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GUARDIAN Wednesday May; 25- 1988 Cricket SPORTS NEWS 15 Bringing glam to Glamorgan Texaco Trophy- England West Indies, final match ligOsffiwsfl's cfleanD smeep 5s entiira specBaD was rendered strokeless, and Mike Ssivey at Lord's only for spectators but for the players too." The engaging, boyish Morris is, incredibly, Glamorgan's seventh captain in ten years during which time, unsurprisingly, the county has never finished higher than fifth from bottom of the championship. Says Carling: "Captaincy at this level is very difficult. Glamorgan's history of captains in recent years reflects not on the individuals who led us, but on the club. A captain needs a few years to 'grow' into his team ask Brearley or Fletcher and that's what we decided when we asked Hugh to lead us at the ridiculous age of 23. "Overall, he has been very impressive so far, and he would be the first to acknowledge the help being given him by John Steele the assistant secretary and, of course, the former skipper, Tony Lewis, who is the centenary year's cricket chairman." Glamorgan last won the championship under Lewis in 1968.

That side, too, were blessed by some stupendous fielders close to the wicket the daredevil Davises, Bryan and Roger, Majid Khan of the electric reflexes, and possibly the best reflex catcher the game has known, the spindly, swooping seagull-on-stilts, Peter Walker. It is grand that Glamorgan's however modest so far, is at least being rooted in the brilliance of their fielding. This time, however, they have another diamond they are polishing and hardening. Matthew Maynard, they say, is a sparkling bat out of the topmost drawer. He is just 22 and, so this week's grapevine has it, missed out on selection for England's current one-day squad by a single vote.

The cracked bone in his finger will not prevent him playing today, it is hoped, for it is the county's biggest match in years. Mind you, Glamorgan cricket SxlS Bishop's last move Lynch For a one-day game, however, the start which Gooch and Broad gave the innings 33 from the first 20 overs and 71 from 31 in all was far from ideal. At one point Gooch managed only a single in the course of 46 balls. When he was stumped at tempting to hit Hooper through the off side and gave way to Gatting, the tempo of the in Leicestershire Worcestershire mm Frank Keating UDDENLY, it is far less 'taw glum Glam and ill not only because of the fcaap7 cricket club's centenary celebrations. It is nine long, languishing years since (iiamorean reached even the quarter-finals of the Benson and Hedges Cup competition and then, in 1979, only by Somerset's default, remember but today they are very Keen that you notice a new bounce and zest in their step when they play Nottingham shire at Cardiff for a place in the semi-linals on June 8.

Glamorgan have won five of their last five one-dayers, a tact that makes them defiant and daffodil-perky enough to insist that even their traditional toils in the championship so far give a totally false impression, having played fewer games and been spiked only by the last-day lottery of luck and weather. "Just look how our bonus points are setting a pace," says Phil Carling, the club secretary, "and anyway last summer the eventual champions Notts were still bottom in June." As well as the centenary, there is another apt anniversary being celebrated by Welsh cricketers in 1988. Forty summers ago, Glamorgan suddenly and spectacularly won the championship when Wat-kins, Wooller and Clift between them made 120 close catches some so memorably outrageous that they remain the first and last county to have won the pennant, not through batting or bowling but by fielding. a tne evidence oi Sundays handsome win over Derbyshire at Newport is anything to go by, Glamorgan's latest young side have also tumbled to the idea that catches win matches. They took some absolute pearlers.

Hugh Morris, at 24 easily the youngest championship captain, is not one of those who sigh about cricket's Sabbath slog; indeed he nuts down the dramatic vim of his side's fielding to the "defensive offence" of the one-day game. "Spectators now can marvel at the brilliance of fielders when it was not so long ago that, say, most fast bowlers could be seen dangling a foot out in a vain attempt to stop the ball. Now some of the finest fieldsmen in the country are new-ball bowlers. If the one-day game might have hindered cricket in some ways, overall it has undoubtedly been more of a help, generating new life into cricket by adding interest, involvement and excitement, not Golf Curtis sticks as Hick stumbles again Indies photograph: frank baron Pringle showed strength of character as well as skill. West Indies will need to do some thinking.

Their bowling looks in good shape, but at the moment there is no substance to the batting. Players whose games have been honed on Caribbean pitches are finding the adjustment to English seamers awkward. That could be their Achilles heel. Geoffrey Boycott would have invited wrath and condemnation. For Curtis, the Worcestershire camp will have nothing but gratitude.

