Beyond the Boundary!

Jersey confirmed themselves as an up and coming European side with another youth tournament win today. They beat France in the final of the European Under-23 2nd Division championship, to add to their title in the Under-19 equivalent last month.
Full details of the tournament can be found here.

Belgium have beaten France in a one-day game played on Saturday. Full report at CricketEurope here.

Our year in review continues, this time covering Canada through to Hong Kong.
Canada
Canada’s first year of ODI status was a hit and miss affair to say the least. Whilst they’ve been successful in the Intercontinental Cup, reaching the final, their ODI form has been very patchy. They lost against Bermuda and Zimbabwe in Trinidad back […]

UK newspaper The Daily Telegraph recently reported on cricket in France. It includes information on the number of players and clubs, and good news about the non ex-pat population taking up the game. And they’ve managed to do it all without any sarcastic comment about the game of French Cricket. Well done to the Telegraph!

I’ve updated the non-test rankings up to the end of the European Championships today. You can see them by clicking the link to the left hand side of the page. As one might expect, Norway are one of the biggest gainers in the rankings, climbing from 47th to 20th, although the biggest climb was further […]

The final day of the European Championships was today. In Division One, Ireland already had the title secured, but Scotland still needed to beat Italy to secure second place. They did this in fine style with a 10 wicket demolition of the Italians. In the other Division One game, the Netherlands beat Denmark, with just […]

Just to confirm what I suspected in my report yesterday, France progressed to the 5th place play off due to their superior run rate in the group stage. Greece have decided not to take the five hour journey to RAF Lossiemouth to play Israel under armed guard, and have hence forfeited the 7th place play […]

With a result not forthcoming in today’s Ireland v Netherlands ODI at Ayr, the Irish have secured the European Championships, thus completing the set of all European outdoor titles at all age-groups this year. The game was abandoned after 19 overs of the Dutch innings, just one short of the required amount required for a […]

A rain affected day, though all five games got a result. In the ODI at Ayr, Scotland got their first ODI win, against The Netherlands in a game reduced to 20 overs a side. Star performance of the day was from Ryan Watson who took 3/18 before a brutal 47 helped seal the win for […]

Another day, some more surprises at the European Championships in Scotland. In Division One, Scotland, with Navedeep Poonia, John Blain and Dougie Brown in their ranks were expected to beat an Ireland side whom they’d beaten in the ICC Trophy, when they still had Ed Joyce in their ranks.
It wasn’t to be however, and the […]