Miscellaneous

Stokes Valley leaves on what has become an annual pre-season pilgrimage to Australia for its senior cricket players on Thursday

Stokes Valley aiming to tour England next season

South African cricketers Herschelle Gibbs and Henry Williams have both been banned from playing international cricket for the rest of the year for agreeing to underperform in a one-day international in India earlier this year

Gibbs and Williams banned for six months

29-Aug-2000•AAP

National League Championship roundup

Aussie Ian Harvey in all round display hit a swashbuckling 66 of 35 balls and then came back to take 4 for 26 in 9 overs to help Gloucestershire defeat Leicestershire by 47 runs at Bristol in a day night showdown

Reaction to the six-month bans imposed on South African players Herschelle Gibbs and Henry Williams on Monday ranged from condemnation of the sentences as being too harsh or too lenient to outright relief

Mixed reaction to bans on Gibbs and Williams

29-Aug-2000•Peter Robinson

Indian news round-up

The historical Gopalan Trophy which was played between India and Sri Lanka is all set to be revived next month

29-Aug-2000•Natarajan Sriram

Smith throws in his lot with Nottinghamshire

Northerns Titans left-arm pace bowler Greg Smith will be joining Notts for the 2001 season after deciding to commit himself to English cricket

Ackerman, who is currently in the West Indies with the SA A side, had been approached by Zimbabwe to take charge of their national side

Ackerman to stay in South Africa

29-Aug-2000•Peter Robinson

England beat Yorkshire in last competitive match before the World Cup

The England Women's Cricket team beat County Championship winners Yorkshire yesterday by 80 runs at the Scarborough Festival

BRIDON 82 for 3 (6 pts) v Radcliffe (6 pts) Match abandoned after 25 overs due to rain

Nottinghamshire Cricket Board Premier League

Launceston's Tim Coyle has been appointed to the empty position of the Tasmanian Cricket Association coaching and development manager

Coyle obtains TCA coaching role

29-Aug-2000•Thomas Rose

Malcolm Marshall Memorial Trophy unveiled at Lord's (29 August 2000)

Pakistan cricket supremo General Tauqir Zia has expressed his irritation over India's pulling out of the Sahara Cup

Tauqir Zia critical of India's withdrawal

29-Aug-2000•Anand Vasu

Floodlights at Pindi stadium

Islamabad, Aug 28: The heavy freight of forty three meter high floodlights poles have started reaching the Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium in parts

England team are hoping that a sense of belonging will help Ian Salisbury to emerge as Test class leg spinner after his recall to the squad for the winter tour to Pakistan and SriLanka

There is a lack of understanding for leg-spin: Salisbury

Khaya Majola, one of South Africa's leading cricketers in the 1970s and 1980s, and one of the country's top cricket administrators during the 1990s, died in Johannesburg on Monday after a brave fight against cancer aged 47

Majola leaves huge legacy

29-Aug-2000•Andre Odendaal

Warwickshire, Neil Smith under pressure to deliver

Warwickshire skipper Neil Smith has called on his team members to justify their talent in a do or die situation

England and Glamorgan spinner Robert Croft, overlooked for the winter tour to Kenya, Pakistan and SriLanka predicts that he shall not play for England again, even if recalled

Croft: I don't think I'll play for England again

New Zealand heads into its tour of Zimbabwe with some encouraging signs emerging from the wealth of rankings lists now peppering the international game

Rankings boost for Kiwis before Zimbabwe tour

Otago Cricket has produced a $114,151 turnaround in its annual performance to end the financial year with a profit of $15,089

Otago back in the black after tight financial year