England reached 8-173, overnight, which thereby enabled it to defeat Australia by two wickets. The latter’s innings had ended on 9-169, with the Western Australian pair, namely Craig Serjeant (46) and Rodney Marsh (42 and ‘Man of the Match’), almost having scored half of this total between them.
We left at 7.15 p.m. for the small and bitterly cold Forum Cinema, in Miranda. Neither of us had been there before and were disappointed although the movies, thankfully, were entertaining. “McQ”, from 1974, stars John Wayne and Diana Muldaur, and culminates in an exciting car chase on a beach. Tiki had seen the film previously, but did not complain. We were gelid by intermission, however, “Enforcer”, with Clint “Rawhide” Eastwood, helped to take our minds off the apparent total lack of heating. Tyne Daly is cast as the policewoman who is assigned to work alongside Clint’s character, ‘Dirty Harry’ Callahan, in what is the third instalment of this highly popular series, which bears the title of Officer Callahan’s nickname.