Miscellaneous

Bronwyn Calver has been described as "The best female bowler in the country at the moment." Her front on inner swing bowling, with the occasional leg cutter, off cutter or slower ball (but no off cutters as yet) have led to best international figures

ISLAMABAD, Jan 26: Pakistan`s much-acclaimed World Series victory in Melbourne must have come as a big sigh of relief not only for skipper Wasim Akram but also for the six month`s old selection committee

The Gavin Larsen Testimonial Match promises to be one for the record books

KARACHI, Jan 24: Pakistan cricket manager Mushtaq Mohammad has reservations if leading players will be available for May`s tour of India

KARACHI, Jan 22: A happy Chairman of Selectors, Salim Altaf, admitted that the team selection for the coming assignments will now be a more ticklish job

THERE was rarely a dull moment while the now deposed chief executive of the Australian Cricket Board, Graham Halbish, was in office

KARACHI, Jan 21: Wicketkeeper Moin Khan, third in cricket ratings, is the quickest Pakistan player with the gloves to complete 100 victims behind the wickets

World Cup champion Sri Lanka`s new cricket coach Bruce Yardley believes that he could make the country the `Best Test Playing Nation` by the year 2000

KENT have lost their coach, Daryl Foster, who has resigned after five years with the county to take up a post at the University of Western Australia in Perth

With a surfeit of cricket to follow for the Sri Lanka `A` and under 19 teams during the year, the Sri Lanka Cricket Board`s ExCo has made appointments of manager and coach for the respective categories

The Sri Lanka Cricket Board`s Executive Committee took some far reaching and rational decisions by giving Duleep Mendis a free run as manager of the Sri Lanka team till the 1999 World Cup and by recommending to the Sports Minister to co-opt

PLANS for the coming season by at least two counties, Gloucestershire and Kent, have been affected by the confirmation this weekend that the West Indies will be hosting a Test series against Sri Lanka in May and June

SYDNEY, Jan 18: As cricket circles at home and around the world try to come to recover from the news of the sacking of the most powerful man of Australian cricket, Graham Halbish, the staff of the Australian Cricket Board (ACB) were refused

"I am closely following the various statements given by Majid Khan, Chief Executive of Pakistan Cricket Board, during his recent unannounced visit to Karachi

Arjuna Ranatunga has been appointed captain of the Sri Lanka team for the month long cricket tour of New Zealand commencing February 27

MUCH has been read, seen and heard of David Lloyd, the coach, and Ian Botham, the bowling consultant on the current England tour; very little of John Emburey, the official bowling coach, writes Christopher Martin-Jenkins

SWANTON ON COMPTON: It is well for us to remember when we are watching the best batsmen that, however easy it may all look, they do not achieve their success without toil and sweat and that there are times even with the greatest when they

West Indians everywhere are the most picturesque and poetic of speakers

The national cricket selectors - namely Ramakanth Desai, Shivlal Yadav, Sambaran Bannerjee, Kishen Rungta and M Pandove - will meet in Bombay on January 14 to select the Indian cricket team for the triangular one day cricket series to be

Trevor Chesterfield