Miscellaneous

Sri Lanka's Minister of Commerce and Trade Kingsley Wickremeratne has been invited as Chief Guest to the first ever dinner held in the Palace of Westminster in honour of Sri Lankan Cricket

Sri Lanka: Kingsley chief guest at House of Commons cricket dinner (24 Sep 1997)

GRAEME HICK has agreed to play for Auckland in New Zealand`s provincial one-day competition during January

Charles Randall: Hick to bolster Auckland (24 September 1997)

LAHORE, Sept 23: The Pakistan Cricket Board on Monday announced the names of umpires, TV umpires, reserve umpires and scorers to supervize matches during the golden jubilee cricket season from Sept 28 to Dec 6

Pakistan: Umpires, scorers named for jubilee cricket (24 Sep 1997)

Compiled by Dinesh Weerawansa

Sri Lanka news round-up (23 Sep 1997)

THERE are no surprises on the Trinidad and Tobago squad of 14, released yesterday by the Trinidad and Tobago Cricket Board of Control, to participate in the inaugural Red Stripe Bowl limited-overs Championships in Jamaica and Guyana from next week

West Indies, Red Stripe: No surprises in T&T team (23 Sep 1997)

MARK Ramprakash was doing his best to look composed at Lord`s yesterday as he received a cheque for -L10,000

Clive Ellis: Delight for Ramprakash (23 Sep 1997)

KARACHI, Sept 22: Test discard Aamir Sohail may be pulled out from the sixes team and instead be included in the team for the one-day series against India

Samiul Hasan: Sohail may be pulled out from HK sixes team (23 Sep 1997)

KARACHI, Sept 22: The chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), Syed Zulfiqar Ali Shah Bokhari, called on President Farooq Ahmad Khan Leghari in Islamabad on Saturday

Pakistan: Cricket Board chairman meets Leghari (23 Sep 1997)

Christopher Martin-Jenkins

CMJ: Board prepare to enter the lists over new television deal (23 Sep 1997)

South African all-rounder Jacques Kallis may have missed the national team's 15-day training camp, but his preparation for the Pakistan tour has probably been superior to that of the rest of the squad

Kallis gets in early against the Pakistanis (22 Sep 1997)

DAV Whatmore will meet with Geoff Ogden, chairman of Lancashire's Cricket Committee, this week to compile the annual report of a disappointing season and start the preparations for 1998

Lancashire: Whatmore's season of hard knocks (22 Sep 1997)

THE national cricket team for next month's inaugural Red Stripe Bowl limited-overs Championships was selected yesterday but names will not be released until today

Shammi Kowlessar: Trinidad & Tobago's 'Bowl' squad to be named today (22 Sep 1997)

Christopher Martin-Jenkins

CMJ: Maynard seizes the moment for maximum effect (22 September 1997)

JUST four months after England had completed their engagements in Pakistan the latter paid a return visit to their country in the season of 1962

Latif Jafri: 50 years of Pakistan cricket- part 5 (22 Sep 1997)