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Fanie de Villiers, the former Test fast bowler, has appealed to the United Cricket Board (UCB) to "forget transformation" in an attempt to halt South Africa’s spiral of defeats.Sri Lanka beat South Africa by 49 runs in the fifth one-day international in Colombo on Tuesday to complete a 5-0 whitewash, and South Africa’s tenth consecutive one-day defeat. That equals South Africa’s record barren run, which they endured in 1994: the consequences then were Mike Procter’s sacking as coach and Kepler Wessels’s resignation from the captaincy.Sri Lanka also beat Graeme Smith’s team 1-0 in the two-match Test series.A scathing de Villiers said the flaws in South African cricket originated below international level. "Myself, Kepler Wessels and Pat Symcox have been warning for a long time that the systems are not in place, the fundamentals are wrong," he lamented. "We’re hoping that the mistakes we make won’t cost us too much, instead of being pro-active and working out those mistakes before they even happen. We are probably the only country in the game that is not pro-active, that simply hopes we are doing things right."de Villiers said he felt that South Africa’s United Cricket Board was squandering the experience at its disposal, and that, in its attempts to stop the slide, it should sidestep the hitherto untouchable goal of racial integration in all spheres and levels of cricket. "There is so much knowledge in the system that is not being used," he said. "Gerald Majola [UCB chief executive] loves cricket, Ray Mali [president] loves cricket. Everybody loves cricket. But the people need to know that there is knowledge in the system. The previously advantaged, if they want to call us that, have the knowledge that needs to be shared. You can’t not use those people."Let’s forget transformation and get the most knowledgable people involved. People like Kepler Wessels, Fanie de Villiers, Pat Symcox, Brian McMillan and Allan Donald. Let’s get them together in advisory situations, and when players like Makhaya Ntini and Herschelle Gibbs retire we can get them involved. We don’t need to go the transformation route and involve people just because they were previously disadvantaged."Let’s get the people who have played at international level for long enough to have earned the respect of the current players involved."de Villiers was also critical of coach Eric Simons’s pledge to review his position if South Africa did not show improvement, and he had sharp questions for Anton Ferreira, the UCB’s coaching manager. "The players have never been the problem. If the players lose faith or form, if they are too arrogant, or negative or scared, who do you point fingers at? The coach. If I’m a player, and the coach says, `I will jump ship if they want me to,’ I would pin that coach to the wall! Now that the chips are down, now you want to jump ship? What kind of coach are you?”But the problem doesn’t lie just with Eric Simons,” he continued. “The problem lies with who is running professional coaching: Anton Ferreira. Whatever he has done, in the schools and the provinces and right up to international level, hasn’t worked. The players are not coming through, and those who do don’t stay there long enough."How can we struggle for five years to make Neil McKenzie a fulltime international player? The same goes for Boeta Dippenaar, Andre Nel and Mornantau Hayward. Whatever Anton Ferreira and the coaching panel have done has taken South African cricket from No. 1 in the world to No. 6 [in the official Test and ODI rankings]."Ferreira could not be reached for comment.

Zimbabwe all-rounder Gary Brent is set to stay and boost struggling Burridge when his current One-Day International commitments are completed next month.Speaking during Hampshire’s match with the tourists at the Rose Bowl yesterday, Brent confirmed that he will join the Southern Electric Premier League, Division 2 side after the tri-angular final at Lord’s on July 12.Brent, who spent three successful seasons with Burridge in the nineties, had originally planned to spend the whole summer back at his old haunts."But then I was picked for the ODI’s against England and South Africa, so all my plans changed," he said."It will be great to play with the Burridge lads again and hopefully I can help them out of their current predicament."Relegated from Premier 1 at the end of last season, Burridge currently lie fourth from bottom of Division 2, having lost three of their initial five matches.They visit local rivals Gosport tomorrow – minus in-form left-hander Neil Cunningham and Phil Ransley, both ex-Borough players. Suspended Lee Wateridge sits out the second and last match of his club-imposed ban.Unbeaten table toppers Old Tauntonians & Romsey face a stiff test at second-placed St Cross Symondians, who delay selection pending the possible availability of young Hampshire all-rounders Jimmy Adams and Jon Francis.Lymington all-rounder Glyn Treagus is ruled out against United Services by a nasty bout of tonsilitis, so in-form 2nd XI batsman Jason Carr comes in.Easton & Martyr Worthy entertain high-scoring Hursley Park at Cockets Mead, where they also host Sunday’s NVC county final tie against Paultons, 2pm.Sparsholt, who have won their last two matches to slip into a comfortable mid-table slot, ought to make it three victories in a row against winless Purbrook at the Norman Edwards Ground.

