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THE Western Australian cricket selectors have appointed Michael Hussey as Western Warriors stand-in captain for the 2002-2003 season.

Fitzroy Doncaster's batting star, David Plumpton has been named in a 13 man squad to contest the Bushrangers first ING Cup match of the season against the Southern Redbacks in Adelaide this Saturday.

The National Cricket selectors have chosen the following team to represent South Africa "A" in a four-day-match against the touring Sri Lankan team in Kimberley from the 25th to the 28th of October

Cricketers across Victoria will this weekend observe a minute's silence as a mark of respect to the victims of the Bali bombing attack.

Western Australian cricket selectors, in conjunction with the Australian Cricket Board, today confirmed the ACB Chairman's XI to play England at Lilac Hill next Tuesday.

Press Release: PCB on non-acceptance of PCB Chairman's resignation.

Former Otago batsman Mark Parker has been named as New Zealand's first confirmed victim of the Bali bombing atrocity, that killed nearly 200 people over the weekend

SYDNEY - Matthew Hayden has gone top of the PricewaterhouseCoopersratings of Test cricketers for the first time.

The Tasmanian Selectors have today announced the Cascade Tasmanian Tigers squad to participate in preparations for Tigers first ING Cup match to be played against the Queensland Bulls in Brisbane on Sunday 27th October 2002.

West End and the South Australian Cricket Association today strengthened their decades-old association by announcing a formal sponsorship deal for the next five years.

The Tasmanian Selectors have today announced the Cascade Tasmanian Tigers ACB Cup team to play the Southern Redbacks 2nd X1 in Adelaide on the Adelaide No: 2 ground, on Monday, 21st - Thursday, 24th October 2002.

SHARJAH - The Australian cricket team is

Somerset's reserve wicket-keeper Carl Gazzard who hails from Penzance has just flown out to the sunshine of Perth in Western Australia where he will spend the winter training and playing cricket

MELBOURNE - Victoria will go into this first-class cricket season with abowling attack short on experience but big on ambition.

The ICC Cricket World Cup in South Africa in four months' time - described by its executive director Dr Ali Bacher as "the biggest empowerment project that South African sport as ever embarked upon" - will be backed by the largest galaxy of

Pakistan sports took a hammering Saturday in the most humiliating fashion when sons of the soil betrayed the nation's faith in them by losing to Australia in cricket and, for the first time , the hockey team failed to win an Asian Games medal

Ian Blackwell left the rains of Somerset far behind on Sunday when he jetted out to the sunshine of Australia with the rest of the Academy players for the first part of a winter that he hopes will conclude with a place in the England World Cup team

Pakistan already beleaguered team suffered another blow when all-rounder Abdul Razzaq was ruled out for six weeks after his wrist X-ray revealed transverse fracture of left styloid

Australia inflicted on Pakistan the country's first-ever defeat in less than two days by winning the second Test by an innings and 198 runs to take an unbeatable 2-0 lead in the three-Test series at the boiling Sharjah Stadium Saturday

SYDNEY, Oct 13 AAP - Queensland cricket captain Jimmy Maher expects Michael Slater will fight his way back into the NSW team.