European Cricket Championships, 2006

Miraz · #1 August 5, 2006, 01:03 PM

I am quite impressed to see so many teams are participating in European Cricket Championships, 2006. It is divided into two division. Here's the fixture ..

Fixtures
European Cricket Championships, 2006

August 2006
Thu 3	Division Two, Pool A - France v Norway Whitehaugh, Paisley
Thu 3	Division Two, Pool B - Germany v Greece Hillhead Sports Club Ground, Glasgow
Thu 3	Division Two, Pool B - Gibraltar v Germany GHK Cricket Club Ground, Glasgow
Thu 3	Division Two, Pool A - Israel v Jersey New Anniesland, Glasgow
Fri 4	Division One - Italy v Netherlands Shawholm, Glasgow
Fri 4	Division One - Denmark v Ireland Hamilton Crescent, Glasgow
Sat 5	Division Two, Pool A - France v Jersey GHK Cricket Club Ground, Glasgow
Sat 5	Division Two, Pool A - Israel v Norway Hillhead Sports Club Ground, Glasgow
Sat 5	Division Two, Pool B - Germany v Guernsey Titwood, Glasgow
Sat 5	Division Two, Pool B - Gibraltar v Greece Whitehaugh, Paisley
Sat 5	3rd Match - Scotland v Ireland Cambusdoon New Ground, Ayr
Sun 6	Division One - Denmark v Italy New Anniesland, Glasgow
Sun 6	Division Two, Pool A - France v Israel Meikleriggs, Paisley
Sun 6	Division Two, Pool A - Jersey v Norway Langloan, Coatbridge
Sun 6	Division Two, Pool B - Germany v Gibraltar Albert Park, Glasgow
Sun 6	Division Two, Pool B - Greece v Guernsey Henty Thow Oval, Prestwick
Sun 6	5th Match - Scotland v Netherlands Cambusdoon New Ground, Ayr
Mon 7	Division One - Ireland v Italy Hamilton Crescent, Glasgow
Tue 8	Division One - Scotland v Denmark New Anniesland, Glasgow
Tue 8	Division Two 5th Place Play-off Semi-Final - TBC v TBC Whitehaugh, Paisley
Tue 8	Division Two 5th Place Play-off Semi-Final - TBC v TBC Hillhead Sports Club Ground, Glasgow
Tue 8	Division Two Semi Final - TBC v TBC Titwood, Glasgow
Tue 8	Division Two Semi Final - TBC v TBC Shawholm, Glasgow
Tue 8	7th Match - Ireland v Netherlands Cambusdoon New Ground, Ayr
Wed 9	Division One - Denmark v Netherlands Shawholm, Glasgow
Wed 9	Division One - Scotland v Italy Hamilton Crescent, Glasgow
Wed 9	Division Two 3rd Place Play-off Semi-Final - TBC v TBC Meikleriggs, Paisley
Wed 9	Division Two 3rd Place Play-off Semi-Final - TBC v TBC Titwood, Glasgow
Wed 9	Division Two 7th Place Play-off Semi-Final - TBC v TBC Langloan, Coatbridge
Wed 9	Division Two Final - TBC v TBC New Anniesland, Glasgow

Xavier · #2 August 5, 2006, 05:08 PM

This is the table now for the European Championships, Division One:

Table

P W T NR L Pts NRR
Ireland 2 2 0 0 0 4 +1.84
Netherlands 1 1 0 0 0 2 +2.80
Denmark 1 0 0 0 1 0 -1.98
Scotland 1 0 0 0 1 0 -1.70
Italy 1 0 0 0 1 0 -2.80

I guess the winner should be Ireland, or maybe Netherlands... that beat Italy by 140 runs (

), that says much about our level at cricket, as you think that Sri Lanka made ODI world record score against Netherlands few days ago!

Cricket is slowly growing in Italy, but only because asian immigrants are starting to play it here and form some teams!
The italian national team has five italians and six immigrants (obviously the best players!). Anyway... we do exist!

