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OBSERVER SUNDAY 3 JULY 1 988 19 mmmmm ODgjlSlllBdl'S WOMirDdl Iff. ufflffufifSti Jl ADRIAN MURRELL 'Jt Jljl? i til .1 4 SCYLD BERRY at Old Trafford country since Headingley in 1972. Dujon, classy and deft-footed batsman that he is, occasionally tried a forcing stroke. Harper winkled out two runs before lunch. Then, just as the drip, drip cumulative of spin might have produced the impatient stroke, England took the second new ball.

Emburey, after his five opening overs, did not bowl again until the 50th of the innings when the slight, yet distinct, opportunity was gone. This has to be put down to a lack of confidence rather than of thought. Viv Richards, the West ONE OF the greatest innings of post-war years will have to be played by one England batsman or another over the next two days in the third Test. Nothing less can save the faces of England's selectors and players. West Indies are 222 runs ahead, after adding 115 runs for the loss of Dujon's wicket during yesterday's 51 overs.

A hailstorm removed most of the afternoon's play and left Old Trafford covered in pools, but England by then were already in a mire of their own making. It can now be seen that the turninc point of this rs r-r tain's disposal in the possible event of one of them breaking down. It is a point, but one outweighed by another consideration: the almost certain event that England's batting will break down. We have therefore seen the place which should have been given to a dearly wanted batsman go to a bowler who has scarcely been required. At Trent Bridge, Emburey was hardly used, at Lord's in the Capel has been given 12 out of 1 51 overs.

If there has been bumbling incompetence equipping England for their task, the organisation of their forces in the field has been little better. It was hopelessly naive of England to bowl West Indies out on the Monday morning of the Lord's Test: thereby they simply brought the defeat closer. Even here, after England's JLVWU tAMr UUMUM semblance of a chance, iust the whiff of possibilities. On Fri day morning, when West Indies resumed, even 135 was a way to go had Emburey bowled himself and John Childs together then, not a whole day later. There is no knowing what might have been retrieved: a climate of uncertainty could have been created in which anything might have happened.

Yesterday, Emburey and Childs began by bowling 22 overs for 35 runs throughout the morning in fact since a passing shower lopped 55 minutes from the session. The penny had dropped After a mere eA nours tsngianas cricketers had worked out that this pitch was offering more help to spin than any in this Dujon: DeFreitas ducks, swoops and misses the West Indian series occurred in the Lord's Test, when England failed to take a first innings lead over West Indies. At that point, the Caribbean confidence was reborn; our visitors got their noses in front there, and they are naturally front-runners not chasers. The demoralisation which England felt, when their chance to take the upper hand was frittered away, has to be the chief explanation for their batting debacle here. The West Indian fast bowlers were thoughtful and straight, their catches infallible, but a large measure of English defeatism was involved in a total of 135.

For that failure at Lord's, England's selectors have to be held to account. A draw could not have been guaranteed, of course, if they had packed the side with batting, but it would have been more likely; and if England had come level to Old Traftbrd, they would surely not have disintegrated in the least excusable of all their collapses against West Indies in the post Packer era. Some now say that English cricket in its present SCYLD BERRY profiles one of England's most exciting batting prospects for the 1990s. top scorer. The old reasons for it no longer apply.

Academically, bright young cricketers are now more likely to go to Durham. It was a fair guideline when five Durham players were selected for the Combined Universities team which performed so encouragingly in the Benson and Hedges Cup, against four from Cambridge, and one each from Oxford and Exeter. A lecturer from Durham, Dr Grenville Holland, goes to the major schools cricket festivals and makes helpful suggestions on how to apply for Durham 'don't try biology, there are more places going in The master of Atherton's college was the only person of influence keen to attract cricketers to Oxbridge, and he has just retired. Even a player with first-class experience and three 'A' levels at grade A has found himself rejected by Oxford, to be picked up by Durham. The'ultimate' goal has to be a first-class side taken from all -ft ff.f.vl condition will never cope with the West Indies.

