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ECC News Page
March 2002
Scotland - New Campaign, New Captain, New Squad
The Scottish selectors named their squad on Monday for a training session and the first game of the season against Leicester CCC on the 16th and 17th of April. more…
ICC Champions Trophy Match Schedule Confirmed
European Development Programme representatives, Holland, have been pooled with Pakistan and Sri Lanka for the first stage of the ICC Champions Trophy in Sri Lanka. More..
Hellas Hails its Conquering Heroes
The Prefecture Board of Corfu recently invited the Greek indoor squad to the Prefecture Hall to present trophies to the players and coach in recognition of their victory in Belgium. More..
World Cup Warm-Up for Holland
The ICC has confirmed that a new tournament, the ICC Six-Nations Challenge, will take place in Windhoek, Namibia, from 5-15 April 2002. The tournament has been scheduled to provide an intensive build up for qualifying Associate Members Canada, Holland, Kenya and Namibia, prior to participation in the 2003 World Cup. More..
Development in Damazan
Congratulations to the Stendhal high school in Aiguillon, near Agen, who recently won a school regional challenge sponsored by Orangina for the best sport project. The school is linked with Damazan CC and is fortunate enough to have an English teacher who loves cricket, and who encourages his talented youngsters to join the club. More..
Pudsey Congs make it three in a row for ECB champions
Following in the footsteps of Madisons CC and Farsley CC, Pudsey Congs CC won the Vienna CC Wintercup on Sunday, as a follow up to having won the ECB Indoor Championships at Lords. More..
EDO visits Croatia & Slovenia
The EDO travelled to Zagreb on 23/24 February to conduct Croatia's first coaching course. The course was pitched at introductory level and eight people attended over the weekend. More..
Dublin Sees Stars
Dublin played host to an array of cricketing superstars when former England captain and batsman, Mike Gatting, and ex-England opening bowlers Neil Foster and Neil Mallender visited the city as part of a roadshow run jointly by the ICC European Development Programme and the Irish Cricket Union from 1-3 March. More..
Ireland appoints new National coach
One of South Africa's leading coaches is to take on responsibility for the development of Irish cricket. Forty-one year old Adrian Birrell has, over the past two years, taken Eastern Province to the semi-finals and finals of South Africa's main limited overs competition. More..
Provisional Thumbs up from Red Star
An Australian, a South African, an Indian, several Brits and couple of Yugoslavs all got together at the British Embassy Club in Belgrade on 25 February to discuss the founding of Red Star Cricket Club. More..
New Format ICC Champions Trophy Replaces ICC KnockOut
The ICC's biennial KnockOut tournament will, with effect from this September's event, become the ICC Champions Trophy, the expanded successor to the ICC Knock Out, which has been staged twice over the past four years in Dhaka and Nairobi. More..
News in Brief
* Ralph Dellor has recently regaled Chesterfield and Merseyside cricket associations with tales of European cricket. His audiences had a vague idea that cricket was played in mainland Europe, but generally no idea of the extent or the commitment. They do now!