Miscellaneous

THE loss of Craig Wright and Gregor Maiden to international duty and Alastair Storie's retirement may be blamed for West of Scotland's surprise Saturday defeat at the hands of bottom club Perthshire in Conference B

Scottish Cricket: Rajput sends West to defeat (14 Jul 1998)

NATHAN Wood was the unlucky victim of a Lancashire batting reshuffle at Lytham today

Lancashire: Unlucky Wood makes way for Atherton (14 Jul 1998)

THE first brilliantly bright day of the tournament still brought not a ball of action in Trinidad

West Indies: Nortel Championship - Changes coming (14 Jul 1998)

One of Christchurch's oldest senior cricket clubs, Lancaster Park, has merged with the youngest, Woolston

New Zealand: Cricket clubs join forces (13 Jul 1998)

Need for change has been apparent for some time

M Parkinson: Need for change has been apparent for some time (13 Jul 1998)

THERE should, by now, be one less limited-overs competition in the first-class calendar, but there is not

M Nicholas: Ill-considered concept of a cup too many (13 Jul 1998)

THE 1998 Nortel Youth Cricket Championship seems almost certain to be converted into a one-day limited-overs tournament following the abandonment of yet another days play here yesterday

West Indies: Nortel Championship - Another washout (13 Jul 1998)

CMJ: England only bowlers away from blue skies (13 Jul 1998)

MORE rain and gloom

The retirement of determined opening batsman Darrin Murray will leave Canterbury without an established opener and potential captain next season

New Zealand: Murray calls it a day (12 Jul 1998)

IT IS hard to recall a worse display of bowling in a respectable Lord's final than Leicestershire managed yesterday

P Roebuck: Leicestershire stray from the straight and narrow (12 Jul 1998)

MARIS STELLA College, Negombo beat Prince of Wales by four wickets in the Schools Cricket Association under 17 division one second round game played yesterday at Negombo

Sri Lanka News Round-up (12 Jul 1998)

HATTON NATIONAL BANK (HNB) regained the Mercantile 'A' division cricket title, beating Access Group of Companies by 8 wickets in the final at the SSC grounds yesterday

Sri Lanka: Mercantile 'A' Division Final (12 Jul 1998)

Australians held sway on the first day of the Scarborough Festival as Tim Rice's International XI beat Yorkshire by five wickets with five balls to spare

England News Round-up (11 Jul 1998)

DISTRESSINGLY for the players involved, but not surprisingly, the weather took all the spoils on the final day of competition action in first round matches of the NorTel West Indies Under-19 cricket championships

West Indies: Nortel Championship - More distress (11 Jul 1998)

THE WAY the BCL have been performing of late, it wouldnt be too far-fetched to suggest that their Courts/Suzuki Division 1 match could be over in time for the Crop-Over youth fair

Barbados: Spartan Likely To Win Against BCL (11 Jul 1998)

A RECORD number of overseas teams 17 will participate in this years Sir Garfield Sobers International Schools Cricket Tournament which officially starts on Tuesday

Barbados: Seventeen Schools In Sir Garfield Tournament (11 Jul 1998)

The unbeaten Access Group 'A' team will meet the last year runners up Hatton National Bank 'A' in the Mercantile 'A' Division cricket tournament final at the SSC grounds, Maitland Place today, commencing at 9.30 a.m

Sri Lanka News Round-up (11 Jul 1998)

THE eyes of the football world will be on France tomorrow for the World Cup final

C Ellis: England Cricket Diary (11 Jul 1998)

THE impression from watching video footage of old matches in the Benson and Hedges Cup, which started with Leicestershire's success in 1972, is of a more mellow game

C Randall: Real swingers wore long hair when cup was forged (11 Jul 1998)