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The weather proved to be the winner at Willowmoore Park in Benoni where thematch between West Indies and Bangladesh was washed out after 8.1 overs werebowed in the Bangladesh innings

Chaminda Vaas, still just 29, has held together Sri Lanka's fast bowling for the last decade

Bangladesh were completely overwhelmed by Sri Lanka, going down by ten wickets at Pietermaritzburg

Warnakulasuriya Patabendige Ushanta Joseph Chaminda Vaas

An engaging battle between two of the lower-ranked teams

Cricket-loving people of Ladysmith, KwaZulu-Natal, voted with their feet today (Monday February 3) when they crammed into the Settlers' Park Cricket Ground for a World Cup lead-up match featuring KwaZulu-Natal and Bangladesh

Gordon Greenidge'S dual role as a West Indies selector and a consultant with Bangladesh in preparation for the forthcoming World Cup is not viewed as a conflict of interest by the region's governing body

Namibia surprised friend and foe on Wednesday in the fifth and final match in the Alexander Forbes one-day series, chasing hard after a target of 275 and falling short in the last over by a mere nine runs

Namibia has lost the Alexander Forbes One Day International cricket series against Bangladesh after the visitors won the low-scoring fourth match by one wicket on Sunday

Bangladesh took a 2-1 lead in the five-match Alexander Forbes one-day series against Namibia on Saturday, winning the third match by three wickets with 30 balls left

THE initial reaction on looking back at my original assessment of the inaugural World Cup was to cringe at its hyperbole

Gordon Greenidge, the former Barbados and West Indies opener and now West Indies selector, has joined the Bangladesh team as batting coach in the build-up to the World Cup

With all the attention of politicians currently centred on Zimbabwe and the ICC poised to examine security aspects of staging World Cup matches there and in Kenya, another serious instance of politics interfering with cricket has come to light

The Canadian Cricket Association is pleased to welcome Gus Logie as our Coach for Team Canada at the 2003 Cricket World Cup in South Africa

Bangladesh enjoyed one of their better Test matches at the MA Aziz Stadium in Chittagong

The second day of the second Test between Bangladesh and the West Indies at Chittagong saw the hosts enjoy as good a day's play as they are likely to get for some time

After the debacle in the first Test in Dhaka, not much was expected of the young and inexperienced Bangladesh team that squared up to the West Indies in the second Test at the MA Aziz Stadium in Chittagong

A remarkable spell of fast bowling from Jermaine Lawson sent Bangladesh hurtling to one of the worst defeats in Test history at Dhaka

After today, Ramnaresh Sarwan will be one man who will be rooting for Daren Ganga's inclusion in the West Indies side

If one were to only go by the figures, a match pitting a side that has lost 30 of its last 43 away Tests against a side that has lost 14 of the 15 Tests it has played would have been expected to serve up an engaging contest