SYDNEY – Steve Waugh and Simon Katich produced the sweet notes, butStuart MacGill struck a sour one with the umpires as NSW beat Tasmaniaby 41 runs in an ING Cup one day cricket match at Drummoyne Oval heretoday.
Adrian Warren02-Feb-2003SYDNEY – Steve Waugh and Simon Katich produced the sweet notes, butStuart MacGill struck a sour one with the umpires as NSW beat Tasmaniaby 41 runs in an ING Cup one day cricket match at Drummoyne Oval heretoday.Man-of-the-match and NSW captain Waugh scored 104 in the Blues’ total of7-264 while part-time wrist spinner Katich took 3-43 with the ball.Waugh said Katich, who claimed a match winning five wicket haul in lastweek’s dramatic Pura Cup win over Western Australia, was a qualityspinner who could become a genuine allrounder.However, the Blues’ premier slow bowler, Test leg spinner MacGill, had aless fulfilling day and will front a hearing at Cricket NSW’s Moore Parkheadquarters tomorrow after being charged under the players code ofconduct with unbecoming behaviour and crude and abusive language.He will appear before a commissioner and match referee Dick French whileNSW Cricket Association CEO David Gilbert will also be present.The charges are understood to be related to an incident during theTasmanian innings when MacGill remonstrated with one of the umpiresafter appearing to having an appeal rejected.MacGill has twice been punished for incidents arising out of four-daymatches against Tasmania.He was fined $1,500 in October 2001 for separate charges of decent andcrude and abusive behaviour and was pinged $500 the previous year forindecent and using crude language.The talented but volatile spinner’s disciplinary record also includes a$1,500 fine imposed by Australian team management in 1999 for swearingat a Colombo casino dealer while he was warned but not fined by thematch referee in December 2000 for a collision with West Indies playerRamnaresh Sarwan.If a suspension was imposed on MacGill tomorrow it could mean even moreresponsibility for Katich, whose burgeoning bowling talents wereinstrumental in NSW’s two victories over the last week.”I think Katich has shown in the past week or so that he could become agenuine allrounder,” Waugh said.”He’s a quality spinner and obviously a very good bat and a greatfieldsman and I think he’s a great acquisition.”He said Katich was largely responsible for the “spring in the step” ofthe Blues today after his effort in Newcastle and thought the former WAstar was one of four or five players who could replace him as NSWcaptain.Waugh swiped three leg side sixes in addition to his seven fours as heproduced a typically pugnacious innings to haul NSW out of earlytrouble.The Blues were 2-14, but Waugh ensured a competitive total throughpartnerships of 73 with Michael Clarke (39) and 91 with Mark Waugh (45).”He (Waugh) is still playing like a man with something to prove,”Tasmania captain Jamie Cox said, though Waugh responded by saying hejust played the way he always had.Michael Dighton (59) was the only significant batting contributor forthird placed Tasmania which was only one point ahead of NSW on acongested ING Cup ladder.Tasmania was reasonably placed at 2-112 in the 25th over, but lost 3-9with Katich adding valuable wickets to the two catches and quick-fire 25not out off 20 balls he made.”That was probably where we lost the game, we weren’t that far behind atthat stage,” Cox said, referring to the mid-innings collapse.Cox said denying NSW a bonus point by a handful of runs was only a minorvictory and the Tigers probably had to win both their remaining matchesto make the final.Tasmania had to reach 211 to deny NSW a bonus point and reached their”target” in the penultimate over.