Sporting Digest: Cricket

ONE-DAY INTERNATIONAL (Pune, India): India beat Zimbabwe by eight wickets and win series 3-0.

ZIMBABWE

A W Flower run out 32

G W Flower c Yadav b Kumble 50

A D R Campbell st Yadav b Kumble 22

* D L Houghton b Kapil 46

M H Dekker run out 8

G A Briant run out 16

A H Shah c Yadav b Kapil Dev 1

E A Brandes c Kumble b Srinath 5

G J Crocker b Kapil Dev 1

D Brain not out 12

A J Traicos c Ankola b Srinath 4

Extras (b2 lb14 nb4 w17) 37

Total (49.5 overs) 234

Fall: 1-58 2-122 3-129 4-154 5-196 6-199 7-212 8-215 9-217.

Bowling: Kapil 10-1-54-3; Srinath 9.5-1-34-2; Ankola 6-0-32-0; Tendulkar 4-0-30-0; Sharma 10-0-34-0; Kumble 10-0-34-2.

INDIA

W V Raman c G Flower b Traicos 66

N S Sidhu run out 45

V G Kambli not out 47

A K Sharma not out 59

Extras (lb8 w10 nb3) 21

Total (for 2, 45.3 overs) 238

Fall: 1-114 2-134.

Did not bat: * M Azharuddin, S R Tendulkar, Kapil Dev, V Yadav, A Kumble, S A Ankola, J Srinath.

Bowling: Brandes 10-0-31-0; Brain 9.3-0-47-0; G Flower 5-0-39-0; Crocker 8-1-39-0; Shah 3- 0-24-0; Traicos 10-0-50-1.

THE Nawab of Pataudi and Clive Lloyd, both former Test captains, will share refereeing duties when England play Australia this summer. Pataudi, who played 46 times for India, has been appointed by the International Cricket Council to oversee the three Texaco Trophy one-day games and the first two Cornhill Tests. Lloyd, who made 110 Test appearances for West Indies, will take command for the final four Tests.

THE SCARBOROUGH festival has received a pounds 100,000 sponsorship from the brewers, Tetley Bitter, who will support a four-county knock-out competition until at least 1996.