The Leicestershire effort got off to a bad start and faded. Potter went for a nonexistent single and paid the price, and Briers was brilliantly caught one-handed at cover by Hlingworth. Gower then played loosely at Illingworth's first ball and was bowled. Whitaker was beaten by a delivery of full length by Newport, who then had Willey caught at slip. The field duly closed in, but Leicestershire lasted out.

GLAMORGAN DERBYSHIRE Swanuai Glamorgan (2pts) drew with Oer- oysnire (4) maicn aoanaoneo. DERBYSHIRE-First innings 453 (J Morris 175, Wright 79). GLAMORGAN Pint Innlno toverniaht 2-0) A Hopkins not out 30 A Cottey not out 4S Extras (b4, Ib1, wt, nb4) 10 Total (for 0, 38 overs)- 8ft Bowllnai Malcolm 11-3-23-0; Newman 9-1-22-0: Warner 8-3-9-0; Roberts 7-2-16-0; Finney 3-0-14-0. Umpirau Kitchen and Wight. Championship Tabto the reDlv moribund.

Always, though, England had the knowledge that Viv Richards must employ a fifth, non-specialist bowler for 11 overs, and that an assault on him would seal the game. So after Gooch had made his own attempt, Mike Gatting, the man of the senes tor England, biffed merrily away at Carl Hooper's off-spin and together with Lama saw ungiana comfortably home. Yet not for the first time West Indies can kick themselves for dispensing extras with largesse. In a low-scoring game England were handed 13 no-balls and 5 wides in a record total of 42 extras (87 in the series). At Headingley Gatting had been bowled by a no-ball, and twice yesterday Gooch benefitted from over-stepping once when Greenidge held a catch at slip, and again when Walsh forced him to tread on his stumps when attempting to hook a bouncer.

Fortunately the blow on the cheek he received in that incident was not severe and he was able to play on, but one cannot afford to give players of the quality of Gatting and Gooch more than one innings. The West Indian bowling in this series has gradually gained in accuracy, rhythm and probably concentration as well. Yesterday too. for the first time, Marshall was given the new ball a good psychological move for a man still pumped up after his pugnacious innings. With the Tests starting next week he appears, ominously, to be peaking at the right time.

in the same context it was heartening to see two English openers survive fairly comfortably against a West Indian pace attack, with the proviso of course that because of a strict interpretation of wides in these games, there was an absence of throat balls. mightier onship season in their history. For a side which has, on paper, as good a batting line-up as most, they folded with alarming ease. The day was a triumph for Penn who took the new ball only because Hartley Alleyne is injured. Penn, who had removed Ashley Metcalfe on Monday night, added five more wickets yesterday four of them leg before to record a career-best return of six for 66.

Penn has always appeared to be the medium side of fast, but he looked genuinely hostile in his second spell yesterday: He was nippy enough to rumble as tough a cookie as Bairstow who endured a fierce over he failed to survive. Although Penn was the only bowler on either side consistently to have batsmen ducking and weaving, he prospered mainly through the observation of a full length. Sidebottom, bowled leg pole, and Robinson, les before next ball, were com prehensively beaten in the 35th over. Then, in the 49th over, the departure of Carrick and Jarvis, both lbw, hastened Yorkshire's demise to an eventual 133 all out. centurion, bat-padded a catch to short leg as Kent made heavy weather of.

winning. Hinks was given too much scope to drive and pull but, after Sidebottom induced a catch at mid-off from the leading edge, Jarvis kept the contest vigorously alive with his five wickets. Too late, alas. the ropes was drawn. Glamorgan were 89.

for without loss in reply to Derbyshire's 453, with Tony Cottey, the smallest player in county cricket, 49 not out his best so far in the championship and John Hopkins 30 not out. In only 38 overs of mostly meaningless play, there was still time for Devon Malcolm to earn a warning for too many bouncers, and Roger "Finney to reveal, from his evident problems of length and line, that he has temporarily lost the art of slow left-arm bowling. Surrey, chasing 258 to win in 54 overs, made a bold attempt for victory through Ian Greig (47) and David Ward (14) with a. stand worth 66 in 11 overs, but their departure ensured the game with Northants ended in a draw at The Oval. Earlier, David Capel had contributed an aggressive 83 not out, his season's best, for Northants in a stand of 144 with Richard Williams.

