Miscellaneous

LAST YEAR's runners-up, Sims Central Sports got it right the second time around when they whipped Moosai Sports by 16 runs in a rain-affected Carib Sunday League cricket final at the Queen's Park Oval yesterday

Badulla District knock-out cricket tournament finals, organised by the Badulla District Cricket Association will be played on June 7 at the Badulla Esplanade

The Pakistan Cricket Board's probe committee investigating betting and match-fixing will examine former managers who had been associated with the national team in the last four to five years

Mixed Bag For Courts/Suzuki Division 1 Cricket Competition

THERE WAS an atmosphere of excitement at the Garrison Savannah on Thursday as the eighth annual West Indies Windball Cricket Championships got under way

IF CHRIS Evans was looking for someone to fill his 'Freak or Unique?' slot on TFI Friday then Ian Harvey is a valid candidate, writes ANDY NEILD

A WIN over local rivals Enfield tomorrow would be the perfect way for Steve Juliff to kick-start his reign as Accrington captain

THE Harvey brothers go head-to-head tomorrow when Padiham and Earby clash in the Ramsbottom Cup

SCOTLAND'S loss could be Ayr's gain as Andy Goram waits for the dust to settle following his defection from the World Cup football squad in the United States

Punjab University retained the All-Pakistan Inter-University Cricket Championship title when they trounced University of Karachi by a comprehensive margin of nine wickets on the penultimate day of the four-day final at the National Stadium here on

IF OUR Benson and Hedges quarter-final at Leicester had been a contest of a different nature it would have been stopped

CHRIS ADAMS, Sussex's captain, said before his appearance for England in the recent one-day series: "Everything seems to be happening for me on and off the field." Too right, because a subsequent broken little finger and a muscle strain may force him

WASIM Akram is fighting to be fit for Lancashire's next Championship Challenge

Inzamam-ul-Haq, Moin Khan and Basit Ali also joined the national senior cricket camp on second day on Thursday

First ever Sri Lanka Day in Essex during world champions' UK tour

Clash with Super 12 feared

Faruque Ahmed celebrated his recall to any national selection with a brilliant unbeaten half-century as Bangladesh A opened their three-match one-day series against hosts Singapore with a huge nine-wicket win at the Kallayang ground yesterday

THERE are lies, damned lies and statistics - but, in the case of Settle's new professional Surendra Bhave, the figures certainly don't lie

Sri Lanka's willy off-spinner Ruwan Kalpage and spinning sensation Muttiah Muralidharan combined effectively with penetrative bowling spells to guide Janashakthi Insurance to a six wicket victory over Aitken Spence Group in a Mercantile 'B' Division

JOE Scuderi could have been forgiven a hint of nostalgia when the Jennings Worsley Cup draw not only handed his new club Colne a home derby - but also meant he was to face his old Nelson team-mates for the first time since his return to the