Miscellaneous

It was a mixed weekend for Grange when, after scrambling a win at GHK by two wickets on Saturday, they found themselves having to field two teams on Sunday and ended up falling between two stools

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

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

Aravinda de Silva is the world's greatest batsman today

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

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

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

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

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

FRED TRUEMAN tells a lovely story about Les Jackson

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

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

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

Spinners too must be nursed like pacemen , says Kumar Ramanathan

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

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

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

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

THE RECENT meeting of international umpires in Surrey, which highlighted their growing resentment at unfair pressure from fielding sides to gain decisions, has given cause for extra scrutiny in the fourth Test at Trent Bridge

EVEN at the tender age of 20, Andy Flintoff carries an air of authority about it