Miscellaneous

ALAN ORMROD has been dismissed as Nottinghamshire's cricket manager after three years in the job at Trent Bridge

Canterbury's Craig McMillan will expand his cricket captaincy credentials by leading Central in the Shell Conference tournament in November

Mike Atherton is set to return from his back problems to play in Lancashire's championship crunch at Old Trafford tomorrow

Lancashire go into Thursday's match against Hampshire at Old Trafford needing a win to retain any chance of the title

International Cricket Council (ICC) president Jagmohan Dalmiya left the capital for Calcutta yesterday after a three-day visit to review the progress of the forthcoming Wills International Cup tournament to be held at the Bangabandhu National Stadium

Former New Zealand youth cricket team all-rounder Stephen Cunis is coming to Canterbury after struggling to break into the Northern Districts team

MARK RAMPRAKASH, the Middlesex captain, goes into hospital in London today to have his tonsils removed after a season of intermittent illness

Todmorden can thank Australian wicket-keeper Ian Healy for recruiting new professional Brendan Nash

BEN 'The Gladiator' Hollioake smashed his seventh double boundary 10 into the Blue Zone at the new Edgbaston Dome in Birmingham last night as the Warwickshire Bears crushed the Surrey Lions in the Budweiser 33s League

For how long our cricketers will go through the crucible of scrutiny

Wasim Akram is closer than ever to fulfilling his dream of leading Lancashire to the championship

Test tourney slot for Bangladesh likely

WASIM AKRAM has played his last match for Pakistan

Long before information technology threatened a takeover, cricket held a monopoly on confusion and complication, writes PAUL AGNEW

The rain which completely washed out five of the six fixtures in the Northern League on Saturday left the placings at the top of the table unchanged

WEATHER interruptions apart, and there have been many worse seasons, there has been only one serious blight on the Britannic Assurance County Championship which reaches yet another unpredictable climax this week and once again raises the serious

Colombo North (Outer) clinched the BCCSL Under 15 Regional trophy beating Kandy Region by 66 runs at the limited over final played at the NCC grounds yesterday

WHILE the game of cricket has seen many exciting matches, perhaps nothing that has ever happened on the field of play will prove as interesting and momentous as what is due to happen in the coming weeks at the Lahore High Court

Efforts are underway to lift the standard of district level cricket coaches

With cricket at the top of the sports agenda these days, what with Sri Lanka's triumphs in England, now it is the turn of our blind cricketers to show their prowess