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THE GUARDIAN Friday July 1 1988 SPORTS NEWS 19 Cricket Third Tests England West Indies, first day The sourpusses sneer as the cream curdles very UrogDasIh) coDDapse wBtilhi ou eiKCoase in the 15 minutes that they had to bowl at West Indies, when Mike Selvey at Old Trafford Michael Henderson seeks refuge in Old Trafford's pavilion bar as the members vent their scorn on the day's miserable batting ing the order by throwing Moxon in," Watson said. He acknowledged, however, that even on a placid wicket, the know-how of the West Indian bowlers would surface. "Gooch was the only man to look the part but, being such a good player, they have obviously devised a method for him. At Lord's they pinned him down successfully and here he got himself out again. It's the same with Lamb: he gets his offside runs from the cut, but the first time he cut today he got out." Even without the talismanic Marshall the same mould as Lillee and Watson believes the West Indies would prevail.

"If you took him out, Walsh would pick it up, and you could select three from another four. I'm a bit disappointed they didn't pick Ian Bishop to replace Patterson. To my mind he's the best young prospect we have." Would Richards, Greenidge et al excel against their own bowlers? "Well, if you look at our last domestic season, there were some very low-scoring games. Patterson dominated, Walsh dominated, Ambrose dominated." Carlisle Best, top of the list of the men left behind, did as well as anyone. Only so much is down to talent.

There is also a greater willingness to give it early exposure. Michael Holding was 22 when he took 16 wickets at The Oval in 1976; Bishop is 20. Greg Thomas the ever-promising Greg Thomas is already 27. Carl Hooper, in whom the flame of Caribbean strokeplay glows, won immediate promotion from the youth team to the Test side. Matthew Maynard, a lesser player but a gifted one nevertheless, cannot even win a vote over Monte Lynch.

"From the moment a young player shows himself in a youth tournament he is targeted for ri ET us try and be kind in 1 1 these troubled times I Land say that England 1 J- an inauspicious start to the third Cornhill Test. No, let us be honest: it was worse than that. West Indies took just 60 overs and two balls of a rain-shortened day to bowl England out for a measly 135 runs. There is nothing new in England getting on the wrong side of a West Indies Test match. In the face of the relentless pounding from a predatory pace attack we have almost excused it.

But when you get taken on at your own game, in your own backyard, and stuffed, it really is a sorry state of affairs. England's batsmen were not blitzed: they were bowled out by four rather handy operators using English methods in English conditions. Frankly, given a placid pitch that afforded no more movement than one might expect on the first day of a Test, it was pathetic: a capitulation. Only once against West Indies in this country, when on this same ground 12 years ago they managed only 71, have England made fewer in their first innings. Yesterday's debacle was inexcusable and although Lord's, a fortnight ago, when West Indies recovered from 54 for five to win the game at a canter, shows that you can take nothing for granted, this match already has a different feel to it.

The felony was compounded ENGLAND First Innings A Gooch Dujon Benjamin-M Moxon Marshall 27 Gatting Ibw Marshall. I Gower Harper Walsh. A Lamb Greenldge Ambrose 33 capei Benjamin i IP Downton Greenidge Walsh 24 Emburey Dujon Walsh 1 A .1 DeFreitas Greenldge Amoross 18 Dilley Harper Walsh 14 Childs not out 2 Extras (Ib4, nb5) Total 135 Fan Of wickets; 12. 14, 33, SS, 61. 94.

98, 113, 123. Bowling: Marshall 12-5-19-2; Ambrose 17-5-35-2: Walsh 18.2-4-46-4; Benjamin 13-4-31-2. WEST INDIES First Innfnas Greenidge not out. Richardson not out- Total (for 0). Bowling to date! Dilley 2-1-4-0; Emburey 1-1-0-0.

