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When the Asian Cricket Council was created in 1983, its objectives were to ensure co-operation, harmony and other gooey things between Asian cricket-playing nations

A swig of the Asia Cup

14-Jul-2004•Rahul Bhatia

Zimbabwe board agrees to arbitration

The agreement to arbitration by the Zimbabwe Cricket Union has given the rebel players some hope of playing international cricket again

Cricinfo announced today that it will provide internet audio coverage of the Asia Cup, which begins in Sri Lanka on Friday, July 16

Cricinfo to webcast audio coverage of the Asia Cup

14-Jul-2004

Seven out of seven for Sri Lanka A

Sri Lanka A made it seven wins out of seven with another emphatic victory, this time over Kent at Canterbury

Matthew Hoggard conjured up memories of his Barbados hat-trick, as ball dominated bat on the second day of West Indies' tour match against MCC at Arundel

Hoggard hits form but Gayle strikes back

The Asia Cup is back: the latest incarnation starts in Sri Lanka on Friday (July 16)

A chance to get ahead

14-Jul-2004•Amit Varma

Arjuna Ranatunga - leading by trust

As an 18-year-old in 1982, Arjuna Ranatunga played in Sri Lanka's very first Test, against England in Colombo

It is one thing to be the leader of a successful team

Habibul Bashar - leading by responsiveness

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Charity begins at home - Mike Hart & 'Grace'

Glenn McGrath has been fined 25 percent of his match fee, after breaching the ICC's Code of Conduct with an audible obscenity

Glenn McGrath fined for swearing

Muttiah Muralitharan has been included in the 14-member Sri Lankan squad for the upcoming six-nation Asia Cup tournament, beginning on July 16

Murali named in squad for Asia Cup

Sourav Ganguly is one of the great Asian captains of all time - a bristling competitor who is passion and spirit personified, not least to the youngsters whose corner he fights so fiercely

Sourav Ganguly - leading by courage

Brian Lara overcome a bout of flu to score a quickfire century for the West Indians in their tour match against MCC at Arundel

Lara beats the flu to score hundred

On the first day of the Intercontinental Cup match at Deventer, Trent Johnston has bowled Ireland into a good position with 4 for 34, as Netherlands were dismissed for just 200

Johnston puts Ireland in command

The term pinch-hitting used to be associated with baseball - but when cricket picked up on the concept, the traditionalists, like the bowlers against whom the tactic was used, did not know what had hit them

Kaluwitharana and Jayasuriya - cricket revolutionaries

A volatile Sikh with a fast bowler's temperament, and a willowy legspinner whose polio-crippled arm became a deadly weapon

Bedi and Chandrasekhar - success through variation

There weren't many close finished in the latest round of Twenty20 Cup matches, as Kent, Leicestershire, Somerset, Derbyshire and Hampshire all collected the points in their matches

Dagnall defies Notts at Grace Road

India's situation could hardly have been more desperate

Kapil Dev - leading by creativity