For Surrey, Svlvester Clarke finished with of three' for 10 from eight overs. David' Hagen (59) and Simon Almear (67) recorded Oxford University's first century opening partnership (102) for two years as they drew with Lancashire at The Parks. FHEN YOU resume a limited-overs match with the op position on 125 tor ifflX and only five overs of their innings left, you would think cyou'd be in with a shout. So wnen Allan Lamn on-orove consecutive balls from Winston Benjamin to the boundary to give England a seven-wicket victory, and with itan unprece-dented clean sweep in this Texaco. Trophy series, it was no isurprise.

Except that it was not really that simple. tiThe skies having cleared batting conditions 'had; improved, and so well did Malcolm Marshall and Jeff Du-jotiuse them that 53 runs came from those five overs, with Marshall's 41 including sixes Small and Emburey. v. of a paltry total, England thus found themselves chasing 179 to win; not an exceptional target, but enough to -nut some swagger back in the -West Indian step and make the match competitive once more. n.The West Indian seamers, Marshall, Walsh, Benjamin and Bishop, then bowled.

so drum-tight that a wonderful attacking batsman like Graham Gooch WT IHDIBS (overnight 125-) tfj union notour- 30 41 34 MO Marshall Emburev- Eitr'a3(b2. Ib10. w12) Total ((or 7, 50 overs). 178 Bowllngi DeFreitas 11-5-201; Radford li-2-29-0T Small 10-1-34-0: Pringlo 11-4-27-1; Emburey 10-1-S3-2: Gooch 2-1-3-0. ENQLAHD A Gooch st Dujon Hooper.

Broad Bishop Gattlng not out JnrA Lynch Bishop i as 34 40 30 42 180 A LarnD HOI Out- Extfa's (b6, Ib17, w5, nb14) Total (lor 3. SO overs) Pall of wfeftetsi 71. 108. 124. Bowllngi Marshall Walsh JJ-S-11-0; Bishop 11-1-33-2; Benjamin Hooper 10-0-54-1.

UmpifMl 0 Bird and Plows. England won by savtn wrteMt Kent Yorkshire IPesin is Michael Hendeon atCantojftiqy EXCEPT when Arnie Side-I bottom was at the crease, offering a broader bat than his supposed betters in making 41 after going in. as night-watchman, and when Simon Hinks pushed through the line. for 34 as Kent sought 104 for victory, the batting of both sides shipped water badly af Canterbury yesterday. Sixteen wickets fell in the day, Chris Penn and Paul Jarvis claiming six apiece, before Kent could claim their first championship victory of the season, by three wickets.

It was a close run thing. Jarvis, finding a tight line after tea which he had rarely found in Jus afternoon session, put the wind up Kent who saw the safety of 54-for one eroded to 88 for six. It required the intervention of Mark Benson, who had missed the first innings on Saturday and had been excused fielding duties on account of a dodgy back, to see them home. vEven at the death there was a twist, Jarvis bowling Richard Ellison with just a single wanted. But Penn scampered tjwinning run from a leg bye, ana.ybrkshire.

were left to rue thjHms.they,ed Hinks in the innings's embryonic stag stages. For Jarvis, though, match figures of ltfforllS. Jiike Kent, Yorkshire have now, lost their first three games their worst start to a champi Round-up Notts come off TFHE Nottinghamshire play- finally recaptured some of the. form which brought them lasseasoh'g county title when they a run of four consecutive championship defeats by beating Sussex at Trent Bridge. Stephenson, Kevin Sajtefby and Andy Afford claimed three wickets apiece as Sussex, set 239 to win in 97 overs, were all out for 171.

In bottom of the table last season, never looked like reaching the target, slumping fr6m 65 for two to 65 for five. ''Earlier, the Sussex quickie Tphy'Pigott notched up match qgtires of nine for 86. Warwickshire's captain Andy Lloyd led by example as he' scored 86 to set up a five-wicket win against Essex at Edgbaston a psychological lift -asVthe two sides go into today's Benson and Hedges quarter-final. LliJyds shared an opening stand of 106 with Andy Moles (41) as they chased 254 for vic-toryA'The skipper was finally caught 'behind off John Xever; after 11 boundaries in his high: est innings of the season. Thefe was, for the second day runrtihg, no play after lunch at Swansea yesterday as Glamorgan's match with Derbyshire HA.lf to be no more wickets for West taken 27) was enough.

