Dean Jones to name international cricketer involved in bribery (24 December 1998)

Dec 24, 1998: SYDNEY, Dec 24 (AFP) - Former Australian Test star Dean Jones says he will name an international cricketer who helped organise an approach by illegal bookmakers on the 1992 tour of Sri Lanka, a news report said Thursday

Kiwis seek profit on result wicket (24 December 1998)

Dec 24, 1998: FOLLOWING a complete washout of the first Test in Dunedin, the second, starting here on Boxing Day, is crucial to the outcome of the three-match series between New Zealand and India

Call for ICC to maximise test playing time (24 December 1998)

Dec 24, 1998: Call for ICC to maximise test playing time The International Cricket Council must take a stronger stand to maximise playing time in test matches, former New Zealand captain Lee Germon believes

Christmas festivities put on hold for huffing Englishmen (24 December 1998)

Dec 24, 1998: MELBOURNE, Australia, Dec 24 (AFP) - England's embattled cricketers will forsake the Christmas tree Friday to spend the morning as they have for most of the past two months: chasing leather

Tudor must be given his head as England go for win or bust (24 December 1998)

Dec 24, 1998: AUSTRALIAN cricket officials are expecting at least 50,000 spectators at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Saturday; perhaps 70,000

Sri Lanka: Charith gets Kenya's best cricketer's award (24 December 1998)

Dec 24, 1998: Former Sri Lanka opening batsman Charith Senanayake has been named the best all-round cricketer in Kenya's Coast Province

Bangladesh: Big win for Abahani, first for Bima (24 December 1998)

Dec 24, 1998: Title aspirants Biman quite easily crossed a big hurdle yesterday when they literally blew away 'new force' Surjo Tarun by 198 runs at the Bangabandhu Nati-onal Stadium

Bangladesh: Ballav Ghosh U-13 cricket (24 December 1998)

Dec 24, 1998: Bangladesh have been pencilled in Group A for the first round robin league of the Chand Ballav Ghosh Memorial All-Bengal under-13 cricket tournament scheduled to start in the West Bengal town of Shiliguri from December 28 under the auspices of

Australian pace attack in sick bay (24 December 1998)

Dec 24, 1998: MELBOURNE, Dec 24 (AFP) - Australia may be without both their pace bowlers for the fourth Test with England starting here Dec 26

Asian Test Championship from Feb 14 to March 17 (24 December 1998)

Dec 24, 1998: An Asian Test Cricket Championship will be held between February 14 and March 17 next year for the first time ever

Philo Wallace fit and well again (23 December 1998)

Dec 23, 1998: PIETERMARITZBURG - What ever the ailment which laid low Philo Wallace in Port Elizabeth - a touch of yellow jaundice or glandular fever - his recovery in time for the third test at Kingsmead should help the West Indies during their own convalescence

Pitch to be big factor in third Test (23 December 1998)

Dec 23, 1998: DURBAN - With the third Test between the West Indies and South Africa at Kingsmead just a few days away, both teams have been taking more than a casual interest in the pitch

West Indies in South Africa: Third Test build-up (23 December 1998)

Dec 23, 1998: West Indies manager Clive Lloyd may believe that his team are ready to beat the South Africans in the third Test at Kingsmead this weekend, but just who is going to do the job is still as unclear as it what was when the tourists arrived in

Katrina Withers swings back into action (23 December 1998)

Dec 23, 1998: Canterbury and New Zealand women's cricketer Katrina Withers is available for the sport again at all levels after a short-lived break

Rebellion looms in Sleepy Hollow (23 December 1998)

Dec 23, 1998: PIETERMARITZBURG - In the mists surrounding what is better known as the KwaZulu/Natal midlands a quite revolution is starting to take shape; fermenting, as it were, under the oaks around The Oval, Alexandra Park and maturing with a much firmer

Sri Lanka: Eleven qualify as cricket umpires (23 December 1998)

Dec 23, 1998: Eleven candidates from the Central Province obtained over 75 per cent and qualified to become cricket umpires of the Kandy Regional Cricket Board II in the recruitment examination conducted by the Umpires Committee of the Board of Control for Cricket

Sri Lanka News Round-up (23 December 1998)

Dec 23, 1998: The national cricket selectors have extended the Sri Lanka squad to Australia to 16 players by including SSC's left-arm fast-medium bowler Ruchira Perera

New Zealand Team relives terrific, taxing tour of '49 (23 December 1998)

Dec 23, 1998: John Coffey catches up with some of the members of one of our most enduring sports teams

Weather again a factor in run-up to second Test (23 December 1998)

Dec 23, 1998: WELLINGTON, Dec 23 (AFP) - After the first Test was abandoned without a ball being bowled, the weather is again disrupting preparations for the second Test here Saturday between India and New Zealand

Fatigue victim Nicholson gets perfect pick me up (23 December 1998)

Dec 23, 1998: PERTH, Australia, Dec 23 (AFP) - Western Australian fast bowler Matt Nicholson, recently a victim of chronic fatigue syndrome, was chosen on Wednesday to replace the injured Jason Gillespie in the fourth Ashes cricket Test against England