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·THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 22, 1989.

SPORTS PARADE

THE West Indian cricket tourists,

now in England, will to-day at Manchester, have an opportunity of vindicating their defeat at Lord's at the beginning of the month.

The Mother Country will be served by the same team which did duty at Lord's except that Goddard and Fagg and have been selected vice. Verity Gimblett, respectively.

From reports to hand, the weather in England. has not been of the best during the past few days and the Old Trafford ground is a notoriously unfortunate one for Tests.

For this reason, I shall be sur- prised if West Indies do any better than draw. It is a well known fact that the English climate has been as big a handicap to them as anything else and, on a hard, fast wicket such as they are accustomed to in the Islands, I feel that with the talent at their disposal, they would force England to go all the way if they did not beat them.

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THE West Indian team has earned the reputation of being, on the whole, lacking in the right tempera- ment. They are very apt to bubble over with success and go into the depths at the faintest sign of failure.

For this reason early success in the game might make a world of dif-

ference to the eventual result.

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ROM word received from Home, the tour has not been a shouting financial success. The tourists in fact are banking on the three Tests to clear the cost of the visit.

They have every reason to satisfied with the financial aspect of the Lord's Test; the one at Manchester, apart from the weather, is going be more doubtful.

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The dusky visitors to England, while playing an attractive brand of cricket, have not been overwhelmed with success and I fear. that the canny Lancashire lads are not going to pay double the usual admission fees to see a side, even though labelled "Test Standard" that is not really as good as some of the better counties.

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'VARSITY CRICKET

Cambridge

Fall

Brilliant Century By Dickinson

Extra Time Required

At Lord's

London, July 4. CAMBRIDGE, in the match NAMBRIDGE gave a poor batting display in the University match

156. Dixon did not enforce the follow-on. Going in again, Oxford established an overpowering lead, stumps being drawn at seven o'clock, when they were 429 runs on with seven wickets in hand.

Cambridge broke down so badly that all ten wickets

fell for 131. Macindoe bowled admirably, and Evans, with his outswingers, maintained a steady attack. Evans began *the troubles of Cambridge by yorking Mann and breaking an opening stand of 41, and dismissing, Thompson in the

same over.

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Second Innings Thereafter, batting failures were frequent. Carris stayed one hundred J. M. Lomas, c Blake, b Gillespie minutes before fourth to leave at 78. R. Sale, l.b.w., b Webster Dickinson, however, showed his best R. B. Proud, run out form. Strong in driving and hitting J. Stanning, not out to leg, he treated the bowling on its E. D. R. Eagar, not out

ob- merits and, of the 26 runs he tained in thirty-five minutes, 20 came

from boundaries.

Extras

Total for three wickets (Innings declared closed).

CAMBRIDGE

Oxford lost Sale at 24, but Lomas and Proud made steady progress till tea-time, taking the total to 72. For First Innings

pair pro-

Second Innings an hour afterwards the gressed slowly enough to evoke bar- B. D. Carris, b Pether

after completing 50, F. G. Mann, c Sale, b Pether racking but,

splendid Proud drove with

power. J. R. Thompson, b Evans Lomas also became brighter when J. P. Blake, c Stamming, b Macindoe

partnership A. H. Brodhurst, b Evans he passed 50, and the

hours twenty P. M. Studd, c Blagg, b Macindoe realised 169 in two-

at P. J. Dickinson, e Pether, b Evans. five minutes before an attempt a foolish run resulted in Proud A. C. Shirreff, c Stanning, b Evans

D. W. Gillespie, c and b Evans.. being smartly thrown out by Blake.

When 56, Proud should have been J. Webster, b Pether

no K. D. Downs, not out caught at mid-on, but he gave

Extras other chance, and hit twelve excel- lent boundaries. Lomas, too, was un- fortunate in not completing his cen- tury, being caught behind the bowler

the

by Blake, who fell as he took

Making

Total

BOWLING ANALYSIS Oxford-Second. Innings

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ball, but retained his hold. 91 out of 218 in three hours and a Webster quarter, Lomas, chiefly by cuts and Dickinson drives, hit eleven 4s.

Final Day

FROM every point of view I can't help hoping that West Indies win this match. If England are success- ful, there would be little interest in the final match at the Oval, wherc

London, July 5. nothing would be at stake. Atten-

Oxford declared first thing at Lord's dance figures would suffer and, in all yesterday, leaving Cambridge to get first probability, the West Indies' tour a 480 to win the hundred and

As financial failure.

match between the Universities, only four bigger, totals have been put together in the series of contests, the Light Blues possessed little hope of success, but so well did they fight that it was not until seven of extra time had been played that Oxford won by only 45 runs.