One-day bests from Robert Croft (92) and Andrew Davies (5-39) were thebackbone of Glamorgan’s 178–run Norwich Union League Division Twovictory over bottom-placed Essex at Sophia Gardens.Croft plundered his runs off just 82 balls with two sixes and five foursto help set Essex 290 to win in a match reduced to 41 overs each becauseof rain.Promotion hopefuls Glamorgan were given a whirlwind start after winningthe toss thanks to pinch-hitter Keith Newell whose 53-ball 50 helped hisside to 111-1 in the first 15 overs.After Newell and Matthew Maynard perished in quick succession, Croft andMike Powell ensured the impressive run rate continued adding 101 in 14overs before the England off spinner was bowled by Andy Clarke eightshort of what would have been a deserved and robust 100.Some of the Essex bowling figures didn’t make particularly good readingwith Clarke going for 79 from eight overs.The first maidens of the match came in the opening two overs of theEssex innings to put the visitors under more pressure after beingrequired to score at 7.07 an over from the start.Essex soon found themselves 54-3 with Darren Robinson brilliantlystumped by Adrian Shaw off Owen Parkin after Davies had dismissed bothRichard Clinton and Graham Napier.Davies struck again to claim the wickets of Stuart Law and Paul Grayson with consecutive balls as Essex’s dwindling chances were all but extinguished.The rest of the Essex batting crumbled to 111 all out with 16.4 oversremaining.

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Fine batting performances by debutant Nazimuddin and Mohammad Ashraful followed an efficient display in the field as Bangladesh wrapped up a five-wicket win against Kenya in the second game of the Twenty20 Quadrangular tournament in Nairobi.Ashraful’s decision to put Kenya in to bat was justified as Kenya were restricted to 138 for 7, with Mashrafe Mortaza, Farhad Reza and Abdur Razzak picking two wickets apiece. Bangladesh, led by Nazimuddin’s 43 and Ashraful’s 20-ball 36, chased down the target with more than two overs to spare.The target wasn’t a daunting one, but Bangladesh lost Tamim Iqbal with only 22 on the board. Aftab Ahmed, coming in at No. 3, lasted only six balls but blasted two fours and a six, all off Lameck Onyango, who leaked 18 runs in his first over. Rajesh Bhudia came on in the sixth over, and was hit for two sixes – one over the sightscreen and the other over midwicket – by Nazimuddin.Onyango got his revenge when Aftab was caught at long-off for 17, but Ashraful joined Nazimuddin in another useful partnership which yielded 26 off 25 balls. Nazimuddin’s dismissal for 43 didn’t help Kenya much either as Ashraful continued the run-scoring. When he was dismissed by Ongondo in the 14th over for 36, Bangladesh needed only another 24 runs from 40 deliveries. A sedate unbeaten 19-ball 17 from Alok Kapali saw Bangladesh through to victory with 14 balls to spare.Kenya struggled to make an impression in the field, and their batting performance earlier in the day wasn’t much better. They got off to a good start when David Obuya hit three fours in the first over off Mortaza, but the bowler struck back in his next two overs, dismissing the debutant Jadavji Jesani for 1, followed by Obuya for 23, which came off 19 balls.Tanmay Mishra and Steve Tikolo, the Kenyan captain, then put on a 42-run stand for the third wicket, before Tikolo was caught at deep midwicket while trying to clear the boundary off Ashraful.Kenya were 85 for 3 off 14 overs, before Mishra picked up the momentum with a four and six in the 15th over, bowled by Reza. That over cost 13, while the next – bowled by Ashraful – went for 14, with Thomas Odoyo hitting a four and six.They were pegged back, though, by a double-strike in Reza’s final over – the 17th of the innings – as both Odoyo and Mishra lost their off stump attempting a slog. Two wickets also fell in the next over from Razzak – both stumpings – but 17 runs off the last two overs ensured Kenya reached a reasonably competitive total, though it wasn’t good enough to challenge Bangladesh.Kenya face Uganda while Bangladesh meet Pakistan on Sunday.