The resources, however, are available to put up a fight: the problem is that they have to be utilised. There are opening batsmen in this country good enough not to be bowled through the gate by a straight ball angled in by Malcolm Marshall, but the selectors here did not choose one of them to be Gooch's partner. It may seem hard to pick on Moxon for one technical lapse. Yet, for one thine, the front leg leaning backwards has always been a feature of his defensive play and, for a second, the start against West Indies is critical. Once on the slide against them, stopping is nigh impossible, particularly if the team in question contains five spe- cialist batsmen.

What is it that makes our selectors think that five batsmen are sufficient? Not history or precedent, for England have been dismissed for less than 200 in 13 of their last 25 innings against West Indies. A theory seems to be responsible the theory that you must have five bowlers at the cap- ENGLAND First Innings 135 (C A Walsh 4-46) WE8T INDIES First Innings (Overnight 242-5) Ouon Ctptl Dllloy 67 Harpar not out -61 Marmhill not out ..37 Extras (ib2o, nb3) 23 Tolal(6wlekt) 357 Fall ol wldMt (contd): 6-281. Bowling: Dllley 24-4-82-3, Emburey 2S-7-54-0, DeFralta 304-72-1, Capal 12-2-36-1. Child 40-12-91-1. Childs might easily 'emerge as the best left-arm spinner currently playing.

This would not have been the case at the end of the 1984 season. Then, he had just been released by Gloucestershire after 10 years of quiet, devoted service and was no doubt preparing for a full-time career as a sign writer. Essex, opportunists both on and off the field, signed him on. The sages said that he should have moved earlier since his career bad often been thwarted by the presence of David Graveney, Gloucestershire's left-arm spinning captain. Somerset were keen to have him at the beginning of if 3 Daffy times for Sad and sorry Sussex MICK CLEARY at Hastings ON CAME the Whites but on went the sackcloth and ashes, and Sussex shuffled in to lunch a sad and sorry sight, having been skittled for just 71 by the championship leaders, Kent.

Ravaged by injuries, shorn of confidence, the oldest county in cricket look set to continue one of the longest barren spells in sport 149 years without the premier honour, the; county championship into their 150th year. Not that they will have to suffer any indignities for much longer at this historic ground, houses steepling high above it and within.a SeagUU's shriek.of the sea: i i-. ranmri har-ir. nf a few days before. Off the front foot, against Wiltshire's slow left-armer on a turning pitch, he played a cover-drive when two yards down the wicket, a stroke which only Mike Gatting of current England batsmen could have played.

The lad has one more year to go at Cambridge, and he will doubtless continue to carry the team as colleagues say he can isolate himself while batting from their collapsing at the other end. And when he graduates as a student as a cricketer he is already doing advanced research he will surely take with him the last justification for Oxbridge's first-class status. Pros' pleasure as Childs plays the 1980s but he resisted any move through loyalty and perhaps a lack of ambition. We knew what he could do; his career best figures of 9-56 were achieved against Somerset in 1981 on a rea sonable batting surface at -least tnats how it appearea when I was bowlmgvwK If Gravenev was a West sled as the rest, the gap between his tie and top button wider than ever the one between his bat and pad. 'I'm not a particularly tidy he says, which makes it a relief he is not a C.B.

Fry figure. The meticulous application is limited to his cricket and, while at Downing College, his study of history. Wiltshire was covered with a blanket of cloud which did not provide any warmth. The wind which blew across1, the ground on the outskirts of Devizes had been born on Salisbury Plain. There weren't a dozen spectators, which at least gave the Cambridge players a taste of the atmosphere at Lord's this weekend.

The, pitch was anything'. Atertori. had seen for years, and every Atherton missed it for the first time when he had made 89, went on to a century, and again scored half his side's total. Frequent hard tapping of the crease is Atherton's one overt sign of aggressive determination, for he is by no means strongly built. He stands nearly upright at the wicket, like Hick, which may soon make the textbook stance unfashionable.

His anticipation, and consequently his footwork, are certain; as a young master should, he makes batting look simple. His colleagues were still talking about couple of his back-foot drives against (he West Indian Patrick Patterson spBritishbiiruyeraties, and whileiwi Coimtryman's Itevjiastjtegie the 'SJJimP tourings party; were and then Childs William zuUm isfWwithn-ther. counties, noti-to; Safflm TibS and buUt h6 the on other Cambridge and Wiltshire. Indian captain, has softened up contain all rirjht: England's captain all right: given the chance of his career to get his own back on Richards, Emburey did not fancy his arm. And if Emburey won't back himself on a 'raging turner', he cannot be worth a place at seaming Headingly, even if he should be the captain this winter.

