Date-stamped : 26 Feb95 - 22:37
England "A" v Bangladesh, Three-day Match
played at National Stadium, Dhaka, 24,25,26 February 1995

====> Day 4, 26 Feb 95

Knight and Hemp close tour in style - Simon Hughes

The English season is still six weeks away so it  was  too  early
for  batting  pract  ice, but Nick Knight and David Hemp received
plenty  and made the most of it on the final day of the England A
tour yesterday.

Not out overnight on 65 and 50  respectively,  they  were  parted
only  after  adding  283  in  83  overs. They took it in turns to
dominate the bowlers - Bangladesh  tried  eight  in all  -   Hemp
reaching   his  hundred  first  having  been dropped three times.
Knight's century, his third in 10 days, took tw  ice  as  long  -
five-and-a-half hours.

There was little chance  of  Alan  Wells,  the  England  captain,
declaring  as the Bangladesh  first innings had taken nearly half
the match. So when Knight edged wearily to slip,  a  sequence  of
lower-order batsmen were sent in for a tonk.

Glen Chapple swung gaily, mowing the slow spinners for a six  and
three  fours. On 26 he ran up the pitch and could have been given
run out  rather than   stumped,  but  there  was  no doubt as  to
Hemp's dismissal when, 10 runs short of his first double hundred,
he skied to long off.

New batsman Keith Piper was gifted four overthrows on  his  first
ball  before being clean bowled by the Bangladesh captain,  Akram
Khan, whose two names flatter his modest ability.

Source :: The Electronic Telegraph (http://www.telegraph.co.uk)
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