Last day’s play in test washed out

Press, 30 June 1982, Page 42

Last day’s play in test washed out

NZPA-Reuter Manchester Rain washed out the final day’s play in the second cricket test between England and India at Old Trafford yesterday and the match was drawn. -England won the first test by seven wickets • and the outcome . /of the series will now depiend on the final match of the three-test series at The Oval in 10 days. India, which fought back magnificently ■against England’s first innings score of 425, ended oh its. overnight score of 379 for eight. It had the consolation that the Man of .the Match award went to Sandeep Patil for his superb innings of 129 riot put. >, Patil set one record and narrowly missed: another

when he struck six fours from one over by the England fast bowler, Bob Willis. His 24 runs were the most scored from a single Six-ball over in test matches, but the over-all record for runs conceded in an over still stands at 25. . In an eight-ball over from Hugh Tayfield, a South ■ African off-spinner, on Boxing Day, 1953, a severelyinjured Bert Sutcliffe, hit three sixes and a single from the first five balls. Then Bob Blair, not expected to bat because his fiance had been killed in the Tangiwai train disaster on Christmas Eve, hit another six from the sixth ball. The final two balls of the over were scoreless.