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THE GUARDIAN Friday June 17 1988 SPORTS MEWS 21 Cricket Second Corn-hill Tests England West Indies Early to bed, early to rise mralhaoirei's HmgDaiirodl sDnSmie oairadleir cDooodl Mike Selvey at Lord's Matthew Engel not quite recall anyone captaining England quite so diffidently; even Bob Willis in one of his faraway moods had more presence. For the first half of the day the captain was never more than a foot or two away from Gooch, his vice-captain, best chum and, perhaps, in the present situation, chaperon. Then, at his first close-of-play! press conference, Emburey sat bolt upright and allowed himself to be interrupted by the manager, Micky Stewart. This is not something that would have happened in Walter Ro-bins's day. But he said he was never nervous on the field, and I expect that was right.

Emburey is neither choleric nor melancholy; he is an even-tempered man absorbed by the technicalities of his craft, which makes him in many respects the ideal figure for this strange time. He said his most difficult moment was at the team meeting, when he wondered what to say, and he had a funny feeling at Tunhridge Wells earlier this week when he was playing under Gatting for Middlesex the same as usual. "There wasn't any animosity or anything. But I kept thinking I ought to set the field, then I remembered it wasn't my job." Anyway, Gatting has not been entirely forgotten. He rang Emburey to encourage him on Wednesday night and then again just before the start yesterday.

And Stewart used the word "tremendous" in his first sentence; Gatt would have got in at least 20 after a day like this but it was nice to have him evoked, even sub-consciously. Stewart managed to interpose himself between Emburey and the day's most difficult question: whether Broad's understandable annoyance at getting: out for nought, which was shown in close-up on TV, came into one of the many categories of behaviour now forbidden to England players. Stewart defended Broad instinctively and said he would be angry if the papers made anything of it. "He was disappointed," Stewart said. "You may as well not go out there if you're not going to show that sort of commitment." Emburey, meanwhile, fiddled with his cuffs and said nothing.

He was right not to commit himself; the TCCB will probably take a different line on the subject if. the tabloids make enough fuss. FE SHOULD have known that all the trouble in the camp recently was iust England cricket brains at their shrewdest. There is a phe nomenon sport which sug gests that a new leader will often be the recipient of a bap tismal present of earlv success. At least, that is how it seemed on the first day of the second Test, for John Emburey will not enjoy a more fruitful, satisfying or fortunate day if he does the job till he is a hundred.

It was extraordinary. First of an, in bright sunlight, he lost the toss. This turned out to be a canny thing to do for no sooner had Viv Richards, after much deliberation, opted to bat first, than over trundled a misty veil of cloud, which was to remain all day. Then, in an inspirational morning session, Graham Dil-ley reduced West Indies to 54 for five. There, as far as England were concerned, it rested for a while, because some forthright batting by Gus Logie, with 81, and Jeff Dujon, with 53, added 130 for the sixth wicket.

Emburey made the breakthrough himself before handing back to Dilley and Gladstone Small to mop up. Dilley, four for 24 at one stage, finished with five for 55. Nonetheless, to dismiss West WEST INDIES First Innings Greenidge Downlon Dilley 22 Haynes Moxon Dilley 12 Richardson Embury Dilley 5 I A Richards Downlon Dilley 8 Hooper Downton Small 3 A Logie Embury Small 81 tP Dujon Emburey 53 Marshall Gooch Dilley 11 Ambrose Gower Small A Walsh not out 9 Patterson Small Exlras lb 6 nb 1 7 Tolal 67.5 overs. 209 Fall of wickets: 21. 40, 47.

SO, 54, 184. 199. 199. 199. Bowling: Dilley 23-6-55-5; Jarvis 13-2-47-0: Small 18.5-5-64-4; Pringle 7-3-20-0; Emburey 6-2-17-1 ENGLAND Flrat innings A Gooch not out.

17 3 Broad Ibw Marshall Moxon not out Extras Total (lor 1) 20 Fall of wickets: 13. To bat: I Gower. A Lamb. Pringle. tP Downton.

Emburey, Small. Dilley. Jarvis. Bowling to date: Marshall 3.4-0-11-1: Patterson 3-1-9-0. Umpires: Palmer and Shepherd.

