Date-stamped : 03 Nov93 - 06:30
Match Report: New Zealand vs NSW (2D - Newcastle, Oct 30)

New Zealand bowler Danny Morrison emboldened  Kiwi   Test   hopes
when he ripped through New South Wales' Test batting quartet in a
fluctuating tour match at Newcastle on Saturday.  Morrison snared
4-13  in  35  balls as NSW crashed to 61 for four in their second
innings at the close of the second day for an overall lead of 197
runs,  with  Michael  Bevan  not out on four and Greg Matthews on
three.
It was the right tonic for Martin Crowe's  embattled  Kiwis,  who
have  lost  their  opening  three tour outings and were dismissed
cheaply for 163 in their first innings.  The 27-year-old Morrison
had  Ashes  opener  Michael Slater caught down the legside in his
third over, trapped Steve Waugh in front in his fifth, enticed  a
lazy cut-drive from Mark Waugh in his next and completed the swag
when Blair Pocock held a sharp drive at silly  leg  from  captain
Mark  Taylor  in his eighth over.  Morrison, who finished the day
with 4-29 from nine overs, no doubt felt he had to  restore  some
pride after his team-mates capitulated in two awful collapses.
NSW declared at their overnight total of 299 for  eight  and  the
tourists were shaky at 19 for three when pace bowlers, Mike Whit-
ney, Glen McGrath and seamer Brad McNamara struck in the  opening
hour.   Ken  Rutherford  and  rookie opener Blair Pocock added 91
runs in 127 minutes for the fourth wicket before the rot  set  in
again.   Rutherford  reached  65 when he holed out to McGrath off
Matthews, triggering a collapse of 7-53 as the innings  lasted  a
little over four and a half hours.  Pocock took 50 minutes to get
off the mark and at 39 was set for a half century when he was run
out  by  Steve  Waugh.  Simon Doull was given out first ball to a
bat-pad decision off McNamara but was the only Kiwi batsman  with
a reasonable excuse.
While New Zealand's bowlers have performed  admirably   in   this
match, victory sometime on Monday will only be had if the batsmen
can follow suit.  NSW received grim news earlier in the day  when
veteran  fast bowler Mike Whitney broke down with a recurrence of
a knee injury.  Whitney will be out for at least a fortnight  but
a  bad  diagnosis on Monday could mean a serious operation and no
cricket until the New Year.  "It feels to me like cartilage and I
say  that  being a veteran of plenty of knee operations," Whitney
said afterwards.

<END> Contributed by vasa (vasa@sun.com)