1.   But he is a keen cricket fan.

2.   Durham cricket fan Lydia Bhatlekar, of Jesmond, Newcastle, is improving in hospital after suffering a reaction to anti-malaria tablets while supporting her team abroad.

3.   She proposes to recruit a famous cricket fan Prime Minister John Major, with whom she dined only last week to the fight.

4.   Pakistan cricket fans ran onto the field and stopped play Thursday with their team closing in on a major victory over England.

5.   Political rivalry and fears of violence by crazy cricket fans saw India and Pakistan playing one-day matches in third countries.

6.   Prime Minster John Major was one of the first to pay tribute to the man who captivated cricket fans in the immediate post-war years.

7.   Placid subcontinental tracks and overtly defensive tactics killed any chances of test matches producing a winner and have repeatedly tested the resolve of the cricket fans.

8.   A couple of years ago, curious cricket fans watched a lanky fast bowler with a ponytail hurling down a cricket ball in the nets at Adelaide.

9.   A cricket fan in the central Indian town of Bhopal organized a daylong Hindu prayer attended by thousands of people.

10.   A private airplane carrying six Trinidad cricket fans crashed into the Caribbean minutes after taking off from Kingstown, killing at least two people.