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TW WO extremely important matches

will be played in

the Lawn Tennis League next week both of which have a direct bearing on the destination of the championships for "A" and "B" Divisions,

On Monday, the eagerly-awaited clash between Indian Recreation Club and South China will be played at Sookunpoo, while the following day, the two unbeaten teams in "B" Divi sion, South China and K.C.C. "A", will be in opposition at Cox's Road.

Winners of the former match will qualify for a play-off, on a neutral ground, with Chinese Recreation Club, who have lost once, to South China, while a victory for South China on Tuesday will give them the "B" title their provided they beat Recreio in remaining match.

K.C.C. have tied two matches and must win outright in order to earn the right of replaying for the title.

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ball

Bowlers of race made, the "lift" awkwardly, and more than one batsman lost his wicket to a delivery of this kind. Mann generally played a restrained game, and he took two hours and a quarter over his 57. When Blake and Studd left in the same over half the side were out for 155.

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Again Oxford were checked, for Brodhurst and Dickinson put on 84 in an hour. At 249 Gillespie gave a return catch, and the end appeared in sight, but Oxford had to wait an other hundred minutes for their next success.

Dickinson, a freshman, went along confidently and comfortably, showing wise judgment in picking the ball to Webster punish, and completing his first cen- tury in first class cricket

HERE was some extraordinary play

in the recent County Champion-offered stubborn defence. and the ship match at Bath between Somerset ninth wicker yielded 95. Dickinson and Kent.

hit splendidly all round for an hour Apart from some excellent bowling and fifty-five minutes. He hit, a 6 by Wright, the England leg-break and twelve 48. bowler, who took 16 wickets in the course of the match for 3 runs apiece, First Innings there was an innings by Wellard for Homerset which had spectators in hys- terics.

Wellard batted No. 10. He started bitting right away but had some amar- tog luck. Actually he was dropped four times off five balls from Wright, three times in the deep and once in the ally. He then hit Wright; and also odd and Watt for six, as well as tak- ing three fours on Wright.ss

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OXFORD

313

was easily the highest score of the

snooker problem” set readers.

Fighting

WATER POLO

V.R.C. DEFEAT ARMY CHAMPIONS

The Royal Signals, Army Cham- pion Water Polo Team, had a friendly game against V.R.C. in lost 4 goals to 2. the Club's pool on Wednesday and

The Signals had their full team out and played a very hard game and in spite of V.R.C.'s very strong defence, scored two good goals.

The score during the first half of the game was two to nil in favour of the V.R.C. Hussain, the V.R.C.'s re- gular left back, played centre forward and scored the first goal in the early shortly part of the game. Delgado B7 before "half-time", from the full-back 39 position, rushed forward and managed 27 to net another goal.

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from Delgado's goal, after a rush 273 the back line, was considered quite a clever feat, but this was duplicated by Pitcher, the left guard of the Signals, 157 who, following Delgado's tactics, dis-

defence

and organised the V.R.C.'s 36 managed to score a goal for his team. 57

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The V.R.C. goal was carefully kept 23 by Nazarin who is showing great keen. 15 mess in this position and will do well

after practice and experience,

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The Signals struggled hard to equa- lise but the V.R.C. defence, with Del- 8gado and Sprinkle at back, was very

sound and their hopes were dampened with a further goal by A. A. Guterres 26 who played left forward.

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Unluckily for the Signals, Morgan, their right guard, fouled near the goal line and taking advantage of this, M. R. W. Ozorio from a pass and a break-away,

scored the Club's last goal. 11 0 50

Still struggling hard the Signals fought back and Ashford, their centre- 1 half, who was playing well throughout 0 the game, took an opportunity of a

clear break scored a well-deserved goal.

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Shirreff

17 Gillespie

12 0 50 Carris

19 5 61 Carris bowled one wide.

Cambridge - Second Innings Evans

39 8 127 5

· and Macindoe

28 6 81 2 V.RC-Nazarin; 22.3 6 Pether

89 3 Sprinkle; Hutchinson, D. Ozorio, Hus- Marsham

'20 2 1060 sain and A. A. Guterres. Eagar

Evans bowled three Marsham one no-ball.

Delgado

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0 Royal Signals:-H. Benner; Morgan no-balls, and and Pitcher; Ashford, Bedford, Allan

and Diguan.

CRIPPS

Piano

DINNER DANCE

TO-NIGHT

SATURDAY, 22nd July

9 p.m. till 1 a.m.

It was a remarkable spell of cricket with Wellard hitting at lave thing. Hent dropping catches, . and Wright

aking the ball fiss across from

JAWellard played his part well and hisă can nominate

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