Miscellaneous

Karachi, Dec 18: A third-wicket partnership of 149 between Arif Pyarali and Suleman Huda enabled Aga Khan Gymkhana defeat Rafiq Shirazi Memorial CC by seven wickets in the Aga Khan Gymkhana Ramazan Cricket Tournament here on Monday

The suspense about the Indian cricket Team's tour of Pakistan scheduled for Jan-Feb 2001 has finally come to an end

Hard-hitting Jamaican batsman Ricardo Powell has been recalled to the West Indies line-up for the Carlton Series one-day triangular against Australia and Zimbabwe beginning on January 11

Robert Croft: Needs to impress in Sri Lanka Photo © Paul McGregor CricInfo Ltd

Horowhenua-Kapiti batsman Phillipa Gerish scored her second century of the Central Zone under-17 tournament at Wanganui yesterday

Just one day after being named in the South African squad for the first Castle Lager/MTN Test match against Sri Lanka at Kingsmead, champion fast bowler Allan Donald has withdrawn, opening the way for Mfuneko Ngam to win his second Test cap

Giles White: England's new all-rounder

Manawatu players Andrea Stockwell and Jenni Scott combined in a 141-run partnership to held their side to a first-up win at the Central Zone under-17 girls' cricket tournament being played at Wanganui

South African captain Kim Price thinks her side has done New Zealand and India a favour by showing them how Australia can be beaten

Canterbury is taking the chance to make an assessment for its future with its selections for two games against Zimbabwe this week

Training today at 9 am

Jason Brown admitted to being "a bit gobsmacked" when David Graveney called to give him the news of his inclusion in the Test squad to Sri Lanka

Wellington all-rounder James Franklin, a former New Zealand Youth team captain, has been called into the New Zealand Test team for the Boxing Day Test against Zimbabwe at the Basin Reserve

New Zealand drew first blood when beating India in their CricInfo Women's World Cup game 10 days ago but both teams know that counts for nothing in the sudden death semi-final they will play on BIL Oval at Lincoln University tomorrow

The following players have been named to represent Auckland in the Northern Region Under 15 tournament, to be contested by two Auckland and two Northern Districts teams

Wairarapa pulled off a big surprise when beating Manawatu in the Central Zone secondary schoolgirls' cricket tournament at Wanganui today

Since the retirement of Dave Houghton and apart from occasional appearances by Eddo Brandes, Andy Flower, now 32, has been the oldest member of the Zimbabwe team

The Colin Miller show continues on

Despite being slapped with a ban in the last match of the India- Zimbabwe Oneday series, Ganguly has retained the spot of Numero Uno with respect to the batting averages for the calender year 2000, finishing with a tally of 1,569 runs from 32 matches