Cricket MARTIN JOHNSON reports from BloemfonteinEngland 316-4 dec Orange Free State 36-0All those years of

Cricket MARTIN JOHNSON reports from BloemfonteinEngland 316-4 dec Orange Free State 36-0All those years of sporting isolation have clearly left South Africa in urgent need of re-educating their cricketing public, and the electronic scoreboard here subtly led yesterday's spectators through some of the more complex intricacies of the game."Great Shot!", it flashed, when someone played a great shot, and "That's Four Runs!" it blazed, when someone scored four runs. He sustained a double dislocation of his left ankle and a fractured shin. He also damaged the ligaments and tendons in his ankle.The break and the dislocation should not prove a problem long term, but Bristol's coaching co-ordinator, Brian Hanlon, said surgeons are worried about the ligament damage. "If anything poses a long-term threat to his career, it is that," he said.. It is likely that Sale's John Fowler will come in instead to reinforce the lock strength.Shaw will miss the rest of the season after suffering career-threatening leg and ankle injuries during Bristol's 26-12 defeat by South African tourists Transvaal on Wednesday.

Called into the official squad for the first time, along with Mitchell, is the Orrell wing Jim Naylor.Simon Shaw, the Bristol lock, would have been included but for his horrific leg injury on Wednesday. Also back in the squad are Tim Stimpson, the West Hartlepool full-back, Wasps' backs Nick Greenstock and Andy Gomarsall, Leicester prop Darren Garforth and back row forwards Rory Jenkins (Harlequins) and Tony Diprose (Saracens). Rugby Union Brian Moore suffered a setback in his campaign to regain his England place yesterday when his Harlequins club-mate Simon Mitchell, who rotates the hooking duties with Moore, was drafted into an expanded squad. Moore was dropped from the squad for last Saturday's Test against South Africa after winning 64 caps.Mitchell is one of nine players added to the Twickenham squad for training at Marlow next Tuesday in the build-up to the Test against Western Samoa on 16 December.Paul Hull, the full-back England rejected at the start of the year, is recalled. ITV made no bid and a Sky spokesman said that although they were involved in talks, no firm offer was made.Jonathan Martin, head of BBC Sport, said: "We are delighted to maintain our long and successful relationship with a sport which continues to hold such a wide appeal, particularly the world championship, which is firmly established in the portfolio of top sporting events."The BBC's coverage of the Royal Liver Assurance UK Championship at Preston begins tomorrow.. Snooker The World Professional Billiards and Association yesterday announced a five-year deal with the BBC, believed to be worth around pounds 17.5m, for the rights to cover four major events - the Embassy World Championship, the Royal Liver Assurance UK Championship, the Benson and Hedges Masters and the Grand Prix. The WPBSA were keen that the game should be available to the majority of television viewers and not confined to those who pay for a satellite channel. The 20-year-old has played in nine of Leeds' 13 first-team matches this season.The Wigan loose forward, Andy Farrell, is to put off a hernia operation to play in the Regal Trophy tie at Huddersfield on Sunday. He will only have the operation if he suffers a reaction.St Helens will be without Vila Matautia and Andy Northey at Hull.

The players, sent off for high tackles at Bradford last week, were suspended for three matches and one match respectively.. Rugby League Leeds, who have denied making a cash-plus-players offer to the Bradford Bulls for Paul Newlove, have put their international forward, Richie Eyres, on the transfer list, writes Dave Hadfield. Eyres, who played for Wales in the World Cup, has been made available at pounds 95,000, because of what the club described as "personal reasons".But Leeds have emphatically denied offering three players in their side to play Bradford on Sunday - Harvey Howard, Francis Cummins and Graham Holroyd - to the Bulls in part-exchange for Newlove.The Leeds hooker, Mick Shaw, has agreed a new three-year contract. Cricket Aamir Sohail, the Pakistan batsman, was taken to hospital yesterday after being struck in the face by a bouncer from his team-mate Waqar Younis during a practice session in Melbourne. Sohail will miss the tourists' four-day match against Victoria, starting today, after having stitches inserted in the wound.The Pakistan captain, Wasim Akram, said the opener, who was not wearing a helmet during the net practice at the MCG, should be fit to play in the third and final Test against Australia in Sydney next Thursday.After avoiding one bouncer, Sohail failed to connect with an attempted hook when Waqar sent down another short-pitched delivery the next ball.Four West Indies players whose behaviour was considered "unsatisfactory" during the tour of England last summer have appeared before a disciplinary hearing in Bridgetown.The West Indies Board of Control is yet to name the players, but the Caribbean News Agency, CANA, claimed Brian Lara, Carl Hooper, Curtly Ambrose and Kenny Benjamin met the disciplinary committee.. McRae said: "We are starting again almost straight away, testing for next year, in Kenya."Richards can be assured, hibernation does not figure in McRae's immediate plans.. Colin's been getting there for many years."The journey will soon be resumed. I want to be there for a long time."His co-driver, Derek Ringer, who has had to endure the scares and mishaps of McRae's formative years, testifies to the assiduity of his partner Ringer said: "No one's an overnight sensation in this sport. He maintains, however, that sporting achievement remains the driving force."Now is the time to take advantage of the financial possibilities, but the money is not the motivation," McRae said "This is just the beginning I want to be quick and consistent in all events I'm still very new.

He's been getting $5m (pounds 3.2m) a year from it."McRae, described by Richards as "genuinely shy", has been made aware that PR, like fitness and commitment, is part of the deal. He could, suggests Richards, treble that figure annually from now on."If Colin wants to hibernate in Monaco, or with his mother in Lanarkshire, he can, but if he wants to develop the sponsorship market, anything is possible," Richards said "Carlos has been the best at it in rallying. A first prize of pounds 3,000 in the RAC Rally, Richards points out, "is irrelevant". The championship is worth a bonus to the team of pounds 2m and to McRae more than pounds 1m. Now he's won the world championship it would be all too easy to settle for that, to have an easy life now."The businessman in Richards also recognises the rewards now beckoning for McRae. Colin is a natural and he knows he is way quicker than anyone out there at the moment."Richards stresses that McRae has had the ambition and diligence to harness his skill, but is patently challenging the 27-year-old Scot to go on and fulfil his prophecy."You have to set new goals and keep striving to improve," Richards said "He's worked hard on his fitness and commitment. Colin is so focused that he really could surpass any of the previous champions."Some drivers have to work at their driving, but some are naturals.