Sanjay Manjrekar plays a defensive shot against Australia's Brendon Julian in the World Select XI versus Australia match in Hong Kong. Manjrekar scored 80.

HONG KONG, May 11: Mark Waugh's scintillating 116 off 66 balls today powered Australia to a four-wicket win over Rest of the World XI for whom Rohan Gavaskar made a unbeaten 51 off 30 balls to share the limelight.

Skipper Sanjay Manjrekar topscored for the World XI with 80 runs from 86 balls, but it was the quick-fire knock of Sunil Gavaskar's son which took the team to 245 for eight in the allotted 40 overs.

Rohan hit four sixes to earn warm applause from a substantial crowd at the Kowloon Cricket ground here.

Pakistan's Aamer Malik (36) and South Africa's Lance Klusner (30) made other useful contributions to the World XI, which also included Lanka's Asanka Gurusinha.

In response, the Australians, who stopped over here for a day on the way to England for the Ashes series, batted brilliantly to score an easy win, notching up 248 for six in only 28.4 overs.

Besides Mark Waugh, his twin-brother Steve made 45 (28 balls) and Ricky Ponting 35 (31 balls), but skipper Mark Taylor's poor run with the bat continued as he failed to cross the double-digit once more.

Gavaskar took two wickets for 43 runs.

SCOREBOARD

Rest of World XI: Sanjay Manjrekar c Warne b Bichel 80, Lance Klusener b Julian 30, Asanka Gurusinha c Healy b Julian 6, Aamer Malik c Warne b Kasprowicz 36, Rohan Gavaskar not out 51, Brian McMillan b Bichel 11, Shuan Pollock c Healy b Julian 3, S Brew c Healy b Blewett 7, Pat Fordham c Julian b Bichel 2, Mohsin Kamal not out 1. Extras (lb 3, w 12, nb 3): 18. Total (for eight wickets in 40 overs): 245

Fall of wickets: 1-72, 2-81, 3-167, 4-174, 5-195, 6-208, 7-217, 8 229. Bowling: Kasprowicz 8-0-60-1, Bichel 8-0-56-3, Warne 8-1-33-0, Julian 8-0-44-3, Blewett 8-0-49-1.

Australia: Mark Taylor c Fordham b Kamal 4, Mark Waugh c Chauhan b Gavaskar 116, Steve Waugh c Malik b Klusener 45, Greg Blewett c Correa b McMillan 3, Justin Langer b Klusener 13, Ricky Ponting not out 35, Ian Healy c Klusener b Gavaskar 11, Brendon Julian not out 9. Extras (lb 1, w 7, nb 4): 12. Total (for six wickets in 28.4 overs): 248

Fall of wickets: 1-7, 2-85, 3-100, 4-130, 5-200, 6-222.

Bowling: Pollock 4-0-26-0, Kamal 4-0-50-1, Klusener 7-0-52-2, McMillan 5-0-25-1, Chauhan 4-0-39-0, Gavaskar 3.4-0-43-2, Brew 1-0-12-0.

Man of the match: M Waugh

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