Umpires: Constant and Plews. Kent Essex I ENJOY a good one-day game, I don't you?" said an execu- tive-box imbiber, when David Gower offered himself as a human sacrifice to Courtney Walsh at 12.15 here, have my wicket, it only a Test match the irony was not misplaced. They were no kinder in the pavilion. You didn miss a member told his mates. "Gatting performed his usual trick, and Gower tried to get out four times before he did.

Capel spent an hour for one." Is it me. or what? This doesn't feel like a Test match. We're supposed to be watching the cream of English batting, not Cheshire, and yet everything seems so lacklustre. It is not as if the ball has been up here and down there. England lose six men on something that is not remotely a fast bowler's wicket.

Then seven. Then all fall down. "Pitiful stuff. If this lot can't do it, then they must find batters who can. We must have a fresh start.

Who is this man Micky Stewart? He sounds like a football manager to me." All right, the Old Trafford pavilion has never been the first place to locate tolerance or a sense of proportion. As Graeme Fowler says in his recent book, "Getting some members to realise that a game wholly different to the one they are watching is taking place in the middle is like pleading with the tide not to come in." Usually the pavilion populace are heroic after pints. On this occasion the only thing they could be accused of was understatement. The best place to be yesterday afternoon was in the bar, glass in hand. You mean, you enjoy watching Paul Down-ton dig England out of a hole? There was a more considered view.

According to Chester Watson, who shared the new ball with Wes Hall on seven ap pearances tor West indies and is the current chairman of the Jamaican selectors, "England's batsmen are not deficient in technique but deficient in the ability to score They are deficient strategy too. "Once Broad was in the thirteen, he should have opened the innings instead of disturb PHOTOGRAPH: FRANK BARON offers a slip catch but Harper (foreground) and Richardson collide ing into him, Lamb, though, was carrying on from his 100 at Lord's. The only genuine boundaries of the innings thus far had been driven emphatically by him either side of straight when Benjamin for once over-pitched. Downton too got behind the line and fought, even adding a couple of meaty square cuts to the list. But the cut, too close and too high when the lanky Ambrose dropped short, was eventually min, who had until then ducked the ball into the batsman, tucking him up.

Nor did Capel last. Having thrown himself steadfastly forward to everything, he unaccountably went back to Benjamin and was bowled. The ball was shorter and nipped back, but you must be absolutely single-minded about these things. Apart from a worrying ten dency to try to cut the ball mov- Warwickshire Lancashire Waugh rounds off a June with his fourth century Ward and rain datken the gnome's Gooch at second slip dropped Greenidge off Dilley. Emburev.

showing enter prise, bowled the second over of the innings, and wouia nave been pleased to see some spin, but the damage may well have been done. That is to take nothing away from the West Indian seamers. One of the impressive features of the summer has been their obvious educational process, led by the magnificent genius of Malcolm Marsnau. it may seem sacrilegious to say it, but the class of '88 is starting to operate on a plane more subtle and adaptable than their illustrious predecessors. Yesterday the ball was pitched on a length, at essentially throttled-back fast-medium.

Change of pace, and movement, instead of pure pace, can be the key as well. One gets the impression, though, that England were ill prepared. When the covers were removed the pitch revealed a greenish tinge which immediately cast doubt on the two-seamer, So David Capel, as an all-rounder, had to play. A batsman therefore had to go, and Broad was the man. It can only have been panic Broad, even given his poor form recently, would not have been brought into the squad had it not been intended for him to open.

The toss was one that Emburey may well not have wanted to win, but in the context of five days, to take first knock at Old Trafford has to be the correct thing. But you do have the right as captain to expect your batsmen to display some semblance of technique aeainst the moving ball. "We know," Emburey said at Lord's, "that we have to get forward." He might have added that playing straight was pretty crucial too. Only Gooch, Lamb and later Downton showed anything approaching a respectable method. The rest was a catalogue of disaster.

