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From: urajan@leland.Stanford.EDU (Uday Rajan)
Subject: Re: Sack Manjrekar
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 19:29:28 GMT

In article <Bznx32.A3H@nic.umass.edu> RAHULI@UCSVAX (RAHUL INDRAYAN) writes:
>Its time to sack Sanjay Manjrekar from the team. He has not scored even a 
>single 50 in the last 20 or so matches he has played for India in ODIs. He 
>consumes too many balls to score only a few runs. 

Well, there are no more ODI's on this tour of India to South Africa, so the
point may be moot, but Manjrekar's problem is not slowness but inconsistency.
He can be an effective one-day player, as he showed in England last year,
in the World Cup match against Australia and against Zimbabwe (he got 70 there
last month). However, he never learnt how to run between the wickets, and is 
involved in too many runouts. 
Both Manjrekar and Azharuddin need to play well in the remaining Tests against
RSA if they are to retain their place in the side. They were both relative 
failures on the Australian tour (Manjrekar's performance was miserable - he 
didn't get a 50 in the 25 or so international innings he played, whereas 
Azharuddin did get one Test century and played well in the World Cup). None
of the Indian batsmen have shown any consistency on the current tour to 
ZImbabwe/RSA (except perhaps Amre), but SRT cannot be dropped and the openers
are not established players anyway. Unless the batting improves in the last
two Tests, Kambli will be a shoo-in against England.


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From: jnash@alfred.carleton.ca (John Nash)
Subject: Re: Knighthood for SMG????
Keywords: I want my present........
Organization: Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 16:05:15 GMT

In article <1992Dec23.104232.7557@rdg.dec.com> vaghela@laxatv.reo.dec.com (Umesh Vaghela) writes:
>
>Richard Headlee was given the knighthood for taking 400 wickets in test
>cricket.
>
>Could some one tell me whether Sunil Gavaskar was given knighthood for 
>becoming first man to score 10,000 runs in test cricket.
>
>I know currently he does not have knighthood because he is not called
>Sir Sunil Gavasker, but it could have been that he might not have
>accepted the knighthood for some reason like the membership of MCC.

Does India still knight people?  I think Aus has stopped, hasn't it?
Hmmmmmm... Sir Allan Border.... can't see it (tho' I think he deserves it).

cheers,
J.

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From: karnik@cs.umn.edu (Neeran M. Karnik)
Subject: Re: Indian Batsmen are not test class
Organization: University of Minnesota
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 19:00:00 GMT

In <C0136F.1vB@uceng.uc.edu> bnataraj@uceng.uc.edu (Bhaskar Natarajan) writes:

>>(including so called wonderboy Sachin) come near the class of Sunny, Vishy
>  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

>	I always thought the praise bestowed on him was more than his 
>	accomplishments warranted, his so obvious bounty of visible talent
>	notwithstanding. Consistency is what marks a good batsman from a
>	not so good batsman, and sadly SRT lacks it, as do the whole lot
>	of Indian batsmen.


	More than praise, what has been showered on him is expectation,
the tremendous hopes of a cricketing populace starved of exciting batting
displays after the retirement of Gavaskar, the decline of Vengsarkar,
and the "murder" of Amarnath's career.... and who is to say that Sachin
doesn't ignite that spark of hope ? Granted, consistency is necessary to
win matches, but don't expect it from the best strokeplayer in the team!
Demand it from the workhorses, the Manjrekars, Amres and Shastris, not the
Azhars and Sachins. Isn't this the Gower v/s Gooch argument all over again ?


>	I was going to say this before; that if SRT carries on like he is 
>	doing, it would be one more case of wasted talent. He's been around
>	for pretty long now, and pls. don't offer age as an excuse,it won't

	Yes, age or immaturity is not an excuse any longer, but wasted
talent?  No way! There is a case for the assertion that Vengy was a
'wasted' talent because he curbed his free stroking style so much.... I
for one, wouldn't like to see SRT waste his talent in similar fashion,
although he may end up scoring a couple of thousand runs less, this way!

>	be approx. same. Gosh fellas, a guy needs to get 40's and 50's 
>	pretty regularly for him to be called a specialist batsman !

	Nope, a guy needs to *average* 40s and 50s to be called a
specialist batsman. I'll bet Gower didn't score the 50s regularly, but
wasn't he an all-time great? IMHO, Sachin has as much natural talent as
Gower, if not more.

>	And SRT is more than capable of it, dammit....

	Yes, but do we really want him to become a Vengsarkar ? Do we need 
him to score the 40s and 50s monotonously, or would we rather leave that to
Manjrekar and Amre ? Let Sachin play his own game and produce the occasional
(and hopefully, frequent) brilliant ton.

