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38 THE OBSERVER, SUNDAY 2 AUGUST 1987 EAMONN McCABE Dura Muffin spoils feast ROBERT GBEEN at St Meliion threw Everton out of their stride or a while in the second half. His replacement, Pointon, went to left back and Power moved into mid-field, where RONALD ATKIN at Wembley Everton 1 Then, as Everton began to take control, Harper twice showed his class by finding first Sharp and then Clarke in dangerous positions but both men were wayward with their finishing. Suddenly, in those crucial seconds before half time, Everton claimed the goal they had been threatening. Heath, a late choice after being announced as a substitute, started it with a clever back heel which sent Steven sprinting to the byline for a centre which might have' been blocked by Peake but instead dropped over his head right to the feet of Clarke who gratefully thrashed it high into the net. As Coventry's manager, John Sillett, said afterwards 'It was a terrible time to give away a goal.

The loss of Sheedy with a slight Achilles tendon problem Coventry's flagging hopes were rekindled by Pickering's cross-bar rattling effort but in the final quarter of an hour legs grew heavy, passes began to go astray more frequently and a costly mistake was on the cards Speedie wastfulJy lost control of a fine ball from Downs when well within shooting distance and Kilchine pushed a careless backpass just out of the reach of Clarke's charge. Five minutes from the end Heath fouled Gynn, the only player on the field smaller than himself, and the Coventry midfielder retired for repairs, his place being taken by Borrows. In the dying minutes the outnumbered Everton supporters raised a mighty chant of champions to roar their men home and they almost had a second goal to celebrating. But Ogrizovic's fine save from Sharp kept the score line as close as it deserved to be. Coventry: Ogrlzovlc: Phillips, Downs, McGralh.

Kllcline, Peaka. Bennett. Gynn, Speedie, Houchen. Pickaxing. Subs: Sedgley, Borrows.

Ewrtan MImms; Harper. Powar, Ratcline, Wation, Raid, Sloven, Clarka, Sharp, Heath, Shaedy. Sub Pointon. Referee: Levis (Great Sookham. Sur-rey).

Wembley Stadium's facilities were labelled a national disgrace' in leaflets distributed around the stadium yesterday spotlighting dangerous overcrowding, non-existent ste-warding, disgusting toilets, shambolic ticket arrangements and over-priced A dossier compiled from fans' experiences after the 1986 FA Cup Final claimed that many people narrowly escaped serious injury through The Football Supporters' Association circulated the leaflets. Cardiff have turned down Newport's request to play the first leg of their ILittlewoods Cup tie at Ninian Park. Newport, on the verge of dropping out the League, had hoped for more time to raise the money to repair damage done to Somer-ton Park last season by Bristol Rovers fans. EVERTON might have lost theirrrianager Howard Kendall to the land of the Basques but they have not mislaid the winning habit he instilled in recent years. The football on offer in the Charity Shield was often in keeping with such an early opening to the season and though, surprisingly, the match produced only Wayne Clarke's goal, Evcrton did enough to show that they will not easily be dislodged from the mountain top.

Lacking such stalwarts as Southall, Stevens and Bracewell and then suffering the further loss after half the match of Sheedy and his cultured left foot, Everton coped in familiar fashion. The defence, with Harper having a splendid game at right-back in place of Stevens who was a late non-starter because of illness, rallied around Ratcliffe, Old Dependable himself, to deny a Coventry attack sharpened by the summer purchase of Speedie from Chelsea The midfield rode the particularly zestful start offered by Coventry, gradually controlling the flow and lowering the pace to suit their style and to work the openings for Sharp and Clarke, whose goals following his signing late last season from Birmingham, did much to land the big title at Goodison Park. Minims, guarding the net in place of the injured Southall, had to make only one serious save, blocking a Speedie shot with his feet in the second half and later offering thanks to the crossbar off which Pickering's left foot volley bounced. Ogribovic was not a great deal busier, though he needed to launch himself spectacularly to his left in the dying seconds to prevent Sharp claiming a second goal for Everton. The unreality of a new football season on the very first day of August was heightened by the sight of two steel bands clanging away outside the stadium, where the dominant colour thronging the approaches to Wembley was the sky blue of Coventry rather than the dark blue of Everton.

