U19 World Cup: It’s not a breeze for everyone
If you thought the first week of the Under-19 World Cup was going to be boring, think again. There’s a very good chance that by Friday night, both the winner and runner-up of the 2002 competition might be finished for 2004.
And a warm welcome to the Netherlands Antilles
Cricket’s global community expanded just a little further on Friday February 6 when the Netherlands Antilles hosted its first first-class cricket match. The Leeward Islands played host to the Windwards in their Carib Beer Series match at the Carib Lumber Ground, Philipsburg, Sint Maarten. The Netherlands Antilles is now the 35th country to host first-class […]
England, New Zealand to play Twenty20 international
In 1973, the women were first with a cricket world cup, and in 2004 they will be first with a Twenty20 cricket international.
Where are they now? Waqar Younis
Dumped, not just as captain but as a player, after Pakistan’s first-round exit from the World Cup. One of the world’s finest fast bowlers of the last fifteen years, Waqar Younis has come to Sydney to ply his wares over the 2003-04 summer.
BCCI rejects amalgamation with WCAI
The Board of Control of Cricket in India (BCCI), which governs the men’s game in the world’s most populous cricketing nation, has rejected an application from the women’s governing body for an amalgamation.
Warnie’s ban from training
It looks like Shane Warne will be barred from training with the Victorian, Australian (or even St Kilda) teams if his twelve-month ban for drug transgressions is carried out to its fullest. We’ll hear more about this. JH was asked for comment by Neil Mitchell on Melbourne’s radio 3AW this morning (August 22).
Pakistan to replace WI on Sri Lankan tour
Pakistan will play one Test and three one-day internationals in Sri Lanka in January following the cancellation of the West Indies’ tour. The West Indies Women’s Cricket Federation decided last month that they would not proceed with their tour of Sri Lanka and Pakistan because of security concerns related to geopolitical instability in the south […]
WI shelve Asian tour but plan home triseries
The West Indies’ plans for their first international tour since the 1997 Women’s World Cup were shelved during November. The West Indies Women’s Cricket Federation cancelled its tour of Sri Lanka, scheduled for January, and abandoned tentative plans for a visit to Pakistan immediately afterwards. The war in Afghanistan, and broader concerns about security in […]
New Zealand women’s tour of India cancelled
[This article was originally published on the defunct Cricketwoman website in 2001. – RE] The New Zealand White Ferns tour of India set down for late November and December has been cancelled due to security concerns. The decision to call the tour off was announced on November 1 by New Zealand Cricket chief executive Martin […]
Murali no-balled for throwing
I wrote this article, filed at the innings break in England’s ODI against Sri Lanka at Adelaide Oval, for the 23 January 1999 edition of the daily email publication Cricinfo365. The complete day’s edition is sourced from archive.org’s Wayback Machine here.