>Let the flames begin..

	Well... what did you expect from the #2 fan ? Hey, where's #1 ? :->

>Ciao
>Bhaskar (;-)) 
> 
>>God please send us another Gavaskar.

	Man, let's write to the original.... pressurize him into an
Imran-style comeback :->


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       | Dept. of CompSci.| "Welcome to r.s.c.,                              |
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From: karnik@cs.umn.edu (Neeran M. Karnik)
Subject: Re: donald
Organization: University of Minnesota
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 21:17:57 GMT

In <1992Dec30.205341.28025@news2.cis.umn.edu> suraj@microbe.med.umn.edu (Suraj Muley) writes:

>in a recent article neeran karnik says "donald's better than dev. hadlee,
>imran and marshall.

	Huh?? I never said anything of the sort! The only similar statement
I made was comparing the batting talents of Kapil, Hadlee, Imran etc. and
Donald has no place in that list..... Looks like you have a hangover from
last night's party :-> :-)

>suraj.


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       | Dept. of CompSci.| "Welcome to r.s.c.,                              |
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From: karnik@cs.umn.edu (Neeran M. Karnik)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: SA-Ind Test3 result
Date: 29 Dec 92 19:20:11 GMT
Organization: University of Minnesota


Haven't seen the result posted here yet - so here goes...

SA won the test easily, by 9 wickets. In India's second innings, Kapil
Dev scored 129 off 176 balls. The next highest score was 17, scored by
Prabhakar, More and Kumble. Donald took 7-84, his best bowling in Tests
I guess, and had 11 wickets in the match. India scored 215 in the
second innings, setting a target of 153 for SA. This, they scored
easily, with Wessels 95* leading the way.


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       | Dept. of CompSci.| "Welcome to r.s.c.,                              |
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From: bnataraj@uceng.uc.edu (Bhaskar Natarajan)
Subject: Re: Indian Batsmen are not test class
Organization: University of Cincinnati
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 16:01:27 GMT

In article <1992Dec28.224410.27844@a.cs.okstate.edu> sheth@a.cs.okstate.edu (SHETH UMANG RAJNIK) writes:
>Time and again Indian Batsmen failed to deliver the goods. None of them have
>consistancy expected of a test level batsmen. None of present test batsmen
>(including so called wonderboy Sachin) come near the class of Sunny, Vishy
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

	I always thought the praise bestowed on him was more than his 
	accomplishments warranted, his so obvious bounty of visible talent
	notwithstanding. Consistency is what marks a good batsman from a
	not so good batsman, and sadly SRT lacks it, as do the whole lot
	of Indian batsmen.

	I was going to say this before; that if SRT carries on like he is 
	doing, it would be one more case of wasted talent. He's been around
	for pretty long now, and pls. don't offer age as an excuse,it won't
	wash. I'd rather se him scoring a sequence like 

	35,28,53,18,77,2,106,43,19,47,127	than

	2,18,7,16,145*,4,21,133,89,42,0,2

	I haven't calculated, but the avg. of both these sequences must
	be approx. same. Gosh fellas, a guy needs to get 40's and 50's 
	pretty regularly for him to be called a specialist batsman !

	And SRT is more than capable of it, dammit....


Let the flames begin..
Ciao
Bhaskar (;-)) 
 
>and Jimmy. Gone are the good old days when India used to bat well at least in the
>second innings of the test match.
>God please send us another Gavaskar.
>
>
From: ynesiah@skat.usc.edu (Yogala Nesiah)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: Re: Peter Roebuck's world rankings in the SMH
Date: 21 Dec 1992 05:02:00 -0800
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: skat.usc.edu

In article <6995@otc.otca.oz> brendan@otc.oz.au (Brendan Jones) writes:
>Many Oz netters, particularly those of sub-continental extraction, have waxed
>lyrical in the past about the intelligence and unusual insight shown by Peter
>Roebuck in his cricket columns in the Sydney Morning Herald.

>Well, he's now given his own One-day rankings for world teams - and it ain't
>a pretty sight for Pakistani and Indian supporters.  Hs rankings:

>	1.  England
		GOOD CHOICE. THEY HAVE PROVED IT.

>	2.  South Africa
		WHY? JUST BECAUSE THEY BEAT INDIA? #2? POOR CHOICE?

>	3.  Australia
>	4.  West Indies
>	5.  Pakistan
		AUS, WI AND PAK SHOULD TIE FOR SECOND PLACE.
		RSA CAN BE SLOTTED IN NEXT.

