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Sri Lanka breezed into the semi-finals of the ICC Champions Trophy by crushing their former colonial masters by a massive 206 runs

The Somerset players were all back in training at the County Ground in Taunton this morning after their innings defeat inside at the hands of Leicestershire last week that consigned them to the basement of the county championship next season

This Sunday has to be the saddest day of the year, when the last round of Norwich Union League matches brings the curtain down on the 2002 English season

Barmy Army v Bunburys Photo © Barmy Army The final game of the Bunbury's season saw them travel to Twickenham to take on the might of England's greatest and most vocal supporters, the Barmy Army

The match was billed as one of the potential humdingers of the ICC Champions Trophy, pitting as it did the current world champions against the defending champions

Article: Taha Noor, comment on Pak cricket, PCB

Sri Lanka captain Sanath Jayasuriya claims his side will not take tournament minnows Holland lightly in their day-night clash at Premadasa International Stadium on Monday

Article: Taha Noor, comment piece on PSO Tri-Nation in Kenya, PCB

Cricket is a game of inches and it was by no more than an inch that Paul Nixon was run out in the last over when ten runs were needed by Kent Spitfires and Glamorgan Dragons became the 2002 Norwich Union League champions, winning by just 4 runs

The Pakistan cricket managers, who met here under the chairmanship of Lt Gen Tauqir Zia, decided to recall discarded wicketkeeper Moin Khan for next month's Test series against Australia

Somerset County Cricket Club are staging an Introduction to Cricket Coaching course during this coming October that is specifically aimed at young cricketers between the ages of fourteen and twenty years of age

After they received a sound thrashing at the hands of the Australians, the New Zealanders admitted that nothing had gone right for them on the day

© Reuters Andy Flower is a true hero

Worcestershire Royals pushed Glamorgan Dragons all the way for the 2002 Norwich Union league title, but when Glamorgan Dragons won at Canterbury, the Royal challenge ended

International cricketing icon Courtney Walsh will be in Bermuda this weekend for festivities organised by the West Indian Association, here

Ricky Ponting's Australia will search for revenge on Sunday at the Sinhalese Sports Club, determined to regain their traditional superiority overarchrivals New Zealand.

India's team sponsor cancelled their lucrative contract on Saturday evening after the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) was forced to drop their logo during the ICC Champions Trophy

Somerset Seconds have enjoyed a successful season in 2002, having won two out of their ten championship matches, to end in twelfth place in the championship table, an improvement of three places on last year

Champions Surrey showed exactly why they are due to receive the trophy for winning the title at The Oval next week as they overwhelmed Hampshire by 123 runs

It was here at Colombo, at the Sinhalese Sports Club ground just down the road, that a youngster shyly accepted the Under-19 World Cup winners' trophy two years ago