Miscellaneous

Chorley have appointed Australian strike bowler Tim Menting as their professional for the rest of the season

Lancashire League News (26 Jun 1998)

THE Government's decision to allow all television companies to bid for coverage of home Test matches is good news for the game and not necessarily bad news for the majority of viewers

CMJ: Pace steps up as more get chance to bowl out BBC (26 Jun 1998)

Football and rugby were given extra protection for live television coverage yesterday in a revised list of sporting "Crown Jewels", from which England cricket Test matches have been excluded

J Copley: TV's crown jewels gain soccer and rugby finals (26 Jun 1998)

Shahid Aslam has been the driving force behind Heriot's remarkable start to the season in which they have won all five Conference A games

Scottish Cricket: All-rounder Shahid shines for Heriot's (26 Jun 1998)

Andy Holroyd's Ribblesdale League record haul of catches behind the stumps is helping him catch up for lost time after getting hitched Down Under

Ribblesdale League: Holroyd makes up for lost time (26 Jun 1998)

Ed Giddins, sacked by Sussex after failing a drugs test two years ago, plays against his old team-mates in a specially arranged benefit match for Peter Moores at Hove on July 6

England News Roundup (25 Jun 1998)

New Zealand Cricket's chief executive Chris Doig goes back to the drawing board with his pet project, the world test cricket championship, but believes progress is being made

New Zealand: Doig goes back to drawing board (25 Jun 1998)

THE Inter-League clash between the Lancashire League and the Central Lancashire League is delicately poised as play resumes at Middleton Cricket Club tonight (6.30pm)

Lacashire Inter-league: Lancs v Central Lancs (25 Jun 1998)

The second semi-final of the 1998 Carib Cement All-Age and Primary schools cricket competition will be played at Melbourne Oval today

Jamaica: Carib Cement semis (25 Jun 1998)

Kerry Packer maintained their unbeaten run in the Pepsi Chickland night windball league when they whipped Arena Utd by nine wickets at Chickland Village over the weekend

Trinidad: Kerry Packer boys still unbeaten in Chickland (24 Jun 1998)

24-Jun-1998

K Graham: Scotland count on reserve strength (24 Jun 1998)

WITH seven players unavailable through work commitments or injury, Scotland's selectors have had to dig into their reserves for today's NatWest Trophy meeting with Worcestershire at Raeburn Place, Edinburgh

24-Jun-1998

Lancashire handed double boost (24 Jun 1998)

Neil Fairbrother and Ian Austin returned to give Lancashire a double boost ahead of today's NatWest Trophy first round tie against Sussex at Old Trafford

24-Jun-1998

Tendulkar wins Coopers & Lybrand Award/CricInfo Survey

In a press release today, Coopers & Lybrand announced that Sachin Tendulkar of India has won the Coopers & Lybrand award as the International Test player of the year

23-Jun-1998

ICC Trophy dates announced (23 Jun 1998)

The West Indies was chosen as venue of the ninth World Cup Cricket Tournament to be organised in the year 2007

23-Jun-1998

Lancashire: Flintoff gives Selectors a nudge (22 Jun 1998)

DOES English cricket have the guts to give Andy Flintoff his Test debut at Old Trafford in a fortnight

Sri Lanka's ailing fast bowling sector got a shot in the arm when it was learnt that promising young left-arm fast bowler Nuwan Zoysa had undergone a successful knee operation in Melbourne

S Thawfeeq: Nuwan Zoysa's operation a success (22 Jun 1998)

SUPPORTING England is not an exercise which involves vast amounts of expectation, which probably explains the outbreak of mass delirium when a toe-ended poke for two by Angus Fraser obliged South Africa to bat for a second time

M Johnson: World leaders in a long line of top-class dissenters (22 Jun 1998)

Various instances are excluded because of the bowler's compliance

Expensive overs in First-class Cricket (22 June 1998)