The Cayman Islands and the Bahamas will compete in the Americas Cup in Buenos Aires, Argentina next year after finishing first and second at the recent Americas Affiliates tournament in Jamaica

South Asian students who form Belarus' cricket community are taking their first steps towards consolidating roots for the game in the fomer Soviet republic with attempts to lure Belarussian youth

Cricket's expansion across Europe will be further emphasised when the biggest ever ECC Trophy field (10 countries) (or its predecessor - the European Nations Cup), gets underway on Saturday week

Affiliate members of the ICC's East Asia development zone and an Australian Aboriginal team may compete in a Super Eights tournament in Perth in February/March next year

Sussex and Netherlands all-rounder Bas Zuiderent was as pleased as anyone involved in Dutch cricket when his country this week earned qualification for the 2003 World Cup in South Africa

For many of the 22 teams which began the ICC Trophy, success was never going to be defined by qualification for the 2003 World Cup in South Africa

West African Cricket Conference officials (WACC) hope to learn today whether the International Cricket Conference will grant them a replacement tour for their thwarted participation in the current ICC Trophy

It is not known what the Canadian Prime Minister, Jean Chrétien, thinks of cricket, or even if he is aware it is played in Canada or Nepal, but his Department seems set to ensure the Himalayan Kingdom will make its ICC Trophy debut when the

Nepal's participation in the ICC Trophy, due to start in Toronto, Canada, next Thursday, is likely to be decided in the next 24 hours

Cricket in Rwanda has achieved relatively significant steps in a short time

There are reports that the strongest cricket playing nations/territories in the Caribbean outside the jurisdiction of the West Indies Cricket Board of Control will compete in a tournament sometime in August

Former Australian Test captain, Kim Hughes, will be the guest of honour at Chinese cricket's flagship event,

Current Lancashire al-rounder and former Sheffield Shield player Joe Scuderi has been named in Italy's final 14-man squad for the ICC Trophy in June/July

Former Warwickshire and Griqualand West all-rounder, Andy Moles, will coach the Hong Kong national team during their forthcoming ICC Trophy campaign in Toronto, Canada

Editor's note - I have written this article still wondering whether I have been the victim of an elaborate and belated April Fool's Day joke

The administration of cricket in Papua-New Guinea is set to receive a revamp following a meeting between the International Cricket Council's East Asia-Pacific Development Officer, Matthew Kennedy and officials of the much maligned PNG Cricket Board

Hong Kong has won a rain-ravaged Tuanku Ja'Afar Trophy tournament in Bangkok, Thailand, on superior run-rate

Portugal was privileged to play host to the fourth European Cricket Council's (E.C.C.) Indoor Cricket Championship

The Jakarta Cricket Association Synergy League season has entered into it's last third, and the usual dominating teams are finding themselves in different positions in the table

The Lagos League is at the halfway mark, with most clubs having played five out of the nine matches they are scheduled to play in this first session of the programme