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THE GUARDIAN Thursday June 30 1988 SPORTS NEWS 15 Cricket uugjOairndl Oookonug too OdditqCis ditq aurornxDoair Mike Svey at Old Traffbrd reluctant to dwell on the past, believing this to be bad psychology. There is some justification for this. Since England beat West Indies here in 1969, there wickets in a 10-wicket win and three years later a further 10. Those were different times, of course, before the heavy artillery, and yet the last time West Indies played a Test here, in 1984, it was not Holding, Garner or Marshall who applied the coup de grace on their innings win, but Roger Harper with six for 57. Only in the carnage of 1976 were spinners forgotten.

Had the situation been different, this would have led to encouraging noises about West Indian weakness against spin, England's chance to get stuck in, and so on. But the selectors have had limited options in finding a suitable second spinner to complement Emburey. Their search took in such youngsters as David Graveney (35), Eddie Hemmings (39) and, honestly, Norman Gifford, who is 48. In the event, they opted for Nick Cook, who, during twelfth-man duties for Northants, promptly turned his ankle on a boundary rope rather more deftly than he has done the ball on occasions. After a try-out yesterday, he was forced to withdraw.

So, almost certainly, into the final 11 today comes the left-armer, John Childs, a ruddy-faced, amiable Devonian who is almost 37, which would make him the oldest England debutant since another Essex spinner, Peter Smith, in 1949. ALL YESTERDAY afternoon, the heavy green tarpaulin covers lay over the square prepared for the third Test as tection against the heavy rain showers that split the sunshine. So the secret that lies beneath will not be revealed to general gaze until this morning. Earlier, though, before the England team had arrived, the West Indies manager, Jackie Hendriks, had enjoyed a glimpse and his verdict, must have filtered through, for at the England practice there was little doubt what they at least expected to find. Before a final thunder shower put paid to proceedings, spinners toiled, while the quick men ran in and bowled on their own.

If there is a Test ground in the country likely to offer assistance to the spinners, it is Old Trafford, and matches there this season seem to confirm that things are not about to change. Five first-class games so far this year have seen 124 wickets, and 54 have gone to the tweakers, one of the highest percentages of any ground. Curiously, too, in view of the nature of West Indies attacks in recent times, the spinners have played part when they have been here. Twenty five years ago, Lance GIdds took 11 Kent Essex frw-Trwimr-i4 uuwurtmrwrx i-rrTmriT-mr-. -tmwt wa MsK3-8Sg? mmrmmxss PHOTOGRAPH: GARRY WEASER First-day fever spectators sport natty headgear, oarsmen row energetically, and hospitality comes in style at Henley Wonder of a world that time forgot Border sweetens ttaste edge of the enclosures up the Wargrave Road; the band of the Grenadier Guards forced to update their repertoire with the odd new-fangled number such as the Flower Drum Song.

But the essence of the place is quite unchanged. Everyone seems to be in soft focus and moving at a stately pace. One half expects to overhear earnest discussions about the gold standard or the inevitability of airships. Actually, it is the usual boring rubbish about property prices, but never mind. Certainly, people are dressed for the Twenties.

Miniskirts are forbidden in the enclosure and several wearers were turned away yesterday, muttering or screaming. But really the women look much as they do at Ascot, except maybe more bored. The men are amazing. The more conservative dress as though the Mauritania had just passed through Biscay and it Ian Ridley at Canterbury THERE WAS Australian Coolibah honey for tea at the St Lawrence Ground yesterday. Kent knew Allan Border was coming but they could not have anticipated him staying around as long as he did.

The home side trotted out at 11am with a jauntiness that comes from leading the championship after six consecutive wins. At 11.07, having dismissed both Essex openers for only five, Kent's step was even more sprightly as Border trudged in. The former did the Warwickshire Lancashire by 'unsporting' protest Secret life of A Moles, 11 1 5 have been three Tests between the sides on this ground. In 1976, West Indies won by 425 runs; 1984 saw a margin of an innings and 64; the other was drawn. Six West Indian centuries have been registered to England's one; three West Indians have taken five or more wickets and not one Englishman has done so.

They will not mind looking back. This time round, West Indies may have one problem with their side. Desmond Haynes, so often Greenidge's opening partner, strained a thigh muscle at the weekend and is a doubtful starter. If so, Richie Richardson may well be promoted into the breach and Roger Harper into the side. He is bowling badly at the moment, but psychologically his performance here last time ah, sorry, we don't dwell in the past do we? MOUND (from).