Bad light stopped play. Boxing THERE are two possible explanations for England's success yesterday. Perhaps it was the effect of the new get-tough regime and midnight curfew. The players, after the first early night of their professional lives, were transformed by the new experience of a good night's sleep. Otherwise, it might have been the captain: John Emburey's inspirational, dynamic leadership so much better than that chap whose name we've forgotten turned England from a shabby, sorrowful outfit into a new, lean, hungry team of killers.

There is, I suppose, just possibly a third option: that the interplay of skills and luck and mistakes and moods and wind and weather and pitch and light (or at least the umpires' reading of it), the little things that decide cricket matches, happened to work in England's favour not before time in a Test against the West Indies. But no one will want to believe anything as boring as all that. It was a wonderful day for Emburey: he became the 64th man in 111 years to captain England in a Test match, and the eleventh from Middlesex. He ought to last longer in the job than at least one of his Middlesex predecessors, Sir Tim O'Brien, a choleric Irish baronet who was in charge of one Test in South Africa in 1895-96 and once threatened to biff at the wicket. And, long-term, Emburey's prospects are doubtless better than A Stoddart, who shot himself in a fit of melancholia.

Most of the others have done rather well for themselves. Pel-ham Warner and Gubby Allen were knighted; Brearley and Gatting got the OBE (no one has yet suggested removing Gatting's, but anything is possible); Walter Robins became chairman of selectors; Frank Mann begat George Mann, and they became the only father and son to captain England; George Mann became chairman oftheTCCB. Emburey is still some way from his knighthood yet. I can- among the joyful West Indians as recently, England bowlers have been encouraged to bowl short: yesterday, until Logie and Dujon threatened to destroy all the early good work, all the four seamers kept rigidly to their plan. So when the cloud rolled in and the ball began to move alarmingly for Dilley, he got his rewards.

Haynes was taken marvellously by Moxon at short leg, Greenidge by the diving Downton behind the wicket, Richardson by Emburey down by his bootstraps at third slip, and the biggest prize of all, Richards, again by Downton. In between, Small had found the Yorkshire change their pitch for the Headingley Test Hampshire Middlesex Turner turns tide Honeyghan's pot Broad agreement at least Indies for 209 represents a major triumph. It left England 20 overs to bat: they managed just six of them, scoring 20, but losing Broad in the process lbw to Marshall, before the umpires considered the light too dingy. The morning was one of England's most successful against West Indies for many years and can be attributed mostly to Dil-ley's skill, particularly the ability to swing the ball away from the bat, combined with hitherto undiscovered depths of stamina, which enabled him to bowl 17 overs straight off, with only a break for lunch. But there was also Emburey's intuitive captaincy that saw almost every tactical change of field bring immediate results.

He can rightly feel chuffed, but knows that it will not always be as simple as that. There was no hint ot things to come, though, when Greenidge and Haynes set off. The sun was still out and Greenidge, in particular, looked in good order, driving strongly. Significantly, however, he was being given the chance to do so. So often ing his World Boxing Council title, has to defeat Yungkill Chang of Korea in Atlantic City on July 29, for which he will get $300,000.

On the same bill Marlon Starling, the World Boxing Association champion, defends his title against Thomas Molin-ares of Colombia. Home Box Office, an American cable TV network, is financing both promotions, and if Honeyghan and Starling win, HBO will stage a match between them in the autumn, with each getting $800,000, the largest purse Honeyghan has ever received. "This is a commitment, not Schofield gap which will take him to the verge of the new season. The news of Mike Ford is more encouraging. His damaged hand should be healed in 10 days which means that he could still play a significant part in the tour.

In spite an injury list that includes Medley, Gregory, Piatt and Stephenson too, the Great Britain side to meet Central Queensland at Rockhampton today looks reasonably powerful with Hanley and Hughes at half-back and Ward and Beard-more in the front row. Les Bettinson, the manager, has found consolations. While the back division the management had in mind for the Tests before the tour started had now practically disappeared, the emergence of other players had been the bonus. Phil Ford had been one of the "major successes" of the tour. Paul Lough-lin had "come through" well while David Hulme was "getting better with every Oldham have transfer-listed their Great Britain prop, Hugh Waddell, at 90,000 following his remarks that the club had not treated him fairly.

