Miscellaneous

MCC members are up in arms over news they will have to pay to watch next year's World Cup final at Lord's and an angry response is expected at the club's annual meeting next month

Chairman of the Cricket Committee of Dhaka Metropolitan (CCDM) rejected the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) proposal to introduce 80-overs-a-side matches in the Premier Division cricket league

The Sri Lanka women's cricket team were in line for a comfortable victory after dominating the third day's play in their first test match against the touring Pakistan cricket team continued at the Colts grounds, Havelock Park yesterday

THE battle for zonal youth supremacy will resmue today as the penultimate round of matches in the Power Gen inter-zone Under-19 cricket series gets under way at three venues throughout the country

AH, the sights and sounds and smells of spring, the beginning of the cricket season

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THE season has duly begun with a return to winter

Fazal Mahmood, one of the giants of Pakistan cricket whose rhythmic bowling action and leg-cutters could shake and whisk away rival batting lines in his playing days, is usually reticent

An unbeaten 97-run third wicket partnership between skipper Minhazul Abedin and wicketkeeper Khaled Masood enabled co-holders Acme Laboratories to retain the fourth Office cricket league title with an easy eight-wicket victory over Partex Group at

Two fine bowling efforts by pacewomen Chamani Seneviratne (5 for 31) and Rasanjalee Silva (4 for 29) put the Sri Lanka Women's cricket in a strong position against the Pakistan women's team on the second day of the first Test played at the Colts

Favourites Acme Laboratories are closing in on the fourth Office cricket league title at the close of first day's play against Partex Group at the Dhaka Stadium yesterday

QUEEN'S Park Cricket Club's climb to the top of the Carib National League has been forged by their youth brigade

THE THREAT of "timing out" batsmen has been issued to all counties by the England Cricket Board to reduce time-wasting in one-day cricket this summer, and umpires have been armed with stop-watches to enforce a new regulation

A National Development Committee (NDC) with Sri Lanka Cricket Board president Thilanga Sumathipala as chairman has been formed to improve the standard of the game around the country

Defending Sara Trophy champions Bloomfield go out strong favourites to qualify for the final next weekend, when they confront Moors SC in the division one (Segment 'A') second semi-final at the SSC grounds beginning today

CRICKET: The regional Under 15 cricket tournament sponsored by Caribbean Cement Company enters its final round tomorrow and those fans who have not yet seen the young players in action should take the opportunity to do so

WARWICKSHIRE and Kent look the two teams with most reason for confidence as the 1998 Britannic Assurance County Championship begins this morning in weather of classic and appropriate uncertainty

THE opening of the new season will be very much a "good news-bad news" scenario for bowlers in the North-East

DURING the past 10 years three teams have won the County Championship in successive seasons, and Matthew Maynard believes his squad - despite Hugh Morris' retirement and coach Duncan Fletcher's decision to take a year's rest from cricket - is good

A new champion will be crowned at the end of this year's Mt Do'r Limited overs competition