It has been an extremely humid day, with a maximum of twenty-seven degrees Celsius. At the Sydney Cricket Ground, Australia has collapsed to be 9-198 (Gary Cosier, 50), at stumps, on the first day of the Third Test. Play had been interrupted on more than one occasion, due to rain.
On Berger’s “World Masters’ Snooker”, Eddie Charlton defeats his Welsh opponent, Gary Owen, by one hundred and sixty-five to seventy-nine over two frames.