Miscellaneous

CRICKET: Former Jamaica and West Indies opening batsman Basil Williams is the new chairman of the Jamaica cricket selection committee

Scholastica found their way into the semifinals of the 16th national schools cricket Dhaka zonal qualifying round with a convincing seven-wicket win over Pallabi M I Model in their second phase clash at the City Club ground in Mirpur yesterday

THERE WILL be no prize money for the 1998 Barbados Cricket Association's (BCA) domestic competitions

THESE are early days but already several clubs have put down markers in the struggle to achieve high placings for next season's three divisional National League

Daily News Sri Lanka's cricketing interests in the United Kingdom will in future be handled by a committee headed by former Sri Lanka under 19 and Royal captain Asitha Jayaweera

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CHAIRMAN of Barbados cricket selectors Charlie Griffith said he was not part of the panel which selected the squad for September's Commonwealth Games in Malaysia

WEST of Scotland's young off-spinner Gregor Maiden will make his debut for Scotland at Lord's next week in the annual two-day fixture against MCC

ALEC STEWART has joined the long list of England captains to take the reins of a losing side

BCCSL to lose 3m US $

Rajshahi moved into the final round of the 24th national cricket championship with a comprehensive 98-run win over Dinajpur in the Thakurgaon zonal final concluded on Tuesday at the Thakurgaon Stadium

NOBODY could be more upbeat about the new season than Michael Atherton, whose campaign to guarantee himself a place in England's Test team against South Africa begins in earnest with Lancashire's championship match at Canterbury today

LORD MacLAURIN struck a note of strictly qualified optimism in presenting the first annual report of the England and Wales Cricket Board to some 100 delegates of 38 county clubs at Edgbaston yesterday

WHEN he begins his most difficult Test series mission down in South Africa in November, West Indies captain Brian Lara will at least have the reassurance of some positive reinforcements

CRICKET: The battle for the Spalding Cup opens at Melbourne Oval today with Sunlight Cup champions Kingston College taking on Headley Cup winners Holmwood Technical in what promises to be a closely contested affair

GRANGE made a decisive move in Conference A by winning both their weekend games and establishing themselves at the top of the table, defeating West Lothian at home on Saturday and earning a comprehensive victory over Watsonians on Sunday

DAVID BYAS, the Yorkshire captain, yesterday warned his side against complacency after they were installed as the new 3-1 favourites for the Benson and Hedges Cup by bookmakers William Hill

MIKE Watkinson staked a strong claim for a Lancashire Championship recall with a superb all-round performance for the second team at Old Trafford yesterday

South African grass groots cricket Sunday received a major sponsorship boost when Bakers doubled their sponsorship committment for R5-millione to R10-miilion over the next three years

THE first signs of a new militancy on the part of the Professional Cricketers' Association emerged yesterday from a special meeting at Edgbaston attended by 210 of the 400 current players