Miscellaneous

CHRIS Adams and Wasim Khan make their Sussex debuts in the Parks today, when the visitors field the team who will start their championship season against Lancashire on Friday

Andrew Hayhurst, the Director of Cricket in Derbyshire, has been registered as a player with Alvaston and Boulton in the Derbyshire County League, to re-establish a connection with league cricket in the North West which stretches back to the

CRICKET: Durable Forrest hit an unbeaten 81 to pilot Jamaica to their first win in the Carib Cement Under-15 cricket tournament at Lucas yesterday

SHANE WARNE could need shoulder surgery and is doubtful for the Sharjah limited-overs tournament starting this week

THE prototype of the world's first flying cricket pitch cover is currently lurking in a field in Cheshire

IN a brave conversion to modernity, Middlesex have gone Australian for the 1998 season

Two young cricketers Ehsanul Haq and Manjurul Islam will take part in a nearly two-month long coaching stint at Plascom Cricket Academy in South Africa

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LANCASHIRE'S one-day friendly against Derbyshire at Old Trafford on Tuesday has been called off

A good knock of 58 with 5 fours and 1 five by Sameer Samath guided Trinity College to a six-wicket win over the visiting Magpies Sports Club from United Kingdom in a limited-over cricket match played at the Asgiriya Stadium on Wednesday

ADAM Hollioake is facing his first crisis, and with him England's prospects for the World Cup in 13 months' time

KINGSTON The Windward Islands scored an upset victory over defending champions Barbados in the second round of the 1998 Carib Cement West Indies Under-15 cricket yesterday

AFTER touring the West Indies last winter, India's captain (as he then was) Sachin Tendulkar was asked what he thought was the proper rest period after such a tour: "Twenty-one days," he replied

On the recommendation of the tournament committee, the Sri Lanka Cricket Board's executive committee decided that Moors SC will play Bloomfield in the second semi-final of the division I (Segment 'A') Sara trophy tournament

BRIAN LARA, fresh from leading the West Indies to a convincing series win over England, will be hoping to end the regional President's Cup cricket tournament on a high note

A recent visit to Australia gave me the opportunity of catching up with an old cricketing adversary, none other than the legendary Keith Miller

THERE are few cricket pitches where you can walk out to the middle, hit a boundary and simultaneously set yourself up for a birdie

NIXON McLEAN, the West Indies fast bowler, yesterday agreed a one-year contract as Hampshire's overseas player for the forthcoming season in a deal arranged by Malcolm Marshall

ONLY the most accomplished side could win seven trophies in five years

Chittagong Club finished runners-up in the six-overs International Bangkok Six's cricket, which concluded in the Thai capital on Sunday