Drei Spiele, drei Siege so lautet die Bilanz für die Deutsche Cricket-Nationalmannschaft der Damen vom Pfingstwochenende 2015. In einer spannenden Serie von einem 40-Over und zwei Zwanzig20 Spielen behielten die Deutschen Damen, im Gegensatz zu Ihren Gegnerinnen aus dem Norden, den kühlen Kopf und spielten die Däninnen abgeklärt aus.
Last weekend saw an extraordinary bowling performance from German Under 19 all-rounder Hakeem Sayeed in a Regionalliga match in Karlsruhe.
17 year old off-spinner Hakeem was playing for his team Cricket Lions Blue (SSC Karlsruhe) against Karlsruher CC and managed to take 8-22 off 9 overs as KCC were reduced to 164 all out.
CLB replied with an opening stand of 85 with a half-century from Nadeem Ahmad before another youngster, Pratik Chaudhary saw his Team home with a score of 36.
Hakeem’s performance confirms the DCB’s opinion that he is one of the most talented young players in the country and this has seen him selected for the Germany Under 19 Team and the Alpine Tigers squad for the DCB Super Series. It also confirms the good work being done by SSC Karlsruhe.
The Northern Lights have taken the first day of action in the DCB’s inaugural Super Series, after an exciting double header against Western Eagles in Hamburg on Saturday.
In the first game of the day, “the Lights” batted first losing early wickets at the start of their innings. Zadran Asmdin was the main destroyer for the Eagles (the combined NRW/Hessen team) grabbing three wickets. But, the home team was to have the final say, racing to a total of 128 for 4 off their allotted 15 overs after the game was shortened due to rain. Top scorers were Vijay Narashiman and Waqas Virk with 41 not out and 51 not out respectively. Weiterlesen
The final squad has been announced for the inaugural DCB Super Series tournament that starts on Saturday in Hamburg with two T20s between the Northern Lights and the Western Eagles.
DCB Performance Officers Jason Walsh and Asif Khan have selected a squad with a lot of experience but with a few new faces.
The squad is as follows: Weiterlesen
Over the next weeks DCB Youth Officer Sajid Sikandar will be again on his travels co-ordinating youth development throughout the yountry and looking for the best young talent for the German Under 19 national team.
Dates have been set for Frankfurt, Heidelberg and Munich (see below). A date for Cologne will follow.
The target is to collect all the young players in each region together on one day for Street20 cricket, a short and fun version of cricket that allows children of all ages and standard to play together. Sajid will speak to all the clubs, coaches and youth co-ordinators in order to find ways for the interested children to play regular cricket in teams and leagues.
He will also trial the best U19 players from each region as he goes ahead with planning a new U19 team to represent Germany in international events and tournaments later in the summer.
The dates are as follows: Weiterlesen
Following on from the squad announcement of the Alpine Tigers (see below) we now have the squad for the Northern Lights, made up of players from the eastern and northern regions. The squad has been selected by DCB Performance Officers Rana-Javed Iqbal and Omer Sheikh and is comprised of players who are available for selection to the DCB German national team for next summer’s ICC Europe tournaments based on the strict ICC selection criteria.
We wish all of them luck! Weiterlesen
This week will see the inaugural DCB Super Series start with games in Hamburg (HSV ground) between the Northern Lights and the Western Eagles.
The DCB Super Series is a new tournament that will see three teams playing regular games of T20 cricket over the next few weeks in order to find the best players for the newly formed national team squad.
Despite the Northern Lights and Western Eagles kicking things off, it is the Alpine Tigers who have been the first to announce their squad who will start their campaign on 30th May with two away games in Werder (Havel) against the Northern Lights. Weiterlesen
Over recent days the cricket media has been speculating over whether the 350 scored by English club cricketer Liam Livingstone in a Royal London Club match is the highest score in a one day game at any level of cricket.
We can’t quite match that, but last weekend did see an incredible performance by Gräfenhausen (Hessen) batsman Zeeshan Nazar who hammered an incredible 21 sixes and 12 fours in amassing 209 runs off just 128 balls, a record for the Hessen leagues, before the umpire ruined everybody’s fun by giving him out LBW. Weiterlesen
This week has seen our friends and partners from Notts Sport travelling to Bremen to install a brand new artificial cricket pitch for one of Germany’s most progressive clubs, SG Findorff. It is the same type of pitch that they installed on the nursery ground at Lord’s last week. You can’t get a better recommendation than that.
Funded by the club itself, with financial support from the DCB and ICC Europe’s Regional Facility Fund, the new pitch will allow cricket to grow in a city that has already seen major growth in the number of cricketers over the last two years since SG Findorff joined the DCB. Th eclub has expanded from just one men’s team to now having two men’s teams, a women’s team and several youth teams. Weiterlesen
From April 10-12, a baker’s dozen of coaches committed and dedicated to developing cricket in Germany, converged on Hamburg from as far afield as Bremen, Hannover and Berlin to complete the ICC Coaches Award course.
Under the expert guidance of ECB/ICC tutor Dave Gelling, the participants were taken through a range of demonstrations, drills and games for batting, bowling, fielding and wicket-keeping. Dave also highlighted important aspects of coaching related to the technical, tactical, physical and mental elements of cricket. Weiterlesen
