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Ed Howsam, US baseball scout, in Canberra yesterday. Help
Ed Howsam, US baseball scout, in
Canberra yesterday.
Cup match
won by WA
HOBART: A fighting seventh-wicket part
nership of 84 between newcomers Peter Faulkner
and Les Allen was not enough to save Tasmania
from defeat in its McDonald's Cup match
against Western Australia in Hobart yesterday.
The damage was already done by the failure of
the early order batsmen.
Faulkner and Allen came to the wicket with
Tasmania at six for 55 chasing Western Australia's
innings of eight for 203 off its 50 overs.
Faulkner, the State Colts captain, was playing in
his first match for Tasmania, and top scored with 45.
His partnership with Allen, who made 40, rescued
the Tasmanian innings in their 67-minute partnership.
It was broken by medium-pacer Terry Alderman,
who had Faulkner caught at point by Graeme Wood
after trying to push the scoring rate along.
The next ball Alderman bowled Allen to wrap up
the match.
Earlier in the day, recent Shield century-scorer
Craig Serjeant and former Test all-rounder Tony
Mann were the main contributors towards Western
Australia's total.
Serjeant top-scored with 65 made in 95 minutes
with eight fours.
Mann remained not out 59, with six fours in 102 .
minutes.
The best Tasmanian bowlers were Phil Blizzard,
playing his first Interstate limited-over match, and
fellow paccman Peter Clough.
Blizzard took two for 28 off his 10-over limit while
Clough took three for 31.
The backbone of Tasmania's batting was broken
by medium-pacer Mick Malone, who took four for 30
off his 10 overs, bowling unchanged from the northern
end.
He dismissed early-order batsmen Rob Jeffery, Ian
Bevcn, skipper Brian Davison and Trevor Docking to
have Tasmania reeling at six for 55.
Davison said no-one else could be. blamed for the
defeat except the Tasmanian batsmen.
McEwan's nose
fractured
BUNDABERG: New Zealand cricket cap
tain Geoff Howarth warned Queensand Country
batsmen on Thursday to wear protective helmets
when facing his fast bowiers, and saw his own
opener felled by a blow to the head at the Salter
Oval yesterday.
Paul McEwan suffered a fractured nose from
a ball off Country skipper Ken Glover. He was
taken to hospital, but allowed to leave after
treatment.
On the first day of the match, Howarth urged
the wearing of helmets after an accident last
week when Geclong District batsman Peter
Oxlade was knocked unconscious by a lifting
delivery.
New Zealand easily wrapped up the match
here by 95 runs after Country fought back to
reach a second innings total of 207.
Country was outclassed by the tourists, who
declared in the first innings at four for 281 and
three for 103 in the second.
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