Cricket gains a toe-hold in Vietnam (5 Dec 1999)

Dec 5, 1999: Natarajan Srikanth, former member of the Hanoi Cricket Club, provides this laid back report on cricket in Hanoi, Vietnam

New United States secretary, Dr. Atul Rai, looks to the future (5 Dec 1999)

Dec 5, 1999: New United States secretary, Dr

Tanzanian cricket looks to go ‘Afro' (5 Dec 1999)

Dec 5, 1999: Cricket in Tanzania is in a transitional stage as it attempts to transcend its South Asian roots to take a more mainstream position in the country's sporting market

Qatar season starts with expats tournament (5 Dec 1999)

Dec 5, 1999: The Qatar Cricket Association season began in October with a fournation expatriate tournament

Excuse my French, but New Caledonians love their cricket! (5 Dec 1999)

Dec 5, 1999: Excuse my French, but New Caledonians love their cricket

Bob Simpson goes and Haroon Rashid arrives as Nepal gears up for Under 19 World Cup debut (5 Dec 1999)

Dec 5, 1999: Nepal's build-up for the World Under 19s Youth Cup has received a boost with news that former Pakistan Test batsman, Haroon Rashid, will visit Kathmandu to help with the team's training

Kuwaiti national team makes its debut - domestic season kicks off (5 Dec 1999)

Dec 5, 1999: On almost every front cricket at the non-Test level is establishing new firsts - this was the case in August/September when the Kuwait national cricket team played their first ever matches, touring Pakistan

Cricket in Saudi Arabia receives Royal blessing (5 Dec 1999)

Dec 5, 1999: While it was the British who spread our game to all corners of the Empire, it is the Indian, Pakistani, Sri Lankan and the Bangladeshi who has pushed our sport far beyond the former possessions of the House of Windsor to new frontiers such as Saudi

The latest from Italy - The Coppa Italia Cricket Max and Under 13s title controversy (5 Dec 1999)

Dec 5, 1999: Dr

Preparations for the inaugural Gulf Cup hot up (5 Dec 1999)

Dec 5, 1999: While the competition organisers had previously intimated in the last edition of `Cricket Beyond The Test World' that officials of the Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates would be able to choose from their domestic

Botswana likely to withdraw from Africa Cup - all the news from the domestic front (5 Dec 1999)

Dec 5, 1999: Botswana is likely to withdraw from the Africa Cricket Association Cup in February due to financial reasons

Bahrain CC reasserts itself as Bahraini domestic cricket's heavyweight (5 Dec 1999)

Dec 5, 1999: Champions may occasionally be usurped, but never vanquished, and so is the case in the Bahrain Cricket Association where perennial champion Bahrain CC appears set to wash out the bad taste associated with losing last season's title to Young Boys

Cricket in Argentina enters 102nd season with optimism (5 Dec 1999)

Dec 5, 1999: `Beyond The Test World' is delighted to welcome Argentine national coach, Grant Dugmore to its stable of contributors

News of tournaments involving non-Test teams (5 Dec 1999)

Dec 5, 1999: The communication problems which typically plague African cricket at the non-Test level look set to delay the finalisation of February's Africa Cricket Association Cup line-up

Bangladesh Domestic: Parvez powers Sylhet

Dec 5, 1999: Opener Parvez hammered a brilliant 90 as National League leaders Sylhet took a stranglehold over Khulna on the second day at the Sylhet Stadium yesterday

Ontong has right credentials for A Team selection policy

Dec 5, 1999: Centurion - At some stage in the first week of the new century South Africa's national selectors might suddenly realise there are other teams to select than those for limited-over internationals

Umpires lodge report about Indian dissent

Dec 5, 1999: Umpires Darrell Hair and Simon Taufel have lodged a report with match referee Dick French about dissent by the Indian team during Saturday's third day of the tour match against New South Wales at the Sydney Cricket Ground

When Clarke came to India as the WI Spearhead

Dec 5, 1999: Sylvester Clarke, who died in Bridgetown on Saturday, played five of his eleven Tests against India

Second `Test' match also drawn

Dec 4, 1999: The four day second `Test' between India A and West Indies A ended in a tame draw at Georgetown on Friday

India beat Pakistan in inconsequential match

Dec 4, 1999: India A-1 defeated Pakistan A by 48 runs in an inconsequential match in the inaugural Abu Dhabi Cup tournament on Thursday night