Karachi Blues, who are battling for survival in the Grade-I, let some of the initiative slipped away on the first day of the Quaid-i-Azam Trophy match against Sargodha at the UBL Sports Complex here on Monday.Sargodha recovered to reach 180 in their first innings after being reduced to 67 for seven an hour into the afternoon session.Karachi Blues, in reply, survived two overs to close on two without loss. But Suleman Huda might have perished LBW to pacer Umair Hasan had umpire Sajjad Asghar not declared a no ball.After electing to bat first on a slow track, Sargodha lost the top five batsmen for only 26 runs on the board. Stand-in skipper Naved Latif, who amassed 394 against Gujranwala barely eight weeks ago, fell to left-arm paceman Imranullah for a first-ball duck. Imranullah bowled a fine opening spell to claim three wickets which left Sargodha taking lunch at 46 for five.When wicket-keeper Shahid Mahmood was bowled by left-arm spinner Salman Fazal for 14, Sargodha slumped to 67 for seven. However, dogged batting, engineered by left-handed Ashraf Bashir, by the lower order brought respectability to the score.Ashraf and Faisal Khan Afridi, a burly right-hander, shared an eighth wicket stand of 51 in 40 minutes. Afridi used the long handle effectively to make 31 off 32 balls with five fours. He also lifted Salman Fazal over long-off to the top railing of the stand for massive six.Ashraf finally departed when he holed out to Karachi Blues captain Farhan Adil at cover off part-time off-spinner Nomanullah after making 39 of 130 deliveries in two hours and 10 minutes. He put on 38 for the ninth wicket with Tariq Munir.Tariq slammed six boundaries on his way to a top-score of 44 in 87 minutes off 75 balls before he was caught behind by Rashid Latif shortly after the second new ball was taken by Mohammad Javed.Imranullah and Salman Fazal claimed three wickets apiece for 26 and 74 runs respectively while Javed chipped in with two for 31.

Ryan Hinds, former West Indies international, is contemplating taking a break from the game in the aftermath of his sacking as Barbados captain. Hinds, while refusing to accept the reasoning provided by the Barbados Cricket Association (BCA), failed to turn up for a national trial match at Kensington Oval on Thursday.”Sometimes in life you get disappointments. I don’t like to get into politics, but I felt it [his sacking] was a slap in the face to me,” Hinds said. “I am still waiting on the reasons why I was rejected as Barbados captain. I’m just exhausted. I hope that people don’t take it the wrong way. I want an opportunity to get my thoughts together.”Hinds was summoned to a BCA meeting on Wednesday and informed of the association’s decision which led to him expressing his dissatisfaction and missing the trial match. According to reports, discussion surrounding his leadership skills formed part of the meeting after which he was advised to attend a seminar.”I am supposed to be attending some sort of counselling which I am really shocked about. Once I come through these successfully, I’ll be eligible to be the captain again,” he said.”To be quite fair, if they had to ask me to be captain again, I wouldn’t take it. Within the last two years, I don’t like the way I have been treated. When I first took over as captain from Courtney [Browne], there were a lot of discussions whether I would be captain or not the next year.”A lot of it was personal. It was not cricket ability or my leadership skills. It was just personal. I don’t think that was fair.”A veteran of 86 first-class matches since making his debut for Barbados as a 17-year-old, Hinds was unhappy with the support he received during his tenure as captain. “Words can’t really explain how I feel now. My last four years since I took over as captain, my form has been good. I enjoyed captaining Barbados. I just want to say whoever the board selects as the captain would have my support.”Hinds, however, assured fans that being sacked as captain will not change his attitude and commitment towards the team. “I don’t want the public to get the wrong idea, saying that just because he is not captain he is not turning up and he doesn’t care about the cricket. That is not the case,” he said.It was announced later by Conde Riley, acting Barbados Cricket Association president, that Corey Collymore, the West Indies fast bowler, has been appointed Barbados captain.Collymore, with 85 first-class matches in his career including 30 Tests, is looking forward to the assignment and has promised to give it his best shot. “It was never a dream of mine of captain Barbados. My dream was always to play for Barbados and by extension West Indies. To captain your nation or your country is always an honour and I will try to do it to the best of my ability.”