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wnoroev, wam, RrttSffOOAj Umsriraei ComUnt and Plows, It was a thoroughly pleasing day for Essex, who on this evidence looked more likely champions than Kent, their bowling limitations exposed as they failed to pitch the ball up, a simple tactic that had brought them their early successes. True, they do not have to confront men such as Border, whose fourth century of the season it was, each day but on paper they appeared the stronger. Six of the seven players who missed the match against West Indies last week returned. The TCCB had asked them to explain their weak side; Kent say they have medical trouble without him on this green, difficult wicket which caused Lancashire to leave out their slow bowler Folley the day after his six for 20. Hayhurst dismissed Moles on the dreaded 222 when the ball cut away and he had to play.

The fast bowler then had 18-year-old Simon Green lbw first ball, which was no way to treat a promising debutant, and Small brilliantly caught by Al-lott. Hayhurst had a four-for-nine spell; Allott was well worth his three wickets. Warwickshire were all out for 234, disappointing after an opening stand of 96 between Moles and Lioya. Scoreboard Brttannle County Championship OLOUCESTEMiilRB HAMPSHIRE Qtouoeeten Hampshire (4pls) are 292 runs behind Gloucestershire (4) and have eight llrst-lnnlngs wickets In hand. OLOUCMTKBSHIItB Rfst hwtlnfla) A Stovold Andrew.

as 13 S3 43 48 30 72 84 1 as .307 A Wright Parks Jeffries- Romalnes Parks Connor Athey A Smith Ayling. Bafnbrldgs Parks Ayling Curran Ayling Lloyds Parka Andrew tR Russell Mam Ayling Lawrence st Parks Maru Alderman not out- Extras (b6, loll. w2, nb9) Total (for 9 dec, 88.4 overs). FaH of wfckatat 26, 31 56, 111, 113, 178,219, 299,307. Boarllitai Andrew 14-9-80-2; Connor 19-4-76-1; Jellries 20-2-76-1: Ayling -5-7-4; Maru 12.4-2-31-1.

HAMPSHIRE Terry Athey Lawrence. Smith Lawrence Maru not out A Connor not out Extras (nbl) 4 a i i is Total (tor 2, overs) FaH of wietalai 10, IS. To ball 'M Nicholas, A Smith, Turner. Ayling, 8 Jeffries. tR Parks, Andrew.

Umpkraai Dudlestone and Shepherd KENT ESSEX CanlMburirt Essex (3pts) scored 330 runs In their first Innings against Kant (2). Stephenson Oavls Elllson-B Hardis Ibw.b Penn 4 45 Prlchard Davis. A Border Cowdrey Davis 108 A Lllley run out 10 0 Pringle Cowdrey Ellison- 13 Fletcher Marsh Plenaar as Mller Plenaar 10 A Foster Ward Davis 91 fA Brown not out 2 Layer Tavara Plantar 1 Extras (bl. 107. wl.

nbt) 14 Total. MO of wfeketn 6. 5, 81. 92, 117. 251, 305, 307.

328. Seen arfter 100 oversi 273-S Bassllnai Penn 27-9-69-1; Ellison 21-8-47-2: Cowdrey 18-6-45-0; Plenaar 23.3-8-86-3: Davis 17-4-66-3; Cowdrey KENT. Taylor, Plenaar, Hlnks. Tavara, Cowdrey. 'C Cowdrey.

Ward. tS A Marsh, Ellison, Penn, Davis. The England management is trudging at the close, however, Border having scored 168 of Essex's 330 all out. It was an outstanding innings that ran the gamut of batting skills and temperament. At first grit and graft were needed, with the ball moving in the humid atmosphere on a greenish and cracking pitch that looked worse than it was to play.

As the day became sunnier so Border blossomed, pulling, hooking and driving handsomely. His first fifty took 158 balls, his second 101, his third a mere 53, that one including 11 of the 27 fours he hit. He batted for all but 19 minutes of the proceedings. sorely needed a coat of paint; but it had a certain dilapidated charm in this informal, quirky setting where spectators were apt to stretch forward and field the ball prematurely and one Lancashire player at long leg simultaneously supervised his laundry, drying on the fence. Andy Moles was the century-maker.

