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ID OR! Wednesday, February 1 6, 1 994 58 tort NSWRL fi3ijl 't -5 JfO Tj 1l(B1 'heat tike Am 1 wmm i Happier days Merv Hughes and some young fans during the Australian team's visit to Soweto earlier this week. Hughes breaks down at practice SCOREBOARD lilpil CRICKET PHIL WILKINS Alcott said Hughes, 32, completed the first-class match against Northern Transvaal without any apparent ill-effects in finishing with 5-102, but his back went into spasm early in the net session, apparently due to fatigue brought on by the game. When Hughes emerged from the Australians' dressing room, he was unable to carry his gear and walked slowly and stiffly to the team bus for the return trip to Johannesburg. Adding to the Australians' concerns, off-spinner Tim May was unable to bowl because of a swollen right forefinger, where he took a stinging return drive on Monday. The injury is not considered serious.

One bowler not causing the tourists any headaches is Victo PHIL WILKINS Batsman Daryll Cullinan's misadventures in Australia and recent disappointing performances in the Castle Cup (formerly the Currie Cup) South Africa's equivalent to the Sheffield Shield led to his omission while left-arm fast bowler Brett Schultz broke down again with a hairline fracture of the knee in his comeback game for Eastern Province team yesterday. Kuiper confirmed his worth 9 A diary of Phillip Street's big rethink What a difference a week makes, jacquelin magnay chronicles how the Big Heat beat the Big League. Wednesday, February 9: Canberra coach Tim Sheens is furious that his players have to endure uncomfortable heat and humidity during their match against the Gold Coast at Penrith. Sheens constantly monitors his players' pulse rates and interchanges players accordingly. Thursday, February 10: Australian Rugby League doctor Nathan Gibbs calls for the cancellation of games in extreme heat and in humid conditions.

He says the League should formulate a clear policy to define at what point matches should be cancelled. Australian Institute of Sport director of medicine Peter Fricker says the League continues to flirt with danger. Thursday, February 10: NSW Rugby League chairman Ken Arthuson says everything is being done to protect the players and NSWRL general manager John Quayle says they can't program the competition around the whims of a couple of coaches and the weather. Friday, February 11: Lawyer Marianne Robinson warns the League that officials could be charged with manslaughter if a player dies from playing in dangerous heat conditions. The League is also warned it is in breach of NSW occupational health and safety laws.

Quayle says he will not change the schedule of the Tooheys Challenge despite misgivings from coaches or doctors. Monday, February 14: The federal agency, Worksafe Australia, urges the League to reschedule its Challenge Cup matches to the cooler mornings. Monday, February 14: The NSW Rugby League board votes to finance a NSWRL Doctors' Association research study into heat stress. The board also offers to switch daytime Challenge games to later in the night. Tuesday, February 15: Match starts delayed.

LEAGUE be worse for them. I just hope there's plenty of water. "It's something I suppose but they may as well have made it five minutes." Mitchell, however, said the League had been informed the conditions "would be around 25 degrees, with low The wave of criticism over the scheduling of matches in the $706,000 pre-season competition was initiated by Canberra coach Tim Sheens who said some of his players recorded "dangerous" heart rates during his side's 18-14 win over Gold Coast last week. Brisbane, Illawarra, St George and North Sydney have also publicly complained. The League defended its pro-gamming, saying everything was being done to protect the players, including free interchange, dividing the game into 20-minute quarters and using water-blowers.

McCarthy said the solution was to simply play the matches in coastal areas where the conditions would be more favourable. St George chief executive Geoff Can- was more diplomatic, saying 30 minutes was better than nothing. "Who knows, it may make a difference Just as long as anything they do is positive rather than negative," Carr said. Tonight's matches: PARR AM ATT A EASTS at Marathon Stadium. Newcastle (6.30 pm) PARRAMATTA: Scott Mahon.

Brett Plowman. Robert Muchmore. Andrew Patmore, Joe Bartolo, Michael Buettner. Stu Galbraith. Michael SDeechley.

Chris King, Cameron Blair. John Fearnley. Tulsen Toliett. Paul Dunn, res: Danny Crnkovich, Mark Horo, Peter McPhail. EASTS: Rod Silva.