This is the page to follow the EC, if anyone is interested in it.
http://www.cricketeurope.net/ECC/DAT...V1/about.shtml
As usual no media coverage in Italy, also cricinfo is not reporting about it, so I didn't even know it was played!

Who knows... maybe sometimes in the future there'll be an Italy v Bangladesh one day match!

Arnab · #3 August 6, 2006, 10:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Xavier
Who knows... maybe sometimes in the future there'll be an Italy v Bangladesh one day match!

Absolutely. Looking forward to it.

Rabz · #4 August 7, 2006, 02:29 AM

i was quite oblivious that Europe has a such a good league in cricket. 13 teams, if i hv counted them right. thats great !! and as with everything european, it looks very professional, structured and organised.

i bet if Europe can keep it up, they will hv a good team or two in the future.
best of luck Europe.

Xavier · #5 August 7, 2006, 07:40 AM

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Originally Posted by Arnab
Absolutely. Looking forward to it.

So you'll get your record score too and Ashraful will make a double century...

Sovik · #6 August 7, 2006, 07:54 AM

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Originally Posted by Xavier
So you'll get your record score too and Ashraful will make a double century...

its will not be that easy. and ashraful! no way.

Xavier · #7 August 7, 2006, 08:04 AM

One who scores 100 to Australia can easily make 200 to Italy!

btw at the time we are being hammered by Ireland:
http://www.cricketeurope4.net/LIVE/4/live.shtml
79 all out!

and Joyce brothers are not even playing!

btw yesterday Scotland beat Holland scoring 12 runs on last over!
(de Leede was the "dutch Mortaza"...)

Sovik · #8 August 7, 2006, 08:11 AM

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Originally Posted by Xavier
One who scores 100 to Australia can easily make 200 to Italy!

btw at the time we are being hammered by Ireland:
http://www.cricketeurope4.net/LIVE/4/live.shtml
79 all out!

and Joyce brothers are not even playing!

btw yesterday Scotland beat Holland scoring 12 runs on last over!
(de Leede was the "dutch Mortaza"...)

many players scored 100 against australia and played against minnows too.

and dutch mortoza! very funny

Miraz · #9 August 7, 2006, 08:25 AM

Here's the result of Division 1 of European Chamionship.

Ireland beat Denmark by 99 runs.
Hamilton Crescent, Glasgow, 4 August. [Scorecard]
Ireland 209 (45.2overs, W Porterfield 42, Z Shah 3-45)
Denmark 110 (C Pedersen 65*, D Langford-Smith 3-27)
Netherlands beat Italy by 140 runs.
Shawholm, Glasgow, 4 August. [Scorecard]
Netherlands 317-7 (50 overs, D van Bunge 123, R ten Doeschate 68, Ala ud Din 3-59)
Italy 177 (47.0 overs, R ten Doeschate 5-25)
Ireland beat Scotland by 85 runs.
Ayr, 5 August. [Scorecard]
Ireland 240-8 (50 overs, E Morgan 99, K McCallan 46*, C Wright 3-32)
Scotland 155 (41.3 overs, D Langford-Smith 3-32)
Denmark beat Italy by 55 runs. (39 over match)
Titwood, Glasgow, 6 August. [Scorecard]
Denmark 208-8 (39 overs, C Pedersen 59, M Pedersen 36, S Ketipe 3-44)
Italy 153 (34.5 overs, T Hansen 3-23)
Scotland beat Italy by 4 wickets. (20 over match)
Ayr, 6 August. [Scorecard]
Netherlands 137-8 (20 overs, R Watson 3-18, J Blain 3-22)
Scotland 138-6 (19.5 overs, R Watson 47)

Miraz · #10 August 7, 2006, 08:26 AM

And here's the result of Division 2 of European Championship (till date)

