New Zealand: Cricket clubs join forces (13 Jul 1998)

Jul 13, 1998: One of Christchurch's oldest senior cricket clubs, Lancaster Park, has merged with the youngest, Woolston

West Indies: Nortel Championship - Another washout (13 Jul 1998)

Jul 13, 1998: THE 1998 Nortel Youth Cricket Championship seems almost certain to be converted into a one-day limited-overs tournament following the abandonment of yet another days play here yesterday

M Nicholas: Ill-considered concept of a cup too many (13 Jul 1998)

Jul 13, 1998: THERE should, by now, be one less limited-overs competition in the first-class calendar, but there is not

CMJ: England only bowlers away from blue skies (13 Jul 1998)

Jul 13, 1998: MORE rain and gloom

Sri Lanka News Round-up (12 Jul 1998)

Jul 12, 1998: MARIS STELLA College, Negombo beat Prince of Wales by four wickets in the Schools Cricket Association under 17 division one second round game played yesterday at Negombo

Sri Lanka: Mercantile 'A' Division Final (12 Jul 1998)

Jul 12, 1998: HATTON NATIONAL BANK (HNB) regained the Mercantile 'A' division cricket title, beating Access Group of Companies by 8 wickets in the final at the SSC grounds yesterday

P Roebuck: Leicestershire stray from the straight and narrow (12 Jul 1998)

Jul 12, 1998: IT IS hard to recall a worse display of bowling in a respectable Lord's final than Leicestershire managed yesterday

New Zealand: Murray calls it a day (12 Jul 1998)

Jul 12, 1998: The retirement of determined opening batsman Darrin Murray will leave Canterbury without an established opener and potential captain next season

Sri Lanka News Round-up (11 Jul 1998)

Jul 11, 1998: The unbeaten Access Group 'A' team will meet the last year runners up Hatton National Bank 'A' in the Mercantile 'A' Division cricket tournament final at the SSC grounds, Maitland Place today, commencing at 9.30 a.m

West Indies: Nortel Championship - More distress (11 Jul 1998)

Jul 11, 1998: DISTRESSINGLY for the players involved, but not surprisingly, the weather took all the spoils on the final day of competition action in first round matches of the NorTel West Indies Under-19 cricket championships

Lancashire League: Young prepared to gamble (11 Jul 1998)

Jul 11, 1998: BRAD Young has just three more games to try to take East Lancs into pole position before quitting the EW Cartons Lancashire League for an Australian A tour

Pradeep Hewage has a bright future (11 Jul 1998)

Jul 11, 1998: The speech made by the British High Commissioner, David Tatham at the presentation of the Prince of Wales Trophy to Pradeep Hewage, the most promising schoolboy cricketer for 1997/98 at Westminster House on Wednesday

England News Round-up (11 Jul 1998)

Jul 11, 1998: Australians held sway on the first day of the Scarborough Festival as Tim Rice's International XI beat Yorkshire by five wickets with five balls to spare

C Ellis: England Cricket Diary (11 Jul 1998)

Jul 11, 1998: THE eyes of the football world will be on France tomorrow for the World Cup final

G Dean: Irani in punishing route to full fitness (11 Jul 1998)

Jul 11, 1998: ASK the Essex captain, Paul Prichard, to assess the value of Ronnie Irani to the side and he will tell you that the big Lancastrian is as important as Stuart Law; that Irani has bowled better this season than ever before; that he has played some

Barbados: Seventeen Schools In Sir Garfield Tournament (11 Jul 1998)

Jul 11, 1998: A RECORD number of overseas teams 17 will participate in this years Sir Garfield Sobers International Schools Cricket Tournament which officially starts on Tuesday

Barbados: Spartan Likely To Win Against BCL (11 Jul 1998)

Jul 11, 1998: THE WAY the BCL have been performing of late, it wouldnt be too far-fetched to suggest that their Courts/Suzuki Division 1 match could be over in time for the Crop-Over youth fair

B & H Final: Lord's facts and figures (11 Jul 1998)

Jul 11, 1998: (second place): no result v Glamorgan (Cardiff); beat Sussex (Hove) by 7 wkts; beat Ireland (Chelmsford) by 171 runs; lost to Middlesex (Chelmsford) by 4 wkts

C Randall: Real swingers wore long hair when cup was forged (11 Jul 1998)

Jul 11, 1998: THE impression from watching video footage of old matches in the Benson and Hedges Cup, which started with Leicestershire's success in 1972, is of a more mellow game

CMJ: Leicestershire aim to bow out the very same way they came in (11 Jul 1998)

Jul 11, 1998: IT HAS been killed off in the end by the acceptance that the counties play too much one-day cricket and by the growing power of medical correctness, but all connected with the Benson and Hedges Cup are still hoping for a grand finale at Lord's today