Sporting Digest: Cricket

SHEFFIELD SHIELD First day of four (Sydney): New South Wales 289 for 5 (M G Bevan 67) v South Australia.

AUSTRALIA (v President's Invitation XI, limited-overs match, Potchefstroom, SA, today): A R Border (capt), M A Taylor, D C Boon, D M Jones, S R Waugh, M E Waugh, I A Healy, P R Reiffel, G D McGrath, C J McDermott, S K Warne. Twelfth man: M J Slater.