Engineer MikeSmith fJi te England's opener is given lbw edge of Hooper's bat 21 for 0, had become 54 for five, and it was heady stuff. However, the old English disease, dropped catches, has not entirely been eradicated and when Pringle, the latest recruit to first slip, missed a sharp chance offered by Logie when he had only 10, it should have been 61 for six. Instead, Logie, nervously at first he was playing, not only for his team, but his place although with great assurance later, defended studiously, but dispatched the bad ball to the boundary. So his fifty, from 65 balls, contained 12 boundaries, Indies, writes Michael Henderson. Keith Boyce, the groundsman, has found cracks in the original Test wicket, which he dug up and relaid last year.

The new pitch, nearer the pavilion, has a chequered history. Pakistan won the Scoreboard Britannic Assurance County Championship ESSEX GLOUCESTERSHIRE ttfordt Essex (4pts), tollowing-on, are 140 runs behind Gloucestershire (8) with nine wickets standing. GLOUCESTERSHIRE Flrat Inning (overnight: 361-8) tR Russell Lllley Miller 64 Lawrence Border Miller 10 Alderman not out 1 Extras (b4, lb12, w4, nb2) 22 Total Fall of wicket conti 359. 361. 370 Bowllngt Lever 23-5-84-2: Foster 26-4-99-3: Topley 19-2-S9-2; Childs 18-6-54-3; Miller 24.1-7-44-3: Stephenson 3-0-14-0.

ESSEX First innings ft Hardie Stovold Alderman 18 Stephenson Athey Alderman 1 Prichard Curran Alderman 8 "A Border Ibw Alderman 14 A Lllley not out 80 Miller Athey Lawrence. 8 a roster oiovoio uurran a tD East Lawrence Curran Topley Stovold Curran Lever Russell Alderman- Childs Ibw Alderman Extras (Ib11, nb7) 18 Total (68 overs)- 188 Fan of wicket) 18. 24. 40, 51. 74.

83, 83, 188, 188. BowHngi Lawrence 19-6-58-1: Alderman 19-6-41-6: Curran 16-4-28-3; Lloyds io-o-43-o; eraveney 4-0-7-0. ESSEX Second Innings a naraie not out. 24 Stephenson Ibw Alderman IB Prichard not out 2 Extras 1 .0 Tolal (tor 1) 41 ran vi nwnvi Umpires: 8atderstone and Lyons. HAMPSHIRE MIDDLESEX Basingstoke: Hampshire (4pts) lead Middlesex (4) by 213 runs with three second innings wickets standing.

HAMPSHIRE First innings 136 (ARC Fra- ser 34. Cowans 33). MIDDLESEX First innings (overnight: 121-7) Hughes run 34 ARC Fraser A Smith Connor 18 Cowans not out Tulnell ParkeB Connor 2 Extras (Ib4. nb10) 14 Total. 140 Fan of wickets conti 20.

36. 67. 78. 86. 86, 96, 147, 147.

Bowlingi Andrew 18-10-24-2; Connor 21.5-4-61-4: Ayllng 12-1-39-3; Maru 4-1-5-0; James 4-0-14-0; Smith 1-0-2-0. HAMPSHIRE Second Innlno Terry Ibw Fraser- 8 18 48 18 83 12 10 20 Smith Carr Tufnell Nicholas Olley Tutnell-R A Smith Cowans Turner not out- 0 James Ibw Fraser tR Parks Parr Fraser Ayllng Brown Fraser. Maru not Extras (bS, Ib10. nb5) Total (lor 71. ri 228 Fan of wiekstsi 17.

34, 56, 173, 182. 184. 203. Umpfmi Hampshire and White. Second XI Championship Studleyi Yorkshire 325-5 (N Nicholson 139 no.

