Miscellaneous

Much earlier than was expected - almost two years after their inaugural Test match - Zimbabwe are close to selecting a black cricketer for a Test

Border (c), Rowell, Love, Lehmann, Blewett, George, Divenuto, Atkinson, Hodge, Julian, Lee

For Shoaib Mohammad, Bad luck never seems to be runnning out

A Junior World Cup involving under-15 teams from at least eight countries, will be staged in England in 1996 with a final at Lord's on Aug 24

The Steeple Chase

Members of the Pakistan team face the prospect of an investigation into allegations of betting on games on the eve of the first Test against Australia which starts here tomorrow

Ian Botham, the former England all-rounder, believes the omission of Dominic Cork from England's winter tour party to Australian is a big mistake

Northamptonshire are engaged in long-distance discussions with Anil Kumble, the Indian leg-spinner, as their replacement for Curtly Ambrose next summer

The phrase 'moral turpitude' sprang to mind when our powersthat-be persuaded the ICC to pardon England's 'rebel' cricketers, led on their tour of South Africa by Mike Gatting, after only two years of their five-year sentence

Cricket players are a kind lot

An India under-19 team will tour Australia in February-March 1995, should the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) accept the Australian Cricket Board`s invitation

Ashley Metcalfe, the subject of some unseemly end-of-season contract-wrangling, steered Yorkshire to a comfortable six-wicket victory over Leicestershire, the holders, in the final of the Bain Clarkson Trophy at Headingley

The International Cricket Council today announced the appointments of National Grid International Panel umpires and ICC referees through to early January 1995