Miscellaneous

Lancashire today agreed to England's request that they rest Mike Atherton from this week's crucial championship game against Leicestershire

Lancashire: Rest agreed for Atherton (28 Jul 1998)

IT will be business as usual for all but three of England's victorious Test team today as they join their counties for the quarter-finals of the NatWest Trophy without a day's break

C Randall: Atherton adds weight to Lancs' treble quest (28 Jul 1998)

Aravinda de Silva is the world's greatest batsman today

P Epasinghe: Master batsman Aravinda is a pride to the nation (28 Jul 1998)

KARACHI, July 26: The newly appointed Pakistan cricket selection committee is scheduled to meet on Monday to finalize a 14-member team for the Commonwealth Games scheduled to held at Kuala Lumpur from Sept 11 to 21

Pakistan: Selectors scheduled to meet today (27 Jul 1998)

The secretary of BCB's ground committee Alam Chowdhury left for Rajshahi yesterday with his member Shawkatur Rahman Chinu to work out the feasibility of holding one of the two one-day matches that Bangladesh is likely to play during October's

Bangladesh: Rajshahi, Sylhet to host one-day internationals (27 Jul 1998)

COURTNEY WALSH'S 6ft 5.5in frame has been looming over the cricket world for 15 years and since, at 35, his powers show no sign of waning, it might do so for one or two more yet

D Green: Walsh still scaling heights (27 Jul 1998)

The 1998 Kingston Wharves Under-19 cricket competition will begin with the first three rounds on Tuesday, August 11 and Wednesday, August 12

Jamaica: Kingston Wharves trial today (27 Jul 1998)

Pakistan Under-19 Cricket team on tour to U.K playing against Eton South U-19 College have been praised by the Housemaster at Eton for their exceptionally good behaviour

PCB Press Release: Pakistan U19 Team praised (27 Jul 1998)

FRED TRUEMAN tells a lovely story about Les Jackson

M Parkinson: England's unplayed ace (27 Jul 1998)

Lancashire did not win any friends, or the match, with their safety first attitude at Colwyn Bay on Saturday

Lancashire crawl to a draw (27 Jul 1998)

If Cherry Tree feel as though they have again got one hand on the Vaux Ramsbottom Cup, which they won so convincingly last year, then Earby skipper Steve Rushton is determined to make them think again

Lancashire League: Ramsbottom Cup (27 Jul 1998)

Double winter booking could bring Hollioake back to the one-day helm , writes Scyld Berry

S Berry: Hollioake possible return to the one-day helm (26 Jul 1998)

Spinners too must be nursed like pacemen , says Kumar Ramanathan

R Anandappa: Spinners too must be nursed like pacemen (26 Jul 1998)

A former Christchurch Press newsprint store in Addington will be Canterbury Cricket's new indoor training centre

New Zealand News Round-up (26 Jul 1998)

History of sorts was made at Black Rock yesterday when a father and son played on the same team

Barbados: The Family Business (26 Jul 1998)

VICTORY for Northamptonshire on Friday may have lifted them off the bottom of the Britannic Assurance table, but all that they have left to play for this season is a top-eight finish in the championship

G Dean: Emburey riled by Lamb's outburst (26 Jul 1998)

IF interest in cricket is on the wane, as so many critics have argued in the wake of yet another dismal England Test series, the crowds who have flocked to remodelled Trent Bridge suggest there is still a huge fund of goodwill for the game

P Deeley: Sponsors switch to greener pastures (26 Jul 1998)