Miscellaneous

CENTURION, South Africa, Jan 18 (AFP) - The South African selectors Monday named 18-year-old black fast bowler Victor Mpitsang in their squad for a seven-match limited overs series against the West Indies

Only five members of West Indies' World Cup squad did themselves justice in the tournament, the team's chairman of selectors claimed yesterday

Cambridge are on something of a high as the 153rd University Match with Oxford begins today at Lord's

Geoff Allott has enjoyed socking it to the opposition at the cricket World Cup

CANTERBURY (England) - If we are to believe Alec Stewart's theory that this is the most open World Cup tournament of the past 24 years then Arjuna Ranatunga's view that Sri Lanka still have a chance to qualify for the semi-final cannot be entirely

Presumably guided by the vast local knowledge of Courtney Walsh, the West Indies have packed their batting for the opening match of World Cup campaign here today against Pakistan, opponents as potentially powerful as any they will meet later

Worcester, Friday - Sri Lanka will know whether they can still be called 'world champs' when they face their moment of truth in a do-or-die Group 'A' World Cup match against Zimbabwe at New Road here tomorrow

Barbados's Commissioner of Police Grantley Watson is suing Australian cricket captain Steve Waugh

LEEDS - New Zealand's dark horse image might take on shade of blue as they shape up to a desperate West Indies in Southampton today

Leeds (England) - A few years ago in Cape Town a schoolboy too young to hold a car driver's licence arrived at Newlands the day sponsored cars were being palmed off to the senior members of the Western Province squad

Dashing left-hander Sanath Jayasuriya is the eighth player to be appointed captain in Sri Lanka's 17-year history as a Test-playing nation

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CAPE TOWN, Jan 2 (AFP) - South Africa's cricketers were snubbed by sports minister Steve Tshwete on Saturday as they continued to dominate their series against the West Indian tourists

PERTH, Australia, Jan 28 (AFP) - Sri Lankan cricket captain Arjuna Ranatunga was given a suspended sentence of six one-day internationals and fined 75 percent of his match fee at a disciplinary hearing here late Thursday

The circumstances are peculiar and pressing enough to prompt the West Indies to treat today's second preliminary group match in the World Cup as if it was the final itself

JOHANNESBURG, Nov 25 (AFP) - The president of the West Indies Cricket Board and his wife were on Wednesday carjacked in Soweto, the sprawling township attached to Johannesburg, a South African cricket official said

JOHANNESBURG, Nov 22 (AFP) - South African selectors on Sunday recalled veteran offspinner Pat Symcox and picked uncapped fast bowler David Terbrugge in a 12-man squad for the first Test against the West Indies starting here Thursday

FAISALABAD, Pakistan, Dec 21 (AFP) - A jubilant Zimbabwe won their first ever Test series here Monday as the fog-hit third and final match against Pakistan was abandoned on the fifth day

MELBOURNE, Australia, Dec 22 (AFP) - Members of the Barmy Army, the fun-loving fans who trail the English cricket team around the world, have lost irreplaceable documentary footage in a theft at their Melbourne hotel

BRISBANE, Nov 18 (AFP) - Australia are eager to call England's bluff over opener Michael Atherton in the first Test starting at the fast bowler-friendly Gabba ground here Friday