He is a product of local works and league cricket and it is hard to tell that this is only his third season with Warwickshire. He minimises risk and relishes the extra demands on him when the ball is seaming. His hundred took him 250 minutes, with 16 boundaries. His county would have been in three wickets had gone down on the slow morning for 100. The final stand featured the wicketkeeper Jack Russell, who made a career-best 72 before being caught in the slips off Jonathan Ayling, who finished with four for 57 off 23 overs.

Yorkshire's seventh-wicket pair, David Bairstow and Arnold Sidebottom, put on 66 in 23 overs to take their side to 187 all out after a perilous start against Middlesex at Lord's. After being put in Yorkshire were nine for three, then 84 for six at lunch. Sidebottom made 28 and Bairstow 41, but they were out within five deliveries and were followed two balls later by Chris Shaw. West Indies David Foot at Nuneaton DT WAS a day for superstitions, a silent ghostly bandstand on the mid-wicket boundary, and a homely, chubby cricketer who scored his second championship hundred on the ground where he used to play as a schoolboy. The superstitions surfaced when Warwickshire, who had been put in to bat, reached 222, and the double Nelson immediately accounted for five wickets.

There was audible relief when a single ended Nuneaton's white-flannelled witchery. As for the bandstand, it they are tucked away downstream on meadows belonging to fast-buck farmers. The largest advertising sign I saw all day said "Rotary Club of Film companies spend squillions of pounds to try and re-create an atmosphere like this, but it is un-buyable; it's bred in the bone. The embodiment of it all is Peter Coni QC, the regatta chairman. He was asked how many miniskirts had been turned away.

"I have no idea," he replied. "The chairman is not informed of these matters unless it's very exciting." But he was quite firm about the rule. "If women want to play the fool coming in clothing they know will not be admitted, I've got no sympathy for them. What's the next stage if you don't have rules? You have people stripping to the waist. It looks like Lord's or Wimbledon or something like that.

I've seen thejn on television. Ghastly." oars, preparing for this, and I have taken a month off work to do this. The cost to me must be 1,500." Rob Roy's exclusion removes one of the favourites from the Thames Cup. Brasenose face Clonmel RC of Ireland in the next round. Hartley Rogers, aged 61, Professor of Mathematics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an oarsman since he learned at Trinity College, Cambridge in 1946, stroked a crew at Henley for the first time yesterday.

The seven men behind him in the Charles River crew from Boston were less than half his age. Rogers is thought to be the oldest man ever to row at the Royal Regatta. their union beth. They will also play the Defence Force, Free State, Natal and Western Province. South Africa still hopes to stage a rugby tour in August and September with an overseas XV made up of players from Australia and France.

ENGLAND WEST INDIES 08984007O0 lneywellBull tuwruixn umurvci ocnviuci 0898100180 Lifffl.LauiJ From Dominic AUancfc GrahamRoope 0898400600 Engineer Mike Smith was calm enough for deck quoits. The less inhibited, competing to be as coquettish as possible, are in flippant shades of pink, or caps and blazers they could have worn for fifth-form Latin, and probably did. There are Americans, so English eccentricity is diluted in a way that does not happen at Lord's. But they all look as though they had moved on at dawn from one of Jay Gatsby's parties. How is President Coo-lidge these days? It is a semi-private world, which is why it works.

The armchair-bound nation is not hanging on the result of NatWest Bank Rowing Club Staines; and the news desk of the Sun does not despatch hordes of investigative reporters to discover whom Isis might be bonking. Rowing is simply not popular enough to be contaminated. There are the customary business entertainment tents, but entered the Thames Cup believing they were within the dictates of the entry requirements. "We consulted both the Amateur Rowing Association and Henley Royal Regatta Stewards and were left with no doubt as to the correctness of our entry. We are devastated that we have not been given the opportunity to prove ourselves where it counts on the water." Paul Schreier, one of the crew and an Australian engineering student at Queens', said: "For most of the guys in the boat it is half a year's training but for me this is a whole year's hard grind wasted.

We spent 2,100, plus the cost of hiring boats and Rugby Union US rebels defy AN AMERICAN side have defied their own union and arrive in South Africa today for a seven-match tour that could have serious repercussions with the Olympics less than three months away. Members of The Grizzlies, a team from the Pacific Coast, risk bans by undertaking the tour. But last night the president of the South African Rugby Board, Dr Danie Craven, was full of praise for the tourists. "I am most grateful to these men for sticking their necks out in making this tour possible," he said. On Monday a leading American rugby official was quoted as saying that an American team, or teams, would be doing themselves a disservice "if they went somewhere with a bad political It is believed that nine of the party attended last year's World Cup with the American Eagles.

