Date-stamped : 03 Nov93 - 21:21
Tetley Bitter Challenge Derbys v Australia at Derby
Day 1 : 13th July 1993
Dominic Cork dashed off another high class half century to keep
his name in the frame for a Test place as Derbys made 244 5
before rain stopped play.
Cork tore into Allan Border's back up seamers Brendon Julian
Wayne Holdsworth and Paul Reiffel before falling to Holdsworth
while on 56.
Julian and Holdsworth wasted the new ball as openers Kim Barnett
and Peter Bowler hit a stand of 71 off 15 overs.
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Day 2: 14th July 1993
Tetley Bitter Challenge DERBY: Derbys v Australia
Wayne Houldsworth has burst back into Headingley Test contention
with a superb hat trick against Derbyshire.
The 24 year old paceman  who took just one wicket on Monday
bounced back to dismiss Frank Griffith  Matthew Vandrau and Karl
Krikken with successive balls.
His 5 117 sent Derbys crashing from 296 5 to 305 all out and
Michael Slater hit 133 not out before rain stopped the tourists
at 268 1.
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Day 2
   Wayne Holdsworth fired  himself  into  contention  for  a
fourth  Test place at Headingley with the first hat-trick of
his career against Derbyshire on Wednesday.  The  Australian
fast  bowler, who picked up just one wicket on Tuesday in 20
unthreatening  overs,  dismissed  Frank  Griffith,   Matthew
Vandrau  and  Kark  Krikken  with consecutive deliveries and
then added the scalp of Simon Base to kill off Derbyshire in
just 12 balls in the morning.
   "I've never taken a hat-trick before -- apart from in the
back yard against my sister," the 24-year-old said after his
demolition job.  "And she used to hit me about a bit as well
sometimes!"
   Derbyshire crashed from 296 for five to 305 all  out  and
by the time rain stopped play the tourists had taken control
at 268 for one with Michael Slater unbeaten on 133.   Having
looked  anything  but  an  Ashes  bowler  24  hours earlier,
Holdsworth suddenly found devastating line and length.   His
fifth  ball  seamed sharply away off the pitch to knock back
Griffith's off stump. And the next was edged to second  slip
by Vandrau.  He then watched as his rival for a spot in next
Thursday's Test, Paul Reiffel, had Kim Barnett snapped up by
when  Krikken was given out caught behind off the first ball
of his next over.
   "It must have  been  a  very  fine  nick,"  admitted  the
paceman.   "I  tried  not to worry about the way I bowled on
Monday but it was easily my worst day of the tour.   "Now  I
just  hope  I  play  in the next game against Durham and the
Headingley Test as well."  Holdsworth added  the  wicket  of
Base to finish off Derbyshire and leave him with figures for
five for 117 off 22 overs.   Holdsworth  sister  might  have
fancied  her  chances  against  Derbyshire's  bowling  after
lunch.
   As it was, Michael Slater tore into a stream of long hops
from  Base  and  Devon  Malcolm to crash an unbeaten 133 off
only 148 balls with 19 fours and a six.   The  young  opener
scored  107  between  lunch  and  tea, completed 1,000 first
class runs for the tour and helped Mark Waugh (60  not  out)
add  179  for the second wicket in just 33 overs.  
Thanks to vasa
Day 3 : washed out 
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