Childs has been said by some to have bowled beauti-fiillv. The truth is that his ft stvle nf bowline is oeauuniuy suited to this wicket, but two balls an over have gone down the leg side -perhaps blown by a cross wind, strong at times -thus releasing steam from the pressure cooker. This might not have been the case if Underwood or Edmonds had delayed his retirement. Richards last night accused England of preparing the Old Trafford pitch so as to draw the teeth of his fast bowlers. He said that the pitch had been watered in the middle to reduce the speed of Marshall, while the ends were dry to help England's spinners.

'It was watered down to try and stop said Richards, who is not expected to make a formal complaint. 'But I hope people don't knock us if we prepare wickets in the West Indies to suit us in another contract and that during the winter he should go to Lord's for treatment in the surgery of Fred Titmus and Don Wilson. They prescribed a longer, straighter run-up and by the end of 1986 Essex had won the championships; again, Childs had taken 89 wickets at an average of 16 and was selected. Now this sunny, self-effacing Devonian finds himself pitted against the world's best at Old Traftbrd and already he has added something to the series. John is a gentle, old-fashioned cricketer who doesn't fit the identikit of a modern Test player; I am sure he has neither an agent nor a portable phone, nor a ghost-written autobiography in the pipeline.

I doubt whether he owns more than one bat. At the moment he seems an unlikely Test cricketer, wmcn ia way last inursday moraine everyone in the Somerset dressing-room was eager to know whether Childs was playing before anything else. On Friday we wondered whether he had bowled yet and when we heard, that he had taken his first Test wicket, there was general rejoicing. WOMEN'S SINGLES HOLDER: NAVRATILOVA (US) Final GRAF (W Ger) bt Navratllova (US) 5-7, 6-2, 6-1. MIXEO DOUBLES HOLDERS: BATES and DURIE (GB) Quarter Final STEWART and Miss Garrison (USA) bt CAHILL and Miss Provls (Aus) 7-6, 7-5.

Semi Final Jones and Mrs Magers (USA) bt LEACH and Miss A Fendick (USA) 7-6. 5-7, 6-4. MEN'S DOUBLES HOLDERS: FLACH AND SEGUSO (US). Final FLACh and SEGUSO (US) lead FITZGERALD (Aust) and A Jarryd (Swe) 6-4 2-6 5-4 unfinished. I WsHsHgklr' BOWLS.

EBA Open (Skegness). CYCLING. 24-Hour National Championship (Ely). GOLF. WPGA European Open (Klngswood).

TENNIS. Man Singles Final: Becker (WG) Edberg (Swe). VOLLEYBALL. Sandwell T'ment (West Bromwlch). OLYMPICS: South Korea's allotment of tickets for the Olympic finals of boxing, soccer, women's gymnastics and synchronised swimming duet sold out on the first day of sales, the organisers said yesterday.

Swede Anders Jarryd has been fined 270 for swearing at opponent Peter Doohan, of Australia, during the men's doubles semi-final at Wimbledon. TREBLE CHANCE Telephone claims are required tor 23 and 24 points. The dividend forecast is very good. Nine score draws and live no score draws on the coupon. pfe, torn ti ft that has remained impractica- ble, the powers-that-be at Oxbridge have been complacently content with their no longer deserved privilege.

They trust to the fact that the TCCB is entirely run by their old boys. They have not even thought to field a combined" and team in three-day games against the counties, playing alternately at Fenner's and the Parks. Like the creation of life peers, that would have been a sensible step towards gradual reform. Now the only alternative is sudden revolution. Play in the Universities match at Lord's was abandoned yesterday without a ball being bowled.

shire were 107-0 at stumps. OPENERS Andy Stovold, 42, and Tony Wright, 69, pounded Worcestershire at New Road as Gloucestershire made 188-2 in 63 overs on a rain-affected day. Paul Romaines was undefeated on 33 at the close. SHOWERS allowed Somerset and Essex just 18 overs at Taunton. Essex reached 43-1, losing John Stephenson in the eighth over.

