlfford 5.5-3-8-2. Bonus potnte: Kant 4 Warwick 2 J81isHfeAiife TENNIS.

Pflklngton Women's Tournament (Eastbourne): Doubles flnal.E.Pfsff (WQ) and E.Smylie (Aus) bt B.Cordwell (NZ) and D.Van rensburg (SA) 6-3, 7-8. Bristol Trophy: (Redland Green): Men's singles final. C. Saceanu (WG) bt R. Krlshnan (Ind) 6-4, 2-6, 6-2.

Wirral International: o. Pate (US) bt Van Rensburg (US) 7-6, 8-4. GOLF: British Women's Open Amateur Golf Championship Royal Cinque Ports, Deal), Semi- flnala: Furby (Mssham) bt Wadsworth (Royal Cinque Ports) 3 and Wade (Fellxstow Ferry) bt Hourlhane (Woodbrook) at 20th.Flnal: J. Furby bt J.Wads 4 and 3. EOueSTOIANISM: Royal Birmingham): Midland Bank Power and Speed Event 1.

Wendy (Con Power-Ireland) 30.24 Seeker Melcom Pyrah-GB) 30-48; S.Weet Springbok (Paul Sutton -GB) 30.71. Peerl Assurance International: Gt Britain USSR France (Portsmouth). Men's and Women's Championship Cheltenham). Royal International Horse Show Birmingham). Tennenta UK Open (Blackpool).

British Championships Cardiff). DIVIDEND FORECAST Claim by tslsphone lor 24 paints on treble chance pools. The dividend lore-cast Is lalrly good with 10 score draws and three no score score draws. Note that match 64 ii a voW. It was played Friday.

(MSSOS) Mb trom bean Rowlands winning his first English cap -in goal. The teams meet again today. Christo van Rensburg, the amateur magician who conjured defeats of Wimbledon seeds John McEnroe and Andrei Chesnokov at Hoy-lake, ran out of tricks in the final of the 115,000 Wirral tournament, losing in straight sets 7-6, 6-4, to American David Pate. West German Christian Saceanu beat India's number one Kamesh Krishnan 6-4, 2-6, 6-2, in the final of the Bristol Trophy. Although England Presi dent's men's lacrosse team lost 8-11 to the touring US Eagles at Stockport, it was an encouraging curtain-raiser to today's full international at Hyde, Cheshire.

Mark Senior, of Urmston. scored three goals in the last quarter. England's Stefan Mazrocis made sure of his place in the semi-finals of the first European amateur snooker championship when he beat world junior runner-up Jason Peplow, of Malta, in Schev- eningen, Holland. Pauline' Ravner, of Thames, and Za Za Home, of the national squad, have reached the final of the first Henley Women's Regatta. The Vatican newspaper LOsservatore Romano has condemned soccer violence at the European Championships, saying it was a symptom of a social and moral illness.

It wasn't onlv the England team who got it wrong in the European championships. The Football Association's official tournament brochure lists 'Hater- sley' among the playing squad. The inclusion of a new left-winger may be appropriate in view of the Labour deputy leader's remarks on the thugs of Thatcherism. Not content with putting it across England in West Germany, the Dutch now want to show us how to play cricket. MCC meet the Netherlands at Lords on Fri day.

Alan Hubbard 81 Si 8 stantine and Wes Hall they should have discovered their two greatest spin bowlers. Pitches have changed in that the bowler now seems to have the advantage, although there is not a great deal wrong with the present Lord's pitch: the ball always moves oa the first morning. One reason for the advance of fast-medium bowling was the change in the Ibw law that penalised padding up to a ball pitched outside the off-stump. Batsmen now have to play the ball six to eight inches outside the off-stump, and so effective has this method of attacking become that a county with four six-footers who can bowl fast-medium line and length just outside YorktMra Essex At Sheffield Yorkshire won lose YORKSHIRE: First Innings A A Metcalfe Hardle Foster .6 Byas Brown Lever. 4 Blakay Hardle Foster .4 Sharp Tool ey .22 Robinson Miller Foster .8 Balrstow Brown Lever .7 Carrlck Brown Lever 1 I Swallow Brown Foster .37 A Sklabottom Ibw Foster 3A Shaw not out ,6 Fletcher Chiids Foster .0 Extras (b 2, lb 5, nb 7) 14 Total (54.1 overe) .133 Fall of wicketa: 1-12 2-12 3-27 4-39 5-54 864 7-67 8-108 9-129 10-133 Bonus points: Essex 4 Vorka 0 Bowling: Foster 22.1-7-634; Lever 17-4-30-3; Topfey 13-1-39-1; Cnilos 2-1-4-0 ESSEX: First ktnlrtgs Hardle Balrstow Fletcher .3 Stephenson 12 Prlchard Metcalfe ......54 A Border Ibw Shaw 39 A Lillay Balrstow Fletcher 13 Miller Ibw Fletcher Lever not out A Foster Balrstow Fletcher 1 Topley not out 2 Extras (b 4.

nb 4. 1) 9 Total (7 wets: 62 oversl .131 Fall ol wickets: 1-7. 2-26. 3-100. 4-135 5-130.

6-131, 7-133. 3 Essex 4 Leicestershire Sussex At Leicester Leicestershire won test SUSSEX: Biet mnmge A Green Lewis Aunew Alikhan Agnew Parker herns 4 A Wells not out .8 mran Khanc Wh ttteasa ss Wells DeFreltss 4 Lenham hit wkt OoFrattas 8 Mooree Ibw OeFreltaa 2 ACS Pioott Ferria 11 JSKImberc Whlttlcaae OeFreitasB uiarke 0 IMFreitas 14 Extras lb 4. lb 10. nb 16) Total (64.3 overe) in rail OIWIGKeiS 1-17 Z-ZB 3-29 4-73 5-85 644 7-122 8-144 9-144 Bonus points: Sussex 1 Lefcs 4. Bowling: Agnew 15-3-50-3; Ferris 14-2-41-2; DeFreltss 13.3-1-38-5: Lewis 12-7-18-0.

LEICESTERSHIRE: First Innings A Cobb Ibw Imrsn 1 Briers Psrker Plgon 12 Willey not out Whitsker Plgon 0 roner tow fjgott 1 Hepworth not out 31 Extras (lb 2. nb 2, 1) 5 Total (4 wkta: 61 even) Fall of wickets: 1-4. 2-22, 3-22. 447. RONALD ATKIN The last time they met was in Paris three weeks ago, when the Russian terminated Martina's confident expectations about annexing another French Open.

That setback led to much brooding and planning with her coach, Tim Gufiikson. On Friday, when she knew who her final opponent was, Navratilova, warned: 'This time she's on my territory. Meaning grass. And though Zvereva was not quite, able to make the match last 'an hour, she battled bravely. But she had no answer to Navratilova's power on serve and experience at angling away the volleys to the parts of court that not even Hei-nekens could reach.Natalia held serve only three times in eight attempts.

She held on gallantly for three games. Then the Navratilova juggernaut slipped into top gear and trundled inexorably towards the first prize of 28,500. She bludgeoned five aces, greeting the most important of them with a clenched raised fist, and never needed to cast another anxious SSHr ESSeXX match score? OMCktoUtttMeAitaiowa.