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Incessant dizzle and heavier rain gave umpires Alan Jones and John Steele little option after consulting the captains but to abandon the match for the day.

Heavy drizzle prevents play on Day Two

01-Aug-2003•Vic Isaacs

Havant v Hampshire Academy

Hampshire Academy achieved a new benchmark in their short history by outplaying and out-thinking their opponents, the reigning Southern League champions Havant, in their own back-yard, causing Team Manager Tony Middleton to enthuse over their

01-Aug-2003•Kevin Baker

Coaching gets boost from NZC tour initiative

Coaching in New Zealand has received a substantial boost from an initiative undertaken by New Zealand Cricket to send representative coaches as assistants on the forthcoming tour to India and Pakistan

On a day of South African domination and English depression, Graeme Smith added yet more records to his already bulging scrap book on day two of the second npower Test match at Lord's

Another record for Smith as South Africa press on ... and on

01-Aug-2003•The Wisden Bulletin by Freddie Auld

A dilemma adds to Bangladesh's problems in ODI series

Bangladesh must have hoped that, after their two Test losses to Australia, they would face a decreased degree of pressure in the one-day series starting in Cairns tomorrow, but events this week have precluded that

Incumbent New Zealand selectors Ross Dykes and Brian McKechnie have joined their former chairman Sir Richard Hadlee in retaining their jobs through until 2005

Dykes and McKechnie retain selection positions

Geoff Marsh, coach of the Zimbabwe team, has rated Steve Waugh as the second-best Australian cricketer, next only to Don Bradman

Waugh second-best Australian cricketer ever: Marsh

Harbhajan Singh has warned New Zealand of a gruelling upcoming tour of India, saying that the hosts had not forgotten the 2-0 series drubbing late last year on fresh, batting-unfriendly wickets in New Zealand

Harbhajan warns New Zealand of a tough tour

Concerned at the manner in which Australia lost the last three one-day internationals in the West Indies, Ricky Ponting has indicated that he won't take anything for granted in the three-match ODI series against Bangladesh

Ponting keen to atone for Windies slip-ups

Graeme Smith has made his point

Never satisfied

01-Aug-2003•Stat of the Moment by Andrew Miller

Double centuries in consecutive matches

01-Aug-2003

Hampshire Academy v Liphook and Ripsley

Persistent drizzle, followed by heavy rain foiled the Academy's attempts to rise into fourth position by beating lowly Liphook; themselves thwarted as they attempted to put more daylight over Calmore at the bottom of the table.

01-Aug-2003•Kevin Baker

Lillee reacts sharply to Gavaskar's speech

Dennis Lillee has reacted sharply to Sunil Gavaskar's criticism of Australia's sledging tactics, saying that sledging would never leave the game completely

Michael Vaughan's first day as Test captain hardly went according to plan, but he was forthcoming and honest with the media in the evening, as he discussed England's batting debacle

'Nothing went to plan': Vaughan

India's one-day batsmen Mohammad Kaif and Yuvraj Singh have been refused permission to play in a charity match in memory of England's Ben Hollioake, who died in a car crash in Australia in March last year

Kaif and Yuvraj withdrawn from charity match

Mohammad Kaif and Yuvraj Singh have been denied permission by the Indian board to play in a charity match in memory of Ben Hollioake, who died in a car crash in 2002

Kaif and Yuvraj denied permission to play charity match

Jacques Kallis, who has missed South Africa's first two Tests against England because the death of his father Henry in Cape Town, is due to return to England on Tuesday, according to the team spokesman Gerald de Kock

Kallis to return to tour party