Beyond the Test World
Cricket in Afghanistan is on the up
President Hamid Karzai is a great cricket fan and watches the game whenever he finds time. He has promised a Toyota vehicle each to the team members if they are able to beat Pakistan. But our most cherished dream is to play against India.
The tremendously enjoyable - and I speak from personal experience - Sarasota International Sixes took place again last week, with the usual quotas of fun, good cricket, and Budweiser
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There's just a lot of camaraderie between the players, and we call it a festival, not a tournament. It's really more like a reunion for the teams.
The Nepal's Under-19s side are to play Namibia and Scotland in Sri Lanka before the ICC Under-19 World Cup in 2006
The ICC winter training camp in South Africa is producing results ..
But thanks to the work put in by the four Canada players attending the 11-week residential course in Pretoria - Qaiser Ali, Umar Bhatti, Kenneth Carto and Henry Osinde - it is an accusation that could soon be put to bed for good.
The MLC Interstate tournament is up and running in Florida and Texas's Sushil Nadkarni has been the star of the show
Great news from Africa for a change
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In Uganda today, cricket has grown from just a recreational sport to a highly competitive and intense game.
This CBS feature on cricket in the USA is well worth a look as it also includes a TV news report on the game being played among the young (admittedly ex-pat) community
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"There is wicket keeping – it's kind of like catching like a catcher and then there is bowling which is like a pitcher and then there's fielding which is, you know, fielding."
An end in sight for the shambles that has been blighting the USA Cricket Association for more than a year, or another false dawn
It is unclear how many members of the association will actually attend what could be a lively meeting, assuming that the officers are willing to answer questions from the floor and not fall back behind the legal agreement.
Good news from Fiji where the authorities are reviving their free school holiday cricket program beginning next Monday (Dec 5) at Albert Park, Suva
Tornado made a bold statement, humbling Africa by 104 runs in the final of the Uganda's Castle Champions Trophy at Lugogo Cricket Ground to scoop all the season's silverware