When the England selectors come to choose their Test side on Friday, they will be encouraged by Gatting's form, Gooch's resilience and the accuracy of Small and DeFreitas, even if the latter lacked penetration. Downton too, particularly in the first two games, kept wicket flawlessly and helped win the second match with the bat. And fore the end of May. His luck appears to be drying up too, for he was beaten by a ball from Lewis that kept low, one of the few to misbehave. Worcestershire's first task in the morning, of course, was to reach safety.

This endeavour was helped by a fifth-wicket stand of 97 between Curtis and Illing-worth, whose 60 was no less valuable for being devoid of a boundary. Curtis went on to complete a vigil that could remain one of the more singular pieces of concentration of the season, compiling 78 runs in 94 overs. Such an effort from that Graeme Hick, their Zimbabwean batting prodigy, will be fit to play. He batted with a runner against Leicestershire yesterday and has needed extensive treatment for a thigh strain. Damian d'Oliveira is fit again after 10 days' absence through injury.

Hampshire recall the all-rounders Kevan James and Nigel Cowley to a squad of 12. Cowley takes over from the left-arm spinner Raj Maru, while James will be competing with 20-year-old Jon Ayling for a place in the middle order. Ayl ing marked his first-class debut at Bournemouth last week by taking six wickets the match against Glamorgan. The double champions Nottinghamshire, who have never won the Benson and Hedges Cup, take a 13-man squad to Cardiff for the match against Glamorgan. The party include two more England men returning to the county fold, Chris Broad and Eddie Hemmings, and their only doubt concerns the pace man Kevin Saxelby, who has a shoulder injury.

Tony Cottey's 49 not out for Glamorgan yesterday could clinch him a place in the Welsh side. KENT YORKSHIRE Canterbury! Kent (22pls) beat Yorkshire (3) by three wickets. YORKSHUnLFirst innings 244 (A A Metcalfe 67, Sharp 57). KENT First innings 274 (R Pienaar 144, Hinks 66). YORKSHIRE Second Inning (overnight: 11-1).

Moxon lbw Ellison IB A Sidebottom Penn 41 I Swallow lbw Ellison 0 Sharp Tavare Davis 14 0 Love Ellison 10 Robinson lbw Penn to Bairstow lbw Penn Carrick lbw Penn 28 Jarvis lbw Penn 0 Shaw not out 8 Extras (IbS. nb2) 10 Total. 138 FaE of wickets eonti 45, 45, 71, 77, 77, 77. 109, 109. Bowllngi Penn 24-6-66-6; Ellison 18.4-3-41-3; Herman 4-2-7-0; Davis 9-4-11-1.

KENT Second inning Taylor Bairstow Jarvis Pienaar Metcalfe Jarvis Hinks Carrick Sidebottom. 18 34 21 2 4 11 6 Tavare Jarvis- V. Cowdrev lbw Jarvis tS A Marsh Metcalfe Jarvis. Ellison Jarvis Benson not out Penn not out Extras (b4, IbS) Total (for 7). 104 FaN of wfefcctsi 5.

54. 62, 65. 81. 88. 103.

BowHnat JarVIs 16.3-7-40-6; Sidebottom 13-8-21-1; Shaw 7-1-34-0 Umpires! Balderstone and Harris. is clean bowled, but there were nings changed immediately. Gatting, who controlled his team marvellously well throughout the series, forced Broad into running some quick singles, and suddenly the game looked easy again. The impressive young Bishop returned to remove Broad and Lynch, but a partnership of 55 by Gatting and Lamb, scored in only six overs (the first 50 had That was never feasible, but in a token attempt to score some quick runs they lost five wickets for 71 and Cobb and Lewis spent the final overs either surrounded by a clutch of close catchers or batting to a slips cordon Ray Lindwall might have used. But survival was never in serious doubt, on a pitch that had lost much of its earlier uncertainties.

