According to the current Wisden during the last domestic season in Pakistan: 'Bahawalpur were awarded the match

According to the current Wisden, during the last domestic season in Pakistan: 'Bahawalpur were awarded the match after Sargodha had refused to continue on the first day following an umpiring dispute.' (Aamir Sohail was playing for Sargodha).Such entries are not uncommon.The unsatisfactory officialdom has extended into England's organisation in this series. Many of the Azzurri are household names; some of the Americans are unknown outside their campuses. Michel Vauzelle of France and Claudio Martelli of Italy suggested that Britain, which holds the EC Presidency, should convene a meeting of interior and justice ministers in September. It is a very sad loss.'Sir Peter Ustinov said: 'He was a wonderful actor and a very good friend on the occasions that life brought us together.'Dennis Potter, the playwright who worked with Mr Elliott on the film Brimstone and Treacle, said: 'He was a complicated, sensitive and slightly disturbing actor. Under the new system, the parent would have to pay pounds 479 for every year the case lasted - possibly three or more years - meaning a total bill in excess of pounds 1,200.The extent of the savings made by freezing legal aid rates will depend on the increase Lord Mackay had been planning to award.

'It's time we fell into line with the Continentals and gave the game in this country a chance.'Graham has been full of such bright ideas during pre-season training, some of them seemingly quite out of character. On Tuesday, Arsenal, the first to agree the fee with Queen's Park Rangers, had withdrawn their interest, claiming they had waited long enough for Sinton's decision. Beyond that, she foresees a final Olympic appearance in Atlanta Or better still, an Olympic final appearance Where Kerly led, Sixsmith would like to follow .(Photograph omitted). But hopes of a bid died as the oddly named Three In Eleven was said to be 'not hostile'. It is marked by the labour of the quarry, by the Great War, fierce religion, its isolation and the personal torments and repressions these produce. As we did this, red tanks patrolled the perimeter of the field and dinner-jacketed bouncers protected another installation which had one million pounds in cash nailed to it. But as they drew near, the 70ft-long, giant bull sperm whale dramatically turned the tables and charged his pursuers He hit the first boat head-on and smashed it.

After an angry speech by Tony Banks, Labour MP for Newham NW, who said picking on beggars was just a smokescreen to cover Government incompetence, the Bill was rejected by 148 votes to 76.Real cancers eating at the heart of society were mass unemployment, homelessness and the enormous gap between the rich and poor, Mr Banks said. Police struggled to keep back onlookers and people desperate for news of relatives and friends In chaotic scenes, paramedics treated people on the ground. Some of the latter's 1992 reports are blood-curdling.Off the Angolan capital of Luanda, 'the pirates approach their targets in a small wooden boat, which they propel with one oar. If the big boys want your top man, eventually he'll want to go. THE Government is about to privatise British Telecom for the third time. If Halls Fine Art Auctions of Shrewsbury are right, armchairs bought for pounds 135 in the Fifties could sell for pounds 20,000 or more on 3 September.

You lose sight of that here, where the shipwrecked courtiers tend to materialise like a disoriented cast of thesps from behind a sky-painted screen and where David Troughton's excellent Caliban and the low-life conspirators are dragged on and off the stage in the cramped conveyance of the theatrical skip.In putting Ariel right at the heart of things, the opening sequence is again indicative of the production's priorities throughout. I would rather wait for the plants to flower, pulling them out as soon as the flowers fade. Of the remaining nine Lloyd's decided that there was no case to answer in respect of one and amended a further two as they were not wholly supported by the evidence.Mr Cowan was eventually found guilty on five charges and not guilty on the remainder.During the proceedings Richard Southwell QC, deputy president of Lloyd's appeal tribunal, concluded that one of the offences of which he had been found guilty had not been committed for personal gain. Then, when Malcolm had Matthew Maynard moved to deep backward square leg to tempt Richie Richardson into the hook, the West Indian captain hit it straight to him.On the basis that they don't play too much cricket in Antarctica, it seems a touch incongruous to find the Kingston Daily Gleaner monitoring the progress of the Jamaican bobsleigh team, but if they can go downhill as fast as England's batsmen did over the weekend, put your money on Jamaica I for the gold medal.By the standards of England batting collapses in recent years, 121 for 0 to 234 all out was a fairly routine affair, and it was a not unfamiliar story against the type of attack that is well used to removing one can from the bottom of a tidy supermarket display, after which the whole lot goes clattering across the floor.What made this one so depressing was the fact that it was no so much the customary case of Curtly Ambrose and death by high velocity bullet, as Kenneth Benjamin and collective suicide by water pistol. It's astonishing in a city of this size that no one has sensed the opportunity of building a decent bar.

Sufi in origin, Qawwali is the most rousing devotional music you could imagine, and a concert performance of it is a concentrated experience of steadily growing excitement. America had two teams and it was their White trio of Don Smith's 50-footer, Falcon, Helmut Jahn's Farr 39, Flash Gordon, and David Clarke's Mumm 36, Pigs in Space, who led from the beginning to the end of the testing seven-race series. The Americans' 31-point margin over second-placed Germany Green, was enough to have allowed them all to stay moored in Cowes for the final 16-mile procession around the eastern Solent yesterday and still have won by one point. In a world that is becoming smaller and societies that are becoming multicultural, it may be time for Western culture to examine itself critically in terms of its views of other cultures. Two years on, a friend of Spender's telephoned him with alarming news: David's book was announced in Heinemann's autumn catalogue.Tom Weldon, who has recently crossed the Atlantic to work for Reed Books (part of the conglomerate that owns Heinemann) in New York, says that Portrait with Background is not a fully-fledged biography, even though the book is dressed up to appear so: 'Anyway, all the tension suggests there's a tremendous amount of interest in Spender, both as a poet and a man.' Though he was responsible for editing the book, Weldon adds, almost casually: 'Any factual errors can be changed for the reprint' - a bit like being told your plumbing will be fixed only after your sodden ceiling has caved in. A little later her name disappeared from the trade reference books.