Miscellaneous

MARK BUTCHER batted for Surrey's second team in an Aon Trophy one-day match against Essex at Coggeshall yesterday in preparation for his England Test comeback at Nottingham this week

The 1998 Sandals all-island limited-overs cricket competition ended at Kaiser's Sports Club on Sunday with Kingston CC walking away with the title

Interview by Gareth A Davies

BARRY RICHARDS was my great cricketing hero and Vivian Richards was the best batsman that I was lucky enough, or unlucky enough you might say, to play against

LANCASHIRE cricket has the chance to hail its next Test cricketer at Old Trafford tonight

Why this vacillation by the PCB Council

CHORLEY are just two steps away from a fourth visit to Lord's in five years after beating Birkenhead Park and the rain at Windsor Park yesterday to reach the quarter finals of the Abbot Ale Cup

BIOGRAPHY is the favourite form of contemporary sports book writing

ALMOST exactly a year ago Andrew Flintoff smote a maiden first-class hundred against Hampshire at Southampton

Riding on the wrong horse

The dozens of youngsters involved in this year's rain-hit NorTel tournament get back into action today when the new limited-over schedule of matches begins

Kingston Cricket Club won the Sandals Limited Overs cricket competition for the first time when they defeated St

I AM forced to lament

IT SEEMS clear that, following a meeting of the Test umpires panel in Surrey last week, the relationship between players and umpires, like a difficult marriage, has gone sour

The final of the Sandals all-island limited-over cricket competition takes place at Kaiser Sports Club, Discovery Bay, today with Kingston CC up against St

Police (170-6 dec and 117-2) beat Maple (113 and 172) by 8 wickets

For one reason or another, I've had to spend a few mornings recently at Kensington Oval

"The introduction of the National Grid panel of international umpires and referees by the ICC has raised the general standard of the game," says the former Sri Lankan captain Ranjan Madugalle who is one of the panel of referees along with his

THE World Cup final is almost a year away, but it looks as if it will be confirmed as a UKP 32 million sell-out by the end of this month

A PLAYING CONDITION which is being introduced to the regional scene for the first time during the Nortel limited-overs championship could prove to be challenging, according to one of the few West Indians of this generation who has played under the