Graeme Hick, with runner, appeared at the fall of the fifth wicket, but his sequence of low scores continues and he now has a maximum of two innings to make the 153 runs needed for his 1,000 be NEIL FOSTER, who is fit again, will greatly help the chances of the joint favourites, Essex, in today's Benson and Hedges Cup quarter-final against Warwickshire at Chelmsford and the England manager, Micky Stewart, expects the fast bowler to be ready for the second Test against West Indies in mid-June. Foster, who had to return early from England's winter tour, bowled seven overs in two spells in the Refuge Assurance League on Sunday and 11 overs for the second team on Monday. Warwickshire, who yesterday beat Essex in the County Championship, welcome back another England fast bowler, Gladstone small. A third England paceman, Graham Dilley, expects to be fit for the other joint favourites, Worcestershire, who are at home to Hampshire. Dilley was released by England's management on Monday night after pulling out of the final Texaco Trophy international against the West Indies, and went home for treatment for a viral infection.

Yesterday he felt a lot better. Worcestershire also hope SUSSEX Second Inning A Green Saxelby 28 Standing Stephenson ft Parker Robinson Saxelby- 22 A Wells Cooper Afford Wells Scott Saxelby tl Gould Birch Afford 20 a igott Attord aa A Clarke Newell Stephenson 28 A Bunting Scott a A Rflhlnnfnn nnt A Extras (bl, IbS, nbl) 7 Total 171 Fal of wieketsi 24, 52, 65, 65. 65, 92, 134, BowHngi Stephenson 18.3-7-56-3; Cooper 144, 11. -r-ia-i; aaxeioy iu-2-au-3 Atrora 14-3-60-3. 0 Bond and Palmer.

lUlBiimwiMw MM Edgbasloni Warwickshire (21pts) beat Essex (5) by live wickets. ESSEX First Innings 166. WARWICKSHIRfc-Flrst Innings 160. BSSBXv Second innings 247 (A Border 112, Fletcher 57). wanwiriruiiDB Second inning Moies naroie Lever 41 A Lloyd East Pont 88 Aslf Din ft Pflftt Onnt A9 A I Kalllcharran lbw Topley 24 iu numpage nasi Hont i A Smith not out 38 A Reeve not out 2 Extras (bl, Ib9, w4.

nb8) 22 Total (for 5) 204 ran of wMMMi 106, 176, 178. 204, 232. Bowllngi Lever 15-4-48-1; Topley 22.1-4-71-1; Pont 20-1-104-3; Chllds iu--i-u. Stars in charity Skins has always had to take a back seat to rugby. If Maynard had been fit to play at Newport on Sunday, for instance, any typically nonchalant straight six of his from the river end would have bisected Newport RFC's Rodney Parade goalposts behind the sightscreen as if it had been Arthur Gould potting them over at practice during the black-and-amber's long ago halcyon days.

It was disappointing to hear that Maynard would not be playing when I popped into Newport on Sunday, and mentioned this to the gateman, saying: "Shame about the lad's finger, isn't it? Hope he'll be fit for the big one." Came the doom-laden reply: "No, it's not the finger; it's his wrist; so he's bound to miss the Test." Yes, bad luck, I muttered, and ambled on to find a scorecard and then it dawned on me. Wrist? Test? The fellow had not been talking about Matthew Maynard Glamorgan's best since Lewis and Parkhouse but about Bleddyn Bowen, Wales's rugby captain in the toils in New Zealand. Welsh cricket has a heck of a leeway to make up even Glam CCC were founded in July 1888 at Cardiff's Angel Hotel, the shrine of rugger. But if their fielding continues to set the Taff alight they could yet be embarking on another of their glorious periodic stabs at it. after he had missed a putt that would have given him a Zoeller planted a substantial kiss on his cheek.

Skins games in America are in essence television events. But the European version is altogether more genuine, and today's five men are as strong a team as could be imagined in world golf. Lyle is playing for the Great Ormond Street Hospital For Sick Children; Faldo for Help A London Child; Langer for the Charing Cross Hospital Appeal; Ballesteros for the Spanish Red Cross; and Woosnam will split any winnings be-, tween the Golf Foundation and a fund for a disabled girl in Oswestry, the Ellie Hamlin Appeal. Meanwhile, all five players are likely to be affected by a ruling that came from the Volvo European Tour headquarters yesterday, which will make it all but impossible for the Million Dollar Challenge in Bophuthatswana to continue on a genuine representative level. The Tour has, in effect, "recognised" the World Cup and the Kirin Cup, which means that its members will play in those events if selected.