Shane Whereat. Jason Hudson. Jason Keogh. Jeff Orford, Craig Weston. Brian Smith.

Nigel Gaffey. Mark Protheroe. Clinton O'Brien. Jason Lowrie. Brendan Hall (c).

Bruce Sinclair, res: Jason Tassell, Jim Smith. Scott Sattler. David Seidenkamp. NEWCASTLE BALMAIN at Marathon Stadium. Newcastle (8.30 pm) NEWCASTLE (sauad): Robbie O'Davis.

Jamie Ainscough. Brad God-den. Russell Wyer. Nathan Barnes. Matthew Rodwell.

Matthew Johns. Andrew Johns. Marc Glanviile. David Mullane. Paul Marauet.

Steve Crowe. Mark Sargent. Tim Maddison. Robbie McCormack. Darren Treacv.

BALMAIN: Morvin Edwards. Graham Lyons. Tim Brasher. David Bays-sari. Greg Burke.

Will Robinson. Nathan Wood. Matt Munro. Mark Geyer. Paul Sironen.

Derek McVey. Ben Elias, Steve Edmed. res: Martin Masella. Ritchie Connell. Hudson Smith, David Ronson.

Manly forward David Gillespie's appearance before the judiciary has been postponed until tomorrow night In London, former Australian prop Peter Tunks resigned as coach of English first division strugglers Oldham by mutual agreement with the club. Test back-rower Bob Lindner will replace him as player-coach, initially to the end of the season. Tunks said: "IVe grafted three years for Oldham but I don't have a magic wand and I didn't feel I could squeeze any more juice from the orange." JOHANNESBURG, Tuesday: Merv Hughes's back went into spasm during Australia's centre-wicket net practice at Centurion Park today, casting a shadow over his immediate future on the tour of South Africa. The 51 -Test, 208-wicket veteran bowled only four balls before retiring for treatment from physiotherapist Errol Alcott, who worked on the big speedster on the arena where the Australians inflicted their 249-run defeat on Northern Transvaal. Coach Bob Simpson said: "It's a big blow for us.

Merv is one of our top bowlers. Well work 24 hours a day to get him back on the park." Physiotherapist Alcott was unable to say how severe the injury was, preferring to wait 24 hours to make a judgment, but it would be astonishing if Hughes played as early as Saturday's first limited-over international against South Africa at the Wanderers Stadium in Johannesburg. The NSW Rugby League has responded to an outcry over playing Challenge Cup matches in the summer heat by putting back the starting time for Sunday's quarter-final in Narrandera by just 30 minutes. Instead of playing at 3 pm, South Sydney will now tackle St George at 3.30 pm. A growing chorus of players, officials and medical experts has been calling on the League to consider shifting the Challenge games to a time when players are less at risk from the heat Souths coach Bob McCarthy was stunned by the decision.

"You're kidding aren't you?" the Rabbitohs coach said when told of the League's time change. The League also postponed the start of the second Narrandera quarter final by 30 minutes (5.30 pm from 5 pm) and a semifinal scheduled for 3 pm in Gunne-dah has been put back to 4.10 pm. NSWRL executive assistant Greg Mitchell said last night that television commitments prevented organisers from delaying the matches any longer. "In response to doctors' reports, including the League's Nathan Gibbs and a representation from Canberra doctor Rob Still, we looked into putting the Nathan Gibbs report led to match-start delay. games back," Mitchell said.

"We contacted other clubs and the broadcaster and after taking the programming into consideration we were able to put back the games." No changes have been made in Friday's quarter-final schedule in Parkes where Canberra and Illa-warra kick-off the double header at 6 pm, while the semi-final in Alice Springs on February 25 will go ahead at 6.45 pm. McCarthy, who took over as Rabbitohs coach this season from Frank Curry, said Souths manager Alan Jones had already contacted meteorologists who warned of temperatures topping 40 degrees on the weekend. "I can't understand their way of thinking even blind Freddy could see the problems of the heat," McCarthy said. "It's frig-gin' hot in February, but, fortunately, Saints will also have to go through the same conditions, and they're bigger, so I suppose it will Per Mntli HUiwiu MN-" ui 1 1 in ii mioii iii.li ii tit Australia Northern Transvaal Third day At Centurion Park Australia 1st Innings 363 Nthn Transvaal 1st Innings 209 Australia 2nd Innings TAYLOR Smith Van Zyl 75 SLATER Smith 8 WAUGH st Rule Somerville 1 34 I HEALY not out 38 BOON Ibw Van Zyl I HAYDEN not out 14 Sundries (4B 2W 5NB) 1 1 Four wickets (dec) for 281 Fall: 19. 184.244.245.

