Miscellaneous

LAST month in this column I described Aug 5, the launch date of the England and Wales Cricket Board`s blueprint for cricket, as D-Day

LAHORE, Aug 22; Approval of a 14-member Pakistan team for thesecond Sahara Cup cricket series against India in Toronto will be given on Saturday

EDENFIELD can play a major part in the destiny of the Vaux Ribblesdale League

RUDRA Singh carries the weight of Haslingden's title expectations on his shoulders in a crucial EW Cartons Lancashire League weekend

A tidy spell of bowling from South African one day international left-arm spinner Nicky Boje did the trick for the Plascon Academy side when they beat the touring New Zealand Academy by 27 runs in a limited-overs outing at centurion park yesterday

KARACHI, Aug 21: The team for the Sahara Cup will be discussed by the selectors on Friday, informed sources said

The United Cricket Board will budget more than R10-million ($2.1 mil) for youth and development in 1997/8, a substantial increase from the R7-million set aside for this purpose last season

ON WHAT appeared at first to be a good Oval pitch, though the suspicion of surface dampness rather tarnished the idea, the present quality of English batting in general received a great humiliation

The margin between the top sides narrowed again after Highway's defeat by Kenilworth Wardens and Bedworth's two wicket win over Hampton-in-Arden

BOB Bennett is stepping down as Lancashire chairman because of the demands of his position as head of the England man- agement committee

KARACHI, Aug 21: Former chairman of selectors and a stylist Test batsman of yore, Waqar Hasan, has been appointed Treasurer of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), sources in Islamabad said on Thursday

THERE is a sub-plot to the final Test of the summer, starting at the Oval this morning, but it needs to be emphasised that the game is an event in itself

KARACHI, Aug 20: The three-member national selection committee has not included Aamir Sohail in its tentative 14-member list for the Sahara Cup, investigations reveal

KARACHI, Aug 20: "It is my considered opinion that we have a base of only 7,000 cricketers in the country that are playing the game at club level on a regular basis and which forms the grassroot for selection in the National squad," stated Majid Khan

BOB BENNETT is stepping down as Lancashire Chairman

Sri Lanka's Sanath Jayasuriya has gone straight in at number one in the WCM Saffery Champness World Rankings for batting

All but one of Canterbury's Shell Cup one-day cricket matches will be played under lights at Lancaster Park this season

LONDON, Aug 20: The Pakistan 'A' team returns home on Thursday after their 54-day tour of England

ROBERT CROFT was left out of England`s Test team a few hours before he attended an ECB disciplinary hearing in Bristol yesterday evening - two saddening events for the Welshman but ones which were not connected

Time is not far when Pakistan and India will have more frequent visits across the border