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England Cricket Focus (28 Jun 1998)

DARREN Gough's attempts to prove his fitness ahead of Thursday's third Test were frustrated yesterday as heavy rain washed out the first day of Yorkshire's three-day match against Cambridge University at Headingley

28 June 1998

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England Cricket Focus

The Electronic Telegraph

  • DARREN Gough's attempts to prove his fitness ahead of Thursday's third Test were frustrated yesterday as heavy rain washed out the first day of Yorkshire's three-day match against Cambridge University at Headingley.

    Gough was hoping to test his right index finger in a match situation for the first time since it was broken by Allan Donald three weeks ago. But the England selectors, who met last night to choose the squad for Old Trafford, will be none the wiser.

    "I have been netting and it was a bit sore," said Gough. "But I won't know much more until we play."

  • HAMPSHIRE were angered yesterday by Mushtaq Ahmed's inclusion in the Somerset team for the match at Taunton after he was the only home player not to undergo a Sports Council drugs test during Friday's wash-out.

    • The testing unit, who must now examine every player at selected games, were given the names of 11 Somerset players which excluded Mushtaq as he was at home with a virus and duly tested them while they practised in the indoor nets. The Pakistani had recovered sufficiently yesterday to take his place in the Somerset team.

    Peter Anderson, the Somerset chief executive, said: "I pointed out to the drug unit that they could come back 24 hours later and test the actual team, but apparently that was not possible."

  • BRIAN Lara succumbed to Irish spin for the third time in three innings when he was bowled for nought by University of Ulster student Kyle McCallan in the NatWest Trophy on Wednesday.

    • The Warwickshire and West Indies captain, who boasts a Test average of 79.2 against England, has taken only 13 runs off Ireland at an average of 4.33.

    Leg-spinner Connor Hoey had Lara caught for four in 1991, the great man was nearly into double figures four years later when he gave Neil Doak a return catch and his sixth-ball dismissal against McCallan's off-breaks extended his embarrassing record.

  • ED SMITH, Kent's Cambridge University opening batsman, will miss the University Match at Lord's this week after breaking his finger against the South Africans at Fenner's on Friday.

      • Source :: Electronic Telegraph (https://www.telegraph.co.uk)