Dutch, Arsenal stun Scots Louise Zrsi Taylor JL Kilcline was here Sharp (left) encounters Lillee's late bloom Th stuff if ehaffiipioiDS- Coventry 0 'This was confirmed inside the ground. The Coventry end was a swaying mass while Everton's was comparatively thinly populated. Perhaps Everton supporters have become blase about Wembley. This was their eighth appearance in the past four years and their fourth in succession in this match between League champions and cup winners. The Coventry ranks had plenty to enthuse about early on as their heroes resumed where they had left off in that great final against Spurs, running well and challenging hard.

Speedie's verve, determination and pace bothered Everton considerably in this spell but Ratcliffe held his line together in the fashion that has become the norm these days, once earning a great cheer for overhauling and dispossessing Speedie in full flight. Boys go ENGLAND'S 3-1 triumph over the Netherlands in yesterday's Under-17 international provided a steadily swelling Wembley crowd with an entertaining and sometimes skilful forerunner to the Charity Shield. With 10 graduates of the experimental National Football School included in the England squad this was something of a LiUeshall Old Boys' reunion, but it was a non-Lilleshall lad England's captain and left-sided Tottenham youth midfielder Shaun Murray who stood out. He bore the hallmarks of an embryonic star, doubtless destined to feature on the back pages of the future. Murray's skills were encapsulated in England's first goal after 18 minutes.

Receiving the ball just inside the Dutch half he possessed the confidence to run at the defence, the guile and hard physical training and he's always looked after himself. The only barrier is whether the desire is still there and whether, at 38, he can still do In the Britannic Assurance Championship the headlines were made by Glamorgan's Matthew Maynard, who launched Weston Festival week with a superb 160 against Somerset and two cricketers from contrasting backgrounds Yorkshire miner Mark Beardshall and the latest heir to a more patrician clan, John Carr. Middlesex have endured, rather than enjoyed this season as the team Mike Gatting inherited from Mike Brearley shows signs of wear and tear. The visit of Surrey, who remain MARTIN PALMER at Edgbaston finished as Amiss, the old stager, and wicket-keeper Tedstone, a comparative newcomer to the first class scene, came together to put on 76. Amiss hit six boundaries in his 42 before Capel came back to york him.

Capel now began to enjoy himself, taking three wickets in 12 balls as he saw off the tail. The unabashed Tedstone was last out for 51, including seven fours. Capel finished with five for 45. With their strong batting lineup and four bowling points in the bag Northants had no cause for alarm, although Gladstone Small's first ball to Geoff Cook almost went to hand at mid-wicket and in his third over he shook the title contenders by removing Larkin's off stump with the total only 13. Cook was caught at mid-wicket off a Small no ball, one of many bowled during the day but his partnership with Bailey, one of Michael V-Jf Henderson cgg3 SCYLD BERRY at Eastbourne 2S there were suddenly too many old legs.

Coventry were not long calling on a substitute, either. McGrath was heavily fouled by Watson, who was booked for the offence, and after 55 minutes he retired to make way for Sedgley. In comparison, Coventry's change of personnel made them even mare eager to hunt the equaliser. Bouchen, diving at a centre by Gynn, threatened a repeat of his spectacular Cup Final goal but the header was deflected for a corner. Everton, still impressively quick on the break at this stage, should have collected a second goal in the 67th minute.

Heath's long cross-field ball found Sharp who headed it onto Power, collecting a kick in the face from Phillips as he did so. But Power wasted the opening (and his colleague's pains) by lifting the shot over the top. cleverly remained onside before collecting the ball on the wing and, watched by a gawping defence and the stranded Otter, nonchalantly proceeded to cut inside and score from the edge of the area. An error-strewn spell just before half-time enabled Roderick Thomas to give England an uncompromising 3-0 lead. As the defenders relaxed a loose ball fell to Thomas, lurking on the edge of the area, who gleefully sealed England's success.

