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 […]

The BBC’s report on yesterday’s thrashing of Surrey by Essex includes the following line:
South African Ryan ten Doeschate continued the punishment for Surrey’s bowlers, blasting 60 from 31 balls.
South African? Yes he was born in South Africa, but as he is currently a Dutch international, he should be described as a Dutch cricketer. I expect […]

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 […]

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. […]

Already in form with the bat recently, Dutch international Ryan ten Doeschate gave a reminder of his bowling talents yesterday by taking 5/57 for Essex against the touring New Zealand team at the County Ground in Chelmsford.
Included amongst his wickets were James Marshall, Jacob Oram, and recent setter of the Twenty20 record score Brendon McCullum.
This […]

The main tournament of the Under-15 International tournament in the West Indies started yesterday. Five associate teams are taking part in the eight team tournament - Ireland, Kenya, Malaysia, the Netherlands and a combined Americas team.
In yesterday’s matches Ireland beat Kenya by 7 wickets after bowling them out for 110, Malaysia beat the Americas XI […]

Dutch international Ryan ten Doeshcate wasn’t playing for the Netherlands as they beat Norfolk today, but has instead been knocking some Cambridge University students around the park with 146 from 147 balls before retiring.
This continues his form from the Netherlands Intercontinental Cup match against the UAE, where, in the second innings, he also scored 146. […]

The Netherlands have eased to a seven wicket win over minor county side Norfolk in Amsterdam. Norfolk were restricted to 175/9 from their 50 overs, and the Dutch knocked off the runs in the 26th over of their innings. Bas Zuiderent led the way with an unbeaten 122 from 88 balls.