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Sri Lankan left-arm seamer Chaminda Vaas has agreed to join Hampshire Cricket on a short-term contract to the end of the 2003 season.

Ahead of their County Championship tie against Gloucestershire at Cheltenham, Yorkshire have dropped Yuvraj Singh from their middle order, bringing in Gavin Hamilton instead

Damien Martyn is in line for a recall to Australia's one-day team, as the three-match series against Bangladesh gets underway in Cairns this weekend

Final standings: Sussex (86.5 points), Notts (86), Kent (68.5), Yorkshire(58.5), Surrey (54.5), Berkshire (32)

Sussex 362 for 4 v Surrey at Hove Scorecard Sussex justified their position of second in the table with a commanding display against leaders Surrey

Australian star Simon Katich ensured his new overseas counterpart from Sri Lanka did not take all the headlines today, when he was presented with his county cap during the innings break under the Rose Bowl floodlights on Wednesday evening.

Cricket needs to take a leaf out of the books of golf and tennis in dealing with the sledging element which is detracting from cricket's appeal

Damien Martyn, on the verge of making a comeback to the Australian team after a long injury lay-off, has said that he does not regret playing the World Cup final with a broken finger

Glamorgan missed their chance to overhaul Gloucester and Surrey at the top of Division One, after losing out to Worcestershire in a thrilling finish at New Road

Hampshire Under-16 opener Jack Lovett is set for his senior St Cross Symondians debut at Lymington tomorrow (1pm) as the Winchester club seeks to retrieve lost ground at the top of Southern Electric Premier League, Division 2.

Alton will put themselves in an unassailable position at the top of Southern Electric Premier League, Division 3 if they overcome their midweek SEC Cup semi-final defeat and beat Ventnor at the Jubilee Ground tomorrow, 1 o'clock.

Bournemouth are through to the Southern Electric Premier League's Contracting Cup final at the Rose Bowl on Tuesday week, August 5 after crushing Alton by ten wickets at the BAT ground.

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Despite sustaining an eye injury that required 10 stitches in last night`s floodlit National League at Worcester, Adrian Dale has been named in the following 13 man squad to play Worcestershire in the Frizzell County Championship match starting

Injury has forced Nathan Hauritz to relinquish his place and the captaincy in the Queensland Academy of Sport team to play Bangladesh in Innisfail tomorrow

Dav Whatmore, the Bangladesh coach, has said that Sanwar Hossain is likely to play in the ODI series against Australia, despite being reported to the ICC for a suspect action

This is the text of the Colin Cowdrey lecture delivered by Sunil Gavaskar at the MCC recently

Mark Ramprakash has been disciplined by the England & Wales Cricket Board, following an incident during Surrey's Frizzell County Championship Division One match against Middlesex at Guildford on July 26

BAT Sports will all but mathematically tie up the ECB Southern Electric Premier League championship if they beat second-placed Bashley (Rydal) at the BCG tomorrow (SAT), 11.30am.

Neal Parlane is backing himself to score the 318 runs he requires to beat Robin Smith's long standing record for the highest aggregate number of runs in a Southern League season.