Condon for co-ordinated efforts to eradicate match-fixing

Dec 13, 2000: International Cricket Council's anti-corruption director Sir Paul Condon on Wednesday said in New Delhi it was the duty of all cricket playing nations to carry forward the investigations from where the Central Bureau of Investigation had left it

Rivals' white line fever likely to set up grand finish again

Dec 13, 2000: Twelve months ago, they produced a Final more than worthy of its billing

Bengal players rush to Ganguly's defence

Dec 13, 2000: The one-match ban that has been enforced by match referee Barry Jarman on the Indian captain Sourav Ganguly has come in for criticism from some of leading cricketers in Calcutta

Anjum Chopra: We have a gameplan for each team (13 December 2000)

Dec 13, 2000:

Indian news round-up

Dec 13, 2000: Marsh quits as Australian selector to take up role in India : Former Australian opening batsman Geoff Marsh quit on Wednesday as a national selector to take up a consulting role with the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI)

MTN WP call up Mark de Stadler

Dec 13, 2000: Mark de Stadler will make his Standard Bank Cup debut for MTN WP against the Highveld Strikers at the Wanderers on Saturday afternoon

New helmsman's leadership skills put to test

Dec 13, 2000: Rahul Dravid will be under the microscope on Thursday as he takes up the skipper's duties for the first time in international cricket, against Zimbabwe at Rajkot

Western Warriors side announced

Dec 13, 2000: The Western Warriors have included 21-year-old left hand batsman Marcus North in the side to play New South Wales in the Pura Cup clash at the WACA Ground from Friday 15 December to Monday 18 December 2000

Mahela Jayawardene reflects on a return to form and an important tour (13 December 2000)

Dec 13, 2000:

England proved that they were a better team

Dec 13, 2000: To say that there is disappointment in Pakistan at losing the Karachi Test match and with it the series would be to convey the most polite of sentiments

Wiseman a chance for Boxing Day Test

Dec 13, 2000: Paul Wiseman, probably the only international cricketer laid low by a frisbee, has every chance of being fit enough to re-admission to the New Zealand team for the Test against Zimbabwe starting at the Basin Reserve, Wellington, on December 26

Pakistan's abysmal home run continues

Dec 13, 2000: Karachi, Dec 12: England's first victory in Pakistan for 39 years in near twilight on Monday extended home side's abysmal track record to a fourth straight series loss

Castrol Lifetime Achievement award for Vijay Hazare

Dec 13, 2000: Captain Vijay Samuel Hazare - Indian cricket's first triple centurion, the first Indian to complete 1000 and 2000 runs in Test cricket and the first Indian to score a century in each innings of a Test, now has another `first' to his credit

Whatever happened to the young talent of Mumbai?

Dec 13, 2000: Mumbai's junior cricket has not been at its best recently

Showdown at Hagley Oval

Dec 13, 2000: The big guns may have just about sorted themselves out at the top of the table but tomorrow the bottom two teams, Ireland and the Netherlands, face what has developed into their big test of the CricInfo Women's World Cup: they play each other

Must-win match for England - against New Zealand

Dec 13, 2000: England face the first part of a two-part equation that could see them into the CricInfo Women's World Cup semi-finals in Christchurch

Schoolgirls' teams named in Wellington

Dec 13, 2000: The Wellington Cricket primary schools representative team to play in the Lower North Island tournament at Masterton from December 17-20 is: Ella Brockelsby, Alex Churchill, Rachel Collins (tbc), Bronwyn Davidson, Olivia Dean, Celia Holmes, Justine

Bring on the chicken farmers

Dec 13, 2000: We've gone down in the test series so the boys will be pretty disappointed when they get back over the next few days

Marching demo from the land of Riverdance

Dec 13, 2000: Another fantastic day at the cricket with a convincing win over South Africa at Lincoln Green

R & R a welcome respite from Cup duties

Dec 13, 2000: We were into the pool this morning for some recovery work before enjoying a rest day