Miscellaneous

RAIN virtually wiped out the start of the New Conference in Scotland, just two games managing to start in section C, only one of which was completed when Arbroath stuttered to victory over Edinburgh Accies at Lochlands

Rain hits Scots' new dawn (28 April 1998)

IT is the traditional time of year, as the handful of huddled spectators at our county grounds are lashed by wind and rain, to reflect on the state of English cricket

England: No calypso with these capers (28 April 1998)

CRICKET: The West Indies Cricket Board's plan to introduce literacy tests as a pre-requisite for selection to territorial teams is being condemned by a number of people

T Becca: WIBC should stick to it (28 April 1998)

MIKE Atherton will relaunch his bid for a Test place against Warwickshire on Wednesday - with old adversary Brian Lara in the opposition

Lancashire: Atherton back to face Lara (27 April 1998)

JOHANNESBURG: Pakistan's twin tour of South Africa and Zimbabwe culminated in as calamitous a manner as it had started at the beginning of February

Qamar Ahmed: Causes of Pakistan's twin-tour failure (27 Apr 1998)

IT is early in the season for momentous decisions but two must be taken within the next week

BBC should pay the going rate for right to cover home Tests (27 April 1998)

Seven teams moved to the next round of the 16th national schools cricket championship winning their respective matches at different venues, reports UNB

Bangladesh news round up (27 April 1998)

THE rain which savaged the weekend's championship games could not prevent one cricket final from taking place at Lord's, for Radio 5 Live, the England Cricket Board's national club quiz, a pilot scheme taken with surprising seriousness by the game's

England: Quiz show has answer to the rain (27 April 1998)

DISAPPOINTING is perhaps the mildest word to describe our cricketers performance on the African safari

Samiul Hasan: The demoralising 90-day African safari (27 Apr 1998)

NATIONAL cricketer Daren Ganga slammed a superb unbeaten century (101 n.o.) to steer Sim's Central Sports to a first innings lead over the Defence Force at the end of the first day's play in the fifth round of matches in the Carib National League

Trinidad clubs: Ganga hits another 100 (27 April 1998)

CRICKET: The first major schoolboy title under Inter-Secondary Schools Sports Association run competitions for the 1997-98 season will be decided over today and the next two days when St

Jamaica schools and club news (27 April 1998)

Sunnydale School scored a 14-run victory over Rajdhani High School in one of the seven Dhaka zonal qualifying round matches of the 16th National School Championship at the Dhaka Stadium yesterday

Bangladesh: Sunnydale in next round (26 April 1998)

IT'S BEEN a brown season so far for the Defence Force

Trinidad: Moosai's grill Defence Force (26 April 1998)

'Murali' - bowling wizard of international fame (26 April 1998)

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KARACHI, April 25: Pakistan team coach Haroon Rasheed vowed to continue, saying he had contributed a lot to cricket

Haroon says, PCB alone can decide about him (26 Apr 1998)

CRICKET in England in 1998

P Roebuck: English season is already turning into a damp squib (26 April 1998)