Sport in Short: Cricket

CLAYTON LAMBERT, the former West Indies Test opener, set a record for the highest individual score in the Red Stripe Cup yesterday with an unbeaten 263 for Guyana against the Windward Islands. The previous best was 250, also for Guyana, by Roy Fredericks against Barbados in Bridgetown in March, 1975.

RED STRIPE CUP (Third day of four): Berbice: Guyana bt Windward Islands by an innings and 226 runs. Windward Islands 128 and 117 (C G Butts 6-31); Guyana 471 for 4 dec (C B Lambert 263no). Port of Spain: Leeward Islands 285 and 237 for 8 dec (R D Jacobs 119no); Trinidad and Tobago 200 and 25 for 2. Kingston: Jamaica v Barbados: No play (rain).

NEW ZEALAND BOARD XI (v Australia, New Plymouth, 16, 17 and 18 February): * M D Crowe, M J Greatbatch, J G Wright, A H Jones, C Z Harris, D J Nash, D N Patel, A C Parore, C Pringle, M B Owens, M J Haslam.