Beyond the Boundary!

It’s been a bad day for the associates at the Under-19 World Cup in Malaysia with all four losing. Most surprising was Ireland’s ten wicket defeat by England, as that match was thought to be the best chance for an associate win.
You can read a full report from that match here, and a round-up of […]

Ireland Under-19s have beaten Papua New Guinea Under-19s by 2 wickets in a warm-up match for the Under-19 World Cup. James Hall was the key player, scoring 70 and taking 2/21. Full report at CricketEurope here.
Malaysia Under-19s were the other associate side involved in warm-ups today, losing to Bangladesh by 165 runs.

Fixtures for the Under-19 World Cup have been announced, and are available in the BTB calendar (link in the menu to the left).
Host’s Malaysia have a tough first round group coming up against New Zealand, Pakistan and Zimbabwe, whilst Papua New Guinea don’t have it much better, in the same group as India, South Africa […]

Papua New Guinea have qualified for next year’s Under-19 World Cup in Malaysia after winning the regional EAP qualifiers in Vanuatu. They beat the hosts in the final, whilst Fiji beat Japan in the 3rd place play off.
There were some fine individual performances in the tournament, with Vanuatu captain Andrew Mansale putting in a cracking […]

Argentina and Uganda beat the Cayman Islands and Papua New Guinea respectively to reach the final of Division Three of the World Cricket League, and will now also play in Division Two in November/December in Namibia, where the top four will qualify for the World Cup Qualifier in 2009. The Division Two tournament will have […]

Group A
Fiji: 44 all out (Nino 4/16)
Argentina: 46/0
Argentina win by 10 wickets
Italy: 134/9
PNG: 135/2 (Uda 58)
Group B
Uganda: 153 all out (Wright 4/30)
Cayman Islands: 127 all out (Kwebiha 4/11)
Uganda win by 26 runs
Hong Kong: 161 all out
Tanzania: 165/5
Tanzania win by 5 wickets
Semi finals tomorrow will see Argentina v Cayman Islands and PNG v Uganda
Plate Semi […]

Day Two results from Darwin follow:
Group A
Papua New Guinea: 91 all out (MacDermott 4/22)
Argentina: 92/5 (Forrester 44 not out)
Argentina win by five wickets
Italy: 186/9
Fiji: 149 all out
Italy win by 37 runs
Group B
Tanzania: 64 all out
Uganda: 70/6 (Mwita 4/23)
Uganda win by four wickets
Hong Kong: 67 all out (Hinds 4/22)
Cayman Islands: 70/2
Cayman Islands win by 8 wickets
Cayman […]

Day One of Division Three of the World Cricket League has been completed in Darwin, with the following results:
Italy: 175/9
Argentina: 174 all out
Italy win by 1 run
Tanzania: 206/6
Cayman Islands: 210/0 (Gordon 104 not out,  Hall 100 not out)
Cayman Islands win by 10 wickets
Uganda: 219/5 (Olweyni 60)
Hong Kong: 129 all out (Olweyni 3/15, Waiswa 3/18)
Uganda win […]

The Women’s World Cup qualifier will take place in Pakistan from the 18th to 24th of November this year. In addition to the hosts, teams taking part will be; Bermuda, Ireland, Netherlands, Scotland, South Africa, Papua New Guinea and Zimbabwe.
The top two teams will qualify for the 2009 Women’s World Cup and the top four […]

Part Five of our year in review sees us cover the Netherlands to Papua New Guinea.
Netherlands
Like the other ODI status associates, this has been a hit and miss year for the Netherlands. The highs have been the emergence of Ryan ten Doeschate as a world-class all-rounder. He set the record for the highest Intercontinental Cup […]