Marshall inevitably, and embarrassingly, started the fun, pushing a perfectly straight ball through the gate that Mox-on's straight-leg prod had left, and then suckering Gatting lbw, stranded strokeless, bat aloft and pad out as in the old days. They both remember Lord's in 1984, when it happened twice, and this time Mar shall sunk to his knees in joy, experienced the popular overseas vision of the country. For the Essex captain, Keith Fletcher, deprived of 85 potentially crucial minutes, the vision was anything but popular. At the close Kent were 221 for nine, 109 behind. Time will be tight today.

At breakfast Fletcher expressed disappointment at the lack of cloud cover. As Kent's openers, Taylor and Ward, proceeded to 109 against his Childs-less four-man attack, one could see his point. He wore the look of a motorist contemplating the Dartford tunnel. Enter Derek Pringle, Superstar. The displaced England all-rounder produced movement to take three for nought in five balls.

The gnome looked more like a man who could see the toll booth. Ward, a 20-year-old who arrived 35 minutes late on Wednesday having been called from a Second XI match to replace the injured Benson, was first to go, having made a creditable 70, by 41 his highest first-class score. are drawn. The result of every match is always a draw, of course, with neither side scoring any runs at all. The only exception occurred during a friendly against a visiting team from Bewick's Bank, when one of the batsmen, in a momentary lapse of concentration, caught the ball with the edge of the bat, sending it straight to the third man boundary.

While comfortably ensconced in the pavilion, the other players refresh themselves with Merrydown Vintage Cider, which uses only fine English apples like Bramleys and Cox's in its fermentation, rather than the bitter little cider apples used in those brands preferred by "professional" cricketers. For as the gentlemen of the club are often heard to say, "It matters not who won or lost, but how you stood your round" Merrydown. Cider for the few. Ian Ridley at Canterbury AH, SUMMER in the Garden of England. The sun gilded the delightful St Lawrence Ground as Essex established a commanding position in their attempt to close the gap on Kent at the top of the championship.

Then it lashed down. Any tourist strolling up from the cathedral would have thus Pringle devastajtjngispelj. the West Indian side," said. Watson. We do things differently over here.

"How are our synchronised swimmers coming along?" asked a dischuffed Lancastrian after tea. "I think what we've got to do now is become a major force in minor events." Test all-rounder replied by putting on 179 in 44 overs, allowing Somerset to declare nine runs behind. Glamorgan then restored the balance of bat and ball by slumping to 36 for three. At Gloucester, Robin Smith (141) helped Hampshire cruise to maximum batting points and a token lead. Steve Jefferies then took four for 16 as the home side reached a lead of 97 with every chance of a run-chase today.

At Lord's, Middlesex have set Yorkshire a 200-run hill to climb today, thanks to 144 from Wilf Slack and a championship-best 86 by Jamie Sykes. Sailing The Australian skipper Peter Gilmour beat his arch-rival, Dennis Conner, to take Kookaburra III into tomorrow's final of the world 12-metre championship in Lulea, Sweden. He will meet Bengal III, the Japanese boat which beat Britain's Crusader '88. ENGLAND WEST INDIES 0898400700 Honeywell Bull computer'cricket service 0898100180 SsafllSsira FromDominicfillanSc Graham Roope 0898400600 West Indies One that got away Lamb while Gatting plodded red-faced from the field. Gower promised for a while, but he can be so airy-fairy outside off-stump.

He wafted once too often and Harper at third slip made no mistake. Nineteen runs later, what was promising to be the consolidating stand between Lamb and Gooch ended when Gooch impatiently drove at a wide ball from Benja min, and was caught by Dujon. It was good bowling by Benja- outlook He had his luck thrice edging through and around Border at second slip but deserved it for his dashing approach. When he eschewed it, perhaps scenting a century, he became vulnerable. Then in the afternoon, won-drously, a spinner wheeled away unchanged.

