Miscellaneous

CRICKET: Three centuries and a six-wicket haul highlighted yesterday's opening day of the two-day Sunlight Cup semi-finals at St

WEST Indies and Trinidad and Tobago and skipper Brian Lara was once again the darling of the English media yesterday

THE Brian Lara show moved back into town yesterday, and the West Indian's return was all the more poignant in that Warwickshire's first championship opponents today are Durham at Edgbaston

CRICKET: Mandeville: Leg Spinner Arden Frew yesterday spun Jamaica back into contention for at least the runners-up spot in the Carib Cement Under-15 cricket tournament as the host defeated Leeward Island by 89 runs at Alpart in St

The Sri Lanka Cricket Board in its endeavour to fall in line with the International Cricket Council (ICC) has formed a cricket committee comprising past Sri Lanka cricketers to advise them on cricket matters

Bangladesh Cri-cket Board (BCB) has up taken several ambitious programmes for the nex three years including attaining "Test status"

CRICKET: Defending champions Kingston College will be on the hunt for their 15th title when they oppose Waterford Comprehensive today in their Sunlight Cup two-day semi-final at Melbourne Park

IT is still about a week away

CARL Hooper's multi-faceted part in England's Caribbean downfall will have been greeted with a certain parochial satisfaction in Kent

THE OFFICIALS of the Barbados cricket team want the regional authorities to review the number of lengthy breaks during the first-class championship

Former West Indies fast bowler Winston Davis has gone to England to begin his rehabilitation

SHANE Warne, the Australian leg-spinner, has decided to bowl on for another two weeks even though he needs surgery on a shoulder injury

THE February edition of White Rose, Yorkshire's magazine, was especially poignant because the cover pictures were devoted to David Bairstow, the county's much respected former wicketkeeper, who was found dead at his home during the winter

THE wanderings of Chris Lewis have come full circle with his return to Leicestershire, the club where he began his first-class career in 1987 as a 19-year-old

TOM Moody is probably the busiest of the all-year-round cricketers as captain of Worcestershire and Western Australia, as well as being a member of his country's one-day side

CRICKET: Jamaica and West Indies fast bowler Franklyn Rose is once again the focus of attention and the subject of discussions around the country

KARACHI, April 14: The International Cricket Council (ICC) is set to take over the assignment of preparing international itineraries of teams in an effort to provide even chance to all the nine Tests and two one-day playing countries

The Lancashire Cricket League has a singular history

CRICKET: Unless Wes Hall, chairman of the West Indies selection committee, changes his mind he will not be available next month for another term on the committee, and unless the West Indies Cricket Board has second thoughts the other two members of

Gary O'Neil, a visually impaired cricketer from Chorley in Lancashire, is currently organising Festival '98, a tournament that will bring together for the first time eight national visually impaired cricket clubs