Miscellaneous

EARLY LEADERS Barbados start their third round PresidentÕs Cup cricket match against Guyana here today without four key players, but their manager is still quietly confident of maximum points against Carl HooperÕs team

Manager says Bajans can do it without quartet (22 Jan 1998)

WEST INDIES wicketkeeper David Williams and pacer Mervyn Dillon are back in the Trinidad and Tobago squad which starts a four-day President's Cup match against the Leeward Islands at the Queen's Park Oval today

Trinidad and Tobago lose opener Balliram (22 Jan 1998)

Lara: Will 'Sir Brian' rise? (22 Jan 1998)

Will 'Sir Brian' rise

KARACHI, Jan 21: Twenty-five cricketers will be awarded yearly contracts before a 15-member party leaves for South Africa on Jan 25, it was decided in a Council meeting on Wednesday

Pakistan: PCB to offer contracts to 25 players (22 Jan 1998)

GEOFFREY Boycott, the former Yorkshire and England opening batsman, was given a suspended prison sentence and fined £5,100 yesterday for beating up his lover in a French Riviera hotel

Boycott found guilty of hitting lover 20 times (21 Jan 1998)

YORKSHIRE yesterday agreed to give Headingley a chance to serve the county as a Test and first-class venue for the 21st century

England: Yorkshire give Leeds a chance (21 Jan 1998)

Jamaican team departs for Dominica: Kanhai.

Jamaican team departs for Dominica: Kanhai.. very confident. (21 Jan 1998)

Compiled by Dinesh Weerawansa

Sri Lanka News Round-up (21 Jan 1998)

Jamaica: Erskine to give up top post (21 Jan 1998)

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WHEN I bemoaned the fact recently that W G Grace was never knighted by his country, I little knew that he nearly became a lord

Grace worthy of high honour (20 Jan 1998)

THE marking of umpires by captains, a time-honoured but flawed system, is to be replaced by a less confrontational type of assessment this summer

England: Umpires given chance to impose authority (20 Jan 1998)

Compiled by Dinesh Weerawansa

Sri Lanka News Round-up (20 Jan 1998)

Jamaica's cricketers leave today at 10 a.m

Jamiaca: President's Cup squad flies out (20 Jan 1998)

WEST INDIES fast bowler Curtly Ambrose last night brushed aside a late CANA report which said he was about to retire from international cricket and would miss the upcoming Test and One-Day series against England unless regional officials got him to

Fast Bowler Ambrose Denies Retirement Talk (20 Jan 1998)