Kellett 70. Parker 50) and 62-2. Warwickshire 276-6 dec (S Green 101, 0 RatcllHe82). Hovei Sussex 251-8 dec (0 Standing 65, Bickell 56; Shine 5-69) and 103-5 (R Scott 4-21). Hampshire 182 (M O'Connor 52; A Bablngton 5-67, Pringle 5-40).

BaNngt Middlesex 344-4 dec (I Hutchinson 158, A Roseberry 69, Pooley 63 no) and 53-0. Essex: 339-7 dec (K Butler 110, Leppard 93). Sid Tratfordi Northamptonshire 179 and 3-0; Lancashire 334 (N Speak 70 0 Lloyd 68 Abrahams 55). Bristob Derbyshire 295 (C Adams 68; Adams 5-103) end 26 lor 0. Gloucestershire 287 (M Pooley 52; Jean-Jacques 5-52).

Canterbury! Kent 291 (P Farbrace 100, Fleming 58: Palmer 4-103) and 150-6 (T Ward 83 no): Somerset 300-3 dec (M Douglas 152 no, Ball 60, Towneend 50). Ooraelnoni Glamorgan 338-6 dec and 17-0. Leicestershire 256 (S Watxln 6-70). David Foot at Basingstoke HAMPSHIRE start the day with an unlikely lead of 213. For that they must be grateful to David Turner, who in his 23rd season of championship cricket looks as sprightly as ever.

He is 93 not out, close to his 27th hundred for his county. The significant stand, of 117, came from Nicholas and Turner. Nicholas stayed with immense discipline for three hours and 40 minutes to score 48 and frustrate Middlesex. Turner remained to dominate the evening cricket without too much flourish or excitement, but with a great deal of innate character. Turner is a small, pragmatic batsman with no more than token backlift.

Yet his drives and pulls are propelled by the sheer power of his sturdy forearms and biceps. He has 13 boundaries so far, and has been at the wicket for 225 precious moments. It was hard to know what Gatting was thinking as the Lord's score came over the for a duck of which nine came off Small, as he strayed both ways in length. Dujon, too an elegant, talented player who has probably under-achieved was not afraid to go for his shots, reasoning that if he let the bowlers dictate, his demise would only be a matter of time. Logie was missed again when on 55, this time by Downton, and Dujon, on 42, saw Gooch at second slip juggle desperately before spilling the chance.

Both times, Jarvis was the unlucky bowler. Dujon reached his own fifty when he punched his eighth Test on it last summer by an innings and 18 runs after making 353. In April it was used successfully for a Benson and Hedges match but there was another chorus of disapproval after last month's low-scoring Texaco Trophy KENT LANCASHIRE Tunbridga Wollu Lancashire (5pts) lead Kent (7) by 37 runs with live second-innings wickets standing. LANCASHIRE First Innings 199 (C Cow-drey 4-36; Pienaar 4-77). KENT First Innbios (overnight: 120-3) Tavare Wasim Akram 83 Davis Hegg Allotl 4 Cowdrey Hughes Allott 8 Cowdrey Watkinson Allott 37 Benson Watkinson 48 tS A Marsh Hegg Allott 8 Penn Ibw Watkinson 8 Harman not out Extras (IM3.

w2. nb6) 21 Total (98.3 overs) 252 Fail or WKxeis conn ih, iw, m.tn.tji. 246. Bowlingi Allott 36.3-9-86-6: Wasim Akram 27-9-441; Watkinson 27-6-76-2; Simmons 8-2-33-1. LANCASHIRE Second innlnss Mendls Cowdrey Pienaar 18 1 Fowler Cowdrey Penn 8 Jesty not out 28 Fairbrother Marsh Cowdrey 12 Watkinson Tavare Penn 4 Hughes Davis Cowdrey 4 Wasim Akram not out 11 Extras (Ib4.

w1, nb1) 8 Total (tor 5) 80 Fan of wickets: za. a. it, si. Umpire! A A Jones and Meyer. i LEICESTERSHIRE GLAMORGAN Leicester) Leicestershire (6pts) are B1 runs ahead ot Glamorgan (5) with all second-innings wickets standing.

