Sport in brief

Press, 28 July 1989, Page 34

Sport in brief

New cricket era NZPA-AAP Manchester The fourth test at Old Trafford might be the final outing for the old guard of England's test cricket team. The chairman of selectors. Ted Dexter, hinted yesterday that he was ready to bring down the axe on some established careers if Australia wins the test and regains the Ashes. “If we lose here and go 3-0 down, it will have an influence on the way we pick the team for the remainder of the series,” Mr Dexter said. By the time Mr Dexter and his co-selectors, Micky Stewart and David Gower, sit down to pick the team for the fifth test, they will also know which of England’s leading players are available for the winter tours to India and the West Indies. The players have until August 3 to notify their intentions for the off-season. Mr Dexter accepts that at least some of them will take the krugerrands and go to South Africa on a rebel tour now seen m England as inevitable. Horne’s form good p A Wellington Phil Home’s chances of playing cricket for New Zealand and Auckland next season were dealt a severe blow at the Wisden Cun badminton tournament in Lower Hutt on Wednesday night. After beating Hutt Valley’s Ron Scott 15-12, 15-2, the double international said he would not play serious cricket this summer if he made the Commonwealth Games badminton team. Judging on his form at the Naenae Badminton Hall, he will have to resume his cricket career at a later date. He has got no complaints about that Cricket is the type of game you can still play at the top level when you are in your 30s, he said, whereas you have to be young and fit to play international badminton. The New Zealand No. 1 woman, Rhona Robertson, had a light workout against Lynne Scutt in the singles and was pleased she had an easier game to work herself into peak form. She won 11-1, 11-4. Top squash entries The British Open champion, Susan Devoy, will get another chance to avenge her loss to Martine Le Moignan, of Britain, at the Honda New Zealand squash open in Auckland next month. Devoy, who lost her world championship title to Le Moignan in the Netherlands, has regained her world No. 1, but. Le Moignan, Lisa Opie and the young Australians, Sara Fitzgerald and Daniella Drady, are capable of extending the famous New Zealander. At least eight of the top 10 women in the world are likely starters and the men’s field, headed by the top seed, Jansher Khan, of Pakistan, includes the top ranking Australian, Chris Dittmar, a former British J unio J^ a JPP‘2“’ D S. I L H and New Zealand’s leading player, Ross Norman. Ttys titles will bejdecided in Auckland between August 23 and August 27.