Norway (2) beat France (0) by 4 wickets.
Kelburne, 3 August. [Scorecard]
France 110 (34.2 overs, Aamir Waheed 3-31, MA Bhatti 3-45)
Norway 111-6 (31.4 overs, Zeeshan Ali 44)
Hellas (2) beat Germany (0) by 56 runs.
Hillhead, 3 August. [Scorecard]
Hellas 180 (48 overs, P Maraziotis 54, M Sotiropoulos 38, Javed Iqbal 5-35)
Germany 124 (38 overs, D Sengupta 40, D Triantafillidis 3-16, I Kontarinis 3-24)
Guernsey (2) beat Gibraltar (0) by 7 wickets.
Weirs, 3 August.
Gibraltar 92-7 (40 overs) [Scorecard]
Guernsey 94-3 (18.2 overs, L Savident 43)
Israel (1) v Jersey (1) - no result.
3 August.
Israel lost to Norway by 91 runs.
New Anniesland, 5 August. [Scorecard]
Norway 282-5 (50 overs, Zeeshan Ali 89*, Zaheer Ashiq 57, Sameer Sachdev 53, Shahid Ahmed 40)
Israel 191-9 (50 overs, A Vard 54*, W Aamir 3-31, Shabaz Butt 3-33)
Germany beat Guernsey by 59 runs.
Titwood, 5 August. [Scorecard]
Germany 243-6 (50 overs, F Ahmed 53, A Bhatti 48, R Vohra 45, M Pasha 44*)
Guernsey 184 (45.4 overs, A Banerjee 84, S Le Prevost 49, J Iqbal 4-21, H Mahmood 4-33)
France beat Jersey by 7 runs.
Old Anniesland, 5 August. [Scorecard]
France 166 (43.2 overs, J Ijaz 37, M Hague 4-32, T Carlyon 3-36)
Jersey 159 (47.2 overs, I Crocker 45, M Hague 43, TM Saeed 4-14, J Houghton 3-52)
Gibraltar lost to Hellas by 146 runs.
Kelburne, 5 August. [Scorecard]
Hellas 284-6 (50 overs, P Maraziotis 102, A Manousis 95)
Gibraltar 139 (32.5 overs, M Ahmed 4-16, A Hayder 3-22)
Gibraltar beat Germany by 6 wickets.
Ferguslie, 6 August. [Scorecard]
Germany 156 (46.3 overs, M Brodersen 35, K Mirpuri 3-21)
Gibraltar 159-4 (47.4 overs, R Purnell42*, M Bacarese 42)
Guernsey lost to Hellas by 9 wickets. (45 over match)
Prestwick, 6 August. [Scorecard]
Guernsey 131 (40 overs, S Le Prevost 40, S Goustis 4-13)
Hellas 134-1 (35.3 overs, A Koutsoufis 54*)
France lost to Israel by 3 wickets.
New Anniesland, 6 August. [Scorecard]
France 175 (50 overs, A Ayyavoorju 75, R Aston 4-29)
Israel 176-7 (47.1 overs, S Gupta 40, S Hussain 3-14)
Jersey beat Norway by 9 wickets. (40 over match)
Drumpellier, 6 August. [Scorecard]
Norway 168-9 (40 overs, Zaheer Ashiq 56, Safir Hayat 48, M Saralis 3-30)
Jersey 172-1 (35.2 overs, P Gough 82*, N Hague 59*)

Xavier · #11 August 9, 2006, 02:23 PM

European Championships has ended today. This is the final table:

Table

P W T NR L Pts NRR
Ireland 4 3 0 1 0 7 +2.42
Scotland 4 3 0 0 1 6 +0.03
Netherlands 4 2 0 1 1 5 +1.18
Denmark 4 1 0 0 3 2 -0.28
Italy 3 0 0 0 4 0 -2.72

Holland beat Danmark on the penultimate ball:
Denmark 238-8 (50.0 overs)
The Netherlands 240-6 (49.5 overs)

while Italy lost to Scotland by ten wickets:

Italy 178 all out
Scotland 179/0 (32.2 ov.)

btw Norway beat Jersey island on Division.2 final.

