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Media Release: PCB on U-19 G-I

FULL NAME: Dirk Peter Viljoen BORN: 11 March 1977, at Harare MAJOR TEAMS: Young Mashonaland (1994/95-1995/96); Mashonaland (1996/97 1999/2000); Mashonaland A (2000/01); Midlands (2001/02 to date); present club team Old Hararians

The 55th New Zealand Cricket Almanack (2002 edition) by Francis Payne and Ian Smith

After months of speculation, the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) has terminated the services of its chief executive officer, Gregory Shillingford

BRISBANE, Oct 3 AAP - Controversial Sri Lankan spinner Muttiah Muralitharan plans to unveil a mystery ball when he makes his long-awaited return to Australia in December.

LAHORE, Oct 2: Dilip Wickremasinghe, manager of Sri Lanka 'A' team manager, admitted Wednesday that the results in the one-day series were not encouraging but vowed his side would fight to avoid a whitewash in the three-match series against Pakistan

Somerset County Cricket Club have confirmed that Michael Burns will skipper the side next season and that West Indian fast bowler Nixon McLean has signed as their second overseas player for 2003

Somerset have confirmed that young fast bowler Joe Tucker will not be given a first class playing contract for next season because at the moment he is suffering from a recurrence of a major back injury which has rendered him unfit to play first class

Leicestershire are targetting exciting Indian batsman Virender Sehwag as one of their overseas signings for next season

This morning Somerset released the contract list for the 2003 season

Sri Lanka's selectors named three uncapped players in a new-look 16-man squad to tour South Africa later this month to play two Test matches

The Buffalos have lost prolific opening batsman Luke Willams to Tasmania and Erin "the Bison" Bernhardt to Adelaide Turf Premier league out-fit Flinders University

FAISALABAD, Oct 1: Scintillating centuries by opener Salman Butt and stand-in skipper Naved Latif laid the foundation of Pakistan 'A's comprehensive one-day series victory over Sri Lanka 'A' here Tuesday

COLOMBO, Oct 3 AAP - Test cricket doesn't pull huge crowds in Sri Lanka, but a day at the cricket still beats a day in jail.

Steve Waugh's Australians welcomed in a new Test season in characteristically indomitable fashion on Thursday, overwhelming an inexperienced and nomadic Pakistan side at P

It was such a crying shame that the rain robbed India of a great chance to win the ICC Champions Trophy

COLOMBO - Steve Waugh lashed out at Pakistan counterpart Waqar Younis'pitch-doctoring talk on the eve of the three Test series starting inColombo tomorrow.

If the warm-up match against South Africa `A' at Soweto was anything to go by, then Bangladesh is going to have plenty of problems against the South African bowling attack

Pakistan captain Waqar Younis, without the services of his leading players, hopes his youthful side can rise to the challenge of facing the number one side in the world on Thursday when Pakistan and Australia meet in the opening game of a three-Test

With the first Test of the Australia in Pakistan 3-Test series scheduled from October 3 at P