Beyond the Test World
Bermuda's dreadful tour of the United Arab Emirates continued yesterday with their fourth defeat in as many games
Although Iran might not be flavour of the month as far as the George Bush is concerned, it is making progress with developing cricket
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It’s hard to call it ‘grass-roots’ cricket in Chabahar where on the two grounds granted by the government exclusively for cricket, grass has yet to be planted, but in Tehran at least, there are turf grounds, if not turf wickets.
Hellas, otherwise known as Greece, return to Lord's in February to defend their title of the European Cricket Council (ECC) Indoor Championship
Rod kindly wrote in to remind us (and you) of MCC's tour of Argentina which gets underway soon
January 28th, One-dayer v North XI at Virrey del Pino
January 29th, One-dayer v South XI at Corimayo
January 31st, One-dayer v ACA President's XI at Hurlingham
February 2nd, One-dayer v Argentina at Hurlingham
February 4th, One-dayer v Argentina at Corimayo
February 5th, One-dayer v Argentina at Virrey del Pino
It's often said that money cannot buy happiness, and that seems to be the case in Bermuda, where the millions of dollars that have poured in since they qualified for the World Cup have produced more than their fair share of stories of unease in the
We have a players' committee which is responsible for relaying any concerns the players have to the board. They have met with the board at least twice in the last month and there are absolutely no problems whatsoever.
Vish Lekhram writes enthusiastically about the USA team who today head to Sri Lanka for the Under-19 World Cup:
Ordinarily in other sporting disciplines this would not be a very noteworthy event but because we Americans are viewed as the best at everything by the global population, this has added a lot of pressures on this cricket team to do as well as the other sporting disciplines, and are being compared to the US Olympic team that will participate in the Winter Games in a few weeks time. What an honor this team has bestowed on the USA's cricketing nation that is well represented by these strong, talented, and gifted young men!
Tony Munro's second piece this week surrounds Uganda, their preparation for the Under-19 World Cup and all the latest news on the local competitions and happenings .
Tony Munro, Cricinfo's Beyond the Test World columnist, has written about Chile and their forthcoming preparations for the ICC tournament