While Brian Lara would not totally rule himself out of tomorrow’s match against India, the manner in which he spoke about his back spasms and the recovery process since the last match against Australia suggested that he was all but out of contention for the game. “I am not sure yet [about whether I will be fit]. I trained for the first time on Tuesday and the back was a bit sore,” he said. “The final decision will be made on Thursday. I am sure we still have an eleven that will still do the job. I’d love to make it. I am not going to do anything that will disable the team.”Lara made a superb 71 against Australia as West Indies won a thrilling match, but could not take the field in the second half of the match. The West Indies depend heavily on him, and while it was widely believed that he would be part of the mix even if he was not 100% fit, Lara said this was not the case. “It is important to field a fully fit eleven,” he said. “Our record against India has been impressive and we see it as a step forward, a psychological advantage over India. This match is huge. The crowd will be supportive of India but it is these conditions that will show the real mettle of a team. The guys are fully aware of that.”Without a frontline spinner in the squad, Lara’s concerns about the dew were obviously nowhere near as serious as that of his Indian counterpart. “It is important to play your best team. Sri Lanka used two spinners productively on Tuesday and South Africa did not use any,” he said. “As far as we are concerned, we know what to do and pick the team accordingly. We will try and put up an eleven that will ensure us a win.”When it was put to Lara that the West Indian middle-order had struggled when he and the other big guns at the top of the order had failed to fire, his response was sharp. “I can only go as far back as to our last game against Australia and there the numbers five and six got a good partnership,” he said. “We are going to focus on the positives and move forward. This team is constantly improving. I am focussed on winning and keen to contribute to it, if not physically in the middle, then from the sidelines.”Lara also suggested that this squad had characters in them who could step up and do the job in case someone was injured. “We’ve seen the depth in the team,” he said. “See, despite Corey Collymore not being around (Collymore is back in the West Indies to be with his wife for the birth of their child), we have had guys who’ve filled the gap admirably. We have players we can call upon. Having said that, we still want to pick from among 14 players. When we get that, it will be a great advantage.”At the moment, though, this game against India is crucial to the West Indies, and Lara did not try to underplay that. West Indies have had a run of success against India in recent times, beating them 4-1 at home, and then again in Malaysia. Lara hoped that beating India in India would give his team an even bigger boost. “If things go well in the World Cup we are going to be meeting India in a very crucial stage in the second round,” he explained. “This match is huge. Yes there are factors to be taken into consideration – It’s not Malaysia, it’s not West Indies, it’s Ahmedabad, and the crowds will be fully supportive of India. I think in these sort of situations you can see the real mettle of a team and that’s what we are focusing on to ensure that we come out on top in this particular match. Because it will augur well if we can do that.”It almost went all pear-shaped for West Indies early in the tournament when they were bowled out for only 80 against Sri Lanka. But they’ve bounced back admirably since. “After losing to Sri Lanka, we went back to the drawingboard and worked out situations, what we wanted to do against the best team in the world and executed that very well,” said Lara. “Now we are moving forward, and this stage of the tournament is crucial, as we come out against better teams continuously. We know where we are at the present and feel very comfortable in the zone.”When Lara walked around, it certainly appeared that he was suffering from a very stiff back. And with all the talk of his injury, it overshadowed every other aspect of the conversation surrounding West Indies’ match against India. Ramnaresh Sarwan will be preparing himself mentally to be leading the side, if it comes to that. Shivnarine Chanderpaul, who has recovered from food poisoning, will be bracing himself to shoulder more responsibility should Lara be forced to sit out. “I’d love to be out there tomorrow, but that decision will be taken at the last minute,” said Lara. And while all the indications are that he is likely to miss out, everyone will be holding their breath till that last minute that Lara spoke about. After all, how many times has it happened in cricket that someone, a critical player at that, is believed to be fit or unfit a day before a game, and the reality changes dramatically when the first ball is bowled. Cricket, they say, is a mind game, and it is perfectly legitimate for a captain to try and gain and edge through psychological ploys. Could this just be another one of those?

