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Article: Shoaib Ahktar departure for England

David Graveney, the England chairman of selectors, has revealed that England are likely to rely on seam bowling in this summer's Tests

Lymington 268-8 (Trestrail 60, Craft 58, Clemow 33, Young 31, Griffiths 25, Oldcorn 4-49) Old Basing 103 (Summers 39, Quantock 23, Smith 5-21, Phillips 3-15)

The wettest winter on record carved significant inroads into Saturday's scheduled opening round of matches in the Southern Electric Premier Cricket League

Inzamam-ul-Haq: Profile

Marcus Trescothick continued his tremendous start to the season with a fourth century in six innings to lead Somerset to a 108-run Benson and Hedges Cup victory over Gloucestershire at Taunton

Gold Award winner Mike Hussey scored a maiden 100 for Northamptonshire to ease his side to an eight-wicket victory over Glamorgan at Cardiff

Despite a determined innings of 73 from captain Stephen Fleming, Middlesex were beaten by 71-runs to end their interest in this year's competition

Numerous records were equalled, set and broken in the two-match Test series which Zimbabwe started as firm favourites to win

The Benson and Hedges Cup quarter-final draw was made on Monday, with defending champions Gloucestershire securing a home draw against Durham

New Zealand Test batsman Mathew Sinclair marked his entrance into the Yorkshire league at the weekend when scoring a double century for his Cleethorpes club

John Buchanan's role as national coach will be scrutinised when he meets with Australian Cricket Board chief executive Malcolm Speed on Wednesday

Burridge, who avoided relegation by the skin of their teeth by winning their final match at Cove last season, have given their Southern Electric ECB Premier League prospects a massive boost by trouncing Andover by nine wickets at London Road

Surrey suffered a dramatic one-run Benson and Hedges Cup defeat in Canterbury, but qualify as the Southern group runner's up while Kent crash out

England to play Wales at Cardiff in 2002

Gloucestershire were indebted to contrasting innings from Ian Harvey and Kim Barnett as they edged out Worcestershire by 21 runs in the Benson & Hedges Cup match at Bristol

Sussex have all but guaranteed a place in the knockout stages of the Benson & Hedges Cup after easing to a five-wicket win over Kent at Hastings

Nondescripts CC led by ex-Sri Lanka cricketer Hashan Tillakaratne clinched Sri Lanka's domestic premier championship title on Sunday when they came from behind to snatch a thrilling three-wicket win over Colombo CC in the final Super League match

South Africa drew maximum reward from a hard weekend of cricket as they beat the West Indies by eight wickets in the fourth one-day international at Queen's Park stadium on Sunday and took a healthy 3-1 lead in the seven-match series

As unpalatable as it is, Carl Hooper spoke the undeniable truth on Friday