Sporting Digest: Cricket

ALAN FORDHAM, the Northamptonshire opening batsman, is suffering from appendicitis and may be out for a month.

1995 AUSTRALIAN TOUR TO WEST INDIES (Test match schedule): First Test (Bridgetown, Barbados): 31 March to 5 April 1995. Second Test (St John's, Antigua): 8-13 April. Third Test (Port of Spain, Trinidad): 21-26 April. Fourth Test (Kingston, Jamaica): 29 April to 4 May.