CMJ: Pace steps up as more get chance to bowl out BBC (26 Jun 1998)

Jun 26, 1998: THE Government's decision to allow all television companies to bid for coverage of home Test matches is good news for the game and not necessarily bad news for the majority of viewers

Lacashire Inter-league: Lancs v Central Lancs (25 Jun 1998)

Jun 25, 1998: THE Inter-League clash between the Lancashire League and the Central Lancashire League is delicately poised as play resumes at Middleton Cricket Club tonight (6.30pm)

Jamaica: Carib Cement semis (25 Jun 1998)

Jun 25, 1998: The second semi-final of the 1998 Carib Cement All-Age and Primary schools cricket competition will be played at Melbourne Oval today

England News Roundup (25 Jun 1998)

Jun 25, 1998: Ed Giddins, sacked by Sussex after failing a drugs test two years ago, plays against his old team-mates in a specially arranged benefit match for Peter Moores at Hove on July 6

New Zealand: Doig goes back to drawing board (25 Jun 1998)

Jun 25, 1998: New Zealand Cricket's chief executive Chris Doig goes back to the drawing board with his pet project, the world test cricket championship, but believes progress is being made

Trinidad: Kerry Packer boys still unbeaten in Chickland (24 Jun 1998)

Jun 24, 1998: Kerry Packer maintained their unbeaten run in the Pepsi Chickland night windball league when they whipped Arena Utd by nine wickets at Chickland Village over the weekend

K Graham: Scotland count on reserve strength (24 Jun 1998)

Jun 24, 1998: WITH seven players unavailable through work commitments or injury, Scotland's selectors have had to dig into their reserves for today's NatWest Trophy meeting with Worcestershire at Raeburn Place, Edinburgh

Lancashire handed double boost (24 Jun 1998)

Jun 24, 1998: Neil Fairbrother and Ian Austin returned to give Lancashire a double boost ahead of today's NatWest Trophy first round tie against Sussex at Old Trafford

ICC Trophy dates announced (23 Jun 1998)

Jun 23, 1998: The West Indies was chosen as venue of the ninth World Cup Cricket Tournament to be organised in the year 2007

Tendulkar wins Coopers & Lybrand Award/CricInfo Survey

Jun 23, 1998: In a press release today, Coopers & Lybrand announced that Sachin Tendulkar of India has won the Coopers & Lybrand award as the International Test player of the year

S Thawfeeq: Nuwan Zoysa's operation a success (22 Jun 1998)

Jun 22, 1998: Sri Lanka's ailing fast bowling sector got a shot in the arm when it was learnt that promising young left-arm fast bowler Nuwan Zoysa had undergone a successful knee operation in Melbourne

Lancashire: Flintoff gives Selectors a nudge (22 Jun 1998)

Jun 22, 1998: DOES English cricket have the guts to give Andy Flintoff his Test debut at Old Trafford in a fortnight

Expensive overs in First-class Cricket (22 June 1998)

Jun 22, 1998: Various instances are excluded because of the bowler's compliance

M Johnson: World leaders in a long line of top-class dissenters (22 Jun 1998)

Jun 22, 1998: SUPPORTING England is not an exercise which involves vast amounts of expectation, which probably explains the outbreak of mass delirium when a toe-ended poke for two by Angus Fraser obliged South Africa to bat for a second time

Barbados: Browne Century Gives BET Control (21 Jun 1998)

Jun 21, 1998: THE saying that "things brown" has taken on a new meaning

Bangladesh: Gazi Tank Youth Cricket (21 June 1998)

Jun 21, 1998: Holders Khulna will take on Rajbari at the District Stadium in the opening match as the eight-team final round of the Gazi Tank 18th national youth cricket championship which begins at Khulna from June 27

Lancashire League: Haslingden meet their bogey side (20 Jun 1998)

Jun 20, 1998: HASLINGDEN must lay their Todmorden bogey if they are to become the first Lancashire League club to put their name on the Lees Brewery Challenge Trophy

Lancashire: Paddy whack (20 Jun 1998)

Jun 20, 1998: PADDY McKeown believes his big breakthrough for Lancashire is only just round the corner

Vaux Ramsbottom Cup: Pickles versus Onion! (20 Jun 1998)

Jun 20, 1998: Vaux Ramsbottom Cup: Pickles versus Onion

C Ellis: England Cricket Diary (20 Jun 1998)

Jun 20, 1998: Steve James has become used to century celebrations during an increasingly prolific county career with Glamorgan, but as a 12-year-old pupil at Monmouth School the prospect of a maiden hundred was a strangely alarming one