Miscellaneous

(second place): no result v Glamorgan (Cardiff); beat Sussex (Hove) by 7 wkts; beat Ireland (Chelmsford) by 171 runs; lost to Middlesex (Chelmsford) by 4 wkts

BRAD Young has just three more games to try to take East Lancs into pole position before quitting the EW Cartons Lancashire League for an Australian A tour

IT HAS been killed off in the end by the acceptance that the counties play too much one-day cricket and by the growing power of medical correctness, but all connected with the Benson and Hedges Cup are still hoping for a grand finale at Lord's today

ASK the Essex captain, Paul Prichard, to assess the value of Ronnie Irani to the side and he will tell you that the big Lancastrian is as important as Stuart Law; that Irani has bowled better this season than ever before; that he has played some

The speech made by the British High Commissioner, David Tatham at the presentation of the Prince of Wales Trophy to Pradeep Hewage, the most promising schoolboy cricketer for 1997/98 at Westminster House on Wednesday

A HOME draw for Leicestershire in the quarter-finals of the NatWest Trophy has increased their hopes of achieving the grand slam of all four titles

SHAHID Nawaz's season has been simmering very nicely for some time - but it's about to reach boiling point

JASON Gallian will make an emotional double return to his cricketing roots over the next three weeks

COLNE skipper Gary Laycock knows his side are second favourites in a two-horse race at Bentgate tomorrow

Playing a cricket test after a rugby game this summer would not be in Lancaster Park's best interests, believes Canterbury Cricket's chief executive Tony Murdoch

The Victory Park Board hopes it will not have to rule on a possible cricket-rugby international clash at Lancaster Park in March

Biman Bangladesh Airlines became champions in a triangular national cricket tournament beating Republic of Singapore by 56 runs in the final at Kallang Cricket Stadium in Singapore Sunday last, says a press release

THE rain came, but it did not go away

PORT-OF-SPAIN: As rain wreaked havoc with the opening day of the 1998 Nortel youth cricket championship, Barbados made an unimpressive start to their practice match against newcomers Canada yesterday

Convener Ross Dykes and Rick Pickard have been reappointed to the New Zealand cricket selection panel for another two years, and have been joined by coach Steve Rixon

KARACHI, July 8: The chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), Khalid Mahmood, has ordered investigations into allegations that the Under-19 team picked by the selectors was tampered

NEIL Fairbrother is gunning for Lord's yet again

The newly prepared cricket turf of Pannipitiya Dharmapala Vidyalaya which costed Rs

Former Jamaica captain and West Indies limited-over representative Robert Haynes has been named coach of Jamaica's cricket team to the Commonwealth Games scheduled for Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, September 11 to 21

DESPITE the proposed autumn meeting, there is no indication the smaller clubs will be rushed into sweeping changes