Martin Williamson

Cricket helps Afghan women spread their wings

Although Taliban-led insurgency is going on unabated in the war-torn country, Afghan girls and women have been exercising their rights envisaged in the post-Taliban country's constitution.

25-Feb-2013•Martin Williamson

Cricket Kenya pushes ahead with elite league

Cricket Kenya chief executive Tom Sears has told ESPNcricinfo that plans are progressing to introduce a new national tournament in the country with the aim of improving the domestic structure and helping bridge the current gulf between the local and

25-Feb-2013•Martin Williamson

USA cancels national Under-19 tournament

The National Under-19 tournament scheduled for Woodley Park in California was called off because teams coming from New York and the South East Region were unable to get flights to California.

25-Feb-2013•Martin Williamson

A mixed year for Ugandan cricket

Ugandan cricket enjoyed a mixed year in 2010

25-Feb-2013•Martin Williamson

USA plans to add paid staff to each region

USA Cricket Association president Gladstone Dainty has said he wants his organisation to hire staff at the regional level with money generated from the recent multi-million dollar deal that formed Cricket Holdings America.

25-Feb-2013•Martin Williamson

Associates and Affiliates umpires announced

The ICC has announced that umpires Theunis van Schalkwyk (Namibia), Courtney Young (Cayman Islands), Mark Hawthorne (Ireland) and Richard Smith (Cyprus) have been added to the ICC Associate and Affiliate International Umpires panel following the

25-Feb-2013•Martin Williamson

USACA hit with multi-million dollar lawsuit

Although Gladstone Dainty has announced an ambitious plan for a national Twenty20 tournament in the USA starting in 2012, the USA Cricket Association has been hit with a multi-million dollar lawsuit filed by the North American Cricket League (NACL).

25-Feb-2013•Martin Williamson

ICC Intercontinental plans bode well for the future

Despite unfounded scaremongering among some sections of the media, the ICC has announced details of the sixth staging of the Intercontinental Cup , running from May 2011 through to December 2012.

25-Feb-2013•Martin Williamson

Big ideas, little results

The USA Cricket Association's recently ousted chief executive Don Lockerbie set his sights too high and lost sight of the most important objectives.

25-Feb-2013•Martin Williamson

'I am not a freaking cricket match'

A 22-year-old woman in the US has made headlines after complaining about cricket messages sent to her Twitter account, which is named @theashes.

25-Feb-2013•Martin Williamson

Canada learn Caribbean Twenty20 fate

Canada have drawn into Zone B at the upcoming Caribbean Twenty20 tournament that gets underway on January 8 in Barbados and Antigua

25-Feb-2013•Martin Williamson

Out of the frying pan ...

Reports leaking from the weekend’s USACA board meeting in Florida suggest a return to the grim past when US cricket was synonymous with infighting, factionalism and as much transparency as a brick wall.

25-Feb-2013•Martin Williamson

Lockerbie ousted as USA boss

Don Lockerbie has been relieved of his position as chief executive of the USA Cricket Association with immediate effect hours before a board meeting in Florida, according to sources inside US cricket.

25-Feb-2013•Martin Williamson

ICC avarice dooms Associates to the wilderness

The recent announcement of a restructuring of the bloated international calendar by the ICC was an opportunity to restore sanity to the world game

25-Feb-2013•Martin Williamson

Don't jump to conclusions about Associates ... for now

News that the ICC has approved a reduction in the number of teams at the 50-over World Cup and an enlarged World Twenty20 event has caused a predictable storm of protest from some quarters.

25-Feb-2013•Martin Williamson

Time for Kenya to end the Odumbe circus

Maurice Odumbe just won’t go away

25-Feb-2013•Martin Williamson

Hurricane forces cancellation of Toronto tournament

Cricket Canada and Bermuda Cricket Board have agreed to cancel the last two games of the Cricket Canada Summer Festival between Canada and Bermuda.

25-Feb-2013•Martin Williamson

Associates anger at World Cup proposals

The leading Associate members of the ICC have described the plans for a smaller 50-over World Cup as a glass ceiling that will restrict the growth of the game in their countries, while simultaneously protecting the interests of the full members.

25-Feb-2013•Martin Williamson

Desperate times ...

On the face of it, the return of Steve Tikolo to Kenya’s side for the 2011 World Cup has to be a rare flicker of good news in a dismal year for cricket in the country

25-Feb-2013•Martin Williamson

Nowhere left for Kenya to hide

Anyone who hoped Kenya’s wretched performance at the ICC World Cricket League Division One in the Netherlands was no more than another minor glitch can now be in no doubt the magnitude of the problems facing the side.

25-Feb-2013•Martin Williamson

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