Miscellaneous

Dashing Sri Lanka opener Sanath Jayasuriya continues to head the latest CEAT International Cricketer of the Year rankings issued from Mumbai

Once upon a time people who played sports and were paid for doing so were treated with little respect in some societies

THE County Championship, much the most prized of British cricket's domestic competitions but hitherto only narrowly its most rewarding, is to have prize money commensurate with its status

CRICKET: Hosts Jamaica will hunt for their second Carib Cement Under-15 cricket title when the tournament bowls off today with three matches

CRICKET: Jamaica's cricketers, led by acting captain James Adams, leave the island this afternoon for Guyana where they will tackle the home team on Saturday in what could be the deciding match in the race for the President's Cup

Centurion (South Africa) - Most West Indians of humble beginnings are usually conscious of their west African origns: of the tortuous route of their ancestors on the slave ships 300 or more years ago

TEN of Surrey's staff of 19 have played Test matches, one-day internationals or both, and Alex Tudor, for long regarded as an England fast bowler in the making, has plentiful experience of international cricket at under-19 level

MARK TAYLOR will not play one-day cricket for Australia again and could lose the captaincy of the Test side next year, according to team coach Geoff Marsh

DARREN GOUGH has recovered from the hamstring injury that ruled him out of England's series against the West Indies and will be ready to start the season next week

With the recent turn of events in the Sri Lanka Cricket Board elections held last month, the Asian Cricket Council (ACC) has a new president, secretary and treasurer

REINFORCED by the return of their West Indian fast bowler, Courtney Walsh, Gloucestershire are looking forward to this campaign, having last year competed strongly for the championship before falling away badly in the final straight

WITH the new Scottish season two weeks away, the Western District Association have announced a major shake-up in their structure

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Quite contrary to conservative charitable thinking which seeks to be submissively accommodative, there are the impetuous impulsive, who are of the view, that South Africa was very lucky to have won the first cricket test and that, Sri Lanka at the

IT WILL take three years, Paul Prichard believes, for the 'new' Essex to fulfil their potential

CRICKET: Barbados' Under-15 cricket team, the Carib Cement Under-15 cricket champions, are scheduled to arrive here today along with teams from the Windward Islands, Leeward Islands, Guyana and Trinidad and Tobago for this year's tournament which

On Thursday, the Kenyan Cricket selection committee named Aasif Karim the Kenyan cricket captain for the Commonwealth games as well as the 1999 Cricket World Cup, and all tours

By Diwakara Mohotti - Kalutara group corr

IN less than a fortnight 17 first-class counties will enter the brave new world of Lord MacLaurin's reforms

Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) will send 20 cricketers to Australia to undergo training as part of its preparations for World Cup 1999