Miscellaneous

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

Lancashire League: Young prepared to gamble (11 Jul 1998)

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

CMJ: Leicestershire aim to bow out the very same way they came in (11 Jul 1998)

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

G Dean: Irani in punishing route to full fitness (11 Jul 1998)

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

Pradeep Hewage has a bright future (11 Jul 1998)

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

NatWest Trophy: Luck of the draw for Leicester (10 Jul 1998)

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

Ribblesdale League: Nawaz turns up heat (10 Jul 1998)

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

Jason's emotional return (10 Jul 1998)

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

Lancashire League: Worsley Cup - Laycock aims to upset champs (10 Jul 1998)

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

New Zealand: Dual sports jeopardise park's status (10 Jul 1998)

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

New Zealand: Rugby, cricket dates on collision course (9 Jul 1998)

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

Airlines' cricket - Biman become champions (9 Jul 1998)

THE rain came, but it did not go away

West Indies: Nortel Championship - Rains have first say (9 Jul 1998)

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

West Indies: Nortel Championship - Opening Lapse (9 Jul 1998)

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

New Zealand: Rixon joins selection panel (9 Jul 1998)

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

PCB chairman orders probe into allegations (9 Jul 1998)

NEIL Fairbrother is gunning for Lord's yet again

Lancashire: Neil aims for Lord's final (9 Jul 1998)

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

Sri Lanka News Round-up (9 Jul 1998)

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

Jamaica: Robert Haynes appointed coach to Malaysia (9 Jul 1998)