The spat between Sourav Ganguly and Greg Chappell has held Indian cricket captive over the last few days. Both sides will finally get an opportunity to present their side of the story when they put forward their cases before the review committee of the BCCI, which will meet in Mumbaitomorrow (September 27). There was some doubt about the participation of Ganguly, who lost his grandfather in Kolkata today, but media reports suggested that he would reach Mumbai tomorrow morning to defend himself against the charges levelled by Chappell.The committee, comprising Sunil Gavaskar, Ravi Shastri, Srinivas Venkataraghavan, along with Ranbir Singh Mahendra, the board president, SK Nair, the secretary, and Jagmohan Dalmiya, had originally been set up to review the performances of the Indian team on the tours of Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe, but in the light of the current controversy, the captain-coach issue will surely form the chunk of the discussions.Chappell has clearly not been enamoured of Ganguly and some of the other members of the Indian team in his short stint as coach of the team. However, the spat came out in the public following Ganguly’s suggestion that he was asked to step down before the Test in Bulawayo. An uneasy truce followed, but just in its aftermath came the email from Chappell to the board, the entire contents of which was leaked to the media.The details of the letter show the extent to which relations have soured between the two. Chappell has accused Ganguly of desperately hanging on his captaincy, even at the cost of harming the team’s harmony. Question-marks have been raised about Ganguly’s mental and physical fitness, and his ability to stay afloat in international cricket. Ganguly hasn’t put forward his defence before the media yet, but the Bengali daily did quote sources claiming one abrasive remark: “You can imagine the the character of a person who within hours of a truce goes and writes such an e-mail.”These are extremely serious allegations, and the six-man committee will have its hands full in trying to resolve the matter. The credentials of Gavaskar, Shastri and Venkataraghavan, all former national captains, are impeccable, but the pitch has been queered by the presence of Dalmiya, known to be a Ganguly supporter. Raj Singh Dungarpur, a former BCCI president, even accused Dalmiya of being responsible for leaking the email to save Ganguly. “Ganguly knows he has the license to kill as long as Dalmiya is there,” Dungarpur thundered, and then went on to accuse Harbhajan Singh, who came out in open support of his captain. If Dalmiya is a Ganguly supporter, then Shastri, it seems, is in the other camp, and is among those who favours a change in captaincy.Increasingly, it seems, both Chappell and Ganguly cannot work together. The review committee can only offer its recommendation to the board, and not make a final decision, but the direction in which they veer could well decide the direction the Indian team takes over the next few years.