There are also a number of South Africans in the tour party, including Graham Downes, a former South African Barbarian prop forward. The tourists play their first match on Saturday against Eastern Province in Port Eliza Irian Close Farokh Henley is quite different. The sporting goings-on have about as much appeal to television producers, the wider British public, and indeed many of those present, as Greco-Roman knur and spell. Even among world rowers the event is overshadowed by the Lucerne regatta next week. Because of this, rather than in spite of it, the atmosphere remains genuine and unaffected.

At Henley time has done its utmost to stop flying. In the Stewards' Enclosure or the drawing room of the Leander Club it could easily be 60 years ago: 1928 was another year of double-breasted jackets and capitalist triumphalism. Of course Henley has changed a bit: it is a little bigger now; the traffic jams are more horrendous (an hour from the outskirts of town); the strawberries and 'poo more expensive (worse than Wimbledon); the funfair pushed out from the outlawed cials had no option but to exclude Rob Roy. It was too late for substitutions to be made in the crew and too late to call in Bedford RC, the fastest crew who failed to qualify. Rob Roy could not even transfer to the more highly ranked Ladies' Plate.

The regatta was warned earlier that a complaint might be lodged. The Henley chairman, Peter Coni, said: "The regatta is aware that the informal complaint stemmed from another club than the one formally complaining. It deplores as most unsporting the way in which the formal complaint was left until after mid-day on Friday when its effect was to cancel the Rob Roy entry entirely. WARWICKSHIRE LANCASHIRE Nunealoni Rain stopped play. Lancashire (4pts) are 183 runs behind Warwickshire (2) and have eight first-innings wickets In hand.

WARWICKSHIRE Flrart Inning A Moles Hegg Hayhurst IIS 'T A Lloyd lbw Simmons 30 A Storey Hughes Allott tG Humpage Hegg Waslm Akram 81 A Smith lbw Waslm Akram A "Thome Haga Allott 81 Green lbw Hayhurst Small Allott Hayhurst A Merrick Jesty Allott A Munton not out Gifford Watklnson Hayhurst 3 Extras (b2, Ib13, w3, nb2) 80 Total (85.3 overs). .834 FaE of wlekatsi 98. 123, 180, 160. 222. 222, 222, 222, 222.

BowHnai Waslm Akram 19-4-48-2; Allott 24-8-59-3: Watklnson 18-2-82-0; Hayhurst 17.3-2-45-4; Simmons 3-0-7-1; Jesty 4-1-6-0. LANCASHIRE Firs bmfns Mendls Humpage Merrick 87 Fowler not 81 tW Hegg not out Extras (Ibl. nb2) 3 Total (for 1, 20 overs). SI To turn Jesty, Falrbrothsr. Watklnson, A Hayhurst, Hughes, Waslm Akram, Allott, Simmons.

Umairesi Birkensltaw and 0 Oslear Second Eleven Championship Bristol! Worcestershire 364-6 dec (D Leath-erdale 96, Tolley 76, Bavins 65no). Gloucestershire 38-2. Laleeeteri Nottinghamshire 307 for seven dec (O Martlndal 122no, Evans 63). Leicester 8 for 0. Todmordora Yorkshire 252 for nine dec (J Love 80, Maklnson 4-81).

Lancashire 10 (or 0. Ufor Essex 256 (K Butler 71, 0 Herman 6-68). Kent 34 for 2. Northampton! Middlesex 153 8 Hoffmen 4-32). Northerns 188 for 3 (D Wild 60 no).

Horahami Warwickshire 209. Sussex 79-4. Minor CotnttJaa Kklmora Bask Wales Minor Counties 118 for 9 deo (J Jones 4-48. Lewlngton 4-40) and 167 (N Roberts 70). Berkshire 131 for 5 dee (T Dodd SSno) end 184 tor 2 (G Lovsday 89).

Berkshire won by eight wkts. Today's fixture CORHHILL INSURANCE THIRD TUT (11.00 TraMoisk England West Indies. a A determined innings from John Hopkins In awkward conditions at Taunton helped Glamorgan, the bottom side, reach 182 for seven in 68 overs against Somerset before rain stopped play al tea-time. Geoff Holmes also dldfts bit with 46 not out. rsej or wwiww ai.

