Global Sport — Ian Healy dropped from Aussie one-day squad

December 1: SYDNEY: Australian wicket-keeper Ian Healy's international one-day career appeared over today, just seven months after he led A...

December 1: SYDNEY: Australian wicket-keeper Ian Healy’s international one-day career appeared over today, just seven months after he led Australia to a stirring 4-3 victory in South Africa.

Healy, who lost the Test vice-captaincy to Steve Waugh on the Ashes tour of England because of doubts over Mark Taylor’s form, now finds himself out of the one-day team.

He and Taylor, left out as expected after a less than fulfilling career of 113 one-dayers, are the two most high-profile casualties of the new selection policy of picking separate teams for the two forms of

the game. Healy was replaced by young West Australian wicketkeeper Adam Gilchrist, the only Australian with a higher batting strike rate (92.40) than Healy (83.64) in one-day cricket.

Cronje opposes two-captain idea

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PERTH: South African captain Hansie Cronje does not like the idea of international teams having different skippers for Test and one-day games.

“I don’t think it is good for the camp to have two captains,” Cronje said today, as Australian selectors met to choose their team for a limited overs match against South Africa in Sydney on Thursday. The Australian Cricket Board have given the green light for selectors to name different Test and one-day sides this summer.

Knight shines with a brave knock

WELLINGTON: An Auckland schoolboy, Chris Knight, playing an under-19 match for Cornwall, lashed 400 not out in a four-hour innings at the weekend. He smashed 26 sixes and 42 fours for 324 runs in boundaries alone.

The world record for a schoolboy is 628 not out, scored by Englishman AEJ Collins in 1899. It took him five afternoons. And Knight’s real sporting love is hockey — he was in New Zealand’s under 18-team this year.

Jordan is world’s richest athlete

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NEW YORK: Michael Jordan is the richest athlete in the world, regaining the top spot in the Forbes magazine list for the fifth time in six years and displacing Mike Tyson at No 1. Jordan will earn $ 78.3 million in 1997, the magazine estimated, getting $ 31.3 million from the NBA’s Chicago Bulls and $ 47 million from endorsements and other income.

Eleven NBA players are in the top 40, up from nine last year. There are seven baseball players (up from five), seven boxers, four golfers, three players in the north American National Hockey League, three tennis players, three race car drivers, and two American football players.

Lehman skins Tiger for big money

LA QUINTA (CALIFORNIA): Tom Lehman fired a seven-under par 29 over yesterday’s nine holes to win $170,000 and the Skins Game title over fellow Americans Mark O’Meara, David Duval and Tiger Woods.

Lehman won a total of $300,000 — half the total purse here at the 15th annual event, a two-day showdown over 18 holes which increases prize money for each hole and carries over the cash for halved holes. O’Meara struck gold with strong putting as well, winning $220,000 yesterday to finish second at $240,000. Masters champion Woods blasted big drives but came away with no money and only $60,000 total. Duval won nothing after coming in as a last-minute fill-in for Fred Couples.

Nier’s Ikpeba best African player

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CAIRO: The Confederation of African football has selected Niger’s Victor Ikpeba as the best player of the year. Japhet Ndoram of Chad was second, followed by two Nigerians, Taribo West and Sunday Ollseh. The Cairo-based confederation, in a statement said the selection was based on the performance of the players in competition worldwide, their personalities and their contribution to fair play.