Holding injury scare THERE IS one big drawback to Michael the 20-year-old Lancastrian and captain of Cambridge University, who is perhaps second only to Graeme Hick as England's hottest batting tip for the 1990's. The drawback is that Atherton resembles the best of peers in the' House of Lords. So excellent is he, he makes workable an institution which should otherwise have been reformed, and thus he delays natural progress. Some may even consider the first-class cricket status of Oxford and Cambridge Universities as even more anachronistic which, with a few exceptions," they are. Atherton was at it again last week when his team went on tour to prepare for the Varsity Match.

Until the early Sixties, when the end of national service made students, two years younger, tour entailed half-a-dozen first-class matches not too unequal, terms nights of high jinks and spirits in holiday towns like Eastbourne. Now, the build-up to Lord's consists of a couple of two-day games against minor counties. 'They're much more suitable says Graham Saville, the former Essex batsman and Cambridge coach in charge of making bricks with little straw. 'Their bowling is much more like So it was that last Monday morning found the Cambridge team stumbling bleary-eyed out of their oak-beamed hotel into the market square of Devizes, ready to play against Wiltshire. Atherton was as tou- A HAMSTRING strain meant Michael Holding had to pull out of Derbyshire's attack after bowling only two overs against Middlesex at Derby, but he immediately quashed any fears about his fitness for Saturday's Benson and Hedges Cup final against Hampshire at Lord's, saying the injury was 'just a twinge'.

Middlesex laboured to 92-3 before lunch, then rain washed out play. NICK PETERS, Surrey's All Irish THE scene was the Luton Town football stadium last weekend, moments after Barry McGuigan had beaten Tomas Da Cruz into submission. One face in the crowd caught the eye of the former world featherweight champion and, leaning over the ropes, he grasped the hand of Stephen Roche one world champion saluting another. It was a moment to warm the cockles of every Irish heart, but much as Roche enjoyed the occasion and rejoiced in McGuigan's triumph, he would have much preferred to have been about his own business, preparing himself to defend the yellow jersey he won so gloriously in the 1987 Tour de France. Alas, fate in the shape of a troublesome knee injury ordained that 1988 would bring Roche nothing but frustration and prevent him from even getting to the starting line.

So as the 75th edition of the world's greatest cycle race starts tomorrow in Britanny, the hero of last year's race will be up in his beloved Wicklow Mountains, pedalling the many, many miles he hopes will soon bring him back to racing fitness. The cheerful Dubliner, who has long since come to terms with missing out on the fruits of his sensational 1987 season, is delighted to report that his physical con- U1UI1 is uupiuvuig tajuiy. 'I am grand. I am getting the miles in and the weight bounce, was the Alaninder aingh equivalent, depending on flight and spin; on his day he was the more dangerous. For Childs, like Maninder and indeed all the best spinners, has the ability to make the ball dip at the end of its flight so that it is more difficult for the batsman to judge the length correctly.

However, as the wickets at Bristol changed colour, Childs was deemed to be surplus to requirements. The move to Essex seemed ill-fated. In 1985 he added just five first-class wickets to his tally and when summoned to the office at the end of the season, he was prepared for the humiliation of not being re-engaged by a county for the second year in succession. However, Keith Fletcher and Doug Insole, who are not easily misled by statistics, informed him that he had Worcester Gloucester At Worcester Gloucester won loss GLOUCESTERSHIRE First Inning A Stovold O'Shaugh'sy A Wright lllingworlh Newport ....69 Romaines not out 33 CWJAthey not out .,22 Extras (Ib16. nb6) Total (2 wkta, 63 ovara) 188 Fall ot wickets: 1-66.

2-141. Bonus point: Wore 0 Qloucs 1 Clou ol play Somerset Essex At Taunton Essex won loss ESSEX Flrat Inning Hardie not out 13 Stephenson Hardy Mallender ..9 Prichard not 11 Extras (Ib5, nb5) 10 Total (1 wM, 18.4 over) ....43 Fall ot wicket: 1-15. Closa of play TODAY'S MATCHES REFUGE ASSURANCE 7-0) Rapton School: Derbyshire Middlesex: Canterbury: Kent Nottinghamshire: Trlng: Northamptonshire Lancashire: Taunton: Somerset Essex: The Oval: Surrey Warwickshire: Hasting: Sussex Hampshire; Hereford: Worcestershire Gloucestershire: Hull: Yorkshire Leicestershire. OTHER MATCH Lord's: Oxford University Cambridge University. WITHOUT exception professional cricketers around the country including, I am sure, the unfortunate Nick Cook, have been wishing John Childs well during his Test debut just a month before his 37th birthday.

