Miscellaneous

AS RAIN fell at Old Trafford last Wednesday before Lancashire's NatWest match against Sussex, viewers were treated to Ian Botham, no doubt with the best intentions, firing away at county cricket as the cause of England's latest debacle and being

CMJ: Quality control should not mean meagre quantity (29 Jun 1998)

LONDON: When it functioned as an outcrop of the MCC, the International Cricket Conference, as it was called then moved at a snails pace

Qamar Ahmed: ICC's 'eventful' meeting virtually a non-event (29 Jun 1998)

A BLOKE came up to me in a restaurant and said: "How dare you hand cricket to Rupert Murdoch?" He was clearly agitated by the news that on the recommendation of an advisory group of which I was a member, the Government had decided to allow all

M Parkinson: Sky's the limit for cricket (29 Jun 1998)

Bermuda U-16 will tour Canada during 1-9 August, 1998

Bermuda U-16 to tour Canada (29 Jun 1998)

THE Bedser twins are 80 next Saturday but they would not want me to make a fuss about it

A Lewis: A singular approach in double vision (28 Jun 1998)

Providing they haven't been bought over by some American sports franchise in the interim and transformed into air-conditioned super-domes for televised basketball, gridiron and baseball, Kensington, Queen's Park, Sabina and the other cricket grounds

T Cozier: World Cup Hopes And Impressions (28 Jun 1998)

COVERAGE of all six home Tests each summer will remain live on BBC television, provided the BBC raise their bid for future rights to something close to what the England and Wales Cricket Board could receive from satellite stations

P Newman: Live Test coverage to stay with BBC (28 Jun 1998)

An action-packed period of post-tea drama left Big B Spartan with a sniff of an unlikely victory, which was eventually averted by resolute batting from ESA Field Pickwick's middle and lower order

Barbados: Club Cricket Round-up (28 Jun 1998)

DARREN Gough's attempts to prove his fitness ahead of Thursday's third Test were frustrated yesterday as heavy rain washed out the first day of Yorkshire's three-day match against Cambridge University at Headingley

England Cricket Focus (28 Jun 1998)

SCOTLAND, still celebrating their surprise victory over Worcestershire in the NatWest Trophy last Wednesday, have named a 13-man squad for the defence of their Triple Crown title next week

Scottish Cricket: Brinkley returns for Triple Crown (27 Jun 1998)

DOWNPATRICK are determined that their 150th anniversary celebrations will not be marred by the fire which destroyed their clubhouse last week

England Cricket Diary (27 Jun 1998)

Darren Gough returns to Yorkshire's side for the three-day game against Cambridge University at Headingley today

England News Round-up (27 Jun 1998)

THIS has not been a good week for the BBC: Test match cricket looks like disappearing from their screens, the BBC's head of sport, Jonathan Martin, is taking an early bath and, to cap it all, BBC television prefer Wimbledon and Prime Minister's

P Fox: Innings closed but not all doom and gloom (27 Jun 1998)

Rarely do CHIC Schools South command the spotlight

Barabados: Schools South near first win in 5 years (27 Jun 1998)

THE decision by Chris Smith, the Culture Secretary, to allow Sky to bid for all the six cricket Tests in an English summer was the result of intervention by Downing Street , writes Mihir Bose

M Bose: How No 10 went in to bat for the TV rethink that suited cricket (27 Jun 1998)

THIS week's decision by Chris Smith, the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, to allow all television companies to operate on a level playing field when bidding for the rights to Test Cricket is more than just good news

M Fleming: Game to profit from a level playing field (27 Jun 1998)