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Somerset Cricket Development Officer Andrew Moulding was so impressed by a visit from Tim Gutteridge of the England Blind Cricket Team that he has made an appeal to all blind cricketers in the county to come forward to form a Somerset team

Eight members of a proposed 10-member interim committee, appointed to run the affairs of the Board of Control for Cricket in Sri Lanka (BCCSL) earlier this month, have formally accepted letters of appointment from Sports Minister Johnston Fernando

RAWALPINDI, April 23: Shoaib Akhtar returns to his hometown at the top of his bowling form as Pakistan aim to take an unbeatable 2-0 lead over an injury-plagued New Zealand in the second One-day International at Pindi Cricket Stadium Wednesday

I had expected Harbhajan Singh to be moreeffective on the final day and even run through the West Indiesbatting line-up

India's batting stylist Vangipurappu Venkata Sai Laxman (V.V.S.) Laxman admits he is in a rich vein of form but after three charming half-centuries in the 2002 Cable & Wireless Test series against the West Indies, he is still without a century in the

Yorkshire will need to bat a lot better than they did against Surrey today if they are to defend their Frizzell County Championship title this season

During the first encounter of the recently concluded five-match one-day series between India and Zimbabwe at Faridabad, Douglas Marillier scored the fastest fifty for Zimbabwe in ODI's off just 21 balls with the help of nine fours and one six

West Indies captain Carl Hooper said he was very disappointed with the result yesterday as the West Indies fell to defeat by 37 runs in the second Cable & Wireless Test against India at the Queen's Park Oval, Trinidad

The umpire may yet strike back

Eight members of a proposed 10-member interim committee, appointed to run the affairs of the Board of Control for Cricket in Sri Lanka (BCCSL) earlier this month, have formally accepted letters of appointment from Sports Minister Johnston Fernando

** match played on the scheduled fourth day of the rainaborted first Test at Dunedin in 1988-89, in edition to the originally planned four match series that followed subsequently

An unbeaten 109-run stand in the fourth wicket produced by skipper Minhajul Abedin and man-of-the-match Sanwar Hossain helped Mohammedan cruise a 6-wicket victory against their archrival Abahani Club in the last match of the first round of

On March 25, during the last day of the second Test match against New Zealand at Wellington, England's middle order batsman, Andrew Flintoff smashed the joint-sixth fastest fifty ever in terms of balls

Having suffered at the hands of the Kent batsmen at Canterbury last week, Hampshire toiled on another good wicket as visitor Leicestershire took advantage of the fine weather.

On 21 April 2002, during the first match of the three-match one-day series between Pakistan and New Zealand at Karachi, Yousuf Youhana smashed a brilliant 125 off 155 balls to help his side reach a daunting total of 275

If we are to believe the 2002 edition of Wisden, county cricket is in crisis

A number of the Somerset players chosen for the opening match of the season against Sussex tomorrow were at the County Ground early this morning, having a final net session before making the journey to Hove later in the day

It was a day of nail-biting cricket, make no mistake about that

When a batsman earns the tag of "Mr Dependable" in Clive Lloyd's all-conquering side of the 80s, among stalwart team-mates such as Gordon Greenidge, Desmond Haynes, Viv Richards and Lloyd himself, his stature is beyond question