Beyond the Test World

A Rochdale-based community group, Sports for All, is hosting a reception for Kenya on Saturday, followed by a match on Sunday.

Shivnarine Chanderpaul has signed up for this year's Hong Kong Sixes

France finished their short tour of Holland with an encouraging six-wicket win over a Netherlands side containing three players who recently took part in the Intercontinental Cup.

  A common gripe that keeps cropping up, especially where Ireland are concerned, is the number of players who are unavailable for matches because of their commitments in English county cricket.

Organisers have confirmed a four-nation Twenty20 tournament in Toronto involving hosts Canada, Bangladesh, Pakistan and West Indies in August.

Scotland will have little time to prepare for their Intercontinental Cup clash with Canada after they were stranded in Bermuda by the after-effects of Hurricane Bertha.

Cricket Kenya has angrily denied claims in the Daily Nation that it broke its own selection rules in picking former captain Ragheb Aga for their European tour.

All three eastern European national teams won their matches in the Carmel Twenty/20 tournament in Carmel, Wales yesterday.

Candangos cricket club are the Distrito Federal Champions after having to use a run rate count to determine the winners

Now in Israel as part of a unique Israel team with several Jewish cricketers, Jonty Rhodes says he's excited by the talent in a country with no cricket culture

The Mexico Cricket Association Junior Schools tournament took place on June 8, 2008 with teams from Lancaster, Edron, Victoria and Lomas Altas taking part

From ICC Americas' June 2008 newsletter

John Welch, the Bahamas coach, has resigned his position to move to Scotland.

Catalina Greloni, Delfina Canton, Veronica Vasquez and Cecilia Birnie took part in the Cricket Coaching Academy held in Trinidad and Tobago

Bahamas' Under-15s continue to prepare for their upcoming tour of Bermuda (August 2–10, 2008)

Dynasty Stars cricket club continue to dominate cricket in the BCA league

The Argentine Cricket Association has recently formed the first ever Argentine Cricket Officials Association (ACOA) which is being driving by the ACA’s High Performance Manager Hamish Barton, who is acting as Chairman of the ACOA Committee

The AOC touring team commenced their world tour with a short stop over in Buenos Aires where they played two matches against local composite teams

Hamish Barton (National Coach/High Performance Manager) recently returned to New Zealand for three weeks to start the New Zealand Cricket Level 3 coaching qualification

Andre Botha reached his 150 for Ireland against Netherlands, on a frustrating second day's play in Rotterdam yesterday