The emphatic scoreline was perhaps a shade harsh on the Dutch boys, whose attractive short passing, agility on the turn and delight in the dummy contributed much to the match's appeal. Compensation came with a second half Fas goal, the left-back scoring from a good 20 yards out. Lillee: Comeback plans. prove himself in county cricket, struck four times in the afternoon at Canterbury where Kent laboured towards 212 all out. The tone of the home batting was set by Chris Tavare who crawled to 13 from 104 balls before Beardshall removed him.

Martin Jean-Jacques and Devon Malcolm, members of Derbyshire's cosmopolitan seam attack, collected three wickets apiece. Eldine Bap-tiste, with 42, and Derek Underwood, who made an unbeaten 29, provided the most notable resistance. Derbyshire ended a low-scoring day on 31 without loss. Dasher of the day, even ahead of Carr, was Maynard, the 21-year-old stroke player whose debut two years back against Yorkshire brought a dazzling century. He was the second man to reach a ton before lunch as he transformed the game at Weston where Somerset had claimed the first two wickets for just five runs.

Maynard wasted no time in altering the game, charging to a century from 98 balls with two sixes and 16 boundaries as he and Hugh Morris made 149 in 31 overs before lunch. The stand had reached 239, and Maynard had added a further six and nine more fours, when he clipped Darren Foster to mid on, giving the bowler the most important of his four scalps. Morris went for 92, Glamorgan eventually declaring at 351 for nine. presumably in admiration. Nothing was easily timed on this pitch, with its low bounce, but Fowler managed the occasional blow over the top He even continued to play on to Hartley without dislodging a bail before falling to the next ball, which he tried to force off the back foot without too much adjustment of the feet.

After Fairbrother had departed to a poor stroke and Atherton during a good spell by Jarvis, Watkinson warmed the frozen crowd with some clean-cut blows which took him to 50 from 74 balls. He drove and slashed hard, once lifting Carrick on to the roof of the football stand Hegg came out of his shell and gave him excellent support in a six wicket partnership of 92 in 24 overs. LAURA DAVIES' bid to add the Ladies' British Open to the US Women's Open she won on Tuesday suffered a severe setback yesterday at St Meliion. Her third round of six over par 79 left her two strokes behind the leader, Muffin Spencer-Devlin from the United States. Devlin's shot a 75 to take the lead on 222, three over par going into today's final round, with American Sally Little and Alison Nicholas from Sheffield now her closest pursuers.

Davies, who won this championship last year, putted more like a chump than a champ. She only holed once from over a yard, and that was from seven feet to save herself three putting the 17th. She covered the 18th with a drive and a sand wedge but missed from five feet for an eagle three. That was typical of she admitted, and she seems none too confident of retaining the title. Better luck someone said.

I hope so, but I doubt she grimaced. She and Devlin couldn't manage a birdie between them until the sixteenth testimony to the tough conditions created by a stiff breeze and a punishing course hat hasn't yet matured sufficiently to host an important tournament. Birdies were obtainable Little had three in a row from the fifteenth but Devlin reckoned some of the pin positions had been chosen by Godzilla or Kevin Weeks, by his own admission a weekend golfer, became English Amateur Champion yeseterday after the final had gone to extra holes for the first time in 26 years. The6ft6in, 16V2-stone horticultural engineer from Hampshire was troubled by cramp at one point but recovered to beat the Walker Cup player Bobby Eggo at the 37th at Frilford Heath. Eggo had lost a hole at a crucial time when his caddie accidentally' kicked Weeks's ball in the rough, costing him a penalty stroke.

Eggo said I don't really want to talk about what happened at the eighth. I think Kevin might have won the hole anyway and it just made me try harder. Weeks commented The incident upsetme. It preyed on my mind, especially as the match'was tight I le it go a bit, but I dreamed of winning this it means everything. Icut down on golf five years ago and just play for fan no I had given up hope, of playing, for England and knew that the only way I would get into the team was to win Walker Cup player Paul Mayo completed a unique double when he added the Welsh Amateur title to the British Championship he won in June He beat David Wood by two holes at Royal Porthcawl.