If they decline to play they must not compete elsewhere, and as the Million Dollar event clashes this year with the World Cup in Melbourne, this decision is a welcome boost for that event. The ruling could also deflect criticism that is bound to arise in the future about the European Tour's leading players competing in a country seen to be South Africa, at a time when European governments are banning sportsmen who have competed in that country. BT BL Ft 4 4 0 0 10 14 88 5 3 1 1 14 18 80 5 2 1 2 13 17 82 4 2 1 1 7 16 SS 4 2 1 1 10 12 84 4 2 1 1 7 11 SO 5 1 4 0 8 20 44 4 1 2 1 10 13 3B 4 12 1 9 11 36 3 1 1 1 7 12 35 4 1 3 0 8 11 3S 4 1 0 3 10 6 32 3 1 1 1 3 12 31 3 1 1 1 4 10 30 3 1 1 1 4 9 29 4 0 1 3 10 12 22 3 0 3 0 4 9 13 PaulFitzpatrick at Grace Road WHEN Worcestershire staggered off for their nightcaps at 32 for four at close of play on Monday, they looked to be facing certain defeat. But it was they who came closer to victory yesterday. Monday evening's clatter of wickets ceased, Illing-worth remained for 39 overs and Curtis for 94, and when the visitors declared at tea Leicestershire had to score 234 runs in 35 overs to complete their third victory.

Scoreboard Britannic Assurance County Championship SURREY NORTHAMPTONSHIRE Th Oval! Surrey (4pts) drew with Northamp. tonshire (51. NORTHAMPTONSHIRE. First innings 23B-5 dec fA Fordnam 1Z5I. SURREY.

First innings 215-6 dec (C Richards 85. Ward 51, Clinton 50). NORTHAMPTONSHIRE Second Inning Larkins Richards Clarke 22 A Fordham Greia Clarke Bailey Blcknell Clarke Capel not out S3 Williams not out 49 Extras (bS, Ib7. nb4) IS Total (lor 3 dec). 174 red of wkriMtu 10.

10. 30. Bowllngi Clarke 3-4-11-3; Blcknell 14-2-60-0; Feltham 9-4-33-0; Greig 7-0-36-0; Medlycott 9.3-4-19-0. SURREY Second Inning G'S Clinton Stanley Davis O'J'Bicknell Oavlsi 17 Richards Ripley Cook 28 Smith st Ripley Cook 10 DM Ward Cook 40 A Greig Walker Cook 47 A Stewart Ripley Williams 5 Medlycott not out 10 A Feltham not out 8 Extras (bl. Ib7) 8 Total (lor 7).

188 Fall wickets of wickets of wtckrtu 27 40, 59. 74, 140. 156, 162. Bowllngi Davis 12.4-3-31-2: Capel 5-1-13-0; Walker 7-2-19-0; Cook 19-4-68-4; Williams 10-1-49-1. Umpire Hampshire and Julian.

LEICESTERSHIRE WORCESTERSHIRE Letoesten Leicestershire (5pts) drew with Worcestershire (5). WORCESTERSHIRBwFirst Innings 291 (P A Neale 72, Curtis 57; Ferris 5-47). LEICESTERSHIRE. First innings 280-5 dec (J Whitaker 100 no). WORCESTERSHIRE Second Inning (overnight 32-4) Curtis Gower Potter 78 lllinoworth lbw Lewis SO A Hick Lewis 7 tS Rhodes not out Newport not out Extras b2, Ib14.

nb5) Total ((or 7 dec) EES Fas ot wicket conn 126, 142, 210. Bowllngi Ferris 18-4-36-1; Agnew 21-5-36-2; Potter 16-3-32-2; Willey 13-4-25-0; Lewis 23-3-60-2; Taylor 5- 1-17-0. LEICESTERSHIRE Briers Hlingworth Pridgeon 8 Potter run out 0 1 Gower Hlingworth 1 Whitaker Newport 24 Willey O'Shaughnessy Newport- 14 Lewis not out 2J A Cobb not out Total (lor 5) 88 FaN Of wlekatM 12. 15,46,54,71. Bowllngi Pridgeon 7-0-19-1; Elcock 6- 1-19-0; Newport 10-2-39-2; Hlingworth 9-3-22-1.

