Australia is 8-387, at stumps, with Rod Marsh 95 not out and the rangy McCosker — his broken jaw wired and his head wrapped so amply in bandages that it looked more like that of a walking Egyptian mummy than that of an international cricketer — 17 not out. Of those batsmen dismissed today Davis compiled 68, Walters 66, left-handed David Hookes 56 (that included five successive fours from the bowling of the lanky Greig) Gilmour 16 and Lillee 25.
“Desirable” won the Newmarket Handicap, at Flemington, on this Labour Day public holiday in Victoria.