Miscellaneous

LAHORE, Nov 12: Pakistan women cricket team coach Jodie Davis of Australia said on Wednesday that women cricketers in Pakistan face a lot of hardships and immediate steps are required to improve the standard of the game

Pakistan: Australian coach for women's team (13 Nov 1997)

This handsome volume, published in Toronto in 1895, was given to me twenty years ago by a friend who had acquired it in a second hand book shop in that city

Sixty Years of Canadian Cricket (Hall and McCulloch) - Review (13 Nov 1997)

Sri Lanka will celebrate their Independence next year with a triangular cricket tournament

Sri Lanka to celebrate Independence 3-nation tourney next year (13 Nov 1997)

Work commitments will keep former New Zealand cricket captain Lee Germon and spinner Mark Priest out of the Southern Conference cricket team for the Conference series which begins on Sunday

NZ: Germon and Priest to miss series (14 Nov 1997)

New Zealand Cricket's recent link with Clear Communications as the new men's team sponsor in place of long-time backer DB represents a significant change of positioning in the market

NZ Cricket's sponsor suits change of image (12 Nov 1997)

SUSSEX are likely to have been only temporarily thwarted yesterday in their attempt to sign Chris Adams, one of the best uncapped batsmen in England

England: Sussex held up in pursuit of Adams (12 Nov 1997)

CIC defeated ABN Amro Bank and Ceylon Business Appliances (CBA) in two Mercantile `H' Division cricket tournament matches played at the MCA grounds recently

Sri Lanka News Round-up (12 Nov 1997)

Compiled by Dinesh Weerawansa

Sri Lanka News Round-up (11 Nov 1997)

By GARTH WATTLEY SOME 28 players have been called up by the national selectors for trials in preparation for he 1998 regional first-class season

Trinidad & Tobago: Bodoe, Mason out trials (11 Nov 1997)

Paul Strang played a blinder for Old Hararians for whom he hit a century and claimed a hat-trick in their 63-run victory over Old Georgians in a Dunlop National First League cricket match at Old Boys on Sunday

Strang plays a blinder for old boys (11 Nov 1997)

With each passing day the cricket board bribery scandal throws out more stunning revelations and with more tapes to be released the best of the scandal is yet to surface

Sri Lanka; The best of the scandal is yet to surface (11 Nov 1997)