41.   England announced the teams on Monday for the first two games of their Australian cricket tour.

42.   Devon Malcolm took just five balls in the England cricket tour to South Africa at Randjesfontein Tuesday to show what a threat he poses to the South Africans.

43.   England vs Otago cricket tour match in Queenstown.

44.   Essex left-arm seamer Mark Ilott has been summoned into the England Ashes cricket tour as cover for injured paceman Darren Gough.

45.   England captain Mike Atherton gave his players a lashing here Wednesday after they had crashed to their second defeat in the opening two weeks of their cricket tour.

46.   England paceman Martin McCague was forced out of the Ashes cricket tour on Wednesday because of a stress fracture of his right shin.

47.   England are unlikely to make another cricket tour of Pakistan until the beginning of the next century.

48.   Young allrounder Shane Watson was the surprise selection in the Australian squad Wednesday for the three-Test cricket tour to South Africa in February-March.

49.   With or without ace paceman Waqar Younis, Pakistan will have their hands full in the opening first-class clash of their Australian cricket tour.

50.   Pakistan will make its first official cricket tour of Zimbabwe early next year, cricket authorities announced Wednesday.