LEICESTERSHIRE. First innings 313-7 dec (L Potter 96. Whitaker 68). GLAMORGAN First Innings (overnight: 12-1) A Hopkins Whitaker Ferris 71 tC Metson Agnew 27 Morris Cobb Lewis 1 Maynard Whitticase Lewis 8 A Cottey Whitticase Lewis 18 Ontong not out 88 Thomas Ferris 24 Derrick Agnew Van Zyl Ferris 5 Barwlck Whitticase Ferris Extras (bl. Ib8, W3, nb10) 22 Total (95.4 overs) 248 FaU of wleketsi 11.

59, 60. 68. 118. 180. 235.

236, 246. BowHngi Ferris 26.4-9-51-4; Agnew 36-8-94-3; Lewis 23-7-55-3; Taylor 9-2-51-0; Willey 1-0-6-0. LEICESTERSHIRE Second innings A Cobb 2 12 14 Briers- Total (lor 0) Umpires! Oslear and Bond. YORKSHIRE WARWICKSHIRE Headlngleyi Warwickshire (4pts) require 94 runs to beat Yorkshire (5) with eight second-innings wickets standing. VORKSHIRIFltst Innings 163 (D Byas 57; A A Donald 5-67).

WARWICKSHIRE. First innings 81 (C Shaw 4-17). YORKSHIRE Second innings A A Metcalfe Ibw Munton 28 Byas Humpage Donald 8 Sharp Donald Love Moles Parsons Robinson Ibw Munton 13 I Swallow Munton 8 tD Balrstow Donald 10 Carrlck Munton 1 0 A Sldebottom Donald 18 Dennis not out 14 Shaw Humpage Smith 2 Extras (Ib9, wl, nb1) 11 Total. 123 FaB of wktketst 28, 30, 30, 43, 58, 61, 85. 89, 10s.

Bowlingi Donald 22-9-36-4; Munton 25-12-35-4; Parsons 11-2-35-1. Smith 3.5-1-8-1. WARWICKSHIRE Second inning A Lloyd Shaw 48 A Moles Ibw Sldebottom 43 Asll Din not out 12 A Munton not Extras (b4, lb2, nb2) 8 Total (tor 2) 112 PaR of wtefcatsi 83, 112. Umpire Blrkenahaw and Hassan. Tour Match Chatowortki Aboriginal XI 251-5 (J Marsh i ogiger J), cnatiwonn House xi 10 (, Pearce 4-0).

Aboriginal XI won by 173 rune" PHOTOGRAPH: FRANK BARON four, off the back foot, through extra cover. By now Emburey had been compelled to bowl himself and, what became the last ball before tea, paid dividends. Dujon, perhaps playing with over-exaggerated caution, squeezed the ball between bat and pad gently on to his stumps. At 199, Logie smashed a long-hop to square cover off Small, Marshall edged to second slip and Ambrose clipped off his legs to Gower. Finally, after what seemed an eternal last-wicket stand, Small knocked back Patterson's middle stump.

It was, it seemed, the only way. Though the Test and County Cricket Board declared itself satisfied with the wicket Harry Brind, groundsman at The Oval, was co-opted to help prepare the Test pitch. Headingley comes off the automatic Test list in 1990. SOMERSET SUSSEX Bath! Sussex (4pts) lead Somerset (5) by 56 runs with nine second-innings wickets standing. SUSSEX First Innlna (overnight: 286-6) tl Gould not out 69 Kimber not out 32 Extras (Ib4, nb14) 18 Total (tor 6 dec) 320 Bowling: Jones 13-3-36-1; Mallender 24-6-75-1; Rose 19-6-63-1: Waugh 3-1-10-0; Scriven 32-6-71-0; Marks 34-11-61-2.

SOMERSET First Innings Hardy Green Bunting Wyatt A Wells Wells Barllett A Wells Wells Waugh Clarke ti Pringle Green Burns Clarke Rose not out Merks not out Extras (bl, Ib5) 1 16 38 137 40 13 10 15 8 278 Fall of wleketsi 1, 43. 62, 184, 205, 258 iuu overs: b. Bowlingi Threllall 8-2-13-0; Bunting 16-6-48-1: Wells 18-4-50-2; Kimber 13-4-28-0; Clarke 35.5-6-90-2; Green 15-2-41-1. SUSSEX Second innings I Alikhan not out A Green Ibw Marks-Extras 2 10 Total 1 wkt 12 Fall of wlckots: 12. Umpires! Evans and Julian.

