Beyond the Test World

Cricket in Afghanistan is on the up

The tremendously enjoyable - and I speak from personal experience - Sarasota International Sixes took place again last week, with the usual quotas of fun, good cricket, and Budweiser

The Nepal's Under-19s side are to play Namibia and Scotland in Sri Lanka before the ICC Under-19 World Cup in 2006

The MLC Interstate tournament is up and running in Florida and Texas's Sushil Nadkarni has been the star of the show

Great news from Africa for a change

The ICC winter training camp in South Africa is producing results ..

An end in sight for the shambles that has been blighting the USA Cricket Association for more than a year, or another false dawn

This CBS feature on cricket in the USA is well worth a look as it also includes a TV news report on the game being played among the young (admittedly ex-pat) community

Good news from Fiji where the authorities are reviving their free school holiday cricket program beginning next Monday (Dec 5) at Albert Park, Suva

Tornado made a bold statement, humbling Africa by 104 runs in the final of the Uganda's Castle Champions Trophy at Lugogo Cricket Ground to scoop all the season's silverware

It's all fun and games in Bermuda where top groundsman Andy Atkinson last year described the island's new pitch as "more suitable for growing carrots"

Ehsan Mani, the ICC president, and Malcolm Speed, the CEO, both praised Nepal's performance in Under-19 cricket and hoped that the country would translate the success in the senior level as well

Top Irish batsman Jeremy Bray has signed for Eglinton

Grim news at the AGM of the Canadian Cricket Association where only two members of the public turned out to watch.