BOWLING: EKvorthy 11-0-54-0 (Inb). Smith 6-0-38-1 (2w 3nb), Bosch 4-0-23-0. Van Noordwyk 8-1-42-0 (Inb). Van Zyl 21-4-83-2. Somerville 12-0-37-1.

Batting time: 232 mins. Overs: 62. spared his team the net session and permitted an early escape to the golf course. The wisdom of hindsight Simpson was almost purring with pleasure at the performance of the 27-year-old Reiffel, tagged "Pistol" in a lightweight play on was to appear in an official international following South Africa's return to International Cricket Council-sanctioned cricket. "I'm delighted to be selected," he said.

"The chances get fewer and further apart as you get older. I have strived for the reward of a place in the national side for the last three years." Wessels has won back the captaincy which passed to Hansie Cronje upon Wessels's return to South Africa with knee and hand injuries. "It's a good, well-balanced Wessels is back as selectors wield axe rian Paul Reiffel. Reiffel carved his initials deeply into the woodwork of Australia's overwhelming 249-run defeat of Northern Transvaal yesterday with an eight-wicket performance that all but secured him a position for next month's Test series against South Africa. Loping in on his 45-degree approach to the wicket, the laconic paceman (4-27 and 4-57) was head and shoulders above all as man of the match, troubling Northern Transvaal with his run-confining accuracy and late-moving outswingers.

But the outright win with a day to spare, described by locals as "the St Valentine's Day had its penalty for the tourists. Simpson was so taken by conditions at Centurion Park that he ordered a return to Pretoria for a centre-wicket practice. Had skipper Mark Taylor delayed his second-innings declaration by an hour, he would have with an innings of 56 from 51 balls against the Australians in the Nicky Oppenheimer XI game at Halfway House last Thursday, ostensibly a social jaunt which revealed only that Kuiper remains the most potent of batsmen. "I am absolutely overjoyed," Kuiper said from Cape Town. "I have been working for this all season.

I am batting as well as at any stage of my career. I'm also happy with my bowling." Having played two limited-over games against Hughes's XI, all-rounder Simons's motivation RUGBY GREG GROWDEN Northern Transvaal 2nd Innings SOMERVILLE Ibw Reiffel 21 DU PREEZ Healy Hughes 0 PIENAAR Hughes 42 STRYDOM Taylor Reiffel 0 RULE Healy Reiffel 13 LVORSTERc Healy bMcGrath 12 VAN ZYL st Healy May 8 ELWORTHY Healy May 3 1 BOSCH Healy Reiffel 4 VAN NOORDWYK not out 18 SMITH Jones 21 Sundries (2B6LB3W5NB) 16 TOTAL 186 Fall: 0. 31. 31. 82.

82. 96. 114. 142. 146.

186. BOWLING: McGrath II-2-6I-I (Iw). Hughes 8-1-30-2 (Iw), Reiffel 1 1-0-57-4 (Iw 5nb). May 10-2-24-2. Jones 2-0-6-1.

Batting time: 1 85 mins. Overs: 42. Australia won by 249 runs his surname. Compared with Hughes and Craig McDermott, he is not one of the flame-throwers of the team, but his value in a touring side goes without question at first-class and limited-over level. Continued Page 55 team," Wessels said.

"The guys are all professionals and I'm happy to be involved with them again. They're a wonderful bunch. I'm sorry Dave Callaghan did not make the squad. He brought stability to the lower order in Australia. "It will not be a strange experience batting at No 5.

I've done duty there before." South Africa's squad is: Kepler Wessels. (c). Hansie Cronje (v-O. Fame de Villlers. Allan Donald.

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