Nicholas catches a cold MattheW Engel A LARGE crowd made its way as usual to the banks of the Thames at Henley yesterday for the annual end-of-June booze-fest. On the river there was some rowing going on. Since the conjunction of these two events appears entirely coincidental, it is tempting for the newcomer to arrive at Henley and take the mickey. Quite wrong, though: it is wonderful. Wimbledon is one of the world's greatest sporting events, but as a traditional occasion it is almost entirely bogus: the grass is no longer a time-honoured eccentricity, it is a i narketing ploy.

Rob Roy Christopher Dodd at Henley HENLEY opened yesterday amid accusations of unsporting behaviour after a leading Cambridge eight were forced to withdraw from the Thames Cup following a complaint about the eligibility of their entry. Rob Roy Boat Club, including the Cambridge Blue Ian Clarke, withdrew following a protest by Brasenose College, Oxford that the Cambridge crew's accumulated qualifying points exceeded the event's limit. Because the protest came after the deadline for entries last Friday the regatta offi MIDDLESEX YORKSHIRE Lord's! Middlesex (Spts) are 16 runs behind Yorkshire (1) and have seven first-innings wickets in hand. YORKSHIRE First Innings I Swallow Daniel Byas Brown Cowans 4 A A Metcalfe lbw Daniel 0 Robinson Carr Hughes. Hartley Butcher Hughes 8 tD Bairstow Brown Fraser 41 Carrlck Rosebarry Cowans 24 A Sidebottom Carr Hughes 2 Hartley not out It Shaw Brown Fraser 0 Fletcher Butcher Cowans 16 Extras (bS, nb13) 21 Total (61.1 overs) 187 Fall of wicket 7, 9, 9, 38, S3, 84.

180, 154. 164. Bowllngi Cowans 15.1-3-39-3; Daniel 12-2-16-2; Fraser 16-2-86-2; Hughes 18-2-68-3. MIDDLESEX First Innings Slack not out- 6 ao as as 16 .171 Carr Bairstow Fletcher. A Rosebarry lbw Fletcher Butcher lbw Shaw tK Brown not out Extras (Ib7, wl, nb8) Total (for 3, 36 overs) FW at wlekata 44.

44. 81, To Bab I Hutchinson, Sykes, Hughes. ARC Fraser, Cowans, Daniel. Umpire! Wright and A While. SOMERSET GLAMOROAN Tauntoni Rain stopped play.

Glamorgan Opt) have scored 162 runs for seven wickets In their first Innings against Somerset (3). OLAMORQAN First Innings A Butcher Marks Rose 4 A Hopkins Foster 30 'H Morris Burns Marks 11 Maynard lbw Foster 0 Shastrl run out SO Holmes not out. Ontono Burns Foster. 17 0 a 26 Derrick Barflelt Marks tC Metson not out Extras (b1, IblO, wl, nb14) Total (for 7, 68 overs) 16t Fen of erlekoUi 19, 58. 56, 68.

112. 138, 141. To ban Watkln, Berwick. SOMBMET. 'P Roebuck, Hardy, Wyatt, 3 Waugh, Bartletr, Marks, tN Burns.

Rose, A Mallerider, A Jones, Foster. Umpire Bond and A Whlthead Phil Edmonds, the former England spinner, Is looking forward to providing his old partner John Emburey with 100 bottles of champagne after he has led England In the third Test against the West Indies at Old Trattord. That Is the prize Edmonds' newly-acquired Slocks Hotel and Country Club Is offering to the first spinner taking live wickets In an Innings. And Edmonds ssys: "I'll be delighted if an English spinner wins, especially it It's 'Embers IT WAS not a good day for Hampshire's captain, Mark Nicholas, whose decision to ask Gloucestershire to bat went awry as the home side reached 307 for nine to take maximum batting points. By then Nicholas had retired to bed with a chill and a high temperature, handing over the captaincy to Paul Terry.

He will have derived no comfort from the later news that his two opening batsmen, Terry and Chris Smith, had fallen to David Lawrence for 15. The anticipated seamers' wicket at Gloucester eased considerably in the afternoon and the home batsmen managed stands of 55, 65 and 80 after Coni exonerated Brasenose, who knew nothing of the discrepancy until Tuesday, but condemned the "member of another club" who masterminded the protest. Coni stressed that Rob Roy's entry was made in good faith and explained the difficulty of checking the new status rules. "It is not a question of cheats being found out. But they have been singularly dozy." The Stewards, he said, warned Rob Roy before entries closed that an informal complaint had been made about their status.

