Sport Today

   England's XI suffered another defeat when the Rest of the
World won the first of two one-day games at the Jesmond
Festival by 37 runs on Tuesday.  Players on the fringe of the
national team failed to impress England manager Keith Fletcher,
leaving skipper Mike Gatting to achieve respectability with 90
off 109 balls.  But once Gatting had taken six overs to get off
the mark, England never threatened to get close to the Rest of
the World's 55-over total of 309 for five, closing on 272 for
nine.

   Tom Graveney gave the Man of the Match award to India's
latest batting star, Ajay Jadeja, whose immaculate timing
brought him 87 off 94 balls.  Jadeja, 22, who played in three
Tests in South Africa in the winter, came in as a late
replacement for the injured Salim Malik while Gordon Greenidge
took over the captaincy when Viv Richards cried off with hay
fever.  Greenidge made 59 but Phil Simmons, who has succeeded
him as West Indies opener, was top scorer with 104 off 151
balls.

   One of his three sixes, a straight drive off Glamorgan
off-spinner Robert Croft, which cleared some three-storey
houses adjoining the ground, was the biggest blow on the tiny
Newcastle ground for 44 years.

Rest of World XI won toss

Rest of World XI
   P.V. Simmons c DeFreitas b Croft ....... 104
   Aamir Sohail c Gatting b Ilott ........... 1
   A. Jadeja c Roseberry b DeFreitas ....... 87
   C.G. Greenidge b Ilott .................. 59
   D.M. Jones b Ilott ...................... 28
   R.M. Harper not out ...................... 4
   D.S. Berry not out ....................... 2
   Extras (lb11-w3-nb10) ................... 24
   Total (for 5 wkts in 55 overs) ......... 309

   Fall of wkts:  1-2, 2-166, 3-254, 4-288, 5-307

   Did not bat: M.D. Marshall, D. Morrison, C.A. Walsh,
                A.A. Donald

   Bowling: DeFreitas 11-1-42-1, Ilott 11-0-56-3,
            Munton 11-1-59-0, Such 11-0-66-0,
            Croft 11-0-75-1

England XI
   M.A. Atherton b Harper ............... 33
   M.A. Roseberry lbw b Donald .......... 20
   M.R. Ramprakash c Simmons b Marshall .. 1
   M.W. Gatting b Donald ................ 90
   N.H. Fairbrother b Harper ............ 20
   S.J. Rhodes c Morrison b Harper ...... 35
   R.D.B. Croft c Marshall b Harper ...... 0
   P.A.J. DeFreitas   c Berry b Donald .. 19
   T.A. Munton not out .................. 16
   M.C. Ilott c Morrison b Aamir Sohail .. 4
   P.M. Such not out .................... 14
   Extras (lb5-w5-nb10) ................. 20
   Total (for 9 wkts in 55 overs) ...... 272

   Fall of wkts: 1-35, 2-48, 3-71 4-99 5-171 6-172 7-212
                 8-246, 9-252

   Bowling: Donald 10-1-48-3, Walsh 11-1-43-0,
            Morrison 11-2-53-0, Marshall 9-2-31-1,
            Harper 11-0-67-4, Aamir Sohail 2-0-15-1,
            Greenidge 1-0-10-0

   Umpires: J.H. Hampshire and B.J. Meyer

S.R. Waugh, T.J. Zoehrer, S.K. Warne, B.P. Julian,
P.R. Reiffel, W.J.  Holdsworth.

Rest of World XI beat England XI by 37 runs

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  West Indian batsman Phil Simmons, who scored a sparkling
century in Tuesday's win over an England XI, followed it up
with an attractive 58 for the Rest of the World on Wednesday.
But rain spoiled spectators' hopes of further entertainment
and the second one-day match in the Jesmond festival had to be
abandoned after Rest of the World made 149 for four off 25
overs.

   Graham Gooch, captaining the England XI, took none for 34
in four overs but held on to a fine running catch at short
fine leg to remove Simmons.  The opener's half-century came
off only 41 balls and included two sixes and four fours.

Rest of World XI won toss

Rest of World XI
   Aamir Sohail c Ramprakash b Ilott  ................. 21
   P.V. Simmons  c Gooch b Such ....................... 58
   C.G. Greenidge c DeFreitas b Munton ................ 15
   D.M. Jones run out .................................  6
   D Houghton  not out ................................ 19
   R.M. Harper not out ................................ 12
   Extras (lb12 nb6) .................................. 18
   Total  (4 wkts, 25 overs) ..........................149

   Fall: 1-49, 2-102, 3-112, 4-112

   To bat: M D Marshall, D S Berry, D Morrison, C A Walsh,
           A A Donald.

   Bowling: DeFreitas 4-0-35-0; Ilott 4-0-13-1;
            Gooch 4-0-34-0; Munton 8-1-28-1; Such 5-0-27-1

England XI

   G A Gooch, M A Roseberry, M A Atherton, M W Gatting, M R
Ramprakash, N H Fairbrother, S J Rhodes, P A J DeFreitas, M C
Ilott, T A Munton, P M Such.

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