Beyond the Test World

Bermuda could be set to stage their first major international match, proving the ICC decides that pitches at the National Sports Centre have improved sufficiently since an inspection last year.

Bangladesh romped to a nine-wicket win over Malaysia in the third-place play-off in the CLICO International Under-15 tournament in Trinidad

Shandong, the second-most populous province in China, has become the seventh region after Beijing, Shanghai, Guangdong, Liaoning, Chongqing and Tianjin to officially take up cricket, according to a media release from the Asian Cricket Council.

An interesting article in Canada’s Globe & Mail reports that the popularity of the game among immigrants is being stalled by the lack of pitches.

Canada have joined the Twenty20 bandwagon and will host their first tournament in Toronto on May 17 and 18

Afghanistan will be one of 12 nations dreaming of a place in the 2011 World Cup when the World Cricket League Division Five begins in Jersey later this month.

Rocks Cricket Club of Abeokuta has won the maiden edition of the GTA 20/20 tournament

West Indies fast bowler Ravi Rampaul will be Ireland’s overseas professional for the remaining seven games in this season’s Friends Provident Trophy.

There were big wins for West Indies, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Malaysia on the second day of the CLICO International U-15 Championship in the Caribbean

Former West Indies allrounder Vasbert Drakes has been appointed as the new coach of the UAE cricket team.

With the ICC World Cricket League Division Five set to take place in Jersey in May, the Mainichi Daily News has an interesting article on Japan’s preparations for the tournament.

John Campbell struck 112 for West Indies Under-15s in the CLICO International Under-15 Championship

In what has to amount to one of the most remarkable cases of the pot calling the kettle black, former KCA chairman Sharad Ghai has told The Nation that Cricket Kenya is in breach of an agreement with the ICC by not holding elections.

Pakistan beat hosts West Indies by two runs in a tense final of the International Under-15 Knockout final at Warner Park.

West Indies easily beat an ICC Americas XI in the semi-finals of the CLICO International Under-15 Championship, setting up a final against Pakistan, who edged out Bangladesh in the other semi-final.

Canada’s women finished their tour of Trinidad & Tobago with a third heavy defeat, losing by eight wickets to the Under-21 side in a match reduced by rain to 35 overs a side

The equipment drive during the Boxing Day Test in Melbourne has been hailed as a success, but more kit is called for.

Ghana beat Swaziland by five wickets to win the ICC World Cricket League Africa Region Division Three

Bermuda's unpopular two-day cricket league has been scrapped