Another Walker Cup man, Colin Montgomerie, gave young Alasdair Watt from the New Mexico Military Institute his marching orders in the 36-hale final of the Scottish Amateur Championship at Nairn yesterday, writes Donald Stewart. The 24-year-old Royal Troon golfer won by 9 and 8, the biggest winning margin since 1966. RONAN RAFFERTY and Des Smyth go into an Irish shoot-out for a 32,000 jackpot in the final round of the Scandinavian Open at Ullna, Sweden, today. Somerset Glamorgan AT WESTON MARE Glamorgan won too aOUORQAN: Ftnri Innings Butcher Crowe Jones 0 Morris Crowe Jones 92 Holmes Foster 5 Maynard Jones Foster 160 Shaslrl Jones Palmer 20 Todd Felton Jones ID Derrick Foster 6 Mstson Fsfton Marks 5 I Smith and Foster 19 Ontong not out 3 Berwick not out 8 Extras (b4. Ib4.

w2, nb) 23 Total (9 wits dec) SSI (100 overs 329 9). Fall ol wickels 1 0.2 S. 3 244. 4 2B9, 5 302. 6 303, 7 317.

8 317. 9-32. Bowling: Jonas 21-2-77-3, Fosler 17-4-56-4. Palmer 19-4-70-1. Marks 32-13-91-1.

Pringla SOMERSET Final Innings A Fellon nol out 9 Roebuck not oul 4 Extras 0 Total (no wkts 6 overs) 13 Bonus Pts Somerset 4, Glamorgan 4. CRICKET TODAY REFUSE ASSURANCE LEAGUE (2-7 unless stated) Cheltenham: Glsces Lsics. Canterbury: Kent Darby. Lord's: Middlesex Surrey. Weston-super-Mare: Somerset Glamorgan 11.30-6.30).

Eastbourne: Sussex Worcs Edgbaston: Warwicks Norlhants. Scarborough: Yorkshire Lanes TOUR MATCH Southampton: Hants Pakistan. UMOR COUNTIES CHAM'SHtP Telford: Shorp Cheshire. PAUL CURRAN, the new British iirruiieur road race cycling champion, chases his fourth successive win in Star Trophy events when he in today's 1 19 mile Tour of the Co.swolds, SID BARRAS. now 39, and aiming to notch 200 wins in 18 seasons as one of Britain's most successful professional riders, is in the field for next Sunday's Cleveland town centre ras al DENNIS LILLEE, the greatest fast bowler of recent years, has taken the first steps on the road back to the Australian Test team.

Moves are afoot to draft him into the South Australian state side where depending on bis fitness, form and the absence of young pretenders he could force himself back into Test consideration. Australian skipper Allan Border, who returned to England this week, and played for Essex in their NatWest Trophy quarter-final defeat, made the suggestion to Lillee, the taker of 355 wickets in 70 Tests during a career with Western Australia and the national side which ended in 1984. Lillee's return would not impede the progress of any young pace bowler in South Australia. If he fits into their side and does well there's no reason why we couldn't And a slot for him in the Australian said Border. He doesn't mind the Reeve, Notts would have made, at a pinch, 230 Newell, the county's second youngest double-centurian, is a short, slender 22, and having concentrated on defence he is expanding his repertoire without departing too far from the vertical plane.

There could not be a more contrasting, yet satisfactory, replacement for Randall. Rice was as ever determined in his 54, his only lapse a near runout on 22 when Ian Gould's cry of dismay roused the Eastbourne Constitutional Club from its tented slumber. If those who question Nottinghamshire's fitness for the Championship ask where they have been this summer until now, the answer is that, as often as not they haven't been playing. Two county matches before the CRICKET SCOREBOARD FIMrislhi If strength to feint past a cluster of Dutchmen and the balance and control to unleash a hard, low shot from jnst inside the penalty area. The ball was nestling in the bottom right-hand corner of the net almost before keeper Otter had time to blink a copybook goal.