Other matches SURREY CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY TtM Oval! Surrey lead Cambridge University by 53 runs with all their second-innings wickets standing. SURREY. First innings 309-3 dec (P Atkins 114. Thorpe 100 no). CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY First Innings (ovsmlgnb B-O) Turner Brown Thorpe 9 Moyes Gray.

38 A Atherlon Peters Bullen 88 Tremellen and Bullen is Atkinson Bullen 73 Heath Thorpe Bullen 13 Bate Bullen Kendrick 2 A Pointer not out 12 Extras (bl. Ib9. wl. nb7) 18 Total (for 7 dec)- 288 Fall of wickets: 30. 94.

148. 189. 247, 252 266. Bowlingi Gray 17-10-17-1; Blcknell 16-5-42-0; Peters 13-2-32-0; Thorpe 6-1-17-1; Kendrick 26.5-6-92-1; Bullen 18-4-56-4. SURREY Second Innings Blcknell not out Bullen not out 5 Extras Total (lor 0) 10 Umpires! Rhodes and Palmer.

OXFORD UNIVERSITY NOTTS The Parku Oxlord University are 177 behind Nottinghamshire with seven first-Innings wickets standing. NOTTINGHAMSHIRE First Inning (overnight: 350-7) Birch not out 114 tC Scott ret hurt 20 Saxelby not out 8 Exlras (b3, Ib6. W11, nb12) 32 Total (lor 7 dec) 408 Bowling: Sygrove 32-2-112r2; Henderson 14-0-92-1; Nutlall 25-5-77-1; Crawley 10-3-37-0; Weale 30-9-74-2; Kllborn 2-0-4-0. OXFORD UNIVERSITY Flrat inning A Almaer Ibw Evans A Crawley Ibw Evans Kllborn Millns A Hagan not out Brown not 21 88 78 16 8 IB Extras (b8, IbS. w4).

Total (for 3). FaH of wkketsi 70, 190, 221. Umpire! Wight and Eele. Minor CountHM Championship Sidmouthi Cheshire 226-3 dee (I Cockbaln 80 no) and 269-5 (I Cockbaln 119, NT O'Brien 58 no, Wood 54). Devon 227-8 dec (D Wal-len 99 Gsywood 53) and 147 (Q O'Brien 4-32, Boocock 4-57).

Cheshire won by 121 run. YORKSHIRE, concerned that Headingley's controversial wicket will attract renewed criticism and worried about its future as a venue for international cricket, have switched pitches for next month's fourth Test against West of gold an option," said Duff of the HBO deal. He will try to get the American TV network to bring the fight to Britain, but he is not very hopeful. Before that the Korean has to be faced in a mandatory challenge, and he has won 25 of his professional fights, 17 inside the distance. The 27-year-old South African welterweight Brian Baronet was still in a coma last night after being knocked out in Tuesday's fight against the American Kenny Vice in Durban.

Doctors have confirmed that Baronet is brain-dead but his family want him kept alive on life-support systems. Sport in brief Athletics Judy Oakes, Britain's longest-serving international, has withdrawn from the team to face the Soviet Union and France at Portsmouth on Sunday in protest at the sum she receives for her trust fund, writes John Rodda. She asked for her payment category to be revised from 300 to the "up to 1,000" group, but was told negotiations are conducted only with the leading competitors. She will be replaced by a Croydon club-mate, Margaret Lynes. Rowing The Hungarians have entered an eight for the Grand at Henley Regatta, from June 29 July 3 their first appearance since 1906.

They join a record entry of 386 crews, including Olympic teams from Britain, Australia, Canada and the United States. Show Jumping John Whitaker, on Next Milton, beat his younger brother, Michael, riding Next Amanda, to win the Daily Mail Cup, the first big prize of the Royal International Horse Show at Birmingham, last night with the faster of two clear rounds in a six-horse barrage. Sailing Olivier Moussy of France, in the 60ft trimaran, Laiterie Mont St Michel, finished second in the Carlsberg Singlehanded Transatlantic race, in 11 days 4 hours 17 minutes. Boxing Britain's Olympic squad for Seoul contains only four ABA champions. OLYMPIC SQUAD.

