Sport in Short: Cricket

TASMANIA won a Sheffield Shield match by an innings for only the second time when they beat Queensland in Brisbane yesterday. They bowled out Queensland for 162 in their second innings to win by an innings and five runs, bettering their innings and two-run victory over Victoria in 1983-84.

SHEFFIELD SHIELD (Brisbane, third day of four): Queensland 168 and 162 (P McPhee 5-48); Tasmania 335 (J Cox 137no; M S Kasprowicz

6-59). Tasmania won by an innings and 5 runs.

CANTERBURY beat Otago by 14 runs in Dunedin yesterday to win the Shell Cup, New Zealand's main one-day competition, for the second year running.

SHELL CUP (Dunedin, 50-overs match): Canterbury 183 for 8; Otago 169 for 9.