Rain saves World XI

Press, 29 November 1977, Page 28

Rain saves World XI

N ZPA Me 1 bou me i Rain saved Tony Greig s world team from probable def eat at | the hands of lan Chappell’s Australian team in the first world series cricket match in Melbourne. The rain-enforced draw came i as the World XI were 3/122 in their second innings of the fourday trial match and chasing 454 runs to beat the Australian com-; bined innings total. At Adelaide the West Indians won the one-day forty-over limit game against the World XI bv four wickets and with eight < overs to spare at Adelaide yesterday. Chasing the World Xi’s 174,1 Roy Fredericks and Gordon Greenidge began with a fast 331

(but scoring lapsed until the capI tain, Clive Lloyd, joined Jim I Allen for a fifth-wicket 70-run partnership. Lloyd’s innings of 32 helped his side to a winning position. Meanwhile India roared to the eighth successive win of their .Australian tour as they crushed the powerful Queensland team by an innings and 123 runs at | the Brisbane Cricket Ground yesterday. In a match that lasted only 15 minutes into the third day the Sheffield Shief leaders were out for 111 in their second innings after crashing for 119 in the first. I India declared at the end of jthe first day with a score of I eight tor 353.