>	6.  New Zealand
>	7.  Sri Lanka
>	8.  India
		NZ CAN NOT JUSTIFY BEING AHEAD OF SL AFTER THEY HAVE WERE 
		CRUSHED SO CONVINCINGLY. I SUGGEST THAT NZ, IND AND SL TIE
		FOR FOURTH PLACE.

>	9.  Zimbabwe
>	10. Netherlands

>Does this now mean Peter Roebuck knows nothing about cricket?  :-)

		SEEMS MORE LIKE ROEBUCK'S WISH LIST NOT A LIST BASED ON
		RECENT PERFORMANCES.

>(I might post the full article if I have time)
		I WOULD LIKE TO READ HIS REASONS FOR HIS CHOICES.


>Brendan Jones  | ACSnet:  brendan@otc.otca.oz.au               | This space


Vasee
From: aantur@na.novell.com (Anand Antur)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: Indian ODI Team - Change the strategy
Date: 22 Dec 92 00:29:02 GMT
Reply-To: aantur@na.novell.com ()
Organization: Novell, Inc., San Jose, Ca

At the present, we are not a strong test side, however, with a well-planned
strategy, we can be a very successful ODI side, with our current players.

The following strategy may sound too ideal, however this should be the goal.

TO GET SEMBLANCE OF A TEAM WHICH WON THE WSC CUP IN 1985-86, WE NEED THE FOLL:

An explosive start - pick 2 from -  Srikkanth, Sidhu, VB Chandrasekar, Kambli
			I would choose Sidhu and Kambli
			Srikkanth is past his prime, and VB is too erratic for
			a steady quick ~30 runs each match. The opening 
			partnership should put on a quick 50-60 runs in the
			first 10-12 overs.

A solid frontline  - pick 3 from -  Azhar, Tendulkar, Manjrekar, Amre
		SHOULD LEARN TO KEEP THE SCOREBOARD TICKING BY MEANS OF
	 	SINGLES RATHER THAN WAIT FOR THE OCCASIONAL FOUR

		Should average at least ~4 runs an over for the next 25 overs.

A read end attack  -  Kapil, Shastri, Prabhakar, More/Yadav

		Should average at least ~7 runs an over for the next 13-15 overs.

Bowling - Kapil, Prabhakar (pick themselves)
	  pick one from  C Sharma, Banerjee, Srinath, Kuruvilla, Zaidi ...
	  pick one from  Maninder, Kumble, Raju

Captaincy - Though not a major issue, Azhar is NOT the right person for 
	    the job.
	    True, he is captaining a side which is going through a lean
	    patch, but he has not done much to inspire the side. He just
	    seems to be going through the motions of a match, rather than
	    having a clear cut strategy. He also seems to soft to lead a
	    team. These are my views.

	    In lieu of an alternative, I have to go for Kapil as the captain.
	    He is no different from Azhar in terms of building a strategy or
	    a game plan, but he is MARGINALLY better than Azhar. I do not see
	    a steady player to be vice-captain, other than Prabhakar, as
	    the only other contenders I had were Manjrekar/Shastri/More. Their
	    form seems to be erratic, and their place in the team is not
	    guaranteed. Prabhakar's abilities are also suspect, but who else???

	   The team mentioned below represent the best we have currently. Future
	   teams should be selected with this format in mind.

 		1. Sidhu
 		2. Kambli
 		3. Tendulkar
 		4. Amre/Manjrekar	(select one based on form)
 		5. Azhar
 		6. Shastri
 		7. Kapil	(Captain)
 		8. Prabhakar	(V Captain)
 		9. More
		10. Srinath
		11. Maninder


	In the case of early breakthroughs, Shastri must be promoted to #4 
	to keep the scoreboard ticking. I think Shastri would score faster,
	if he does not have to face the opening overs.

	Any promising players left out ?????


Anand Antur
aantur@novell.com
From: raza@engrg.uwo.ca (Mr. Raza Syed)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: Re: Can we count the chickens yet
Date: 22 Dec 92 19:01:03 GMT
Organization: DA&MRL, Engineering, UWO, London Ont. CA

In article <1992Dec20.023346.23993@athena.mit.edu>, wasi@athena.mit.edu (Wasiuddin A. Wahid) writes:
|> 
|> 
|> 
|> Dear Saad,
|> 
|> As far as I remember, Pakistan did reach the finals of the WSC
|> cups in 1989(?) when Sri-Lanka was the third team. It is true that
|> Pakistan has never won it, but Pakistan has always entertainted us
|> with some scintillating matches.
|> 
|> -Wasi.

