Cricket News

The XXXX Queensland Bulls will commence their 2002-03 ING Cup season without the services of Stuart Law after he was omitted today from theteam for Sunday's season opener against NSW at North Sydney Oval.

Opener Shaharyar Farrukh slammed 119 as Karachi Greens made 317 in their first innings on the first day of the three-day National Junior (Under-19) Grade-II Cricket Championship semifinal against Sibi at PCB Regional Academy Ground here Sunday

SYDNEY, Oct 7 AAP - NSW look certain to be without Australia A paceman Stuart Clark when it start its ING Cup cricket defence next weekend.

HOBART - Tasmania will open its 2002-03 domestic cricket season with anew coach, a renovated home ground and the youngest team in thecompetition.

Lahore, October 6: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has decided to develop two new stadia and upgrade the Niaz Stadium in addition to Rani Bagh Cricket ground that is nearing completion in Hyderabad

Somerset are once again on the hunt for new young talent as the invitations for the district and county trials to be held later this month are being sent out

Somerset chief executive Peter Anderson was in reflective mood at the County Ground as he sat reading through some of the replies to the letter that he sent out to all members of the club following the disappointments of the 2002 season

Karachi Whites clinched their 12th title in the National Junior (Under-19) Grade-I Cricket Championship after scoring a comprehensive seven-wicket victory over Lahore Blues at Multan Cricket Stadium here Friday

Richard Parsons, the long serving Chairman of Somerset County Cricket Club who is stepping down from his post at the Annual General Meeting in December has written a letter to every member of the club that will be arriving on doormats up and down the

FULL NAME: Douglas Tafadzwa Hondo BORN: 7 July 1979, at Bulawayo MAJOR TEAMS: Zimbabwe Cricket Academy

The saga of the ICC Champions Trophy in Sri Lanka, between the hosts and India, was rather a fiasco

Media Release: PCB on U-19 G-I

FULL NAME: Dirk Peter Viljoen BORN: 11 March 1977, at Harare MAJOR TEAMS: Young Mashonaland (1994/95-1995/96); Mashonaland (1996/97 1999/2000); Mashonaland A (2000/01); Midlands (2001/02 to date); present club team Old Hararians

The 55th New Zealand Cricket Almanack (2002 edition) by Francis Payne and Ian Smith

After months of speculation, the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) has terminated the services of its chief executive officer, Gregory Shillingford

BRISBANE, Oct 3 AAP - Controversial Sri Lankan spinner Muttiah Muralitharan plans to unveil a mystery ball when he makes his long-awaited return to Australia in December.

LAHORE, Oct 2: Dilip Wickremasinghe, manager of Sri Lanka 'A' team manager, admitted Wednesday that the results in the one-day series were not encouraging but vowed his side would fight to avoid a whitewash in the three-match series against Pakistan

Somerset County Cricket Club have confirmed that Michael Burns will skipper the side next season and that West Indian fast bowler Nixon McLean has signed as their second overseas player for 2003

Somerset have confirmed that young fast bowler Joe Tucker will not be given a first class playing contract for next season because at the moment he is suffering from a recurrence of a major back injury which has rendered him unfit to play first class

Leicestershire are targetting exciting Indian batsman Virender Sehwag as one of their overseas signings for next season