BARBADOS: AUSTRALIA ARE ALL OUT FOR 178, AND WEST INDIES SCORE 141 FOR ONE WICKET TO WIN SECOND TEST BY NINE WICKETS.

Record ID: 559676

  • Title: BARBADOS: AUSTRALIA ARE ALL OUT FOR 178, AND WEST INDIES SCORE 141 FOR ONE WICKET TO WIN SECOND TEST BY NINE WICKETS.
  • Date: 20th March 1978
  • Summary: 1. GV Colin Croft bowls to Bobby Simpson, who gets two leg byes. 0.08 1???. GV Colin Croft bowls to Graeme Wood, who goes for a quick single but is run out by Viv Richards. 0.22 3. GV Joel Garner bowls to Yardley, who drives him for four. 0.29 4. SV Garner bowls Yardley for 43. 0.43 5. GV Garner to Jeff Thomson, who clips the ball away for four. 0.50 6. GV Garner has Thomson caught by Richards for 11??? Australia 178 all out. 0.56 7. GV Scoreboard. 1.01 8. GV Thomson to Gordon Greenidge, who hits four off a no ball. 1.10 9. GV Bruce Yardley bowls and Desmond Haynes pulls him for six over the Kensington Stand. 1.17 10. GV Yardley to Greenidge, who straight drives for six. 1.25 11. GV Jim Higgs to Haynes, who is caught by Yardley at backward point for 55. 1.36 12. GV Yardley to Greenidge, who clips ball away for three. for three. Players run off as crowd streams onto field. 2.00 The full score board in brief: Australia 250 (Yardley 74, Wood 69, Croft 4-47) and 178 (Wood 56, Roberts 4-50, Garner 4-56). West Indies 288 (Haynes 66, Murray 60, Thomson 6-77) and 141-1 (Greenidge 80 not out, Haynes 55). Initials EP/0200 SPORT: CRICKET Editors please not - see Production no. 2736/78. Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 4th April 1978 13:00
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  • Location: BRIDGETOWN, BARBADOS
  • Country: Barbados
  • Reuters ID: LVABKM4HWE2AJ1340VMRDTMR7IDS
  • Story Text: Cricket.... and in Bridgetown, Barbados the West Indies won the second Test against Australia by nine wickets. On Sunday (19 March), the third day, the Australians were all out in their second innings for 178 just before lunch, and the West Indies scored the 141 they needed to win for the loss of only Desmond Haynes. The West Indies are now two up in the five-match series.

    SYNOPSIS: Colin Croft to Australian captain, Bobby Simpson, and the ball went for two off Simpson's pads.

    While wickets had tumbled steadily at the other end, opener Graeme Wood had batted with stubborn resistance, but when he had reached 56 he played Croft to Richards, and was run out.

    Yardley joined Simpson and he confidently drove Garner for four.

    Garner eventually got his revenge... Yardley was yorked for 43, and the end of the Australian innings was in sight.

    Garner to Thoson.... and four runs.

    Garner again to Thomson, and this time he was caught by Richards for 11.

    The Australians were all out for 178.

    When the West Indies went in again Greenidge was in scintillating form... four runs off a no ball from Thomson.

    Haynes, too, went for the runs... this six off Yardley went over the Kensington Stand.

    Yardley to Greenidge... and it was six more.

    It was Higgs, who got Haynes. When he was 55 he was picket up at backward point by Yardley.

    Yardley to Greendge ... three runs ... and it was all over. The West Indies had won by nine wickets with more than two days to spare. Greenidge's contribution had been a sparkling 80 not out. No wonder his Barbados home crowd were delighted.
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