Miscellaneous

Roger Harper celebrated his first-ever Lancashire League championship and promplty left the door ajar on a possible return to Nelson in 1999

Prime Minister, Owen Arthur does not disguise his passion for cricket

Christopher Martin-Jenkins

DARE I say it, but this splendidly social September occasion, is done

ANY suggestion that David Lloyd would resign as England coach and return permanently to the safer side of the microphone was removed at Lord's yesterday when he confirmed that he was looking forward to accompanying the touring teams to Bangladesh and

LONDON, Sunday - Sri Lanka's ten-wicket defeat on England in the one-off Test at the Oval was a master stroke of the most experienced captain in international cricket today, Arjuna Ranatunga

FEW PEOPLE manage to break down the walls of our diffidence to secure a warm place in our hearts

Despite his meteoric rise to fame, the world's best spinner presently occupying the top slot in the CEAT cricket rankings, Muttiah Muralitharan did not forget his cricket coach Sunil Fernando and he honoured him by presenting Fernando with a cheque

We keep on trying but the thought processes of our cricket selectors continue to baffle us

The West Indies Cricket Board is proposing to incorporate

NASSER HUSSAIN, who had to have an operation on an elbow ahead of last winter's tour of the West Indies, has endured surgery again

Around fifty donors, mostly cricketers, donated blood yesterday in a programme organised by the Cricketers' Forum in co-operation with Shandhani at the National Sports Council (NSC) conference room

It could be described as the tightest day of cricket for the Courts/Suzuki Division 1 season

Arjuna Ranatunga, the victorious Sri Lanka skipper and the other members of the Sri Lanka cricket team returned on Friday to the island after their historic win in the triangular cricket tournament with South Africa and England and they really put

'Muthiah Muralitharan, another sportsman produced by Kandy is now spinning webs around the England cricket team with his mesmerising spin bowling and he has now got a record haul of wickets', said Minister of Irrigation, Power and Energy and Deputy

Winners: 1970, 1971, 1972, 1975, 1990 & 1996

PHILLIP DeFreitas's passion for cricket has not been compromised by maturity

THE Australian Cricket Board's refusal to excuse Michael Slater from a three-day 'team bonding' get-together in Brisbane this week, forcing him to undertake a 25-hour flight back for today's NatWest Trophy final, has halted contract negotiations

UMBRELLAS and prayer mats may be needed at Lord's today, as well as picnic lunches

ISLAMABAD,Sept 4: Government's poor response on to the action taken against cricketers involved in "criminal" activities created an uproar in the National Assembly where the match-fixing and betting scandal was taken up for the first time on the