Sport in Short: Cricket

THIRD TEST (Auckland): New Zealand beat Australia by five wickets.

(Fifth day: Australia won toss)

AUSTRALIA - First Innings 139 (D K Morrison6- 37).

NEW ZEALAND - First Innings 224 (S K Warne 4- 8).

AUSTRALIA - Second Innings

(Monday close: 226 for 6)

* A R Border c Harris b Watson. . . . . . . . . . . .71

M G Hughes not out. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .31

P R Reiffel b Watson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1

S K Warne c Jones b Morrison . . . . . . . . . . . . .2

C J McDermott c Wright b Watson . . . . . . . . . . .10

Extras (b1 lb7 nb8) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16

Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285

Fall: 7-261 8-271 9-274

Bowling: Morrison 33-8-81-1 (nb4); Patel 34-9-93-5; Watson 19-5-43-3 (nb1); Su'a 18-4-56-1 (nb3); Harris 2-1-4-0.

NEW ZEALAND - Second Innings

(Overnight: 168 for 5)

J G Wright run out. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33

M J Greatbatch b Hughes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29

A H Jones b Warne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .26

* M D Crowe c Langer b Warne. . . . . . . . . . . . .25

K R Rutherford not out. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .53

C Z Harris lbw b Waugh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .0

] T E Blain not out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .24

Extras (lb10 nb1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11

Total (for 5). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .201

Fall: 1-44 2-65 3-109 4-129 5-134.

Did not bat: D N Patel, M L Su'a, D K Morrison, W Watson.

Bowling: McDermott 12-3-38-0; Hughes 15.4-2-54-1; Warne 27-8-54-2; Reiffel 6-1-19-0; Waugh 6-1-15-1; Border 6-1-11-0.

TOUR MATCH (Perth): Western Australia, with nine second-innings wickets standing, need 383 more runs to win.

(Third day of four: Western Australia won toss)

ENGLAND A - First innings 293 (G P Thorpe 97; C McDonald 6-36).

WESTERN AUSTRALIA XI - First Innings

(Overnight: 190 for 7)

M Goodwin c Russell b Ilott. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .59

W Wishart c Thorpe b Millns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9

J Brinkley c Boiling b Millns . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1

C McDonald not out. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .0

Extras (lb7 w3 nb4). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18

Total. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192

Fall: 1-4 2-42 3-72 4-105 5-135 6-141 7-172 8-190 9-191.

Bowling: Millns 18.4-8-33-3; Caddick 18-7-39-2; Ilott 19-9-21-3; Cork 19-4-58-1; Boiling 10-2-34-0.

ENGLAND A - Second Innings

T C Middleton run out. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10

M N Lathwell c McDonald b Spencer. . . . . . . . .10

P J Prichard c Herzberg b McDonald . . . . . . . .12

G P Thorpe c Campbell b Spencer. . . . . . . . . .67

G D Lloyd c Campbell b Spencer. . . . . . . . . .105

* R C Russell not out. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .58

D G Cork not out. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2

Extras (b5 lb7 nb12) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36

Total (for 5 dec) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .300

Fall: 1-20 2-43 3-52 4-224 5-277.

Did not bat: A R Caddick, D J Millns, M C Ilott, J Boiling.

Bowling: McDonald 18-4-36-1; Spencer 17-3-76-3; Andrews 7-1-19-0; Herzberg 3-0-28-0; Brinkley

8-1-34-0; Wishart 11-0-95-0.

WESTERN AUSTRALIA XI - Second Innings

D Virgo lbw b Millns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4

D Fitzgerald not out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9

] R Campbell not out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5

Extras (lb1). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Total (for 1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19

Fall: 1-8.

To bat: * W S Andrews, M Goodwin, B Rayner, D Spencer, S Herzberg, W Wishart, J Brinkley, C McDonald.

Bowling: Millns 6-2-10-1; Caddick 5-3-7-0; Cork 1-0-1-0.

TEST MATCH (New Delhi): Zimbabwe, with eight second-innings wickets standing, need 152 more runs to avoid an innings defeat by India.

(Fourth day of five; India won toss)

INDIA - First Innings 536 for 7 dec (V G Kambli 227, N S Sidhu 61, S R Tendulkar 62, P K Amre 52no).

ZIMBABWE - First Innings

(Overnight: 152 for 3)

K J Arnott lbw b Kapil Dev. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .0

G W Flower lbw b Maninder Singh. . . . . . . . . . . . . .96

A D R Campbell b Chauhan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .32

* D L Houghton lbw b Kumble. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18

] A Flower st Yadav b Maninder Singh. . . . . . . . . . .115

G Briant st Yadav b Kumble. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1

A Shah run out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25

E A Brandes c Sidhu b Kumble. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8

D H Brain c Kambli b Maninder Singh. . . . . . . . . . . .0

U Ranchod b Chauhan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7

A J Traicos not out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .0

Extras (b4 lb10 w1 nb5). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20

Total. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322

Fall (cont): 4-275 5-276 6-276 7-286 8-287 9-318.

Bowling: Kapil 13-4-37-1; Prabhakar 14-4-23-0; Chauhan 28.1-4-68-2; Kumble 43-12-90-3; Maninder Singh 32-4-79-3; Tendulkar 5-1-11-0.

ZIMBABWE - Second Innings

K J Arnott b Maninder. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21

G W Flower lbw b Prabhakar. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .0

A D R Campbell not out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .31

* D L Houghton not out. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1

Extras (b4 lb3 w2). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9

Total (for 2). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .62

Fall: 1-2 2-53.

Bowling: Kapil Dev 4-1-4-0; Prabhakar 4-3-5-1; Chauhan 7-2-16-0; Kumble 9-4-23-0; Maninder Singh 4-1-7-1.