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On the one hand there will be a properly severe return to foul play at the forthcoming World Cup, but on the other the organisers have shied away from giving that concrete expression by the use of the red and yellow cards that have coloured this season's Five Nations' Championship. He has looked out of place since promoting himself in last year's home series against England.The only two players new to international cricket are Ottis Gibson, the 6ft 3in fast bowler who played for Glamorgan last season, and reserve wicketkeeper Courtney Browne, both of Barbados.The West Indies play six Tests, three one-day internationals and 13 first- class matches on tour.WEST INDIES SQUAD (to tour England this summer): R B Richardson (capt), C A Walsh (vice-capt), J C Adams, C E L Ambrose, K L T Arthurton, K C G Benjamin, W K M Benjamin, I R Bishop, C O Browne (reserve wkt), S L Campbell, S Chanderpaul, R Dhanraj, O D Gibson, C L Hooper, B C Lara, J R Murray (wkt), S C Williams.Manager: W W Hall.Coach: A M E Roberts.. Yet they are the only specialist openers, Richardson having played the majority of his 79 Tests at No 3. If nothing else, it gives him time to attend to the legal action he has recently brought against the West Indies Board for the regulation that deemed him ineligible for the current home series against Australia, a court case expected to be heard during the England tour.Stuart Williams, 25, is yet to score a half-century in nine Tests and Sherwin Campbell, 24, has played only three Tests. Injuries have limited him to seven Tests in the past four and a half years, his last against Pakistan in 1993, and denied Derbyshire his services. His record of 83 wickets in 18 Tests at an average of 20.45 accentuates his quality and, as he is still only 27, the selectors were encouraged enough by his form and his fitness in the domestic Red Stripe Cup season to include him."The return to full effectiveness of this proven and outstanding fast bowler is of great importance to the immediate and long-term future of our cricket," David Holford, the chief selector, said.The omission of Haynes almost certainly signals the end of a long and illustrious career in which he played 116 Tests, scoring 7,487 runs with 18 centuries. But the selectors found no need to reinstate Desmond Haynes, relying instead on two young, unproven, openers and the captain, Richie Richardson, to start the innings. Bishop, one of six fast bowlers in the 17, resumes his career, twice interrupted by stress fractures of his vertebrae.

Durham could scarcely afford these misadventures, nor this highly predictable defeat.. The West Indies yesterday recalled Ian Bishop to boost the fast bowling support for Curtly Ambrose and Courtney Walsh on their tour of England, starting on May 13. But from 168 for 2 with 20 overs left, they failed to fulfill their promise, which may prove fatal as the season unfolds.Wayne Larkins had been run out by Trevor Penney - surely news of his athleticism has reached Sedgefield - and Jonathan Longley trod on his stumps. Rarely feeling a tendency for self-sacrifice, he did his Micawber act and waited for something to turn up Thanks to him, Warwickshire aspired to 300.

Prabhakar, having taken the new ball and proved costly, was later caught cheaply at square leg. Morris completed a half-century from 73 balls and was eighth out with the score standing at 176 when driving a fierce return catch to Dermot Reeve.Reeve himself had acquired the familiar "not out" asterisk. However, Knight's third-wicket partnership of 127 in 20 overs with Twose carried them toward the impregnable, at least in this game.Prime candidates to challenge their total were John Morris and Manoj Prabhakar, the Indian all-rounder. Roger Twose sustained the impression with 90 from 99 balls, and Warwickshire were scenting something far more significant than just a routine victory over Durham.As members of the toughest group, Warwickshire - the holders - have no automatic access to the quarter-finals, especially after losing to Nottinghamshire.

Phil Neale, the county's new director of coaching, rightly regards the analogy as unfair, but Knight obviously fancies a tilt at Lara's crown.His gold-award winning innings of 91 - a Benson and Hedges Cup best - from 109 balls with 11 fours on his home debut illustrated that there is life after Lara. Warwickshire 285-7 Durham 194 all out Warwickshire win by 91 runsTaking a simplistic view, Nick Knight, late of Essex, has replaced Brian Lara in Warwickshire's team this summer. Cowdrey, though, ran out Darren Bicknell with a direct hit after Martin McCague had delivered the third ball of the innings, while Dean Headley sent back Graham Thorpe in the next over and David Ward in the sixth.Alec Stewart made 45 and Shahid improved his overdraft with a half-century besides featuring in a stand of 89 for the seventh wicket with Martin Bicknell, but there had only been one result after Mark Ealham had whistled out Adam Hollioake and Stewart in four deliveries.. Matthew Fleming, who had made an unbeaten 121 last Friday in a friendly here with Essex, had been promoted to No 3 and was the third out, and only Graham Cowdrey was to progress to the twenties as the collapse continued.All of which gave hope to Surrey, who needed to score at a shade under six an over.