Beyond the Boundary!

Despite rumours that is was to be cancelled due to a lack of funding, the play-off between Israel and Croatia to decide the final place in Division Two of the European championship next year is to go ahead in November.
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Buried at the end of an article about a possible change in format to the premier Indian domestic competition the Ranji Trophy, is that Israel are set to visit India for a one-day series. No more is said about it.
We can safely assume that they’re not going to be playing the Indian first team, and […]

Part three of our year in review takes us from Ireland to Japan.
Ireland
This will go down as a great year for Irish cricket. They won the European Championship at all age groups from the seniors down to the Under-13s. Playing against England, they were kind enough to give their best player to a struggling England […]

As is usual with major tournaments, there are player of the tournament awards for the European Championships. The Division One award goes to Ryan ten Doeschate of the Netherlands, whilst the Division Two award goes to Lee Savident of Guernsey. There has also been a spirit of cricket award, which has gone to Denmark for […]

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 […]

Ireland have one hand on the European Championship trophy after a demolition of Italy at Hamilton Crescent in Glasgow today. Italy were bowled out for just 79, with remarkable bowling figures of 3/7 from 5 overs and 3/5 from 9 overs coming from Langford-Smith and Mooney. Niall O’Brien was in fine form behind the stumps […]

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 […]