Miscellaneous

Unfancied Comilla led by veteran all-rounder Poplu romped into the quarterfinals when they handed Dhaka University a 17-run defeat in the 24th national cricket championship at the Sylhet Stadium yesterday

No Trini test

The West Indies Cricket Board's two-day annual general meeting opens at the Coyaba Hotel in Grenada today with the election of president and vice president as the main items on the agenda

Windball Cricketers want eye from W.I.C.B

The annual general meeting of the International Cricket Council (ICC) will be held at its Lord's headquarters from June 10 to 15

A BRILLIANT half-century from Clico Preysal's Amarnath Basdeo (57) and a whirlwind knock of 45 from Randy Bachan failed to save their team from a 10-run defeat by Laparkan Moosai in the All Sport Savannah cricket quarterfinal match at the Queen's

The England cricket team will visit Pakistan twice this summer but only for warm-up games

Australia's tour of Pakistan this summer will be divided into two legs with the Tests to be played in the first half and one-day internationals in the second half

SOME $100 000 from Courts, a $47 000 Suzuki Baleno car from Simpson Motors

A MERGER between the Lancashire League and Central Lancashire League is looking a distinct possibility in the near future, writes PETER WHITE

On Monday evening in the congenial elegance of the ballroom of the Hotel Lanka Oberoi amidst a gathering of Sri Lankan cricketers members of the Cricket Board, officials of 'Singer', the sponsors and other invitees, the schools' (7) cricket captains

Defending champions Padmore defeated Clifton by 55 runs to retain their Carib Cement All-Age cricket title for the parish of St

LANCASHIRE coach Dav Whatmore today shrugged off Monday's Axa League setback at Essex as his side squared up to Surrey at The Oval

The 1998 Sandals all-island limited over cricket competition got off to a disappointing start on Saturday

Amidst the encircling gloom in the wake of our cricket debacle at the hands of the South Africans - The appointment of Roy Dias as coach, is indeed refreshingly heartening and reassuring in the main

WARWICKSHIRE are to dig up four pitches after further criticism of playing surfaces at Edgbaston

THE tall man with metal-rimmed glasses and bushy moustache, patiently tapping at a grey lap-top computer on a table every match day, has helped Middlesex metamorphose from last year's weakest limited-overs side into one of the strongest

The 17-member Bangladesh A team, led by former national captain Faruque Ahmed, will fly to Singapore this morning to play a three-match limited-over series against the Singapore national team which begins tomorrow

Despite seeking a third national secondary school girls cricket championship later this year, Timaru Girls' High School has its toughest games within Canterbury

FORMER Australian Test batsman Dean Jones announced his retirement from cricket yesterday