Nantie Hayward, the South African fast bowler, has reconsidered his decision to quit international cricket, and has insisted he would like to play for South Africa again if selected.Hayward, 27, has played 14 Tests for South Africa, his last being against Pakistan in January 2003. Later that month, it was revealed that he had signed a deal with Worcestershire which precluded him from being released for international matches. At the time, he said he agreed to the contract because he had not been consistently selected in the national squad, and had therefore given up hope of future selection. He also felt he had to secure his financial and playing future elsewhere.However, Gerald Majola, the South African board’s chief executive, has confirmed Hayward has changed his tune. “I spoke to Nantie this week and he expressed a real keenness to play for South Africa again,” he said. “Nantie said he had acted hastily in declaring his international career over last year, and that he was now fully committed to regaining a place in the national squad.”He added, “I have also been in contact with my counterpart atMiddlesex, Vince Codrington, who has assured me that the county would not stand in Nantie’s way if he were required to play for South Africa during the period of his contract.”Speaking from London where he is playing for Middlesex, Hayward himself said: “I am very excited about the possibility of playing international cricket again. I made some rash decisions, which I have now put behind me and I’m totally focused on playing for South Africa again, I would love to get the chance to prove myself at the highest level.”Hayward’s rethink has also been given the approval from Eric Simons, South Africa’s coach. “This is good news,” he said, “we need committed, fit fast bowlers in the mix and to have a man of Nantie’s ability fighting for a place in the team can only be good for cricket. If he shows the right type of form he will definitely come into consideration for selection.”Meanwhile, Neil Johnson, the former Zimbabwe allrounder, has now qualified to represent South Africa after completing his four-year period of residency.Johnson, 34 and born in Zimbabwe, played 14 Tests and 48 one-dayers for Zimbabwe between 1998 and 2000. After he left Zimbabwe, he signed for Western Province as an overseas player and is now able to play for the national team. “I’m very excited, it would be a dream come true if I did actually get the opportunity to play for South Africa,” Johnson said. “I was lucky enough to play at the highest level for Zimbabwe for four years early in my career and now I have something to play for at this late stage in my career.”

The 2003 BBC Sport Kwik Cricket Tournament is now under way with games taking place in Primary Schools throughout England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.Over 5,500 schools will enter, making it cricket’s biggest competition. With 10 children per team squad – teams must field at least one girl – over 55,000 boys and girls under the age of 11 will battle for the chance to appear in the National Final at the Trent Bridge international ground in Nottingham on Tuesday 15 July. An England player will preside over the final, in which 16 teams will contest for the title of national champions.The champions will win a brand new set of playground markings worth up to £7,000 for their school.David Leighton, ECB Primary Schools Development Manager, said: “We are delighted to have BBC Sport as sponsors of our hugely successful Kwik Cricket Tournament. The competition goes from strength to strength – we had record numbers last year and we anticipate even more teams taking part this summer, which demonstrates that cricket is very much alive in schools throughout the country.”The playground markings are a fantastic prize. They transform what can be an uninspiring playground into a hive of sporting activity for all the children in the school to enjoy. The headmaster of the winning team will be delighted.”The 2003 BBC Kwik Cricket Tournament begins with local and district festivals (to be played by mid-June), with the winning teams progressing through to the county finals (to be played by late June). The victors of the county finals qualify for the regional finals (to be played by Friday 4 July), and the most successful will progress to the national final.Playground markingsThe playground markings and targets, devised by the ECB’s Development Department, will not only encourage boys and girls to play sport in their breaks but will help teachers deliver the school curriculum.Numbered