Date-stamped : 04 Sep95 - 10:28
Tour Match: Yorkshire v West Indies,
Scarborough, 3 September 1995

Tourists finish in defeat - Andrew Collomosse

Yorkshire (253-4) bt theWest Indians (242) by 11 runs

YORKSHIRE got home with four balls to spare  to  win  the  McCain
Challenge  Trophy and ensure that the West Indies tour ended on a
fittingly upbeat note.

The rancour engendered by the tourists` part  in  the  tame  draw
between  the teams in the opening game of the Festival evaporated
on a day of rich entertainment.

A crowd of  nearly  5,000  bade  a  rousing  farewell  to  Richie
Richardson  and his men while offering the warmest of welcomes to
two of Yorkshire`s great white hopes.

In only his seventh first-team game, England under-19 batsmen An-
thony McGrath underlined his enormous potential by scoring a cen-
tury off 102 balls that provided  the  platform  for  Yorkshire`s
40-over total of 253 for four.

The West Indians` reply was undermined by an opening  burst  from
fast bowler Gavin Hamilton that brought him the wickets of Stuart
Williams, Sherwin Campbell and, crucially, Brian Lara for   eight
runs in the space of 17 balls.

Richardson, with a 51-ball half-century,  Shivnarine  Chanderpaul
and  Ottis  Gibson,  whose  41 off 36 balls included three sixes,
kept the tourists in the chase until, with 17 required  from  the
last  two overs, Craig White removed Ian Bishop and Gibson in the
space of four balls.

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