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Australian cricket ready for big examination

BRISBANE - Ricky Ponting and Adam Gilchrist expect some tough questionsto be answered during a busy nine-month examination of Australia's Testand one-day cricket sides.

25-Aug-2002•Wayne Heming

Pakistan adjusts shifted Test series schedule

KARACHI - The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) today announced minorchanges to the schedule of the Test series against Australia which hasbeen shifted to Sri Lanka and Sharjah because of security fears.

25-Aug-2002•AFP

Coach Buchanan to miss Travelex Tour of Kenya

Australian coach John Buchanan will not lead Australia on the Travelex Tour of Kenya after sustaining a back injury this weekend during the team's training camp in Brisbane.

25-Aug-2002•Australian Cricket Board

Twenty-four minutes to secure innings victory

Surrey took just 24 minutes to wrap up the innings and 60 run victory over Hampshire to further their claims to the Frizzell County Championship title and relegate the visitors back to the bottom three

25-Aug-2002•Richard Isaacs

Hursley Park so close to upsetting league leaders

Hursley Park came within a hairsbreadth of shattering Purbrook's Southern Electric Premier League Division 3 championship dream in a reduced-overs thriller at The Quarters

25-Aug-2002•Mike Vimpany (as published in Daily Echo 'Pink')

Surrey close on Championship title; Lancashire win

Surrey's view of another County Championship title is clearer still after they dismissed the last two Hampshire batsmen this morning to record yet another victory

25-Aug-2002•Farid Bakri

SPCL players aplenty as Hampshire CB meet Wiltshire

Kevin Nash and Luke Ronchi share the same Bashley-Rydal dressing room every Saturday - but next Thursday they'll be the deadliest of rivals in a key Cheltenham & Gloucester Trophy 2003 first round tie at Hursley Park

25-Aug-2002•Mike Vimpany

Defeat by the Bears at Taunton sends the Sabres down

After winning the toss and batting first Somerset Sabres got off to a poor start when once again they lost early wickets

25-Aug-2002•Richard Walsh

Sri Lankan players join ICC sponsorship row

Sri Lanka's cricketers have refused to sign the International Cricket Council contract that is threatening the participation of leading Asian players in the ICC Champions Trophy next month

25-Aug-2002•Charlie Austin

Bears sentence Sabres to chop

Warwickshire Bears sustained their slim hopes of taking the Norwich Union League title with an eight-wicket victory over Somerset Sabres at Taunton, thanks largely to an unbroken stand of 116 in 20 overs between Shaun Pollock and Dominic Ostler

25-Aug-2002•George Dobell

SPCL1 - Down to the wire as two points separate pair

With one match remaining, a mere two points separates Havant, the leaders, from title holders BAT Sports at the top of the ECB Southern Electric Premier League

25-Aug-2002•Mike Vimpany (as published in Daily Echo)

Steelbacks' promotion hopes dented by Eagles

Northamptonshire Steelbacks' promotion hopes were dealt a blow as Essex Eagles secured a four-wicket victory at Colchester in division two of the Norwich Union League

25-Aug-2002•George Dobell

ECB Boost to Rose Bowls international future

The England and Wales Cricket Board has given Hampshire Cricket's hopes of staging a one day international next year a boost.

25-Aug-2002•Daily Echo reporter

ECB announce staging agreement for Trent Bridge

Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club and the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) have reached agreement for the staging of One-Day Internationals and Test Matches at Trent Bridge from 2003 to 2011

25-Aug-2002•ECB Media Release

Lincolnshire Cricket Board - ECB Premier League Results - 24 August 2002

Team P W L D NR Bat Bowl Win Draw Total Percent Grantham 17 9 1 3 4 50 53 90 21

25-Aug-2002•Lincolnshire CCC

SPCL2 - Academy within point of Division Two title

The Hampshire Academy are within one point of clinching the Southern Electric Premier League, Division 2 championship after a seven-wicket win over United Services at the Rose Bowl

25-Aug-2002•Mike Vimpany (as published in Daily Echo)

Van der Gucht makes successful return to cricket

Hampshire's Charlie van der Gucht is back playing cricket - just 13 months after suffering horrific injuries in a road accident last summer.

25-Aug-2002•Mike Vimpany

Hussain and Stewart carry the fight into fifth day

At the outset of the fourth day, England were harbouring hopes of a resolute last wicket partnership between Alec Stewart and Matthew Hoggard to reduce the massive deficit and to use up some valuable time

25-Aug-2002•Ralph Dellor

Peter Robinson confident ahead of Under 19's semi final against Essex

Fresh from their quarter final victory over Shropshire in the 38 County Two Day competition at Shifnal last week, Somerset Under 19's travel to the RAF ground at Vine Lane in Uxbridge to take on Essex in the semi finals on Tuesday and Wednesday this

24-Aug-2002•Richard Walsh

'We just have to win' says Shine ahead of Sabres game against the Bears

Despite his side having to settle for a draw after dominating their championship match against Warwickshire, the Somerset coach Kevin Shine was in upbeat mood at the end of the day at the Taunton

24-Aug-2002•Richard Walsh

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