Murray's eye for a pass and impeccable positional sence, combined with Mark Parrott's intelligent, pacy wing play, were discomforting the Dutch defence and three minutes later the unease turned to acute embarrassment when their ill-starred attempt to spring an offside trap misfired. Lee Cormack involved in the title chase, obviously sharpened their responses as Carr and Wilf Slack shared an opening stand of 221 and Middlesex went on to make 411. Carr's early promise rested on his offspin but this year's move up the order has revealed a more durable talent. By lunch Carr had made 111 out of 199 the first century before lunch by a Middlesex -player since Mike Smith at Canterbury in 1975 and the first at Lord's since Jack Robertson caned Sussex 30 years ago. There was a minor slump after as Slack fell 11 runs short of a century and Carr followed for 133 during a four over spell which cost four wickets for 13 Surrey's successes did not continue.

John Emburey (74) and Paul Downton (56) plundered 125 from a sixth wicket partnership to carry Middlesex past 400. Beardshall, who has taken a year away from the mines to apsfl three Northants players shortlisted for the World Cup, continued to prosper and the 50 was up by the 14th over. Warwickshire Northants AT EDGBASTON Warwickshire won loss WARWICKSHIRE: First Innings A Molss Bailey Cook 33 A Lloyd Walker Capel 18 Asil Din low Walker 27 Amiss Capel 42 Humpsge Cook 16 A Smith Davis Cook 0 A Tedstone Ripley Capel 51 Parsons Lamb Capel Small Lamb Capel 0 A Merrick Ibw Walker 9 Glfford not oul 5 Eltias lib 12, nb 22) 34 Total 78.4 overs) 215 Fall ol wickels: 1-27. 2-91. 3-S1, 4-112.

5-112. 6-1BB. 7-188. 8-191. 9-221.

Bowling: Davis 18-4-55-0; Capel t6.4-3-45-5; Walker 14-5-25-2; Robinson 11-1 -53-0; Cook 19-6-45-3. NORTHAMPTONSHIRE: First Innings Cook not cul 34 Larkins Small 4 Bailey net out 29 Extras (lb 4. nb 4) 8 Total (t wtt, 24.3 overs) 75 Fall of wicket: 1-13. Bonus points Warwicks 2 Northants 4. at Headingley No fours before lunch Fowler hit four in a couple of overs, mostly with straight drives.

At first, he also kept out of trouble outside the off stump and had made 33 in 13 overs before he all but edged Fletcher into first slip's hands. Not much else happened to encourage Yorkshire until Mendis, trying to drive the accurate Shaw, was bowled off an inside edge. This was in the middle of tight spell in which Shaw, getting close to the stumps and offering the batsmen little room, yielded only 15 runs from 13 overs. On a bleak day, this slowed the pace down to the traditional rate. Spectators shivered in silence and a massive obstacle first Test had the effect of adding lead to their saddle.

Hadlee, as usual, tops our national bowling averages, "yet he has taken no more than 40 wickets. It is always worth hearing the gospel according to Eddie Hem-mings, still not as slim as the chance he gives himself of being in the England World Cup party when it is narrowed from 25 to 14. Hemmings reckons that the NatWest must be his county's best bet, as they will have all their England players available for the semi-final and final se'cond best must be the Refuge Assurance, as they will miss only one game; and thirdly the Championship. On the other hand, to compensate for the loss of their England players, Notts play their last championship match against Glamorgan. It was in this same fixture in 1981 that they took the Championship.

There again, in 1927 Notts led the table at the last, and had only to beat Glamorgan, whereupon they blew it. Sussex Nottinghamshire AT EASTBOURNE Sussex won toss NOTTmGrMMSMIHE: FRH mnings Broad Gould Klmber Robinson PlgoR Wells Newell PlgoR Klmber Johnson Gould Wells Rice Pigott Birch PiooR Hadlee Babblngton PigoB 6 French Gould Wells 29 Hammings Ibw Wells 6 flick Pigott 1 Saxelby not oul Extras (Ib3, w1, nb7) 11 Total (100 overs 270-7) 2S0 Fall ol wickets: 1-39, 3 61, 3 93, 4 210. 5 210, 6 217, 7 263. 8 281, 9-283. Bowling: PigoR 26.3-7-67-4, Babblngton 17-1-43-0.

