Miscellaneous

HOVERING round the boundary at Canterbury during next week`s important skirmish between Kent and Gloucestershire will be a bobble- hatted figure with a video camera and divided loyalties

CAPTAIN Mark Griffin has revealed the key to Haslingden's Lancashire League championship drive - amateur power

JACK RUSSELL for England is the cry - not from the predictable quarter of Gloucestershire, but from the Isle of Wight

Michael Owen Smith talks to national coach Bob Woolmer about prospects for a summer that includes away test series against Australia and Pakistan, arguably the two strongest sides in the world

Wattala Anthonians beat Gampaha C.C

World champions Sri Lanka have been invited to take part in a one day triangular series to be played in England next summer

THE condemned man was eating a hearty breakfast

THE Zone Six Cricket tournament which was won by South Africa last weekend will cease to be Africa's prime crickaet tournament as it is now being replaced by the annual Africa Cup Competition

Lanka Cavaliers led by Bandula Warnapura, Sri Lanka's first Test Captain, including several former national players travelled to Anuradhapura recently to launch their Outstation Cricket Program which is the first of 12 such programs which will follow

KARACHI, Aug 29: Shahid Khan Afridi, the young Test all-rounder was presented with a gold medal by the Khyber Cultural Society Khyber Agency in a colourful ceremony held at a local hotel, Peshawar, according to a message received over here

Deposed New Zealand cricket captain Lee Germon is available for Conference Cricket as he is still on contract to NZC

CONTRACT rebel Jason Gallian was today facing a dual rap from Lancashire and Lord's

EAST Lancs skipper Mark Lomas knows it's all or nothing as the title race reaches boiling point in the EW Cartons Lancashire League

Christopher Martin-Jenkins

Compiled by Dinesh Weerawansa

KARACHI, Aug 27: The prize distribution ceremony of the Seventh Hinopak Trophy Inter-Firm cricket tournament, was held on Wednesday evening at a local hotel

Graveney, the chairman of selectors, revealed that he knew Atherton`s whereabouts in London, but the player had not yet been in contact

THERE is one glaring omission in the new development plans at Lancashire County Cricket Club - a members' laundry

LAHORE, Aug 27: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman Syed Zulifqar Ali Shah Bukhari has said that infra-structure was very necessary to develop the game in the country

SRI LANKA`S recent staggering achievement in scoring 952 for six against India has brought joy to the hearts of all those who enjoy mind-boggling records