Though pak reached finals in 1989-90 when srilanka was the third team, but
pak best performance in WSC was in 1981-82.  In that WSC all ten matches were
very exciting(in those days teams had to play ten preliminary matches). As far as rest of
WSC tournaments are concerned pakistan played mediocrely including 1989-90(in which
they reach the finals) and present one (todate).



-- 

S.R.Raza.
raza@surya.engrg.uwo.ca
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From: wasi@athena.mit.edu (Wasiuddin A. Wahid)
Subject: Aus vs. Windies. Where is Bruce Reid?
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 19:40:13 GMT




The heading says it all.


Wasi.
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From: sidi@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Sadiq Yusuf)
Subject: Raman (was Re: S. Africa v. India Averages for One Day Series.
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston Illinois.
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 00:24:50 GMT

In article <1992Dec23.232911.7632@news.uakron.edu> murali@emily.polymer.uakron.edu (Murali Cotah) writes:
>Keywords: 
>
>"Raman         5      113     210    42.00    0       1          61.95"
>
>Was Raman not playing in ODIs because of injury - or was he dropped for playing well ..
>could somebody please let me know
>cotah


	Haven't heard anything from our SA friends, but Iam guessing he was
injured. If you read Feroz's report of the 5th game closely, you'll notice
that Raman opened with Jadeja . Jadeja was the first to go. Then, Jadeja
ran for Raman while Raman batted. Later in the day, Chetan fielded for
Raman. To me, this means an injury of some sort and the notion is
strengthened by the fact that he didn't play the the next two games. Would
this definately eliminate him from test match contention ?? Would
appreciate some details !!

			Sadiq [ conjecturing ] Yusuf
From: khalid@bunce.hw.stratus.com (Khalid Chishti)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: Pak vs NZ Cricket Commentary
Date: 29 Dec 1992 14:39:57 GMT
Organization: Stratus Computer, Inc.
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I was able to hear commenty for the 2nd OD between NZ and Pakistan on
17770Khz and after 11:00pm est  15200khz in Boston area from radio NZ.
There were also frequent updates for the match between Aus and WI too.

The reception ranged from good to almost unhearable at times.
I think, today's match starts at 7:00 pm US est. time.

Happy listening!!!
From: jawad@ecst.csuchico.edu (Jawad Ali)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: PK NZ D2 almost stumps
Date: 3 Jan 93 05:24:07 GMT
Organization: California State University, Chico
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Things back in NZ's favor.
about 250/6 with 4 overs left in the day.
Greatbatch at about 132 n.o.

Mushtaq has bowled unchanged from one end since lunch, and
has three wicket in 40 overs to show for it.  Aquib has
only bowled 7 overs.

j n a
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From: mikef@dph1.health.su.oz.au
Subject: World Test Team for 1992
Originator: mikef@dph1
Organization: Dept Public Health, Sydney University
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 02:44:32 GMT

Here is my world Test team for the calender year of 1992. It's mainly 
based on my observations of scorecards around the world and of the matches
that I've actually seen. 

One of the most important series this year was the England v Pakistan 
series, which unfortunately, I didn't see. In fact, I didn't see 
scorecards regularly from this series either. I was hoping someone would
have supplied statistics for this series but none were forthcoming. As a
result, you can (and obviously will) alter my team in order to adjust for
this.

1992 World Test Team
--------------------

Keplar Wessels
Graham Gooch
David Boon
Martin Crowe
Allan Border (C)
Alec Stewart
Wasim Akram
Waqar Younis
Mushtaq Ahmed
Curtley Ambrose
Craig McDermott

Yes, it is a rather odd team, but all of these players have had a good 1992
haven't they? It is certainly weighted more towards bowling, which I think
reflects the dominance of ball over bat this year.

Wessels had a fine return to test cricket and though I haven't seen his
statistics they surely must compare favourably against rivals like Haynes
and Taylor, who both had poor years. Perhaps there is a case for either
Rameez or Aamir to replace Gooch, I don't know.

Boon at no.3 is one of the easiest choices, his major rival Richardson,
played only 3 tests in 1992 (like most of the WI players) I think, and
without distinction.

Martin Crowe played a number of fine innings away from home, which is
always a good indication of form. His major rival was, perhaps, Robin Smith
whom, I believe had an ordinary series against Pakistan.

Border at no.5 may be a surprise, after all he has played 2 tests in '92 at
no.4 and 5 tests at no.6! However, it has been a good year for Border, he
has scored about 650 runs from 7 Tests with 2 centuries and an unbeaten
ninety, averaging in excess of 56. His captaincy has also been quite good.
I recognise also, that there may be a case for Javed to come in ahead of
either Border or Crowe.

