Miscellaneous

Holders Abahani will begin their bid to retain the Janakantha Premier Division Cricket League title for third successive season when they take on promotees Orient Sporting Club this morning

Bangladesh: Janakantha Premier Division Cricket League (8 December 1998)

CENTURION (South Africa) - In what are frank admissions from all levels and age groups most "players of colour" have rejected the "quota systems" tag and some have accused politicians of meddling in areas not of their concern

Colour players reject quota system (8 December 1998)

THE decision to enforce racial integration at the highest levels has produced strong reactions in South Africa and overshadowed the national team's build-up to the start of the second Test against the West Indies on Thursday

South Africans condemn forced integration and other news (8 December 1998)

Riccarton had its lead in the WestpacTrust Trophy senior club cricket championship cut from 21 to nine points when it was beaten by Lancaster Park-Woolston in their sixth round match

New Zealand: Defeat cuts Riccarton lead in club cricket (7 December 1998)

Sylvester Louis, in what appears to be his farewell performance in a lengthy, outstanding career, yesterday put himself on the verge of one of Division 1 cricket's most prized records

Barbados: Bowler Within Sight Of Division One Record (7 December 1998)

JOHANNESBURG - Monday December 12th

UCB's revised selection policy condemned as ``too little; too late'' (7 December 1998)

An unbeaten 83 by Emily Drumm and some top-class fielding by New Zealand wicketkeeper Rebecca Rolls inspired Auckland to a 23-run win over national champion Canterbury in a State Insurance Cup women's cricket league clash at Hagley Oval

NZ Women: Auckland profits from Canty's loose bowling (7 December 1998)

SYDNEY, Dec 7 (AFP) - Legspinner Stuart MacGill has been recalled to the Australian cricket side for the third Test against England in Adelaide starting on Friday

MacGill back in Australian team (7 December 1998)

SOUTH AFRICA have brought Herschelle Gibbs, the coloured Western Province batsman, into their 12-man squad for the second Test against the West Indies, which starts at Port Elizabeth on Thursday

ET News Round-Up: South Africa draft in Gibbs (7 December 1998)

Cable & Wireless BET continued to make a brave effort to defy the odds and capture the title on another frustrating, rain-shortened day

Barbados: BET Tries To Get The Better Of Rain (7 December 1998)

The big debate in South Africa at this time, is not so much whether, as some are saying, the governing party, the African National Congress under president Nelson Mandela, is destroying the country's economy, but rather the selection of the national

That big South African debate (7 December 1998)

Forty-nine years on, Bert Sutcliffe still refers to Walter Hadlee as "captain", and both retain vivid and happy memories of the 1949 New Zealand cricket tour of England

New Zealand: Comrades reunite (7 December 1998)

EAST LONDON - South Africa's selectors reacted to the contentious debate over the all-white composition of their team by including for Thursday's second Test against the West Indies a batsman of mixed race, classified as coloured under the loathed

Gibbs Adds Colour To South Africa's Test Squad (7 December 1998)

Middle-order batsman Halim Shah, who joined new powerhouse Surjo Tarun Club from Brothers Union last month, may move to Mohammedan Sporting Club through mutual negotiation

Bangladesh: Halim Shah in MSC by default (7 December 1998)

Sri Lanka Cricket Foundation of Victoria has awarded a four year sponsorship to St

Four-year sponsorship from Australia for Chanaka Wijesinghe (6 December 1998)

Herschelle Gibbs replaces Adam Bacher for the 2nd Test match of the South Africa/West Indies series at Port Elizabeth

SA Squad for 2nd test shows just one change (6 Dec 1998)

AUSTRALIA should ditch their horses for courses policy and so turn a good batting line-up into an excellent one

Ponting in need of inspiration (6 December 1998)

Thursday December 3 was a great day for regional cricket

Across The Board: Welcome Sponsorship From Busta (6 December 1998)

Anil Rideegamanagedera's fast knock of 67 in only 62 deliveries was the bright spot in their BCCSL's Limited-Over cricket match with Singha SC which ended in a no-decision due to rain at Maitland Place yesterday

Sri Lanka News Round-up (6 December 1998)