Miller enjoyed his longest bowl for Essex and even turned the ball. At one point he had three for one-in eight balls, the stand-in wick-etkeeper Brown aiding him with two stumpings. To boot, Miller caught at first slip the stubborn Taylor, who did not receive sufficient support. Apres le deluge, Kent returned for 20 minutes of negative cricket. Scoreboard Britannic County Championship Today: 11.0 to 5.30 or 6.0 UIIWU HMmUlM i- Int.

n-arf 1QO in avoid an Innings defeat by Middlesex (8) and havo all their wickets in hand. VOAKSHIRsV-F Irst Innings 187. MIDDLBMX Vst lontnos (overnight: 171-3) Slack Robinson Hartley 144 tK Brown Robinson Fletcher 30 I Hutchinson Robinson Sldebottom 7 Sykes Shaw SB Hughes not 10 ARC Fraser Byas Shaw 7 Cowans Fletcher 2 Daniel Shaw Extras (09, Ib10, wl, nb13) SS Total. Psfl of wfexsta oonta 176. 190, 334, 387, 379, 387.

Soon aftsr 100 owns 341-6 Bowns Sldebottom 18-6-61-1; Fletcher 22-0-1 08-4; Hartley 19-0-75-1: Shaw 22.3-3-54-4; Carrick 2O-4-S5-0; Swallow 8-1-26-0. YORK SHIRK Second InnJoss) I Swallow not out Byas nor out ioioi (tor v) Wright and A White. WARWICK SK'WI LANCASHIRE Nuneatoni Warwickshire (6pts) lead Lancashire (8) by 85 runs and have six second-innings wickets In hand. WAJtsnCKSHIRsV-Flrat innings 234 (A 4 Moles 115. A Hayhurat 4-45).

LAHCASMrM First Innings (overnight: 51-1) Fowler Thorns Munton SI tW Hegg Small IS Jesty Gilford Munton 18 Falrbrother Thorns Merrick 40 A Haynurst Munton. Watkinson Humpage Munton 11 Hughes not out SS Waalm Akram Small SS Allotl lbw Smalt Simmons Ibw Smith Extras (IM2. w4. nb7) SS Total (61 overs). SIS Mi of wtakets esnti 69, 85.

97, 112, 156, 158, 180, 192. owllngi Small 28-7-59-3; Merrick 29-7-88-2; Munlon 25-5-55-4; Smith 1-0-1-1. WARWICKSHIRE A Storle not out- SO A Moles Mendls Wstkinson 17 A Thorns Hegg Waalm Akram tQ Humpage Wasim Akram A Smith Fowler Watkinson A Munton not out 0 Extras (w2. nbl) Total (lor 4) Ml of arlokatat 29, 32, 44, 55. Blrkenahaw and 0 Oalear.

Lamb's undoing. He was taken at gully after he and Downton had put on 33, the best stand of the innings. The rest was no contest after a delay of 140 minutes-through rain, Emburey edged1 tamely to Dujon, Downton patted an equally ineffectual practice catch to gully, DeFreitas prodded to short extra cover (a new one, that) and Dilley, after a tail-ender's thrash, was caught at slip, swing time mistic appealing by whole fielding sides. It must surely have become counter-productive, though perhaps the poker-faced umpires charitably put the cacophony down to nothing more irritating than a male-voice chorus on a bad practice night. By the time the lightning streaked across the field, Warwickshire were 49 for three in their second innings, and then 15 overs were lost.

Moles had gone to a fine tumbling catch at point off Watkinson. Thome and Humpage, nearly caught the previous ball, had both gone to Wasim. After the break, Smith was also dismissed by a slip catch and at the close Warwickshire were 64 for four, 85 runs ahead. Athletics Larkins joins Seoul hopefuls John Rodda in Helsinki THREE British athletes were victorious at the Grand Prix meeting at the Olympic Stadium in Helsinki last night, with Paul Larkins the most surprising. He took the 1500 metres in 3min 37.59sec, with a last lap of 56.4sec, beating Sydney Maree of the United States; the former world record-holder at the distance.

