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SYDNEY, Oct 30 AAP - Life after international cricket for Mark Waugh is set to follow a well-worn path into Channel Nine's cricket commentary team.

MUTTIAH MURALITHARAN was the lone spinner named today in Sri Lanka's team for the upcoming tour of South Africa as the selectors reposed their faith in fast bowlers

Having lost the toss and being asked to field, the West Indies made the best of a bad start, restricting India to 275 for six at the end of the first day

The winter series of cricket evenings continues on Tuesday 12 November 2002 when the speaker will be Roger Newman, Director of the Warwickshire CCC Academy, one of eight approved by the ECB

Somerset County Cricket Club have been praised by David Graveney, the Chief Executive of the Professional Cricketer's Association for the way that they have dealt with Joe Tucker, who was released by the club at the end of the season because of a

SYDNEY, Oct 30 AAP - Australian fast bowler Brett Lee today promised he will bowl flat out if selected for the opening Ashes Test against England.

PERTH, Oct 31 AAP - The England cricket team will fly to Brisbane today with renewed belief for the upcoming Ashes series after a much improved showing in a three-day tour match against Western Australia.

MELBOURNE, Oct 30 AAP - Victoria was 2-62 here today at lunch after winning the toss in the Pura Cup cricket match against Tasmania at the MCG.

Only 213 runs were scored in 91 overs on the first day's play of the Irani Trophy match between Rest of India and Railways at the Karnail Singh Stadium in Delhi

MELBOURNE, Oct 30 AAP - Victorian opener Jason Arnberger went through plenty to score a vital century on day one of the Pura Cup cricket match against Tasmania.

Leicestershire are to conduct an independent review of the club's constitution and management and executive structure

In the end they did not quite manage to secure a morale-boosting win in their match against Western Australia, but the England party will leave Perth buoyed by the fact that they came within one shot of a victory

Leicestershire have signed Paul Nixon on a three-year contract with the 32-year-old wicket-keeper returning to Grace Road after a three-year spell at Kent

PERTH, Oct 30 AAP - Young England quick Simon Jones put up his hand for a berth in the opening Ashes Test after the tourists almost won the drawn three-day match against Western Australia today.

It is now official that West Indies middle order batsman, Marlon Samuels escaped expulsion from the current tour of India, after spending a night in an Indian night club in breach of the team's curfew rules.

Grange Cricket Club Photo © Scottish Cricket Ltd Scottish Cricket is happy to announce that it has finalised a deal with The Grange Club, Edinburgh which will give Scottish Cricket a national `Home' for its first year in the National Cricket

Inexperience weighed heavily against Hursley Park on their NatWest Hampshire Under-16 Indoor Cricket Championship debut at the Rose Bowl

Pakistan slumped to a poor eighth spot, only above lowly Zimbabwe and Bangladesh in the latest Test championship ratings released by the game's ruling body, International Cricket Council (ICC), Monday

Making an astonishing debut, the bespectacled Hirwani finishedwith a match haul of 16 for 136, the best-ever figures by abowler in his first Test

Andrew Flintoff will rejoin England's Ashes squad later this week with the aim of proving his fitness for the first Test against Australia, which starts in Brisbane on November 7