Miscellaneous

15 member Indian "A" team for the Sharjah matches where "A" teams from Pakistan and Sri Lanka and the UAE team will participate, has been announced

Pakistan will meet Sri Lanka in the `curtain raiser of the Triangular International Cricket series to be played in Singapore on April 1 next year

THE emergent England Cricket Board Ltd should mean very good news indeed for the game's grassroots when the Test and County Cricket Board set-up is replaced on Jan 1

BRIAN LARA was yesterday released by Warwickshire from his three-year contract, leaving the way open for another possible dose of Lara-mania on the championship circuit

South Africa is currently looking at the possibility of hosting Sri Lanka for a three-Test series next year

ONE of the last acts of the Test and County Cricket Board, when they meet next month to discuss the future administration of the game in England and Wales, may be to give Ray Illingworth and his successors the power enjoyed by South Africa`s

Cricket Fund 2000,the brain child of Sri Lanka Cricket Board president Ana Punchihewa will move to Australia where Sri Lanka's cricketers are currently on tour

Sky have secured the exclusive rights to cover cricket's sixth World Cup, which is being played in India, Sri Lanka and Pakistan from February 14 to March 17 next year

None of the Sri Lanka Test cricketers though some of them have been already invited, will not be able play in the 1996 English county championship, due to a tight international calender

TALKS aimed at turning Headingley cricket ground into one of the world`s top Test venues begin in Leeds today

Western Province Cricket Chief Executive Officer, Arthur Turner, announced this afternoon that spin sensation, Paul Adams, had signed a three-year contract to play for MTN Western Province

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The Sri Lanka cricketers led by master tactician Arjuna Ranatunga fly out tonight oozing with confidence knowing full well that they have it in them to beat the kangaroos

Kalpage to lead Lanka `A'

THE weighty 30-page document on proposals for the new English Cricket Board has been lobbed into an unsuspecting community like a grenade with the pin intact

The West Indies team to the World Series Cup in Australia from December 1 to January 22 has been selected yesterday by the West Indies Board of Selectors in Bridgetown

In response to a growing need for support of Western Province Cricket's development programme, official sponsor, Mobile Telephone Networks (MTN, has extended its existing commitment to the Association to include a donation of R 60 000 for the