Cricket Headlines:
October 1997

Friday, 31 October 1997

Thursday, 30 October 1997

Wednesday, 29 October 1997

• West Indies defeat National Bank of Pakistan in their opening tour match.

Tuesday, 28 October 1997

• Wasim Akram captain and Rashid Latif recalled to Pakistan's squad for the Wills Quadrangular one-day series.
• One-day match between an Australian XI and ex-Cricket Academy graduates finishes in a tie.

Monday, 27 October 1997

• South Africa win a low-scoring Third Test and claim the series.

Sunday, 26 October 1997

• Queensland defeat New Zealand by 127 runs in Sunday's one-day tour match.

Saturday, 25 October 1997

• Phil Tufnell fined and given a suspended 18-month ban for failing to submit to a drugs test.

Friday, 24 October 1997

Thursday, 23 October 1997

Wednesday, 22 October 1997

Tuesday, 21 October 1997

• Torrential rain causes abandonment of the Second Test between Pakistan v South Africa as a draw.
• Aamir Sohail recalled to Pakistan's Test side for the Third Test.

Monday, 20 October 1997

• Leeward Islands defeat Guyana by 26 runs to win the first Final of the Red Stripe Bowl.

Sunday, 19 October 1997

• Zimbabwe defeat Kenya in the second final to win the Tri-Nations President's Cup series.
• Shane Warne decides not to play county cricket in 1998.

Saturday, 18 October 1997

• Zimbabwe beat Kenya in a rain affected first final of the Tri-Nations President's Cup series.
• Leeward Islands defeat Jamaica and will face Guyana in Monday's final of the Red Stripe Bowl.
• Queensland and New South Wales play a high-scoring draw in the first round of the Sheffield Shield. In the other match, South Australia takes first innings points in a draw with Tasmania.

Friday, 17 October 1997

• A water-logged pitch prevents play on the opening day of the Second Test between Pakistan and South Africa.
• Guyana qualify for the final of the Red Stripe Bowl after rain curtails their semi-final against Trinidad and Tobago.

Thursday, 16 October 1997

• Another partnership world record to Kenya in the sixth match of the Tri-Nations President's Cup series.

Wednesday, 15 October 1997

• Bangladesh collapse against Kenya in the fifth match of the Tri-Nations President's Cup series.
• Century to Mark Taylor among the opening day highlights of the Sheffield Shield season in Australia.

Tuesday, 14 October 1997

• Zimbabwe crush Bangladesh in the fourth match of the Tri-Nations President's Cup series.
• South Africa win their tour match against the Allied Bank XI.
• Mark Taylor dropped from Australian one-day team to play a team of graduates of the Australian Cricket academy, to play at Adelaide Oval on October 28 to mark teh tenth anniversary of the academy. Steve Waugh will captain the Australian side.

Monday, 13 October 1997

• A century to Aamir Sohail on the second day of the match between the Allied Bank XI and the touring South Africans.
• Pakistan's United Bank closes down its first-class cricket team as part of staff retrenchments.

Sunday, 12 October 1997

• Zimbabwe defeat Kenya in a rain-affected third match of the Tri-Nations President's Cup series.
• Hasan Raza becomes the youngest first-class double-centurion in first-class history for Karachi Whites against Bahawalpur.
• India Seniors defeat India A to win the final of the Challenger series.
• Michael Bevan steers New South Wales to victory in a Mercantile Mutual Cup thriller against Queensland.
• Sachin Tendulkar's wife gives birth to a baby girl.

Saturday, 11 October 1997

• ICC president Dalmiya proposes a "Mini World-Cup" for the nine Test nations in 1998.
• India A defeat India B by six wickets in the third game of the Challenger series.
• Trinidad & Tobago, Jamaica, Leeward Islands and Guyana the four semi-finalists in the Red Stripe Bowl.
• Shahid Afridi scores his maiden century in first-class cricket.

Friday, 10 October 1997

• The First Test between Pakistan and South Africa is drawn.
• A world record in Kenya as Chudasama and Otieno make 225 for the first wicket as Kenya beat Bangladesh.

Thursday, 9 October 1997

• India Seniors defeat India A by six wickets in the opening game of the Challenger series.
• Over a hundred members of the Australian players' union refuse to sign new contracts with the ACB.

Wednesday, 8 October 1997

• Azhar Mahmood joins Ali Naqvi in scoring a century on debut in Pakistan's first innings against South Africa. This is the first time that two players have scored a century on Test debut in the same innings.
• Mahmood and Mushtaq Ahmed equal a 24 year-old world 10th wicket partnership record by putting on 151 at the end of Pakistan's first innings. The previous Pakistan tenth wicket record was 133 (Wasim Raja and Wasim Bari, v West Indies, Bridgetown, 1976-77)
• Wasim Akram declares himself fit to play for Pakistan again.

Tuesday, 7 October 1997

• In the first Test between Pakistan and South Africa at Rawalpindi, rain and bad light cause the loss of three hours play. Pakistan advance their total from 216 for 6, to 345 for 9.
• Australian Cricket Board chairman Denis Rogers gives a warning at an official ACB function about "impostors" threatening to take over the game - believed to be a veiled reference to Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation.

Monday, 6 October 1997

• Ali Naqvi scores a century on Test debut in Pakistan's first innings against South Africa in the first Test at Rawalpindi.
• Danny Morrison retires from major cricket.

Sunday, 5 October 1997

• New Zealand defeat Zimbabwe in the final one-day international to draw the series 1-1.
• Bahatule bowls Mumbai to Irani Trophy victory.
• New South Wales defeat South Australia in the opening 12-a-side Mercantile Mutual Cup match of the season.

Saturday, 4 October 1997

• Zimbabwe defeat New Zealand in the second one-day international.

Friday, 3 October 1997

• Three new faces in Pakistan's fourteen-man squad for Monday's first Test against South Africa.
• Rest of India in trouble against Mumbai on day three of the Irani Trophy.
• South Africa draw the tour match against the Pakistan Board XI.

Thursday, 2 October 1997

• Ijaz Ahmed blasts Pakistan to a series victory in the third one-day international.

Wednesday, 1 October 1997

• Zimbabwe and New Zealand tie the first one-day international. (Match report).