Sporting Digest: Cricket

THE County Champions, Essex, made a gross profit of pounds 230,473 last year - pounds 16,000 less than in 1991. Derek Pringle's benefit raised pounds 127,044.

ONE-DAY INTERNATIONAL (Guwahati, Ind): Zimbabwe 149 for 6 (G W Flower 57); India 150 for 3 (M Prabhakar 52). India won by 7 wickets.

ONE-DAY INTERNATIONAL (Christchurch, NZ): New Zealand 196 for 8; Australia 197 for 9 (M E Waugh 57, D C Boon 55). Australia won by 1 wicket and lead five-match series 2-0.