Bronwyn Calver: Australia's finest bowler

Jan 31, 1997: Bronwyn Calver has been described as "The best female bowler in the country at the moment." Her front on inner swing bowling, with the occasional leg cutter, off cutter or slower ball (but no off cutters as yet) have led to best international figures

Wasim Akram And Selectors Take Sigh Of Relief After World Series Cup Glory (27 Jan 1997)

Jan 27, 1997: ISLAMABAD, Jan 26: Pakistan`s much-acclaimed World Series victory in Melbourne must have come as a big sigh of relief not only for skipper Wasim Akram but also for the six month`s old selection committee

Mushtaq Has Doubts If Players Will Play Against India (25 Jan 1997)

Jan 25, 1997: KARACHI, Jan 24: Pakistan cricket manager Mushtaq Mohammad has reservations if leading players will be available for May`s tour of India

Media Release - Gavin Larsen Testimonial Cricket Match (25 Jan 1997)

Jan 25, 1997: The Gavin Larsen Testimonial Match promises to be one for the record books

Salim Altaf - Pakistan Team Selection Now More Difficult (23 Jan 1997)

Jan 23, 1997: KARACHI, Jan 22: A happy Chairman of Selectors, Salim Altaf, admitted that the team selection for the coming assignments will now be a more ticklish job

Yardley To Make Sri Lanka Best Test Nation By Year 2000 (22 Jan 1997)

Jan 22, 1997: World Cup champion Sri Lanka`s new cricket coach Bruce Yardley believes that he could make the country the `Best Test Playing Nation` by the year 2000

Moin Khan Completes 100 Victims (22 Jan 1997)

Jan 22, 1997: KARACHI, Jan 21: Wicketkeeper Moin Khan, third in cricket ratings, is the quickest Pakistan player with the gloves to complete 100 victims behind the wickets

Turbulent Halbish Era Is Cut Short (22 Jan 1997)

Jan 22, 1997: THERE was rarely a dull moment while the now deposed chief executive of the Australian Cricket Board, Graham Halbish, was in office

Foster Resigns As Kent Coach And Other News (22 Jan 1997)

Jan 22, 1997: KENT have lost their coach, Daryl Foster, who has resigned after five years with the county to take up a post at the University of Western Australia in Perth

Roy Dias And Rumesh Ratnayake Coach And Manager Of Sri Lanka 'A' (21 Jan 1997)

Jan 21, 1997: With a surfeit of cricket to follow for the Sri Lanka `A` and under 19 teams during the year, the Sri Lanka Cricket Board`s ExCo has made appointments of manager and coach for the respective categories

West Indies Series With Sri Lanka Will Hit Counties (20 Jan 1997)

Jan 20, 1997: PLANS for the coming season by at least two counties, Gloucestershire and Kent, have been affected by the confirmation this weekend that the West Indies will be hosting a Test series against Sri Lanka in May and June

Duleep Mendis Sri Lanka Manager Till 1999 (20 Jan 1997)

Jan 20, 1997: The Sri Lanka Cricket Board`s Executive Committee took some far reaching and rational decisions by giving Duleep Mendis a free run as manager of the Sri Lanka team till the 1999 World Cup and by recommending to the Sports Minister to co-opt

Australian Cricket Boss, Halbish Sacked (18 Jan 1997)

Jan 18, 1997: SYDNEY, Jan 18: As cricket circles at home and around the world try to come to recover from the news of the sacking of the most powerful man of Australian cricket, Graham Halbish, the staff of the Australian Cricket Board (ACB) were refused

Former National Selection Salahuddin Raps PCB's Experiments (17 Jan 1997)

Jan 17, 1997: "I am closely following the various statements given by Majid Khan, Chief Executive of Pakistan Cricket Board, during his recent unannounced visit to Karachi

Arjuna Ranatunga Leads Sri Lanka On New Zealand Tour (16 Jan 1997)

Jan 16, 1997: Arjuna Ranatunga has been appointed captain of the Sri Lanka team for the month long cricket tour of New Zealand commencing February 27

EW Swanton - Wisdom From Beyond The Boundary (13 Jan 1997)

Jan 13, 1997: SWANTON ON COMPTON: It is well for us to remember when we are watching the best batsmen that, however easy it may all look, they do not achieve their success without toil and sweat and that there are times even with the greatest when they

CM-Jenkins: Emburey Makes Telling Case For The Softly-Softly Approach (13 Jan 1997)

Jan 13, 1997: MUCH has been read, seen and heard of David Lloyd, the coach, and Ian Botham, the bowling consultant on the current England tour; very little of John Emburey, the official bowling coach, writes Christopher Martin-Jenkins

Selectors To Pick Indian ODI Side On January 14 (11 Jan 1997)

Jan 11, 1997: The national cricket selectors - namely Ramakanth Desai, Shivlal Yadav, Sambaran Bannerjee, Kishen Rungta and M Pandove - will meet in Bombay on January 14 to select the Indian cricket team for the triangular one day cricket series to be

Asanka Gurusinha Shaping Well (11 Jan 1997)

Jan 11, 1997: Sri Lanka`s No

T Deyal: Figuring Out The Cricket (11 Jan 1997)

Jan 11, 1997: West Indians everywhere are the most picturesque and poetic of speakers