Eaton (HohMIV): tyen (fly): Devaney (bantam); (leather): Km (lloht): I (light-welter): WoodaB (llghwnldd)); ineavyj. John Rodda JAM tomorrow, so often on offer to fighters, was the option accepted yesterday by Lloyd Honeyghan, Britain's world welterweight champion. He could earn around Z'A million in the next two defences of his title, but the larger slice is on offer for the second contest, and that is not a cast-iron certainty. Mickey Duff, his manager, explained from Florida the simple steps his fighter has to take to become rich and a double world champion. Honeyghan, defend- Rugby League Currier fills the Paul Fitzpatrick in Brisbane ANDY CURRIER, the Widnes centre, is the replacement for Garry Schofield, whose tour ended 22 minutes into the match against Combined Queensland on Wednesday when he suffered a depressed fracture of the cheekbone.

The tall Widnes centre will leave England on Monday, arrive here on Wednesday and will be pressed into action with a game against Wide Bay at Gympie next Saturday. Currier, 23, played twice for the Great Britain Under-21 side against France in 1984 but then disappeared from the international stage. But he excelled last season as Widnes won the championship. Although morale remains high, a siege mentality is beginning to creep into the British camp. Life refuses to run a smooth course and the loss of Schofield has been a particularly savage blow.

Schofield had an operation yesterday and will return home on Tuesday. The expected recovery time is eight weeks, Derek Underwood Farokh Yorkshire Warwickshire Funny peculiar loudspeaker. When the West Indies were 55 for five, the crowd gasped. The Middlesex captain was momentarily introspective, looking at the ground. Then he clapped his hands in urgency: "Come on, lads, keep working On the announcement that the tourists were all out, Gatting led the applause.

He was no doubt equally generous of spirit when it came to Fraser. The tall, penetrative seamer had taken four for 47 by the close. He had Turner caught off a no-ball; he kept attacking the stumps, and dismissed both Ayling and Parks with balls that moved away. Tufnell, meanwhile, produced some occasional turn like the ball which accounted for Nicholas. Middlesex had ended their first innings with a lead of only 13 runs, as Connor, Ayling and Andrew shared the Hughes may have met with meagre success when it came to bowling, but he finished up top scorer for his side before being unluckily run out.

There is plenty left to play for today. disregard for the script, the two Andys set off at four an over against wayward bowling. Side-bottom passed Moles's edge on one occasion only: otherwise he, Dennis and Shaw, demons on Wednesday, were obliging angels. Shaw eventually found a way through Lloyd's defences when the partnership had realised the best stand of the game. Moles followed for 43, leg before to Sidebottom, but Asif looked no less comfortable than the openers before the gloom returned.

So how bad is this pitch? Lloyd said at the end of an eventful opening day, when 20 wickets fell, that a different Warwickshire would stand up in the fourth innings as batsmen came to terms with a wicket that demanded constant vigilance. The captain was good as his word, striking 49 from 96 balls with six boundaries. He and Moles came to terms, all right. Yorkshire merely came to grief, bowled out for. 123 as Donald completed the match with nine for 93 and Munton, hardly the king of seamers, ripped out the heart of Yorkshire manhood.

Michael Henderson at Headingley SOMETHING very peculiar happened here last night. In light not appreciably brighter than that which persuaded Yorkshire's 10 and jack to take an early tea, against an attack wmcn naa dismissed them for 81 on the first day, and on a pitch which had nelped their own oowiers shoot out Yorkshire for a season's lowest score, the Warwickshire openers nut together 93 crucial runs. When they resume this morn ing at 112 for two, Warwickshire require another 94 to record their fourth win of the season. Hopes of a Yorkshire victory which would be their first in this season's championship are not without foundation: the first 30 wickets tumbled in 164 overs, so there is plenty of scope for embarrassment. Warwickshire, remember, lost at Northampton after making the home side follow on.

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