Makes less mistakes than England:

Aussies win by 7 wkts

By A.C De Silva

FLASHBACK: The second Test between Australia and England played between November 26 and December 1 in 1982 at Brisbane will be remembered more for the number of catches dropped and the record number of no-balls than any scintillating cricket. So, Australia came on top and won by 7 wickets. It certainly was not a dull Test match, it was similar to the first and for long periods of time it appeared that both captains were scared of winning and when opportunities came their way they couldn't take advantage of them. In the end, Australia won because they made less mistakes than England and it's bowling had a greater depth to it.

In fact it wouldn't be too unkind to say that only Bob Willis looked a bowler of Test quality that England had with them.

As things stood, England made 219 and 309 in their two innings and Australia's opener Kepler Wessels carried Australia's batsmen in their forward march and made 162 in the first innings. South African born Wessels who replaced Graem wood for the opening spot wrote himself into the record books with this century on debut.

He also earned with it yet another distinction of scoring a first

appearance 'ton' against England. Wessels 162 was just three short of Bannerman's 165 not out against England in the first ever Test in 1876-77, which stands as the highest score by an Aussie batsman on debut.

Wessels narrowly missed the distinction of carrying the bat. He was bowled by Willis for 162 and was the last man to be dismissed. Australian captain Greg Chappell won the toss in Brisbane and put England to bat, it was the 13th occasion that Greg asked the opposition to bat and apart from Lamb (72), there was no other plays to give him the support for them to build a big innings. Lamb looked a fine player. Botham (40) and Randall (37) threw their wickets away in the first innings and England were all out for 219 in their first innings.

Then Australia with Wessels leading the way, and Chappell to give him all the encouragement and lower down the order Bruca Yardley (53) helped the Aussies to make 341 in their first innings. Willis was the most impressive bowler for England with 5 for 65 while Botham had 3 for 105.

English batsman's efforts insufficient

Came innings number 2 and though the Englishmen did silghtly better scoring 309, with Graeme Fowler making 83 and Geoff Miller making 60, their efforts alone were insufficient to make a match of it and Australia had the match well grasped in their hands.

For the Aussies, there was their champion opening bowler Lawson who had a match bag of 11 for 134 while Thomson had 5 for 73 in the England second innings total of 309.

So finally, the Australians had to make 188 to win, the Aussies made 190 for 3 wickets David Hookes 66 not out and Kim Hughes (39 not out) involved in a unbeaten fourth wicket partnership of 107 runs that made it easy for the Aussies.

SCOREBOARD

ENGLAND 1ST INNINGS
C.J. Tavare c Hughes b Lawson	 		01
G.Fowler c Yardley b Lawson	 		07
D.Gower c Wessels b Lawson			18
A.J. Lamb c Marsh b Lawson			72
I.T. Botham c Rachemann b Yardley		40
D.W. Randall c Lawson b Rackemann		37
G. Miller c Marsh b Lawson	 		00
R.W. Tayler c Lawson b Rackemann	 	01
E.E. Hemmings not out				15
R.G.D. Willis c Thomson b Yardley	 	01
N.G. Cowans c Marsh b Lawson			10
EXTRAS						17	
TOTAL					       219

Fall of wickets: 1-8, 2-13, 3-63, 4-142, 5-152, 6-152
		 7-178, 8-191, 9-195
Bowling: G.F. Lawson 18.3-4-47-6
	 C.G. Rachemann 21-8-61-2
	 J.R. Thomson 8-0-43-0
	 B. Yardley 17-5-51-2

AUSTRALIA 1ST INNINGS
R.C. Wessels				       162
J. Dyson b Botham	  			01
A.R. Border c Randall b Willis	  		00
G.S. Chappell run out	 			53
K.J. Hughes c Taylor b Botham	  		00
D.W. Hookes c Tayler b Miller	 		28
R.W. Marsh c Taylor b Botham	 		11
B. Yardley c Tavare b Willis	 		53
G.F. Lawson c Hemmings b Willis	  		06
C.G. Rackemann b Willis	  			04
J.R. Thomson not out	  			05
EXTRAS	 					18
TOTAL					       341

Fall of wickets: 1-4, 2-11, 3-94, 4-99, 5-130, 6-171
		 7-271, 8-310, 9-332
Bowling: R.G.D. Willis 29.4-3-66-5
	 I.T.Botham 22-1-105-3
	 N.G. Cowans 6-0-36-0
	 E.E. Hemmings 33.3-6-81-0
	 G. Miller 19.3-4-35-1

ENGLAND 2ND INNINGS
C.J. Tavare c Marsh b Lawson	 		13
G. Fowler c Marsh b Thomson	 		83
D.I. Gower c Marsh b Thomson	 		34
A.J. Lamb c Wessels b Thomson	 		12
I.T. Botham c Yardley b Thomson	  		04
D.W. Randall c Marsh b Thomson	 		15
G. Miller c Marsh b Thomson	 		60
R.W. Taylor c Hookes b Lawson	  		03
E.E. Hemmings b Lawson	 			18
R.G.D. Willis not out	 			10
N.G. Cowangs c Marsh b Lawson	  		05
EXTRAS	 					52
TOTAL					       309

Fall of wickets: 1-54, 2-144, 3-165, 4-169, 5-194
		 6-201, 7-226, 8-285, 9-295
Bowling: G.F. Lawson 35.3-11-87-5
	 C.G. Rackemann 12,2-3-35-0
	 J.R. Thomson 31-6-73-5
	 B. Yardley 40.4-21-50-0
	 G.S. Chappell 6-2-8-0
	 D.W. Hookes 2-0.4-0


AUSTRALIA 2ND INNINGS
K.C. Wessels b Hemmings				46
J. Dyson retired hurt	 			04
A.R. Border c Botham b Hemmings			15
G.S. Chappel c Lamb b Cowans	 		08
K.J. Hughes not out				39
D.W. Hookes not out				66
EXTRAS						12
TOTAL (FOR 3 wkts)	     		       190

Fall of wickets: 1-60, 2-77, 3-83
Bowling; R.G.D. Willis 4-1-24-0
	 I.T. Botham 15.5-1-70-0
	 N.G.Cowans 9-1-31-1
	 E.F. Hemmings 29-9-43-2
	 G. Miller 3-0-10-0