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New Zealand's opening One-Day International on their tour of the West Indies was rained off in Jamaica today

Auckland have appointed South African-based New Zealander Mark O'Donnell as their coach to replace Tony Sail next summer

The Somerset Board Eleven travel to Dean Park at Bournemouth on Sunday to take on Dorset in the 38 County Cup

Rain denied Hampshire Under-17s an almost certain victory over their Sussex counterparts at Worthing.

In a week, the two fastest bowlers on the planet will go head-to-head in a battle of epic proportions

The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) today confirmed that Yorkshire bowler, Steven Kirby, has received three penalty points under the ECB's newdiscipline code following an incident during Yorkshire's Frizzell CountyChampionship Division One

Gloucestershire County Cricket Club is delighted to announce that they will play host to the Sri Lankan touring team on Sunday 23 June 2002

For an hour yesterday afternoon, there would have been fears that today's opening Cable & Wireless One-Day International between West Indies and New Zealand was in serious doubt

The England and Wales Cricket Board chief executive Tim Lamb was full of enthusiasm for The Rose Bowl after visiting during the Warwickshire match last week as a guest of Chairman Rod Bransgrove.

Today (Wednesday) marks exactly 249 days to go before the start of the ICC Cricket World Cup in South Africa in 2003 - a global sports event that will have a major music component throughout its 44 days' duration

The first new community cricket ground in London is to open in Lambeth on June 8 as part of a major initiative to give local people the chance to play the game

Warwickshire Bears will be aiming to consolidate their grip on the First Division of the Norwich Union League when they meet Somerset Sabres at Edgbaston this Sunday

Whoa there

Sri Lanka team manager Chandra Schaffter has denied that Muttiah Muralitharan was forced to play at Edgbaston after media speculation that he would have preferred to sit out the match and allow his shoulder to fully heal

So far, no Ali Bacher (and Majid Khan) have come forward to accuse France of 'throwing' the match against Senegal nor have other professional 'accusers' come out of their hibernation and claim with authoritative , inside-dope that the bookies had

The Indian team finally managed to salvage some pride towards the end of their Caribbean tour by winning the truncated limited overs series

Sri Lanka team manager Chandra Schaffter has denied that Muttiah Muralitharan was forced to play at Edgbaston after media speculation that he would have preferred to sit out the second Test.

Dunstable: Bedfordshire 257 & 198-6dec (A Cook 67, N Stanley 67) Cambridgeshire 166 & 154-4 (C Jones 73*, G Freear 52) Match drawn

St George's Park in Port Elizabeth will keep its World Cup semi-final, for the time being anyway, despite a new outbreak of infighting in the Eastern Province Cricket Board which prompted the resignation of president Ronnie Pillay at the weekend

Veteran Redbacks leg spin bowler Peter McIntyre today announced hisretirement from all levels of cricket.