England: Champions to pocket £100,000 (9 April 1998)

Apr 9, 1998: THE County Championship, much the most prized of British cricket's domestic competitions but hitherto only narrowly its most rewarding, is to have prize money commensurate with its status

Surrey: Title ambitions threatened by Test match calls (8 April 1998)

Apr 8, 1998: TEN of Surrey's staff of 19 have played Test matches, one-day internationals or both, and Alex Tudor, for long regarded as an England fast bowler in the making, has plentiful experience of international cricket at under-19 level

Gough fit to start season for Yorkshire and other news (8 April 1998)

Apr 8, 1998: DARREN GOUGH has recovered from the hamstring injury that ruled him out of England's series against the West Indies and will be ready to start the season next week

Gloucestershire: Wright's recovery points to better opening times (8 April 1998)

Apr 8, 1998: REINFORCED by the return of their West Indian fast bowler, Courtney Walsh, Gloucestershire are looking forward to this campaign, having last year competed strongly for the championship before falling away badly in the final straight

Taylor's future in the balance and other news (8 April 1998)

Apr 8, 1998: MARK TAYLOR will not play one-day cricket for Australia again and could lose the captaincy of the Test side next year, according to team coach Geoff Marsh

Thilanga heads Asian Cricket Council (8 April 1998)

Apr 8, 1998: With the recent turn of events in the Sri Lanka Cricket Board elections held last month, the Asian Cricket Council (ACC) has a new president, secretary and treasurer

West Indies: U-15 teams arrive today (7 Apr 1998)

Apr 7, 1998: CRICKET: Barbados' Under-15 cricket team, the Carib Cement Under-15 cricket champions, are scheduled to arrive here today along with teams from the Windward Islands, Leeward Islands, Guyana and Trinidad and Tobago for this year's tournament which

Sri Lanka schools preview (7 April 1998)

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Scottish Cricket: All change on Western front (7 April 1998)

Apr 7, 1998: WITH the new Scottish season two weeks away, the Western District Association have announced a major shake-up in their structure

Murali has variation now (7 April 1998)

Apr 7, 1998: Quite contrary to conservative charitable thinking which seeks to be submissively accommodative, there are the impetuous impulsive, who are of the view, that South Africa was very lucky to have won the first cricket test and that, Sri Lanka at the

Karim named Kenya's Commenwealth and World Cup captain (7 April 1998)

Apr 7, 1998: On Thursday, the Kenyan Cricket selection committee named Aasif Karim the Kenyan cricket captain for the Commonwealth games as well as the 1999 Cricket World Cup, and all tours

Essex: Prichard promising to appease the trophy hunters (7 April 1998)

Apr 7, 1998: IT WILL take three years, Paul Prichard believes, for the 'new' Essex to fulfil their potential

Sri Lanka News Round-up (5 April 1998)

Apr 5, 1998: By Diwakara Mohotti - Kalutara group corr

S Berry; Lara now the captain who has everything (5 April 1998)

Apr 5, 1998: IN less than a fortnight 17 first-class counties will enter the brave new world of Lord MacLaurin's reforms

Bangladesh: Month-long camp for World Cup squad (5 April 1998)

Apr 5, 1998: Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) will send 20 cricketers to Australia to undergo training as part of its preparations for World Cup 1999

Azhar Mahmood turns down Northants' offer (5 Apr 1998)

Apr 5, 1998: Pakistan all-rounder cricketer Azhar Mahmood has declined to accept a lucrative offer to play for Northamptonshire county

Taylor puts future in the balance (5 April 1998)

Apr 5, 1998: AN old Tamil couplet says that: "The great and not so great are remembered by what they leave behind." Soon it may be time to judge the legacy of Mark Taylor

G Smith: Wisden - Yellow brick at game's foundations (4 April 1998)

Apr 4, 1998: THE new Wisden is out, and it's fatter than ever

Sri Lanka News Round-up (4 April 1998)

Apr 4, 1998: The new president of the Sri Lanka Cricket Board, Thilanga Sumathipala wasted no time in getting things moving when on his initiation, a Cricketers' Benefit Advisory Committee was formed with former Sri Lanka captain Michael Tissera as chairman

Rose signed by Northants and other news (4 April 1998)

Apr 4, 1998: NORTHAMPTONSHIRE have signed West Indies fast bowler Franklyn Rose as their overseas player this summer