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Beyond The Boundary Blog
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 [...]
Scots lose to Durham (05/11/2008)
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 [...]
Second century for Klokker (05/10/2008)
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 [...]
County update (05/09/2008)
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 [...]
Internationals return to Bermuda (05/09/2008)
International cricket is to return to Bermuda after the ICC approved the National Sports Centre in Hamilton to host Intercontinental Cup matches. They will play Scotland at home in July, their first home match since 2004.
They have been having problems with the quality of the pitch at the ground since then, and it was memorably [...]
New ICC members on the way? (05/09/2008)
Three more European countries could be set to join the ICC if their applications are approved at the ICC’s annual meeting in Dubai at the end of June. Bulgaria, Estonia and Turkey are the three countries applying.
In addition, Guernsey and Vanuatu have applied for elevation to associate membership. An ICC team is currently inspecting Guernsey, [...]
County latest (05/08/2008)
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 [...]
Kervezee makes Worcestershire debut (05/07/2008)
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 upset Lancashire in close match (05/05/2008)
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 [...]
Scotland to host Australia next year (05/05/2008)
The itinerary for Australia’s tour of England next year has been announced, and included on the tour is a match against Scotland on the 28th of August. The match will be an ODI assuming Scotland finish in the top six of next year’s World Cup qualifier, and assuming the ICC don’t change their mind on [...]
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