Miscellaneous

THE day-to-day routine of doing absolutely nothing is starting to frustrate a Barbados team which came here a week ago seeking to capture their first Nortel youth cricket title in seven years

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

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

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

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

Need for change has been apparent for some time

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

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

MORE rain and gloom

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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