Monday, November 8, 1999 Published at 17:19 GMT
England scramble to a draw
Captain Nasser Hussain sweeps during England second innings
England 249&82 Combined XI 358&140 - Match drawn
An unbeaten 33 from captain Nasser Hussain helped England bat out a draw in their opening first-class tour match against a Combined Western Province/Boland XI at Newlands.
The visitors lost Mark Butcher early on, run out in a misunderstanding with fellow opener Michael Atherton for three in the sixth over of their second innings.
"We're not overly worried about Mark," Hussain said. "He's a good player, he's got plenty of Test runs and he's got runs against South Africa before.
"Everyone would like to get runs in the middle. He's an outward-going lad with a lot of confidence in himself and I wouldn't be surprised if he went out next week and got some runs.
"We would be looking to play him at Bloemfontein and you have to remember that before this game everyone was asking about Chris Adams and he's gone out and got 89, and hopefully that will be the case with Mark as well - he's got a couple of games to do that."
The Combined XI had resumed 160 runs ahead on 51 for four, but lost Kenny Jackson in the sixth over of the day when he pushed a short delivery from Alan Mullally straight to Darren Maddy at short leg.
Ashwell Prince added 55 with Steve Palframan before miscueing an attempted drive off Vaughan which Andrew Caddick collected in the deep.
But Palframan progressed to an unbeaten 43 before captain Louis Koen finally declared midway through the afternoon session to set England their victory target.
England first innings 249 (C.Adams 89, M.Atherton 83)
R.Magiet b Caddick 12
Extras (lb-2 nb-2) 4
Fall of wickets: 1-3 2-36 3-47 4-51 5-54 6-109
England second innings
M.Butcher run out 3
Extras (b-2 lb-1 nb-3) 6
Fall of wickets: 1-11 2-30
Bowling: Telemachus 7-1-20-0, Willoughby 7-3-8-0, C.Henderson 14-5-24-0, Koch 6-2-12-1 (2nb), J.Henderson 7-2-15-0 (1nb)
Result: Match drawn.