Miscellaneous

SALIM MALIK made his belated arrival in Australia yesterday to be met by an unseemly media scrum, three 'cricketers' wearing Shane Warne masks and the news that Tim May, the last Australian player implicated in the bribery affair to have his say,

Cricket is alive and well in Canada

SOWETO, South Africa (Oct 29, 1995 - 15:06 EST) - Sylvia Tshoma loves cricket so much she took leave from her teaching job to organize the historic match marking the debut of the firstclass game in a black South African township

Award-winning novelist Shashi Tharoor takes a light-hearted look at two unlikely cricketing outposts

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KARACHI, Pakistan (Oct 30, 1995 - 17:48 EST) - Pakistan`s former captain Salim Malik said on Monday he expected to face "sledging" in Australia in the wake of the bribery claims controversy

Deano was shunned by the national selectors last summer, despite having a stellar season with the Vics, winning the Sheffield Shield Cricketer of the Year

SALIM MALIK was first informed of the bribery allegations made against him by Tim May and Shane Warne by the Telegraph on the eve of the third Test against Zimbabwe in Harare last February

Would you believe someone who rides bulls for a living, cracked his skull playing linebacker for the Cleveland Thunderbolts indoor football team, lay in a near-death coma for eighteen days, picked up a cricket bat for the first time in his

Tests: 6 Runs: 128 HS: 56 n.o

The New York Times carries a short article on Cricket in the South African Townships

"The past week has seen a great deal of emotive public comment about the bribery allegations and the handling of those allegations by the relevant cricket authorities

Extract from Michael Parkinson`s column, Daily Telegraph 30 Oct 1995

I`m submitting four articles here, that may be suitable for CI

WICBC CEO Steve Comacho announced in Port of Spain that WICBC was considering preventing West Indian fast bowlers from playing on the English county circuit

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COLOMBO (Oct 26, 1995 - 13:18 EDT) - Pace bowler Manjula Munasinghe, who missed Sri Lanka`s successful tour of Pakistan through injury, has been included in the team to tour Australia starting next month

While Kepler Wessels needs only one big score to convince the national selectors that he is ready to return to the test squad, the left-hand batsman still remains unconvinced

One childhood memory that has left a lasting impression was an impressive framed portrait of Len Hutton (sans cap) wearing an England blazer with the inscription "Australia 1946-49"

MADRAS, India (Oct 27, 1995 - 10:18 EDT) - The third day`s play in the second test between India and New Zealand was abandoned without a ball being bowled on Friday because of wet ground conditions