Beyond the Boundary!

After a couple of days absence due to me being away, our year in review returns today as we cover Norway to Rwanda.
Norway
Norway cemented their status as Europe’s top affiliate with a win in Division Two of the European Championship. They thus gain promotion to Division One in 2008 when they come up against Europe’s […]

According to an ECC media release, Jersey and Vanuatu have applied for associate membership of the ICC. Both are probably one of the strongest affiliates in their respective region, and Jersey for sure have plenty of turf wickets, so it makes sense that they’re associates. It’s a little surprising that Norway haven’t applied, as they’ve […]

There is little doubt that Norway is one of the great success stories of cricket development. They became an ICC affiliate member in 2000, and in just six years have progressed to Division One of the European Championship to take on the giants of the European non test game.
Today, we present an interview with Lindsay […]

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 […]

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 […]

Dougie Brown was not originally named in Scotland’s squad for the European Championships. So imagine my surprise when I look at the live scorecard for today’s Scotland v Ireland match and see DR Brown on the scorecard. They’ve actually released him, making him only the third player to play ODIs for two different countries. (Anyone […]

In cricket it is a generally accepted fact that Full members are better than associate members, and associate members are better than affiliate members. Well today, that second statement was turned on it’s head by the European affiliates playing in the second division of the European Championships.
The three matches that were played today were all […]