Larkins, who is studying in. America, won the US National Collegiate Championship at the distance two years ago and was the sixth-fastest Briton last year with a time of 3:35.94. This performance brings him into the group of runners who have a chance of winning an Olympic place by finishing first or second in the trial at Birmingham in August. Britain's hurdling reputation stands high, with Kriss Aka-busi, winning his first race over the 400 metres hurdles this season in 39.13sec, defeating Amadou Dia Ba of Senegal. Tony Jarrett achieved another-triumph in the 110 metres hurdles in 13.57sec, even though he clipped a couple of hurdles.

Dave Ottley, the Olympic silver medal-winner in the javelin at Los Angeles, had his first competition of the year, finishing fourth with a throw of 80.64 metres, which only Mark Ro-berson among British throwers has surpassed this summer. In a swift 3,000 metres steeplechase Julius Kariuki of Kenya, who did not race in the event last year, ran the world's fastest' time this summer, 8:16.17, with Roger Hackney of Britain fourth in 8:22.25 SOME batsmen chose the last day of June to post their first championship century of the season step forward Robin Smith, Wilf Slack and Somerset's Peter Roebuck (112 not out). But at Taunton, Roebuck's team-mate Steve Waugh (101 not out), who yesterday passed 1,000 runs in all competitions in June, and Glamorgan's Geoff Holmes (100 not out) made it, ho hum, their fourth and third hun dred of the season respectively. Holmes steered Glamorgan to a third batting point and a declaration, neither of which had looked likely overnight. Roebuck and the Australian Sport in brief Soccer Chelsea last night requested a personal hearing, after the Football Association's decision to charge them in connection with the crowd trouble at the end of their play-off game against Middlesbrough at Stamford Bridge on May 28.

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THE WORLD'S MOST SPORTING CRICKET CLUB Batsmen dance David Foot at Nuneaton THUNDERCLAPS sent players and spectators scampering for cover with a greater alacrity than one ever had a right to expect from the batsmen on this slow, sly wicket, on which a succession of pace bowlers savoured the Midland humidity and occasionally found more movement than they could control. It was recalled that Tom Cart-wright once got a double hundred here and so did the boisterous Bill Alley in his golden summer. Yesterday, Neil Fair-brother did particularly well, helped by a few punchy square cuts and some dogged concen SOMERSET atAMOfMAN Tauntom Glamorgan (3pts) lead, Somerset (5) by 45 runs and have seven second-Innings wickets in hand. OLAMOROAH Rrst Innlnas (overnight: 162-7) Holmes not out 100 tC Metson Burns Foster 17 Watkin not out 15 Extraa (bl, Ib14. wl.

nb16) SS Total (lor 8 dec. 99.2 overs) 362 Pal of wtcksts oonti 185. owllnai Jones 14.2-1-48-0; Mallender 21-8-33-0; Roae 19-7-40-1; Foster 23-5-72-4; Marks 20-5-43-2; Roebuck 2-1-1-0. SOMKRSsTT First hwkMl Hardy Morris Barwick. 12 112 101 12 24S Hoeoucx not oui- Wyatt Hopkins Derrick Waugh not oul Extras (o5.

Ib3, nb4) Total (for 2 dec, 69.2 overs) Fas off tmomui oo, 64. owllngi Barwick 17-2-51-1; Watkin 20-3-57-0; Derrick 14-2-58-1; Shastrl 15-0-49-0: Ontong 3.2-0-20-0. OUUMHK1AN A Butcher run out A Hopkins Foster- 2 sa SO Morris not out- tC Metson Hardy Mallender- Maynard not out Extras (wl, nb1) Total (for 3). PMI of wfefcotst 1. 2.

3. Umpire) Bond and A Whitehead. OUXJCMTMIltMIR HAHPSHIRI OJoueaeten Gloucestershire (Spts) lead Hampshire (8) by 97 runs and have six second-Innings wickets in hand. OXOUCaWTtltSHIM-flrst innings 307-8 dec (R Russell 72; Ayling 4-57). HAMPSHIRE PrafcMinaa (overnight: 15-2) Maru Athey Lloyds 74 A Connor Ibw Lawrence A Smith not out 141 Turner not out S4 Extras (bl.