Klmber 22-10-46-2, Walls 26 3 80 4. Heselline 15-4-41-0. SUSSEX: First Innings Alikhan not out Standing not out 1 Extras 1 1 Total (no wlrt, 2 overs) 2 Mlddx Surrey AT LORD'S Middlesex won toss MIDDLESEX: First Innings Carr Smith Bullan 133 Slack Richards Gray 69 Galtlng Medlaycolt Groig 27 Brown Grelg Bullan 0 Butcher Richards Gray 2 Downton si Richards Bullen 56 Emburey Lynch Bullen 74 Edmonds Bullan 4 YV Daniel Clinton Bullen 0 ARC Fraser Ibw Thomas 0 Cowans not out 0 Extras (b 10, lb 9. nb 7) 26 Total (100 overs: 403-) 411 Fall ot wickels: 1-221, 2 231, 3 231. 4 234.

5 273. 6 398, 7 404, 8 404. 9-407. Bowling. Gray19-6-56-2: Thomas 17-3-58-1: Greig 15-5-55-1; Medly-COR 10-2-64-0; Bullen 33.2-2-3-119-6; Lynch -0-40-0.

SURREY First Innings Clinton nol out 1 Smith nol oul 1 Extras (nb 1 1 Total (0 wtl, 4 overs) Kent Derbyshire AT CANTERBURY Kenl won loss KENT First Innings Benson Jean-Jacques 30 Taylor Maher Jean-Jacques 13 Hinks Roberts Jean-Jacquas 13 0 Aslett Ibw Beardshall 36 Tavare Beardshall 13 CowdrBy Wright Beardshall 5 A Bsptisle Mahar Malcolm 42 A Marsh Beardshall 3 Davis Maher Malcolm 10 0 Underwood nol oul 29 Jarvis Malcolm 0 Extras (b 4, lb 6. 3, nb 5 1B Total (93,5 overs) 312 Fall ol wickels 1-32. 2-54. 3-61. 4-100.

7-134, 8-178, 9-179. Bowling: Malcolm 19.5-4-47-3; Jean-Jacques 32-10-69-3: Beardshall 38 10 SB Sharms 4 1 IB 0. DERBYSHIRE: First Innings Barnett nol oul 15 Wright not oul 15 Extras lb 1) 1 Total (0 wkts, 17 ovsri) Bonus pts Kent 2, Derbys 4. 31 WHEREAS front-running Northamptonshire's bid for the Championship is based upon their batting, games in hand and the goodwill opposing counties will feel towards them when calculating declarations, the claims of simmering Nottinghamshire are more substantially founded on all round skill. Against Sussex yesterday, after being sent in, Nottinghamshire's batsmen found the going hard on a Saffrons pitch and outfield that reflected the pace of Eastbourne life.

But their perseverance in reforming a position of 93 for three wickets into 290 was the stuff of which Britannic Assurance champions are made. The wonder is that Nottinghamshire have taken only one major prize in post-war times. Often they have been finalists and runners up, but their only pot on the shelf is the 1981 championship. This year, they cannot miss out on the Cham- Watson WENDY WATSON, a British Rail clerical officer, was the only England batsman on the right lines yesterday. A forceful 50, on her first Test appearance, alone brightened the dreary England innings of 134 in 78.3 overs.

This first Test match of Australia's Jubilee Tour is the thirty-first between the countries, England having won six times and Australia five with the rest drawn and one abandoned. The initial Test was at Brisbane in 1934, the first here at Northampton in June 1937. England's advantage in winning the toss was instantly dissipated as Sally Griffiths's third ball yorked Janette Brittin. Brittin has the second highest Test batting average after Rachel Heyhoe-Flint and on this Worcester ground in last seaon's Test again India scored a century and a duck. She may still repeat this but has left herself the harder part to do.

