Cowdrey (42 not out) played out the last day and the tourists ended on a comfortable 356/4. Strangely Swetman, using his feet more than the other batsman, played the spinners better than the other batsmen, who were struggling. After the match the MCC announced that John Mortimore would be sent out to reinforce the team as it appeared that the pitches would take spin. He was also an all-rounder who could strengthen the lower order batting and his arrival would allow the team to rest Laker and Lock in the state games. Australian XI vs MCC The MCC remained at Sydney to play an Australian XI, this was a team of Test hopefuls strengthened by the presence of a few old hands and led by the prospective Australian captain Neil Harvey following Ian Craig's resignation due to ill-health. It was the custom to play the six batsmen due to be picked for the First Test, but to only use bowlers on the edge of the Test scene. Peter May won the toss and like Craig in the previous match opted to bat first, only to come at 40/2 which quickly became 40/3 thanks to Barry Fisher (3/59) and Raymond Strauss (4/77) who swung the ball in the heavy atmosphere. After a shaky start himself May settled and made runs with Tom Graveney (70), but a late order collapse in the last session reduced them from 189/3 to 290/7 at stumps, the captain 113 not out. May carried the score to 319 when he was last out for 140, a fine captain's innings. This looked better when the Australian XI crashed to 12/3, May ruining out Gavin Stevens, Peter Loader bowling captain Neil Harvey for a duck and Fred Trueman dismissing Norm O'Neill with a terrific yorker that bruised his foot and caught him l.b.w. Colin McDonald steadied the ship helped by the front foot "English-style" batting of Peter Burge before Loader (4/23) bowled him for 49 and Bobby Simpson for 2. Jim Laker (4/52) trapped all-rounder Johnny Martin for a duck as they lost 4 wickets for 4 runs. The tail wagged for another 47 runs, but the Australian XI was out for 128. With tired bowlers and an unfit Trueman May failed to enforce the follow on and batted 191 runs ahead. Arthur Milton was the first to go, but Peter Richardson made 52 and Raman Subba Row (68