Miscellaneous

Defending champion Sri Lanka was grouped with host England, as India and South Africa when the draw for the 1999 World Cup cricket championship was made on Thursday, July 11

Sri Lankan captain Arjuna Ranatunga has launched a trust for the advancement of cricket on the island

Jagmohan Dalmiya said on Thursday, July 11, that he was considering legal action to challenge the International Cricket Council constitution which stopped him from becoming the body`s new chairman

The nine Test-playing nations are locked in a stalemate over the election of a successor to International Cricket Council chairman Sir Clyde Walcott, with none of the three candidates - Jagmohan Dalmiya of India, Krish Mackerdhuj of

ENGLAND will have to get the better of at least two Test-playing countries if they are to qualify for the second round when the next World Cup is staged on county and Test grounds round England and Wales in May and June, 1999

Nazar Mohammad the Pakistan Test Opener in the inaugural Test series with India in 1952-53, and the father of Mudassar Nazar died today the 12th July 1996

It was Australian media tycoon Kerry Packer who first gave us what is rather snidely referred to as `pajama cricket` - a phrase that encompasses coloured clothes, day-night games and all the rest of the razzmatazz that packs in the paying

A three-way, potentially divisive fight for the chairmanship of the International Cricket Council headed the agenda of the annual ICC meeting which began at Lord`s on Tuesday, July 9

Captaincy is very much in the news these days

Having closely followed Sri Lanka`s triumph in the Wills World Cup, former fast-medium bowler Ranjan Goonetilleke put the success down to `Fitness`

At the ICC Annual Conference which concluded today, a number of important decisions were taken to further improve International cricket

GLOBALISATION is the buzz-word as the full two-day meeting of the International Cricket Council gets going at Lord`s today

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Monday - West Indian community leaders announced their full support this weekend for an official bid to host the 2003 World Cricket Cup

Australia and South Africa, two of the top dogs of international cricket, are looking to exchanging resources in a bid to maintain that status

The Series between India and pakistan is called the Friendship Cup and will be played at the Toronto cricket Club from September 14 - 22

KENYA, whose cricketers brought the World Cup to life with their victory over the West Indies, proposed a new status for emerging countries during the meeting of the Associate Members of the International Cricket Council at Lord`s

``The role of the ICC match referee, which originally, players as well as administrators were a little sceptic about, has now been accepted by all cricketing nations,`` said Ranjan Madugalle, who has served in that capacity for three years since

LONDON, Friday - Worcestershire`s David Houghton reluctantly agreed on Thursday to captain Zimbabwe`s cricket team for the second time following the surprise resignation of Andy Flower