Jack Mollinson Noreiga, who has died in Trinidad, had a brief but successful fling with Test cricket early in 1971

He shouldered his way into Test cricket with a smile and a swagger, biffing 65 against New Zealand at Old Trafford in 1994

Australia's Top End Tour -­ the experiment of trying Test matches in the far north of the country in what is technically their winter ­- has moved on to Cairns, in far north Queensland and the main jumpoff for the Great Barrier Reef

Just before the cricket roadshow moved from Darwin to Cairns, there was a chance to take in some of the sights of the Northern Territory

The denizens of Darwin were surprised yesterday: the sky, which had been resolutely blue throughout the town's inaugural Test, acquired some clouds

Kent 362 and 418 for 3 dec v Nottinghamshire 156 and 29 for 2 at Maidstone Scorecard Kent took complete charge of their match at Mote Park, setting Notts an unlikely victory target of 625 and removing two batsmen by the close

National League Division Two Durham 267 for 7 beat Scotland 153 by 114 runs Scorecard Back in May Scotland started their inaugural National League campaign with a victory over Durham, but there was no repeat at Raeburn Place in Edinburgh as

England scored several psychological points ahead of Saturday's NatWest Series final with a convincing victory over South Africa under the lights at Edgbaston with 11 overs to spare

One chunky Somerset man grabbed a record from another today when Marcus Trescothick marched out to the crease at Old Trafford in the NatWest Series match against South Africa

Marcus Trescothick: a very un-English innings The man at the ECB who thought up the Twenty20 Cup can give himself a pat on the back of his blazer today

It was a day for the new boys at Old Trafford

England v Zimbabwe, 2nd Test, Chester-le-Street, Day 2 After writing Zimbabwe off yesterday, when they'd had quite a decent day in the field, I felt a bit of a heel

England v Zimbabwe, 2nd Test, Chester-le-Street, Day One Thousands of northern prayers were answered when Chester-le-Street's first day of Test cricket dawned fine

There is justifiable pomp and ceremony going on up in Durham at the moment as the raring-to-go Riverside revs up for its first taste of Test cricket

Lt-Colonel John Stephenson, the secretary of MCC from 1987 to 1993, died yesterday at his home in Salisbury, Wiltshire

Surrey v Sussex at The Oval Scorecard When Saqlain Mushtaq claimed three early wickets at The Oval to reduce Sussex (chasing a distant 406) to 85 for 4, the odds were on another efficient mopping-up operation and another routine victory for the

Richard Johnson, the uncapped Somerset fast bowler, is the one new name in England's squad of 12 for the second npower Test against Zimbabwe, which starts at Chester-le-Street on Thursday (June 5)

Mark Butcher celebrates his hundred © Getty Images Mark Butcher's seventh century put England in a commanding position on the second day of the first npower Test at Lord's

We were promised demonstrations on the first day of the first Test against Zimbabwe at Lord's, but the only scowls on the way down to the ground from the tube station were on the faces of the touts, who must have caught a cold on a match where

The spectators who ran the gauntlet of the demonstrators at Lord's received about two-thirds of the overs expected today, and about one-third of the excitement