Sarah Potter, tired no doubt of being billed as Dennis Potter's daughter, is a talented cricketer in her own right She was the first to make positive challenge to Griffiths and Goss, both distinctly swift by women's standards, her neat on-side strokes and forceful square drives with the defensive play of Carole Hodges, who saw her captain's role as anchoring the innings. The tall Zoe Goss finally achieved enough bounce to have Potter caught behind, heralding a period of stagnation against the slow bowlers. Despite the high tossed deliveries neither Hodges nor Watson would use their feet to attack. Indeed by lunch only 48 runs had been scored despite a healthy over rate 16 an hour. Watson then cast care aside to make a profitable assault.

Her job is disposing of redundant assets, and she soon put Owen in that category by hitting her for several well-timed boundaries, sadly Hodges's attempt at emulation was a sweep against Fulleston's left arm spin which lobbed a simple catch In 150 mins she had achieved only 15 scoring strokes, pionship and the Sunday League, of which they are top, and the NatWest trophy, in which they are semi finalists. Richard Hadlee and Clive Rice, in their final season, will surely see to that. Rice saw to it yesterday when he joined Mick Newell after lunch in a revivifying century partnership. Spending an hour over their first 25 runs together, they pushed the boulder over the hill, and once on the other side it found little resistance from a Sussex sans Imran, sans Le Roux, sans Reeve, sans almost everyone of experience. In their absence, Pigott itook four wickets and so did Colin Wells, as brisk as a walk along the Eastbourne seafront.

Hadlee thought that against the full Sussex attack of Imran, Le Roux and on track TONY PAWSON at Worcester but future events justified her caution. A brief spell of aggression by Watson and Jackie Court brought back Karen Brown to destroy the innings wpfher medium pace by taking three wickets in eight balls. The Australian ground fielding had been impressively athletic, their throwing fast and accurate. Now the catching proved of the same quality as Court was taken low at slip, and the admirable Watson fell to another diving catch. In between, Jo Chambqjjain, heroine of England's win in the final one-day international, drove over a yorker.

The rest of the batting stretched the innings more in time than runs as successive players remained strokeless against accurate bowling. The disappointing total looked more impressive once Chamberlain began to bowl. At 18 the youngest member of the side, she was by far the quickest of the left arm opening attack shared with Gill Smith. In her second over she yorked Emerson and Reeler was soon caught behind. WOMEN'S TEST England Australia AT WORCESTER England won toss ENGLAND First Innings Poller Matthews Goss IS Brittin Grirtilhs 0 HDdoes Gritlilhs Fullestnn 27 Walson Fulleslon Brown 50 Courl Reeler Brown 15 Chambarlain Brown 0 Wulcfco Annotts Owens 12 Joblirg Goss McConway GrlHiths Owans 4 Smllh Anneas Griffiths A Stlnstan not oul Extras lb I.

nb I) Total Fall ol wickels 1-0. 2-34. S-'07' 6-110. 7-1 17. B-122.

9-129 Bowling Griffiths 16.3. 4, 41. Goss 18, 10, 18, Brown 14, 7, 17, 3: Fullestnn 14. 5. 33! Owens 16.

23, 2 AUSTRALIA Firsl Innings Reeler Slinson Chamberlain 3 Emerson Chamberlain 0 Hagoett noi oul fj Annetts not out 16 Extras (lb 1 Total (2 wkts) 44 Fall ol wickets 1-5. 2-4 TOUR MATCH Hampshire Pakistanis At Southampton Pakistanis won toss PAKISTANIS First Innings Ramiz Raja Connor 150 Shoaib Mohammed Cowley Connor 9 laz Ahmed Nicholas Tremlelt Mansoor Akhtar A Smith Maru 20 Sallm Malik low Maru 40 Mudassar Nazar Maru 15 Tmran Khan Parfcs Bafcker 46 Salim Yonsul st Parks Maru 24 Waslm Akram Conner ti Cowley 32 Abdul Qedir CL Smith Cowley 14 Mohsin Kamal not out 1 Extras lb 2) 2 Total 33 Fall of wickels: 1-31, 2-46, 3-112, 4-1B5. 5-214. S-283. 7-293.