Umph-Mi A A Jones and A White. NOTTINGHAMSHIRE SUSSEX Trant Bridget Nottinghamshire (23pts) beat Sussox (5) by 67 runs. NOTTINGHAMSHIRE First Innings 270(D Randall 64, 0 Stephenson 65; A SUSSBXFIrst innings 182 (A Wells 74. A Green 54; Cooper 5-41). lUITHUStMII lira Second inning (overnight 148-9) cooper Lennam rigon- A Afford not out: Extras (b4, Ib4.

w5) 12 1 1 Tntnl ISO Bowllngi Plgott 18.1-3-40-4; Bunting 12-3-39-5; Wells 12-5-23-2; Bablngton 6-0-40-1. Mlddx (16) Wore (9) Ulc(3) Wark (15) OkMica(IO) N'thant (7) Notts (1) Essex (12) Som'Mt (11) Sussex (17) Kent (14) Derby (6) Hants (5) Surrey (4) Une(2) Olam (13) York (8) 1987 positions In brackets Other match OXFORD UNIVERSITY LANCASHIRE The Park! Match drawn. OXFORD UNIVERSITY. First innings 230. LANCASHIREWIrst innings 429-7 dec (G Mendis 139, Jesty 63, Hughes 57 no).

Bowllngi Sygrove 33-7-113-3; Weale 35-6-130-3; Edwards 36-14-116-1; Henderson 3-0-19-0; Crawley 8-3-19-0: Kilborn 4-0-27-0. OXFORD UNIVERSITY Second Inning A Almaer Simmons Foley A Hagan Mendia Simmons. Kilborn Watklnson Foley. A Crawley not out Jack Hayhurst Brown not Extras (Ib13, nb4) 87 SO 48 14 8 8 17 213 Total (for 4). FaN of wkkatsi 102.

279. 187. 199. Bowllngi Murphy 12-1-31-0; Maklnson 12-5-22-0; Watklnson 13-1-32-0; Simmons 28-6-58-1; Hayhurst 10-5-14-1; Folley 20-9-34-2; Mendis 4-1-9-0. BAIN CLARK SON TROPHY Horabami Sussex 219-5 (N Falkner 117 no).

Surrey 220-4 (G Thorpe 71 no). Surrey won by six wickets. Uigh on Si Middlesex 216 (P Bushnel 641); Essex 207-9 (B Oebenham 71). Middlesex won by nine runs. Hkeatom Derbyshire 222-7 (K Krikken 84, A Hill 53).

Lancashire 223-3 (J Tichard 92 no, Fitton 52 no). Lancashire won by seven wkts. Today's fixtures BENSON AND HEDGES CUPv-Ouarter-flnal (11.00-7.30): Dwbyi Derbyshire Middlesex. CfMknafordi Essex Cardiff! Glamorgan Nottinghamshire. Woreeetan WoreastamhlrA Hamoshlre.

TOUR MATCH (11.00-6.30). Bristol! Gloucestershire West Indies. SECOND ELEVEN CHAMPIONSHIP. II-kMtom Derbyshire Lancashire. Leigh-on- omm cssex uioucesteramre.

lawenan Leicestershire Middlesex. Steotknn Not tinghamshire Warwickshire. OuHdfordi Surrey Yorkshire. Haeilngsi Sussex Kent. KMdwmlnaten Worcestershire Norttiemotonshlra.

OTHER MATCH- Mldrtonl The Mote Australian Aoongines. David Davles FIVE MEN, including four in the world's top ten, today contest the first Skins game to be played at an otnciai level in this country. over the Wentwortji West course. The five are Sandy Lyle, the us Masters champion and No. 2 in the Sony world rankings, Berhhard Langer (No.

3), sevenano Bauesteros (No. 4), Ian Woosnam (No. 8) and Nick Faldo. As the current Open champion is thirteenth in the rankings, the field could scarcely be said to be weakened by his presence. The Skins format gives the five men who will be representing a charity of their choice the chance to win up to 27,000 over the 18 holes.

Each of the first nine holes will be played for 1,000 and each of the second nine for 2,000. But as a hole must be won outright to take the money, it is possible for all five men to arrive at the 18th, having halved every hole, with the whole 27,000 to play for. rnat, nowever, is uniiKeiy. The Skins format not only encourages aggressiye golf, it positively demands it. If, for example, the man with the honour hits a tee shot at a short hole to four feet, it is no earthly use the remaining four playing safe.

in America, where this for mat originated, the narticiDants are picked mainly for their theatrical or nostalgic qualities, with the likes, of Zoeller, Tre-vino, Nicklaus and Palmer in demand. Indeed, the only occasion I have seen Nicklaus utterly taken aback was when,.