Sport in Short: Cricket

HUGH MORRIS will captain Glamorgan next season in place of his fellow opener, Alan Butcher, who has given up the post because of fitness problems. It will be Morris's second spell as captain after leading the county between 1986 and '89.

MIKE ROSEBERRY has been named as Middlesex 'Player of the Year' for 1992. Roseberry topped 2,000 first-class runs for the first time in his career, scoring nine centuries and eight other scores of more than 50.

RAPID CRICKETLINE CHAMPIONSHIP (Taunton): Essex 280 (D Robinson 93). Somerset 3 for 0.