Rain washes out play
NZPA-Reuter Leeds Rain washed out the first day’s' play in the final cricket test between England arid the West Indies at Headingley yesterday but the delayed start: gave the touring. team a chance to resolve its injury problems. .The West Indies, who lead, 1-0, in the five-match series, have the captain,
Clive' Lloyd, and the fast bowlers, Andy Roberts, Joel Garner and Colin Croft, unfit.
Lloyd and Roberts remain the inost unlikely to play, but yesterday’s washout will allow Garner. , who has shoulder trouble, arid Croft, suffering from leg muscle problems, a further chance to, recover. .
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Press, 9 August 1980, Page 56
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