Miscellaneous

KARACHI, May 9: The Chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), Syed Zulfiqar Ali Shah Bokhari, has summoned a special meeting of the Executive Council on Wednesday (May 14) to consider the appeal submitted by Aamir Sohail against a two-year ban

The Sri Lanka Cricket Board is calling for right-arm leg-spinners under the age of 22 to be sent for training at the Australian Cricket Academy

KARACHI, May 8: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) will be summoning the Executive Council next week after Aamir Sohail submitted an appeal on Thursday against the two-year ban imposed on him last month

ISLAMABAD, May 8: Mr Mushahid Husain, Prime Minister's Adviser on Information and Sports, told the Senate on Thursday national all-rounder Aamir Sohail's case has been delinked from the betting charge

Compiled by Dinesh Weerawansa

DREW PARSONS, the Prestwick batsman, has been included in Scotland`s squad for their final Benson and Hedges group match against Nottinghamshire at Titwood on Monday

KARACHI, May 7: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) is not setting up a good example of discipline and instead wants to favour some selected people, former Chairman of Selectors, Hasib Ahsan, observed

KARACHI, May 6: The Indian women's cricket team is to visit this country for three one-dayers in the third week of May

MIKE GATTING must have the biggest workload in cricket with the three-pronged worry of captaining Middlesex, maintaining his own batting form and fulfilling his job as an England selector

KARACHI, May 6: The Chief Executive of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), Majid Khan, has denied speculations that pressure was mounting on him to reverse the two-year ban on Aamir Sohail

Compiled by Dinesh Weerawansa

LAHORE, May 5: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) officials held a meeting at the Qadhafi Stadium on Monday but did not announce any decision about the compromise formula suggested by the Adviser to the Prime Minister on Sports Syed Mushahid Hussain

PRASANNA JAYAWARDENE of St.Sebastian's College, Moratuwa was judged the outstanding schools under-17 cricketer at the award ceremony held at the Kularatne Hall,Ananda College yesterday

Youngsters in Rural SA undeterred by lack of facilities

Christopher Martin-Jenkins

COLOMBO, Sunday : Next year's Commonwealth Games cricket competition is now expected to be played on turf rather than artificial pitches, lifting the tournament to virtual World Cup standard

A fine seventh wicket partnership of 122 runs between Manjula Munasinghe (72) and Manoj Prasanga (54 not out) helped Union Assurance to beat Singer (Sri Lanka) Limited by 79 runs in their Mercantile `A' Division cricket match played at NCC grounds

Singer (Sri Lanka) Ltd

LAHORE, May 4: A high-level meeting to solve the problem of a two-year ban on Test cricketer Aamir Sohail was held at a local hotel on Sunday evening

INDIKA DE SARAM cracked a hectic 112 with eight sixes and six fours off 85 balls to help Nawaloka beat John Keells by 69 runs in a Mercantile `A' division cricket match at Bloomfield grounds Reid Avenue yesterday