He.iias.no enemies on the county circuit and his selection must also give hope to batch of cricketers hitherto unnoticed' for' whom umpiring appeared the next career change. Maybe David Turner, Jack Simmons or Phil Carrick, county stalwarts all, will be tuning in to Radio 2 news next Sunday morning with just a glimmer of hope. Last Thursday evening when England had just 10 minutes to field, the cameras zoomed in on Childs. He looked a little bewildered, wearing a 'what the hell am I doing expression down at long leg. That's hardly surprising since he had intended to spend the week in the more tranquil surroundings of Canterbury and Taunton.

And yet his selection should not surprise us that much. For the first time in two decades, Underwood and Edmonds are not available and if you took a straw poll among county cricketers, Northants Lancashire At Northampton Northanta won Iota NORTHANTS Flral Innlnga Cook Hegg Akram 10 Lackins Watklnson Akram 17 Bailey Hagg Akram 8 A Fordham Ibw Akram 0 Williams Akram 39 A Slanley Allot! Watkinson 4 Wild Ibw Akram 1 Riplay not out 43 Davies Ibw Akram 0 A Walker Hegg Allot! 9 A Robinson Allot! 0 Extras (bS. IblO. wt) Total (62.4 overs) 147 Fall ot wickels: 1-17. 2-31.

3-35. 4- 50. 5-59. 6-68. 7-111.

8-111. 9-147. Bowling: Wasim Akram 25-6-53-7. Alolt 10.4-1-22-2. Watkinson 13-3-36-1.

Folley 3-1-8-0. Simmons 11-5-13-0. LANCS Flrat Innlnga Fowler not out 48 Mendis relired hurl 24 Jesiy no! oul ...23 Exlras(b4. Ib1. wl.

nb6) Total (0 wkta, 34 ovara) ..107 Bonua point: Northanta 0 Lane 4 Cloaa ol play Sussex Kent At Hasting Su won tosa SUSSEX Flrat Innings I Alikhan Penn rj Faulkner Ibw Penn '5 Parker Benson Penn 10 A Wells Tavare Penn 10 Wells Marsh Penn 0 Speighl Tavare Ellison 14 ACS Plgoll Marsh Kelleher 2 Moores Marsh Kelleher 1 A Clarke noi 011! 12 A Bunting Taylor Kelleher 5 A Babington Cowdrey Kelleher .4 Exlras lib 3. nb5) Total (34 onr) Fall ot wickels: 1-1. 2-10. 3-28. 4-28 5- 30.

6-38. 7-49, 8-56. 9-67. Bowling: Penn 12-3-29-5. Ellison 9-5-15-1.

Kelleher 13-6-24-4. KENT Flral Inning Benson Wells Piggott 0 Taylor Ibw Babington 21 Ward Alikhan Plgott 27 Tavare not out 87 Plenaar Ibw Wells 37 Cowdrey Moores Wells .8 A Marsh Ibw Babington 21 Ellison not out 8 Exlras (01, Ib5. w3. nbl) .10 Total wlits, 76 ovara) I219 Fall ol 2-48. 3-52.

4-132. 5-148. 6-193 Bonus points: Sutux 2 Kant 6 Close ol play mu; more recently, me latter day Normans, property devel opers. The stumps will be uprooted for the last time next year to make way for an anodyne shopping precinct. It will be farewell to the Central Ground and farewell to a host of memories Gilbert Jes-sop's 191 in 90 minutes in 1907, one of the fastest ever scored in first-class cricket; Denis Compton's 17th century in a season in 1947, surpassing Hobbs's achievement and gliding past Tom Hayward's record of 3,518 runs in a sea- son en route and Ranji's last game tor Sussex.