The Rob Roy crew argued that they were the victims of a grudge. They said tney had Henley results LADIES' CHALLENGE PLATE (Holders: University of London). First round! eantS (Aus) bt Hereford easily, 6mln 43sec; Harvard Unlv (US) bt Qulnlin easily, Union USA bt Favorite Hammonia (WG) 2'4 lengths, Durham Unlv bt Princeton Univ (US) 1 31. Thames A bt Elizabethan 11,1, Neptune (Ire) bt Upper Thames 22I, Vancouver (Can) bt Orange Coest Coll (US) 2SI, Unlv Got), Oarway (Ire) bt Princeton Unlv (US) OokfJ bt Edinburgh Univ 33I, Argonaut (Can) bt Thames easily, 7:10. THAMES CHALLENGE CUP (Holders: Unlv College, Galway).

First round! University Coll Oxford bt ausen's Unlv Belfast 5 lengths (no time taken); Imperial Coll London bt Trinity Hall Cambridge 33I. 7mln 12sec; Pomfrat School (US) bt Royal Chester 2iol. 7:25: BMfast bl Reading Univ sl. Brssanoe CoO Oxford rowed over Rob Roy (scr); Thames Tradesmen bt Upper Thames 21, London bt University Coll London s4l, rUnseton A bt Oriel Coll Oxford II, Bedford bt Clsre, Cambridge Downing Coif, Cent-bride Et Durham Unlv 31. CRy of Oxford bt Kingston 21, Thames A bt Bedford A 43,1, 7:11: FItxwIalani Coll, Cambridge, bt Charles River RA (US) easily, Harlow bt Thamas Tradesmen A 2'jl.

Thames bt Oxford Unlv Lightweight 13,1, FumivaM bt Molssey al, 7:14. VISITORS' CHAUENOB CUP (Holders: Imperial Coll, London). First round! Tutano Unrv (US) bt Imperial Coll, London WVFOLB CHALLENGE CUP (Holders: Nottinghamshire Co RA). First roundi Theme Tradesmen A bt Walbrook easily. 7mln 37ssc; laarisw bt City of Oxford 23 lengths, Leander bt Upper Thames 2 al, 7:63: Nottmoriernshlr Go bt Reading Unlv easily, Stain bt National Westminster Bank 41,1, Walton bt Kingston 21.

Unhr of London bt Syracuse Unlv (US) easily, HatriHua bt Lea 41, NorUngham A Unkm bl Henley 11. NotttaoJismsMr Co A bt Walllngtord easily. 7:40: Lea A bt Hereford easily, Hotearerty bt Qulnlin A 21,1, 8:05: Imperial CoH London bt Star easily. Star A Arrow bt Thames Tradesmen 1'al. 7:44: Oetfeahe Studiitsn RL (Neth) bt aulntin easily, Imperial GoH London A bt Vancouver (Can) 13,1, 7:47.

BRITANNIA CHALLENGE CUP (Holders: Lea RC). First roundi Thame Tradesmen bt Sons of the Themes by 7:43. La A bt Isle by 13,, 7:49. DIAMOND CHALLENGE SCULLS (Holder: P-M Kolbe, Ruder-Club, Hamburg, WG). Firs roundi I Law (St Andrew) bt A Reynolds (Imperial Coll London) 3 lengths, 8mln 52sec; Harrl (Nottinghamshire Co) bt Ashmoro (St Ives) esslly.

8:50: A I pean, Aus) esslly, tbm (Kooisnz hh. WG) bt Hayes (Kingston) Poaoeutt (Thames Tradesmen) bt Allen (Chrlstchurch) esslly, 6.69; 8 ChmM (Thames Tradesman) bt Hor-roeks (Birmingham) 21, Chmlel (Thames Tradesmen) bt Horrocks (Birmingham) by 21, 9:09. BAOoway (Tideway Scullers' School) bt Nlcoll (Weybrldge) 331, 9:17. iNewsrK) Dt usunoon (cssex, uoj ai, The Guardian Cricketline England vs V4 Third Ifest The latest score plus comment and analysis on the important developments by ex-England cricketer Graham Roope. Updated every 15 minutes.

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