Miscellaneous

The Board of Control for Cricket in Sri Lanka (BCCSL) received a blanket cover from the government to go ahead with their project of transforming the Galle Esplanade into an international Test venue

Reckless batting forced Barisal out of the 25th national cricket championship after they suffered a humiliating 165-run defeat at the hands of Khulna in the Satkhira zonal semifinal played at the Satkhira Stadium yesterday

Maldivian President Abdul Gayoom has invited Sri Lanka's cricketer Sanath Jayasuriya and his bride Sumudu, to spend their honeymoon in Male

MCC members will, as expected, have to pay for entry to Lord's for the first time in the club's history if they want to watch next year's World Cup games there

Thursday 7th May

Abu Fuard that mesmerising off spinner of the sixties and seventies who is back as vice president of the Cricket Board has been picked to visit South Africa and Australia and study how their cricket academies are functioning

Shane Warne, the most successful spin bowler in the history of Test cricket, has undergone surgery on his right shoulder and is expected to be out of competitive cricket for between six months and a year

Sri Lanka test cricket captain Arjuna Ranatunga lauded the Sri Lanka Schools Cricket Association for the major role it has played in developing and producing world class cricketers

CRICKET: A solid six-wicket partnership between Kerry Scott and Lincoln Granston powered champions Kingston College to a comfortable 262 for seven on yesterday's first day of the three-day Sunlight Cup finals against Jonathan Grant High at Melbourne

IN WHAT appears to be an unprecedented move, Intermediate powerhouses Dover have turned down their promotion to the Premier Zone for the 1998 Barbados Cricket Association (BCA) season

BARBADOS have been drawn in the same group as World Cup champions Sri Lanka, fellow West Indians Jamaica and home nation, Malaysia, in the Commonwealth Games' first cricket tournament in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in September

ALEC STEWART will bat no lower than four and keep wicket when he leads England into the first Test match against South Africa on June 4, writes Christopher Martin-Jenkins

THE shock news that England may not be travelling to Australia this winter to regain the Ashes of a burnt bail but the Ashes of Florence Rose Murphy's veil, will, all Englishmen hope, not dampen the sporting ardour of our team when they set out on

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Rajshahi, aided by a brilliant century from Nayan, stormed into the Thakurgaon Zone final of the 24th national cricket championship defeating Kurigram by 219 runs yesterday

ANOTHER vote on whether women should be admitted as members of MCC could take place as early as the autumn of this year

1998 marks the last season of the Benson & Hedges Cup; the domestic limited-overs competition that has been contested annually since 1972

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Faridpur, Kushtia and Dinajpur moved into the zonal semifinals of the 24th national cricket championship winning their respective matches in different venues across the country yesterday

At 10.30am on Tuesday 5th May the ECB announced the name of the next English cricket captain at a Lord's Press Conference