Here for full details:
http://www.cricketeurope.net/ECC/DAT...V1/about.shtml

TheWatcher · #12 August 17, 2006, 04:49 PM

Wow !!! Ireland was dominating in each and every match (even in the match agains Holland that was abandoned). BCCB probably should invite them for a tour.

Hatebreed · #13 August 17, 2006, 07:38 PM

France.. Italy.. headbutt... Awesome!

Xavier · #14 August 18, 2006, 10:07 AM

Does Zidane play cricket?

Rabz · #15 August 18, 2006, 11:23 AM

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Originally Posted by TheWatcher
Wow !!! Ireland was dominating in each and every match (even in the match agains Holland that was abandoned). BCCB probably should invite them for a tour.

not a bad idea. they could play with our development squad or u-19 boys or even against some club teams. it would certainly help them.

Hatebreed · #16 August 18, 2006, 11:51 AM

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Originally Posted by Xavier
Does Zidane play cricket?

If he did, cricket would be football's #1 competitor in Europe.

Xavier · #17 August 18, 2006, 12:25 PM

Well... it could be, but I don't see crazy football fans getting involved in a slow, intelligent, complex game!

israr · #18 August 18, 2006, 12:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Xavier
Well... it could be, but I don't see crazy football fans getting involved in a slow, intelligent, complex game!

Xavier, I just want to say that you're really a gentleman, because cricket's a game of elite people, a game for the intelligent and smart people. Not for the hooligans or ruffians. Seeing your passion and the increasing obsession for cricket, I just wish if there were more gentlemen like you in this world, and I really do hope that I see Italy atleast qualify to the Cricket World Cup before my demise.

Hatebreed · #19 August 18, 2006, 01:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Xavier
Well... it could be, but I don't see crazy football fans getting involved in a slow, intelligent, complex game!

That's where violence (i.e. Zidane's headbutt) comes in.. too spice things up for footy fans.

I hope and I'm pretty sure that's not gonna happen

Xavier · #20 August 18, 2006, 02:51 PM

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Originally Posted by israr
Xavier, I just want to say that you're really a gentleman, because cricket's a game of elite people, a game for the intelligent and smart people. Not for the hooligans or ruffians. Seeing your passion and the increasing obsession for cricket, I just wish if there were more gentlemen like you in this world, and I really do hope that I see Italy atleast qualify to the Cricket World Cup before my demise.

Thanks mate, I'm not really a gentleman... I still like football but I'm bored of what the game is now: fanatism, business, corruption...

I get worried sometimes by my "cricket obsession" (gonna see a "cricketologist"!

)
but it's really a pleasant pastime, with lot to know and learn for a "new" fan!

About Italy at the world cup... no way until there is not any serious development plan, also considering that there must be some italian players in the national team! And our best ever player Joe Scuderi (italo-australian) just retired from the game, he also played county cricket for Lancashire!
http://content-usa.cricinfo.com/ci/c...ayer/7585.html
I guess one day I'll take the chance to watch an italian league game, but I know the level is very low so I guess it's quite boring!:p

bengaltiger · #21 August 18, 2006, 03:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Xavier
I guess one day I'll take the chance to watch an italian league game, but I know the level is very low so I guess it's quite boring!:p

don't be so sure about that, i bet the ACC Cup 2006 was pretty interesting to watch with 300s, 400s here and there, hehe

Xavier · #22 August 18, 2006, 04:25 PM

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Originally Posted by bengaltiger
don't be so sure about that, i bet the ACC Cup 2006 was pretty interesting to watch with 300s, 400s here and there, hehe

Well... I don't think it's the case of the italian league, I've checked the scores and most of the times they don't even reach 100 runs (in a 50 over match!)...
http://www.crickitalia.org/Attivita2...ionato2006.htm