8-343. 9-362 Bowling: Connor 25-4-75-2, Bakker 20-2-5S-1. Tremlelt 15-2-52-1. Cowley 23-0-8B-1. Maru 32-548-4.

HAMPSHIRE Firsl Innings Terry not out 12 Smith nol out 4 Extras (w 11 1 Total (0 wit) 17 BRITANNIC ASSURANCE COUNTY CHAMPIONSHIP Gloucs Leicestershire AT CHELTENHAM Leicestershire won toss LEICESTERSHIRE First Innings A Cobb Lawrence BrlBrs Lloyd Green Wllfey Lawrence I Gower RdssoII Sainsbury Whilaksr Green A Clift Bainbrldge Lloyds A DeFreltas Greene Whlttlcase Bainbridse Agnew run out Ferris Athey Bainbrldge Such not oul Extras (b4. IblO. nt5) Total overs) 37 Fall of vrfcklts 1-S, 2-32, 3-10S, 4-137, S-JM, S-2M, 7-24 t-322, Bowling: Lawrence 1B-3-B4-2, Greene 22 3 87 3, Sainsbury 20 5 50-1. Balnbridge 7-0-40-2, Alleyna 14-6-37-0, Lloyds 16-1-55-1. GLOUCESTERSHIRE First Innings A Stovold run out 14 A Wright Wllley Freitas 21 Alhay nol out 10 Russell nol oul 1 Extras lb1 1 Total (2 wltli.

IS overs) 47 Bonus points Glos 4, Laics 4. Yorkshire Lancashire AT HEADINGLEY Yorkshire WDn toss LANCASHIRE: First Innings Mendis Shaw Fowler Bairstow Hartley A Atherton Ibw Jarvis Fairbrother Melcalls Shaw Watkinson sub Shaw 0 Hughes Hartley Carrick Hego Shaw Allotl run out Allot! run out I Follay nol out 1 Extras lb 14. 2. nb 3) 19 100 overs; 309 6J Total wkts) 3M Fall ol wickets: 1-71. 2-127.

3-162. 4-192. 5 217,6 309. 7 321, 8 324. Bonus pis Yorks 2, Lanes 4.

NORTHAMPTONSHIRE Have their sights on a notable double of the County Championship and NatWest trophy, but were given a gentle reminder at Edgbaston yesterday that they must get their heads down and graft hard in the run-in to the end of the season. Warwickshire, struggling near the bottom of the table, are not in the best of sorts this season. But they batted obstinately, if somewhat erratically, when they won the tass and took first use of a pitch which was tinged with green but never proved less than easy-paced. They were away to a brisk start which was nipped in the bud when Capel had the over-ambitious Lloyd caught by Walker at cover. There followed a stand of 64 in 18 overs by Moles and Asif Din before the innings slumped with the arrival of left-arm spinner Nick Cook who, in taking three wickets for nine in six overs, reduced the total from 91 to 1 to 112 for 5.

But Warwickshire were not Carrick LANCASHIRE were handed the initiative in the 223rd Roses match yesterday when they were given first use of an uncharacteristically mild Headingley pitch. If this was intended as an attacking gesture by Yorkshire, their bowlers could make nothing of it and Lancashire finished handsomely placed at 326 for eight after two assertive innings by Graeme Fowler and Mike Watkinson. Fowler's 83 began with a blaze of strokes before the bowlers located length and line on a day too bleak to allow excessive movement. Watkinson, on his twenty-sixth birthday, made an invigorating 81 from 116 balls and Yorkshire's captain, Phil Carrick had time to reflect on his made to carry the can MICHAEL CAREY tactics when Watkinson hit him for four sixes. The knowledge that this particular pitch is regarded as the most suspect of them all here also made Carrick's decision to bowl first questionable.

But it was damp, looking from a distance like a strip of mud, and under the influence of Keith Boyce's 15-ton roller there was none of the usual malevolent bounce. Far from being inhibited, as some visiting batsmen are said to be, Mendis and Fowler were made to feel more than welcome by a selection of half volleys as Jarvis and Hartley, striving to avoid bowling criminally short, tended to err on the side of an over-full length. a.