Sport in Short: Cricket
SHEFFIELD SHIELD (Final day of four): Sydney: Western Austraia 467 and 168 (M P Lavender 46, T M Moody 30; G R J Matthews 8-52); New South Wales 452 and 186 for 3 (M G Bevan 44no, S M Small 41). New South Wales won by 7 wickets. Melbourne: Victoria 406 for 8 dec and 201 (M Elliott 66; D Reeves 3-60); South Australia 278 for 7 dec and 306 for 8 (G S Blewett 69, J A Brayshaw 65, J D Siddons 58; A I C Dodemaide 3-53, P R Reiffel 2-67). Match drawn.
RED STRIPE TROPHY (Second day of four): Port of Spain: Leeward Islands 285 and 16 for 1; Trinidad and Tobago 200 (W Phillip 5-54). Kingston: Barbados 456 for 9 dec (R I C Holder 162no, P A Wallace 96, H Waldron 62); Jamaica 99 for 3. Georgetown: Windward Islands 128; Guyana 392 for 4 (C B Lambert 205no, S Dhaniram 74).
TOTAL POWER CUP (Johannesburg, 50 overs): Eastern Province 202 for 6; Free State 205 for 4 (W J Cronje 75, R Steyn 70no). Free State won by six wickets.
SOUTH AFRICA SQUAD (for triangular one-day series against Pakistan and West Indies starting tomorrow): K C Wessels (capt), A C Hudson, P N Kirsten, W J Cronje, D J Cullinan, D J Callaghan, J N Rhodes, B M McMillan, D J Richardson (wkt), C R Matthews, A A Donald, P S de Villiers, M W Pringle.
PAKISTAN SQUAD: Wasim Akram (capt), Waqar Younis, Javed Miandad, Salim Malik, Ramiz Raja, Shoaib Mohammad, Zahid Fazal, Rashid Latif (wkt), Ata-ur-Rehman, Inzamam-ul-Haq, Asif Mujtaba, Arshad Khan, Ghulam Ali, Saeed Anwar.
WEST INDIES SQUAD: R B Richardson (capt), A L Logie, D L Haynes, P V Simmons, B C Lara, C L Hooper, K L T Arthurton, J C Adams, J R Murray (wkt), C E L Ambrose, I R Bishop, C A Walsh, B P Patterson.
FIXTURES: Tomorrow: S Africa v Pakistan (Durban); Feb: 11 S Africa v West Indies (Port Elizabeth); 13 West Indies v Pakistan (Johannesburg); 15 S Africa v Pakistan (East London); 17 S Africa v West Indies (Cape Town); 19 West Indies v Pakistan (Durban); 21 S Africa v Pakistan (Pretoria); 23 S Africa v West Indies (Bloemfontein); 25 Pakistan v West Indies (Cape Town); 28 Final (Johannesburg).
EXHIBITION MATCH (Johannesburg): West Indies 219 for 3 dec (R B Richardson 83, J C Adams 82no); N Oppenheimer XI 189 for 2. Match drawn.
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