Miscellaneous

The President of the Board of Control for Cricket in Sri Lanka, Ana Punchihewa and Secretary Anura Tennekoon are currently in India to attend a meeting of next year`s World Cup organising committee

ASHLEY METCALFE has been given the chance to resurrect his career by joining Nottinghamshire

GLYN Woodman has resigned as Surrey`s chief executive with effect from the end of this month after three years at the Oval, saying his position had become "untenable"

The Eden Gardens,Calcutta has been chosen as the inaugural venue for the World Cup tournament which will be officially known as the `Wills World Cup 1996`

Former Sri Lanka Test cricketer Roshan Jurangpathy has won promotion to the Western Australian state squad where according to the Australian cricket magazine `Inside Edge`, "his off breaks and lusty hitting are under scrutiny"

THE finest batsman in the world is all at sea

* Australia`s Steve Waugh revealed yesterday that if he had accepted Durham`s offer to join them for the next three seasons it would have made him the highest-paid player in county cricket

RENEWED attempts are to be made by the counties - egged on by the players - to prevent Andrew Symonds, the dual-qualified Australian batsman, returning to Gloucestershire next summer

BRIAN LARA`S refusal to go to Australia with the West Indies this week for two months of mostly limited-overs cricket has exposed a rift with the authorities in the Caribbean

Brian Lara has been given permission to miss the West Indies` tour of Australia next month, when they will take part in the Benson and Hedges World Series Cup

SURREY have been told that Brad Williams, the young Australian fast-bowler, will not be available for a county season next year

PAUL GETTY, the American millionaire who so loves cricket that he has given money for the Mound Stand at Lord`s and publishes Wisden, is to become president of Surrey County Cricket Club next year

TOM Cartwright remembers the D`Oliveira Affair better than anyone else - it was his withdrawal from the England party to tour South Africa which in September 1968 led to Dolly`s belated call-up

IT IS still there

Sri Lankan Flavian Aponso has been included in the Holland team for next year`s World Cup Cricket tournament to be played in the Indian sub continent

Sri Lankan Test umpire B.C

A FIGHT to save the 100-year-old Minor Counties Championship from extinction has surfaced as the formation of the new England Cricket Board moves ahead

LATE moves are being made to persuade authorities to stump up more prize money for the World Cup next February and March

Four West Indies players whose behaviour was considered "unsatisfactory" during last summer`s tour of England have appeared before a hearing in Bridgetown

IT could be called the "greening" of English cricket - the shake-up in the county game under the influence of the baggy green cap of Australia which takes place next summer