not out on what was effectively his home ground. He dominated his partnerships of 136 with Bob Taylor (31) and 69 with Basil d'Oliveira (18 not out) until Illingworth declared on 316/4 to let John Snow and Peter Lever bowl before stumps. The Tasmanian captain, Billy Ibadulla (Warwickshire and Pakistan) made only 13 of the 51 run opening stand with Peter Roberts, who struck 77 on his first class debut. Brian Patterson added 31, but the remainder of the team collapsed to Lever (4/17), Don Wilson (3/32) and Derek Underwood (2/17) and were out for 164. Forced to follow on Tasmania had another good start as Ibadulla (51) and Roberts (31) made 58, but Underwood (3/39) and Illingworth (2/24) worked their way through the rest and they were out for 223. The MCC easily made 72/1 to win their first first class match of the tour (in their ninth match), John Edrich top scoring with 42 not out. Tasmanian Combined XI vs MCC On tours of Australia it was usual for state teams to be reinforced with potential Australian players to provide stronger opposition, allow the selectors to judge their ability and to entertain the crowd. Paul Sheahan of Victorian was brought over after his failures in the first two Tests, but he did not get to bat as the second and third days of the three-day game were rained off. On the first day Geoff Boycott (74) and Colin Cowdrey (64) added 98 for the first wicket and the tourists reached 184/4 from 47 overs. Manager David Clark told his team that if they continued to play as they did they would be out of a job in fives years and 'pointed the slow-scoring bone at both captains' Ray Illingworth and Bill Lawry. Frank Tyson agreed, writing "Wake up and entertain, or you could be drawing unemployment benefits next week". New South Wales Country vs MCC The MCC went into the bush to Wagga Wagga to play a New South Wales Country XI. Ken Shuttleworth opened the bowling with a wicket maiden over, but was then taken off so that others could have some practice, Derek Underwood taking 2/15 and captain Colin Cowdrey 2/9 before they were all out for 117. Geoff Boycott (76) and Brian Luckhurst (62) polished their opening skills with another century stand which fell at 115, three runs short of victory. As before the MCC