Such distinguished land' marks were in little danger of being disturbed yesterday. But the wind, buffeting in from the Channel, had chased away the murky, malevolent clouds of early morning to yield a bright, cheery sky. The benign elements and only a touch of green on the pitch encouraged Sussex captain, Iraui rarKer, to bat on winning the toss. Thirty-four overs "ucr ne siarea luguDnousiy at the wreckage and seemed to be rueing his decision; either that, or he was considering how such abject performances might affect the coffers in this, his benefit year. Certainly there was a bit of bounce at one end which the Kent fast-medium pacer CHris Penn exploited to the full, nagging away on a length and inducing rather than forcing the error from the angst-rid-den Sussex batsmen.

Penn on paper is no more than a reliable journeyman yet his figures of 5 for 29 in 12 overs typify Kent's propensity for maximising their assets. In a ground of such character the Sussex surrender was about character, only leg-spinner Andy Clarke and Martin Speight hinting at any sort of defiance. Kent caused a few dozers in the deckchairs to twitch and tauten alarmingly as they began their reply in a similarly hapless fashion, Mark Benson falling to the fourth ball of the innings from Tony Pigott. It was only a slight aberration, however, and Kent moved assuredly to 219 for 6 by the close, due largely to a sturdy, measured innings of 87 not out by Chns Tavare and 37 from Roy Pienaar. thh winners iHPJ wn of The OJren-Visions Raffle Montague, CouJttruy, nr.

Abingdon, Oxon; Edward Taylor, Bitkrahtd; Stevarl lawne, Glasgow; H.F. Monkhouse, g''hjm. London, SW16; Jeannette Sneuard, East Sheen, London, SWI4; Lton Pidgeon, London, SW17; Roger Hackney, Morland Penrith, Cumbria; Tom Lawson, Dover, Kent; Adam Tycikowslu, Trimley St Mary, Suffolk; Joe Allen, Highfields, Leicester; Mrs. D. Williams, Bromley, Kent; Mrs.

J. Warren, Romford, Essex; Karen Murphy, Park Shepperton, Middlesex; Robert Kreeger, Radlett, Herts; Mrs. P. Cad-man, Sutton ColdDeld, West Midlands: Belinda Howell, Notting Hill, London, Wl 1 Donations totalled 574.50. Atherton: Young master.

Wasim Akram routed Northants with 7-53 to put Lancashire on top at Northampton. The home side went for 147 and Lancashire proceeded to cash in. Graeme Fowler and Gehan Mendis led off with 63 before Mendis retired hurt on 24 with a jarred hand. Fowler was unbeaten on 48 and Lanca- on Kelly Nor does he fancy the chances of Pedro Delgado, the Spaniard from whom Roche snatched the yellow jersey on the penultimate stage last year. Roche reckons Delgado's form this season has been disappointing and points to his bad ride in the Tour of Italy.

As for Kelly, he thinks there is no reason why he cannot win at 32. 'Like good wine, Sean is improving with age. And even if he is not going that well, he is so dedicated that when he hits form it's difficult for him to lose it. Equally, when tie is on your back wheel, it's difficult to lose Kelly's team, KAS, may suffer in the team time trial, Roche says, but they are a great team for the mountains. 'If Sean gets into a winning position 'in the mountains he should definitely take Roche thinks very highly of Martin Earley, who will be Kelly's right-hand man and says his other domestiques are all very good riders.

'If Sean finishes in the top three we should be over the moon and if he wins we must have a celebration like for me last All eoine well, Roche hopes to ride in the Tour of Britain next montn, out accepts that he will hardly be strong enough to win the World Championship again in September. Talking to Kelly recently about the world's, he said: 'Don't worry, Sean, I'll be over to give you a 'Yeah, replied Kelly, sardonically, 'liKe you aid last Surrey Warwickshire At The Oval Warwickshire won lots WARWICKSHIRE First Innlnga A Lloyd Richards 0 Peters 11 A Moles and Clarke 25 Aslt Din Richards Clarke 2 A Storie Clarke Peters 0 Humpage Richards A Smith Medlycott Clarke 0 A Thorns Richards Peters 10 Small Clarke Peters 5 A Merrick Richards Clarke 8 A Munlon Richards Peters 0 ARK Plerson not 0 Extras (Ib3, w6, nb3) 12 Total (31.2 ovara) ,.,.74 Fall ol wickets 1-25, 2-34. 3-46 6-51. 7-58. 8-74, 9-74.