The biggest surprise is obviously Alec Stewart at no.6 and as wicket
keeper, but he did have a good series against Pakistan didn't he?
Furthermore, there are no outstanding candidates for the keeping position
and Stewart will be England's no.1 keeper on their upcoming tour of India.

I think that McDermott, Wasim and Waqar pick themselves after outstanding
years. Anyone disagree? There may be a case against Ambrose, but that would
only be because he has played so few tests this year. You may also want to
leave out Mushtaq, and play another batsmen, but I will always include the
form spinner of the year, which is certainly Mushtaq.

I'm waiting on your modifications.

Happy New Year. :-)


-- 
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From: stallav@eos.ncsu.edu (SAIRAJU  TALLAVARJULA)
Subject: Kapil
Organization: North Carolina State University, Project Eos
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 17:50:07 GMT

 

Kapil Dev's innings shows why he is considered
as one of the finest alrounders the game has seen.

Hope Kapil will be in good form with the ball too.

Let's see what's in store!

Stallav_
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From: brad@hawk.adied.oz.au (Bradley Edelman)
Subject: Aus vs WI MCG Test (Tea on D4)
Organization: Australian Defence Industries
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 04:43:27 GMT

West Indies 1st Innings 233

Australia   1st Innings 395
	    2nd Innings 7/145

Australia lead by 307 runs.
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From: bharat@cs.uiuc.edu (R. Bharat Rao)
Subject: Re: Aust win 2nd Test vrs WI
Organization: University of Illinois, Dept of Computer Science
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 17:54:55 GMT

What a collapse -- from 144/2 to 219 all out.  Warne seems to have bamboozled the WI bats...  Well done AUstralia...

-- 
R. Bharat Rao                         E-mail: bharat@cs.uiuc.edu
AI Group, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
405 N. Mathews, Urbana, IL 61801   (217)-333-5978 (O), 337-6498(H)
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Subject: Re: Dev vs. Azhar (captaincy)
From: pujara@piggy.cecs.csulb.edu (Dipen Pujara)
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 23:58:50 GMT
Organization: Cal State Long Beach

> 	"Most of which backfire badly". IMHO Shastri is the right choice for
> 	the captain. The guy is so selfish and has such a fantastic ego
> 	that he will not allow an Indian defeat. That would be the most
> 	productive way of making use of him.
> 
> 	Shivanand Bhajekar
> >
> >Mahesh.
> 

I totally agree with you

...Dipen Pujara
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From: murali@stretch.polymer.uakron.edu (Murali Cotah)
Subject: SA/India Test: End of India 2nd Innings.
Organization: Institute of Polymer Science, University of Akron
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 23:27:50 GMT

Keywords: 

>>Great Show  Kapil !!!
I think that shuts the mouth of all those who talked about his becoming
a manager in 1993.

--Jayashankar
>>
Touche'.

Wish he did it more consistently though!

cotah
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From: shamim@bellcore.com (Shamim Naqvi)
Subject: Re: England v Pakistan result?
Organization: Bell Communications Research, Morristown, NJ
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 92 22:16:53 GMT

In article <1992Dec31.171532.9186@maths.tcd.ie>, debfin@maths.tcd.ie (Debbie Finucane) writes:
> 
> Hi,
>   Can anyone tell me which was the only ENGLISH County to
> beat PAKISTAN in 1992 ?
> 
> Thanks,
>       Debbie
> 
> -- 

Worcestershire.  A high scoring game with declarations from both sides
in their first innings.

	--SAN
From: kre@munnari.OZ.AU (Robert Elz)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: Aus v WI, Stumps day 2
Date: 3 Jan 1993 18:07:36 +1100
Organization: University of Melbourne
NNTP-Posting-Host: munnari.oz.au

WI ended the day at 1/24 in reply to Aust's 9/503(dec).

Simmons edged one between keeper and 1st slip, Healy moved left,
got his gloves to it, but couldn't hang on.  Fortunately (for Aust)
Healy managed to deflect it into Talyor's stomach, who had onto it as
he fell backwards.

Simmons		C Taylor B McDermott	 3	1/13
Haynes					16
Richardson				 3
			Extras		 2
				1/	24

McDermott	4 0 1  8
Hughes		2 0 0 13
Matthews	2 1 0  1

Haynes managed 4 froma no-ball from Hughes, which he edged, dropped short
of Taylor at 1st slip, didn't bounce at all, and ran between Taylor's
legs to the boundary.

In the Aus innings, Simmons took 0/25 from his 15 (I think) overs.
He had a little bad luck when he had Border bowled from a no ball.

kre