Date-stamped : 13 Mar95 - 10:46 West Indies v Australia, ODI 2 Played at Port of Spain, Trinidad, 11 March 1995 ====> Prematch Shoulder Injury Makes West Indies Captain an Unlikely Starter - Craig Cozier, Associated Press Writer West Indies captain Richie Richardson is nursing a sore right shoulder and it`s doubtful he`ll play in the second Cable & Wire- less one-day cricket international against Australia here on Sa- turday. The 33-year-old Richardson sustained the injury in the first match in Barbados on Wednesday when he dived in vain to avoid be- ing run out. At Friday`s training session at the Queen`s Park Oval, he left the nets early and headed to the dressing room. Andy Roberts, the West Indies manager, confirmed after the practice that Richardson was ``hardly likely to play`` Saturday. The captain`s position will be taken over by Courtney Walsh, who was a successful stand-in on the team`s recent tours of India and New Zealand, when Richardson was resting on doctor`s orders to recover from acute fatigue. There is optimism surrounding the fitness of fast bowler Wins- ton Benjamin, who strained his neck and had to miss the tense closing stages of Wednesday` match that the West Indies won by six runs. His Antiguan colleague Kenny Benjamin has been added to the West Indies` 13-man squad as a possible replacement. The selectors were expected to name another player as a poten- tial stand-in for Richardson in a meeting Friday. The 27-year-old Barbadian middle-order batsman Roland Holder is the likeliest choice. But left-hander Keith Arthurton, an original member of the squad, would probably be preferred to start in the final eleven. Australia`s selectors seem certain to make one change from the side that lost on Wednesday. Off-spinner Tim May bowled five ex- pensive overs and his exclusion would open the way for another fast bowler, either Glenn McGrath or the less-experienced Damien Fleming. The third match of the five-match series is scheduled for the same location Sunday, with the fourth in St. Vincent next Wednes- day and the last in Georgetown, Guyana on March 18. The matches will be followed by four five-day Tests and three minor matches. The teams: West Indies: (from) Richie Richardson (captain), Courtney Walsh (vice-captain), Stuart Williams, Phil Simmons, Brian Lara, Carl Hooper, Jimmy Adams, Keith Arthurton, Junior Murray, Winston Benjamin, Vasbert Drakes, Curtly Ambrose, Kenneth Benjamin. Australia: (from) Mark Taylor (captain), Ian Healy (vice- cap- tain), Michael Slater, Mark Waugh, David Boon, Steve Waugh, Greg Blewett, Paul Reiffel, Shane Warne, Glenn McGrath, Craig McDer- mott, Justin Langer, Ricky Ponting, Tim May, Damien Fleming. Source :: AP Worldstream Contributed by Ram.Krishnan (rkrishna@garnet.acns.fsu.edu) ====> Match Report The first alarm bells about the demands of Australia`s longest summer rang out today when fast bowler Craig McDermott and bats- man Mark Waugh were rested from the third limited-over interna- tional against the West Indies. McDermott strained his right shoulder in Australia`s 26-run win at Queen`s Park Oval on Saturday and Waugh has a sore groin, an injury he sustained in the six-run first-game loss in Barbados. Damien Fleming came in for McDermott and Ricky Ponting replaced Waugh. With four Tests ahead, the last thing Australia need is to lose McDermott, their spearhead. He failed to complete his 10-over workload at Queen`s Park Oval in yesterday`s second one-dayer. He bowled five overs with the new ball without much zest, left the field for an hour for treatment and returned to take 3-10 from 11 deliveries as the West Indies fell for 234. Australian physiotherapist Errol Alcott said of the Queenslander: ``He felt some pain and clicking in his right shoulder when he bowled a slower ball. It was probably a tendon getting caught between two bones. It`s always a bit of a worry for a bowler when he sustains pain while bowling.`` In the second one-dayer Australia`s batsmen were twice the players who went down aimlessly, almost amiably, in Barbados. The West Indies were without captain Richie Richardson, forlornly nursing torn shoulder ligaments, and Keith Arthurton returned to the side, making 35 with one monstrous six into the mid-wicket crowd, only to doze off and cost Jimmy Adams his wicket. Shane Warne took a pounding, the capacity 30,000 crowd taking up the South African chant of ``We want Shane Warne!`` when he was relieved after his initial four over spell of 0-35, mainly from Brian Lara`s eight-boundary onslaught of 62 from 72 balls. Oddly, the worst ball Warne bowled, a full toss to Carl Hooper (55 from 58 balls), changed the nature of the game as the all- rounder punched it chest-high to mid-wicket. The West Indies crumbled from 3-175 at the start of the 35th over, losing 7-59 in 13.5 overs. Paul Reiffel, in particular, tormented them with his accurate cutters. He is already an indispensable member of the attack. >From the moment Mark Taylor won the toss and batted on a dry, sedate strip, this was an Australian team without the stars of the New Zealand junket in their eyes. Four of the batsmen made 40 or more, Steve Waugh (58 from 59 balls) and Ian Healy (51 from 45 balls) launching themselves in a manner that would have won them the money in the Barbados match. Openers Taylor and Michael Slater (55 from 73 balls) leapt out of the blocks with a 37-run stand in nine overs and, when Taylor skied off the leading edge to extra cover, Slater bounded on as few openers in the world can do, flaying a back-foot cover drive to the fence from Curtly Ambrose. Winston Benjamin slid an in-dipper inside Mark Waugh`s guard, whereupon David Boon (48 from 76 balls) joined Slater for a 54- run stand in 14 overs. Steve Waugh and Ian Healy contributed outstandingly robust ef- forts. Waugh squirmed a couple of times as Benjamin dug the ball in deep, only to assert his supremacy by pulling and driving powerfully for a six and five boundaries in one of his better one-day innings. The pair added 60 from 66 balls but the going was tough in the heat, with the lush outfield turning good threes into hard-earned twos. Waugh bounced down the pitch to put medium-pacer Phil Sim- mons into the crowd before the out-of-sorts Courtney Walsh wrecked his wicket, as he strove for a cover drive too many. All the more to praise Healy then, as he accepted the senior batsman`s role after Waugh`s departure, neatly lobbing the ball into the midfield between the two circles of fieldsmen, running aggressively and forcing errors from the fielders. Healy rarely gets the credit he deserves, so his man-of-the-match award was well-merited, but as Reiffel (14 from 19 balls) shared a 45-run partnership from 36 balls with him, bowled beautifully again and held a smart outfield catch, the award should have gone to the Victorian. Healy considered the West Indians were making a concerted effort to break Warne`s spirit before the Tests, but after the initial onslaught the spinner`s last six overs cost just 28 runs, one stroke being Arthurton`s six, and he bowled some exquisite deliveries. Thanks :: Phil Wilkins, Sydney Morning Herald. Contributed by David.Mar (mar@physics.usyd.edu.au)