Sporting Digest: Cricket

BENSON AND HEDGES CUP First-round draw: Sussex v Scotland; Leicestershire v Ireland; Nottinghamshire v Minor Counties; Combined Universities v Lancashire; Middlesex v Northamptonshire; Surrey v Somerset. (Ties to be played 26 April 1994). Second- round draw: Nottinghamshire or Minor Counties v Sussex or Scotland; Durham v Worcestershire; Essex v Leicestershire or Ireland; Hampshire v Yorkshire; Derbyshire v Combined Universities or Lancashire; Kent v Gloucestershire; Middlesex or Northamptonshire v Warwickshire, Surrey or Somerset v Glamorgan. (Ties to be played 10 May 1994).

SOUTH AFRICA began their maiden tour of Sri Lanka by dismissing a Board President's XI for just 90 runs and replying strongly on the first day of their three-day game at Galle yesterday. The visitors reached 159 for 3 at the close after the home team collapsed to Brett Schultz and Clive Eksteen, who shared eight wickets between them.

TOUR MATCH (Galle, Sri Lanka, first day of three): Sri Lanka Board XI 90 (B N Schultz

4-18, C E Eksteen 4-29); South Africa 159 for 3.