targets will help with numeracy skills while the layout of the targets within the playground will facilitate more organised PE practice time. In addition, the brightly coloured markings will allow matches and training for a multitude of sports, including cricket, football, netball and hockey so a wide-range of sporting tastes can be catered for.The markings will be installed by Highway Safety Systems, a Stockport-based Company which is the largest supplier and installer of pre-formed playground markings in the UK, thus ensuring that they will be of the highest quality.Kwik Cricket – the rulesThe two teams toss a coin to decide which team has the choice of either batting or fielding first.Games consist of one innings per team, each innings to be eight overs long. The batting side is divided into pairs, each pair batting for two overs, with a new pair starting at the end of the second, fourth and sixth overs.Each team starts batting with a score of 200 runs. Each time a batter is out, five runs are deducted and the other batter of the pair faces the next ball. A batter may be out bowled, caught, run out, stumped, hit wicket. There is no LBW rule unless the batter deliberately blocks the ball with a leg or foot.Runs will be scored in the normal way, as will byes. Two runs will be awarded to the batting team for each wide ball and no-ball bowled, but no extra ball will be allocated, except in the final over of each innings when, in addition to the two runs, an extra ball will be bowled.At the end of the first two overs, the first pair of batters retires and are replaced by the second pair until all four pairs have batted for two overs each. The second team then bats for its eight overs.Each player on the fielding side must bowl one over and bowling will take place from one end only (bowling over-arm where possible). Players on the fielding side do not need to rotate fielding positions. With the exception of the wicketkeeper, no fielder is allowed within 10 yards of the batter until the ball is played by the batter.The team with the higher score wins. In the event of a tie the team taking more wickets will be the winner. If it is still equal, each player bowls one ball at the wickets (no batter), with the team scoring the higher number of strikes the winner.2003 BBC Sport Kwik Cricket Tournament dates

County Finals:Bedfordshire – 24/06/2003 – Flitwick CCCBerkshire – 25/06/2003 – Wokingham CCBuckinghamshire – 17/06/2003 – tbcCambridgeshire – 01/07/2003 – Clare College sports GrdCheshire – 02/07/2003 – Warrington Sports ClubCornwall – 18/06/2003 – St Austell Cricket ClubCumbria – 20/06/2003 – Keswick Cricket ClubDerbyshire – 27/06/2003 – Harehay CCDevon – 20/06/2003 – Newton AbbotDorset – 10/06/2003 – Bryanston SchoolDurham – 16/06/2003 – County Ground RiversideEssex – 03/07/2003 – BillericayGloucestershire – 25/06/2003 – Cheltenham Cricket ClubHampshire – 25/06/2003 – The Rose BowlHerefordshire – 19/06/2003 – Luctonians CCHertfordshire – 25/06/2003 – Shenley Cricket CentreHuntingdonshire – 25/06/2003 – Hinchingbrooke SchoolIsle of White – date tbc – NewportKent – 06/07/2003 – St Lawrence GroundLancashire – 26/06/2003 – Old TraffordLeics & Rutland – 18/06/2003- Grace RoadLincolnshire – 21/06/2003 – Hartsholme CCLondon – 24/06/2003 – Walker Ground;SouthgateMiddlesex – 03/07/2003 – Lord’sNorfolk – 24/06/2003 – Horsford County Cricket GroundNorthamptonshire – 25/06/2003 – The County GroundNorthumberland – 20/06/2003- South North CCNottinghamshire – 30/06/2003 – Boots Sports GroundOxfordshire – 27/06/2003 – Rover Sports ClubShropshire – date tbc – Wellington CCSomerset – 08/06/2003 – Country Ground, TauntonStaffordshire – 24/06/2003 – Cannock CCSuffolk – 30/06/2003 – WoolpitSurrey – 08/07/2003 – The OvalSussex – 24/06/2003 – Horsham CCWales – tbcWarwickshire – date tbc – Kenilworth Wardens CCWiltshire – 27/06/2003 – DevizesWorcestershire – 16/06/2003 – County Ground, WorcesterYorkshire – tbcRegional Finals:East – 08/07/2003 – Bury St EdmundsEast Midlands – 07/07/2003 – Boots Sports GroundNorth – 25/06/2003 – Graham Sports Centre, Maidens CastleNorth East – 04/07/2003 – Headingley Cricket ClubNorth West – 07/07/2003 – Warrington Sports ClubNorthern Ireland – 24/06/2003 – Ballymena CCScotland – 24/06/2003 – Stirling County CCSouth – 03/07/2003 – Rover Sports Club, OxfordSouth East – 09/07/2003 – East Grinstead CCSouth West – 27/06/2003 – Newton AbbotWales South – 9/7/03 – Aberystwyth CCWales North – 4/7/03 – Sophie GardensWest Midlands – 02/07/2003 – Wallsall Cricket ClubNational Final:Tuesday 15 July, Trent Bridge (Nottingham)