Miscellaneous

GRADE cricket, Australian-style, is coming to England in the biggest shake-up at club level since premier leagues became established in the home counties during the early Seventies

GLOUCESTERSHIRE are hoping Courtney Walsh, their captain, can persuade Andrew Symonds this week that his future lies in England and not Australia

PRESSURE from the West Indies could mean cricket`s hierarchy agreeing to a World Cup every two years

THE Board of Control for Cricket in Sri Lanka is apparently on a sticky wicket, unable to decide who they should get as coach for the national team

One of Sri Lanka`s foremost batsmen, Asanka Gurusinha, currently in Australia representing North Melbourne club, has told an Australian newspaper that Sri Lanka would not have won the World Cup without coach Davenall Whatmore

Sri Lankan cricket strikes discordant note: Who`s fooling whom

Sri Lanka Cricket Board said on Friday that they have not yet finalised the successor for Australian Dave Whatmore as the new national cricket coach

THE eyes of the cricket world may be on the southern hemisphere, but this weekend the crucial decisions on the future of the game are due to be taken by an ICC rules committee at Lord`s, writes Mihir Bose

LONDON, Dec 5 - Former England star Allan Lamb revealed on Thursday he has been approached by Sri Lanka to run their rapidlyimproving international side

CRICKET has become a passion and national obsession in Sri Lanka

ALLAN LAMB, the former England batsman, is being targeted by Sri Lanka to coach their sides

The 1996-97 division I Sara Trophy - the premier domestic cricket competition of the country will have special significance this season because of the availability of the national cricketers to represent their respective clubs

An Australian sports and promotional products firm has launched a Sunil Gavaskar memorabilia bat, featuring two hand painted oil portraits of the master batsman and highlighting his career statistics

DUNEDIN -- Otago cricketer Jeff Wilson is not even thinking about the prospects of an international recall

BRISBANE, Australia, Tuesday - Former Australian cricket captain Allan Border will make his coaching debut for Australia this month

Bowlers win matches

DUNEDIN -- New Zealand cricket selectors are to inquire about the availability of All Black rugby wing Jeff Wilson

DAVID `Syd` Lawrence, the former England fast bowler, is attempting a return to first-class cricket two years after he was forced to quit with a serious knee injury suffered in a Test against New Zealand in 1992

BARRY RICHARDS, the former South African Test player, resigned as chief executive of Queensland Cricket yesterday, writes Richard Bright

Tuesday December 3, 1996: I visited the Sydney Cricket Ground and witnessed a great day's cricket, but I have also witnessed the demise of a cricketing power that I have known and loved for over two decades