Bowling: Clarke 16-2-40-4. Peters 15.2-5-31-6. SURREY First Innlnga Clinton Lloyd Munton 23 Smith Moles Muntoi. 19 A Stewart Humpage Munton 0 A Lynch 0 Munton 63 DM Ward not out 28 Richards not out 3 Extras(b4. Ib5, nbl) 10 Total (4 wkta, 38 ovara) iiltt Fall ol Wickets: 1-36.

2-36, 3-58, 4-137 Bonua points: Surrey 4 Warwick 1 Closa ol play Derbyshire Middlesex At Oarby Oerbyahlr won tosa MIDDLESEX First Innings Slack run out 4 Carr Bowler Mortensen 12 A Needham not out 41 Butcher Maher Roberts 17 Brown not out 7 Extras (Ib5. w6) 11 Total (3 wickets, 39 over) ....92 Fall ot wickets: 1-21, 2-23. 3-76. Bonus point: Derby 1 Mlddx 0 Clos ol play Yorkshire Leicester At Hadlngly Yorkshire won to LEICESTER Flrat Inning Briers Byas Fletcher Cobb Love Sldebottom 38 PWilley not out 91 Whitaker Robinson Carrick 0 Potter Byas SideOottom 10 Hepworth not out 1 Extras (Ib3. nb7) Total (4 wkt.

74 ovara) 155 Fall ot wickets: 1-7. 2-120. 3-121. 4-151 Bonus points: York 1 Lalca 1 Clos ol play No Play Yesterday At Lord': Cambridge Unive liversity Oxlord University rain. 20-year-old pace bowler, stunned Warwickshire at the Oval with his best-ever figures of 6-31 and helped to bowl them out in 32 overs for 74.

Tim Munton replied with three early wickets but then Monte Lynch struck, hitting 63 from 74 deliveries, and Surrey finished on 146-4. PAKISTAN paceman eyes are MAURICE QUINN off. The knee is standing up to it and altogether I feel a hell of a lot more confident than was even ID davs he said, Roch6j naturaliVj win 1 rootin for his friend Sean Kelly to do in the Tour what he did last year, but cautions against over-optimism about his chances and offers his own assessment of the riders Kelly must fear most. Jean-Francois Bernard is, according to Roche, the outstanding favourite for several reasons. He is French, regarded as the successor to Bernard Hinault and rode a good Tour of Italy until he had to pull out.

This year's route, with less climbs, will suit him and the individual time trials are the right distances for him. Against that, Bernard will lose time in the team time trial but there is a lot going for him. The American, Andy Hampsten, will be thereabouts, but there are not enough hills for him to be overall winner. The Swiss rider, Urs Zimmermann, has a very good team for the team time trial and for defending the leader's jersey. He is going very well in the mountains.

Eric Breukink, the Dutchman, is time-trialling better than last year and has a very good team, tapttiauy iui uic uimos- Roche does not see Charly Mottet of France winning. Seoul reward BILL COLWILL JANE SIXSMITH, the 20-year-old striker who scored in the 45th minute and made a number of penetrating runs, probably did enough against Canada at Leicester yesterday to book her place for the Seoul Olympics in the Great Britain women's team, which is announced on Tuesday. But it was not enough to deny the Canadians a 3-2 win. After a goalless first half in which both sides were tentative, Canada opened the scoring three minutes into the second half when Forshaw got the final touch from Levy's through pass. Levy, a half-time substitution, was causing Britain's defence problems.

Britain equalised from their fifth penalty corner. Dixon slipped the ball to Brown, with Sixsmith getting the final touch. Two minutes later Levy, this time with help from Forshaw, put Canada back into the lead. Branchaud put the Canadians 3-1 ahead from a well worked penalty corner before Cheetham, from a penalty stroke, completed the scoring. Two goals from Sean Kerly, one in each half, gave the Great Britain men's team a 2-1 win over Canada at Pres- cot, near Liverpool.

Canada, whn are in the same crrnun as Britain in Seoul, took the lead through Caruso. i.