Date-stamped : 30 Oct94 - 22:25 WESTERN AUSTRALIA V ENGLAND Played at the WACA, 29,30,31 October, 1 November Match Day 1: England 9-241 (Crawley 36* Malcolm 0*) England elected to bat on a nice hard wicket with a bit of juice in it, WA attempted to make them play for that decision however despite frequently beating the bat, wickets were not taken until the latter half of the day when the debutant Cary who bowled with extreme tightness and Reid did most of the wicket taking. Coulson superb in the morning took just a single wicket. Gooch, Atherton and Hick batted solidly, Gatting lucky not to be out earlier Thorpe a reckless dismissal. Crawley also solidly to be not out at stumps. All the pace bowlers bowled well and it was a description of the pitch that the finger spinner Stewart did not bowl until well into the final session. Day 2: England 0-37 (Gooch 29* Atherton 6*) England faced 4 balls in the morning before a lazing Malcolm realised that Crawley just might be looking for a quick single to keep the strike. Malcolm not the fastest of runners when awake was not unexpectedly run out as a result. Malcolm can steaming in and took the wicket of Lavender as WA collapsed to be all out for 12 (oops I`m not an English pressman better write the truth). After Lavender`s early exit due to one of those late decision to leave the ball only to see it hit the bat, Mike Veletta and debutant Murrary Goodwin kept the ship afloat, before going onto a slightly more aggressive pose after lunch. At 124 though Veletta tried to pull a ball that was not quite there and put it straight up into the air for the keeper to catch when it eventually come down. This brought WA captain Martyn to the crease, after a slow started he pummelled a few fours before flashing at one well outside off to be caught at slip. Unforunatley at this point the rest of the team forgot the captain`s words were do as I say not as I do, they folded up like a pack of cards with some bad batting. Moody wasn`t even in the same map reference as a full toss from McGague. Brad Hogg tickled a legside ball, Gilchrist played the Mark Taylor back foot front foot drive to slip, Goodwin patted the ball (nice ball) with his glove on the way to the keeper, Stewart flashed at a wider and higher ball than Martyn. Cary got a nice yorker and Bruce Reid got one on the stumps (end of story). England batted for 35 minutes and scored 37 runs mostly from Gooch`s bat. Contributed by The Management (help@cricinfo.com) ====> Day 2, more Devon Malcolm spearheaded a fiery England assault on Western Australia`s batsmen on the second day of the four-day match at Perth on Sunday. Malcolm (6-70) teamed up with Martin McCague (2-64), Joey Benjamin (1-34) and Phil DeFreitas (1-41) as Western Australia lost their last eight wickets for 60 runs to be all out for 238 in their first innings. England were all out for 245 in their first innings. Only debutant Murray Goodwin (91), Mike Veletta (67) and skipper Damien Martyn (31) provided major resistance to the tourists` pacemen. He was desperately unlucky not to notch a century on his debut. The 21-year-old was dismissed when a scorching Malcolm delivery just flicked his gloves and wicket keeper Steve Rhodes pouched the chance. "I was sad to get out only nine runs short" he said. "It is not often a player has a chance to reach three figures in his first game, especially against a strong national side." Goodwin said Malcolm`s first spell was extremely fast. "I have never faced anything faster," said the Zimbabwe-born right-hander. Contributed by vasa (Vasanthan.Dasan@Central.Sun.COM)