S Berry: Old Trafford puts new spin on an old home-team inadequacy (5 Jul 1998)

Jul 5, 1998: OF ALL the inadequacies of English cricket which have been laid bare in this series, one has been the flaccidness in the field

England News Roundup (5 Jul 1998)

Jul 5, 1998: Kent's Graham Cowdrey yesterday announced he will be retiring from first-class cricket at the end of the season

England Cricket Diary (5 Jul 1998)

Jul 5, 1998: THE plummeting Rand is proving a headache for married members of the South African team - but four of the party's bachelors are cashing in

T Cozier: After football, West Indies meet South Africa (5 Jul 1998)

Jul 5, 1998: OUR sporting consciousness this past month has been saturated by footballs fascinating World Cup

S Berry: Time is ripe to douse the embers (5 Jul 1998)

Jul 5, 1998: FOR the first time in English cricket a major competition will become extinct when the Benson and Hedges Cup final is concluded on Saturday

Sri Lanka News Round-up (4 Jul 1998)

Jul 4, 1998: Niroshan Bandaratilleke, the first Thurstanite to play for Sri Lanka will be felicitated by the school on Monday at the College Hall at 8.15 a.m

Lancashire League: Anthony is cracking the whip (4 Jul 1998)

Jul 4, 1998: HAMISH Anthony is cracking the whip at Bentgate but it's all in a good cause

Simon Hughes: English Cricket Commentary (4 Jul 1998)

Jul 4, 1998: ENGLISH cricket is riddled with don'ts

P Deeley: ECB go on the attack over reports of crisis in game (4 Jul 1998)

Jul 4, 1998: ENGLISH cricket is not in crisis

S Thawfeeq: Diana Memorial match a sell-out (4 Jul 1998)

Jul 4, 1998: The showpiece Lord's match in aid of Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fund where two of Sri Lanka's outstanding one-day cricketers Aravinda de Silva and Sanath Jayasuriya are billed to appear, has been a sell-out

B Babb: World Cup Cricket Money-spinner (3 Jul 1998)

Jul 3, 1998: Castries The West Indies Cricket Board expects some US$500 million to be generated across the Caribbean when the ninth Cricket World Cup is staged in the region

Sri Lanka News Round-up (3 Jul 1998)

Jul 3, 1998: Lumbini Vidayalaya defeated St

Scottish Cricket: Shahid to shoulder burden (3 Jul 1998)

Jul 3, 1998: INJURIES and the demands of Scotland's one-day game against Bangladesh have robbed Heriot's of three important players - Asim Butt, Mike Allingham and Jim Love - for tomorrow's meeting with Watsonians at Goldenacre

NZ Cricket ready for rugby clash (3 Jul 1998)

Jul 3, 1998: New Zealand Cricket will not back down from playing cricket tests against South Africa at dual purpose grounds in March when the Super 12 rugby season is up and running

Minor Counties: Barnes saves Wilts (3 Jul 1998)

Jul 3, 1998: WILTSHIRE and Norfolk squeezed into the last eight of the MCC Trophy with nail-biting finishes to their final zonal games

Zimbabwe: David Houghton completes Fund-raising walk (3 Jul 1998)

Jul 3, 1998: On 27 June, David Houghton, the Zimbabwe National Cricket Coach, completed his fund-raising walk from Bulawayo to Harare

PCB not to send team to HK sixes event (2 Jul 1998)

Jul 2, 1998: KARACHI, July 1: The Pakistan Cricket Board has decided in principle never to send its team to Hong Kong for future sixes tournament, according to a spokesman of the PCB

G Wattley: Decision time for Lara (2 Jul 1998)

Jul 2, 1998: THE challenge of captaining struggling English county Warwickshire continues to look like it's getting the better of him

Jamaica: Padmore, Tarrant take Cement titles (2 Jul 1998)

Jul 2, 1998: Padmore All-Age won their third Carib Cement title, while Tarrant Primary captured a first after victories in the National finals at Melbourne Oval yesterday

Sri Lanka: Dharmasena weds (2 July 1998)

Jul 2, 1998: Sri Lankan allrounder Kumar Dharmasena will tie the knot with his girlfriend at a leading hotel in Colombo today