IblO, nb4). ia Total (for 4 dec, 90 overs). SIS rH of wlokets oont) 25. 178. SowHnai Lawrence 9-2-45-3; Alderman 12-4-34-0; Jarvis 18-1-72-0; Currsn 8-3-26-0; Lloyds 30-6-91-1; Bainbrldge 10-2-21-0: Athey 3-0-15-0.

OAjoucssmwrM A Stovold Parka Jetfrles- S7 10 A Wright Maru Jenerlos- Romalnes Turner JeHorlee 4 CWJAtheynotout 17 Bainbrldge Jetferlos Currsn not out IB Extraa IW, nb4) 7 Total (lor 4). 108 of wMaHei 86. 62. 65. 73.

oudlestone and Shepnera. a merry tune in tration, to accumulate 46 before being caught low down at slip. As on the previous day, a few batsmen buckled down, played and missed, and rode their luck. They deserved that. No one, meanwhile, bowled better than Munton, tall, lithe and rather more than medium pace.

He kept going for 25 overs and took four for 55. Lancashire were all out for 213, a first-innings deficit of 21. It would have been even closer if Small had not bowled Wasim off his pads when he was starting to pick up important late runs. As the ball swung and seamed, there was much hitting of pads. But that hardly excused the incessant hyper-opti KENT 133 EX Canterbury! Kent (4pta) are 109 runs behind Essex (7) and have one llrst-lnnlngs wicket In hand.

ESSEX First Innings 330 (A Border 168). KENT First fnninaa Taylor Miller Foster 77 Ward Ibw Pringle 70 Hlnks Miller Pringle Tavare Brown oinji Plenaar Ibw Miller 20 Cowdrey at Brown Miller 1S Cowdrey not out S4 tS A Marsh at Brown Miller Ellison Miller Penn 1 1 Davis not 1 Extraa (bl, Ib4) Total (lor 9. 89 overs) S21 PaS of wtofcetsl 109. 109, 109. 152.

176, 206, 208, 208, 209. Hampshire and Lyons. Second Blavari Championship Northampton! Middlesex 153 and 167-1 (A Naedham 94, Ramprakash 52no). North-ants 325 (0 Wild 84). Todntordem Yorkshire 252-4 dee (J Love 80; Maklnson 4-61).

Lancashire 212-3 (I 0 Austin 57no, Abrahams 55no). LeKwetan Nottinghamshire 307-7 dec (D Martlndale 122no. Evans 63) and 33-1. Leicestershire 270 (N Smith 96 no, Evana 5- 49. Cairns 4-75).

ttfonh Essex 256 (K Butler 71; Herman 6- 66) and 134-9 (M Harman 4-51). Kent 153 (V Wells 59no: A Goldlng 4-24. To-pley 4-40). Horehami Warwickshire 209 end 169 (S Klmber 4-50). Sussex 110 (A A Donald 5-41, Benamln 5-61) and 18-1.

Bristok Worcestershire 354-6 dec (D Leath-erdale 96, Tolley 75, Bevans 55 no) and 28-1. Gloucestershire 299-9 dec (J Meadows 69, 1 Butcher 60). Waugh run-blazing June Is the Sussex Stonewallers, also known as the Old Horam Procrastinators. The First XI is made up of nine resolutely defensive batsmen, and two unplayable demon fast bowlers. The reason for this apparently unorthodox selection is that the club's strategy is to spend as much time in the pavilion as possible, minimising th amount of time spent actually playing.

The worst thing that can happen to the side is that they lose the toss and their opponents elect to bat. This naturally requires the entire side to take the field, but this also is when the demon bowlers come into their own. No opposing side has ever lasted more than two overs, or scored so much as a quick single. When it is the turn of the Stone-wallers to bat, the nine batsmen draw lots to sec which two unfortunate men will take on the noble task of remaining all day at the wicket, thus enabling their fellow team members to put their feet up in the pavilion until stumps The Guardian Cricketline England vs Third Test 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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