Beyond the Boundary!

The second upset of the Friends Provident Trophy campaign took place today in Belfast as Ireland beat Warwickshire by 4 wickets. They restricted the Bears to 211/7 from their 50 overs, and skipper William Porterfield scored 69 to help lead them to the target in the 47th over.
As is often the case this year, other […]

Following on from Navdeep Poonia’s century for Warwickshire against Cambridge UCCE, Bermuda’s David Hemp is currently unbeaten on 103 as he captains Glamorgan against Derbyshire. It is the fifth first-class century by an associate player this year, and Hemp’s second.
Irish wicket-keeper Niall O’Brien is also in action for his county side Northamptonshire against Leicestershire, but […]

Another round of county championship matches started today, and associate players are again involved.
Kyle Coetzer could only manage two for Durham against Yorkshire, and from a painstaking 41 deliveries. Their innings was dominated by 184 from Michael Di Venuto, who’s brother Peter played for Italy six years ago.
Denmark’s Freddie Klokker has taken over the wicket-keeper’s […]

Scotland’s Navdeep Poonia has followed his maiden first-class century by hitting a 48 ball fifty for Warwickshire against Cambridge UCCE today. Fellow Scottish international Calum MacLeod is also playing for Warwickshire in this match, and he picked up his first first-class wicket when he trapped Thomas Hemingway LBW.
Niall O’Brien is also playing in Northamptonshire’s County […]

Scotland have failed to continue their form after beating Lancashire on Monday and lost to Durham in Edinburgh today. Durham batted first and scored 181/9 from their 50 overs. A few batsmen got a start, but none went onto post a decent score.
John Blain bowled well to take 3/31 from his ten overs, whilst Scotland […]

Denmark’s Freddie Klokker has made his second first-class century in Derbyshire’s County Championship match against Warwickshire. Derbyshire skipper Rikki Clarke held off the declaration long enough for Klokker to reach 103, at which point he declared. The match ended in a draw, leaving Klokker with an impressive first-class batting average of 55.66 from his five […]

Continuing our look at associate players involved in county cricket action this year, we first look at the Derbyshire v Warwickshire County Championship match at the County Ground in Derby. Denmark’s Freddie Klokker has recovered from his first ball duck in the first innings and is currently unbeaten on 76 at the close of play […]

Continuing our now regular series of looking at how associate players are doing in county cricket, today has seen more of them put in decent performances for their county/university teams.
In Durham’s County Championship match against Lancashire at Old Trafford, Scotland’s Kyle Coetzer was looking to improve on his eight first innings runs, but could not […]

After being kept strictly to second XI action until now, Dutch international Alexei Kervezee has made his debut for Worcestershire in their first-class match against Loughborough UCCE. He made 41 from 80 balls before he was caught behind off the bowling of another young European international; Denmark’s Johan Malcolm, which was his maiden first-class wicket. […]

Scotland have beaten Lancashire by two runs in a close match at Old Trafford today, thanks to 3/26 from Dewald Nel. Ireland were also in Friends Provident Trophy action today, and they lost to Northamptonshire by 8 wickets. Paul Stirling scored 70, and Niall O’Brien scored 75, though that was for the opposition.
Other associate players […]