All-rounder Warr passes the Singapore test in style

JAMES WARR will surely have booked himself a spot on the plane to Singapore with a quality all-round performance at Port Soif on Saturday afternoon.

His six wickets and unbeaten 69 proved too much for an under-performing ORs side on a slow, low track that was perfect for the patient, textbook PKF Wanderers all-rounder.

Wanderers picked up 40 important CI League points for the nine-wicket win which came with 10 overs to spare.

Warr was last week named in the provisional 18-man squad for World League Division Six, from which four will be left at home.

It seems incredible to contemplate that Warr might not make the final cut because he has all the attributes needed for a hectic tournament schedule in the heat of Asia: sound temperament, real ability with bat and ball, a fine fielder and a high level of fitness.

Wanderers, already beaten twice in the new CI league, are certainly grateful for his return from university.

His six for 35 from nine overs pegged ORs back to a below par 177 and among his victims was the man who might have taken the game away from the visitors, Lee Savident.