Thanks to Neil Brook for today´s contribution to the daily snippet. Being Captain of a team can be a lonely feeling at times. Today Neil offers three key tips to consider when captaining a team .. 1 – What makes a good captain ? A captain needs to be a good communicator, as well as…

Madrid Cricket Club member Ashish Sharma shares a compelling account of his brush with the Coronavirus .. Spending time with Covid 19 by Ashish Sharma. Having Coronavirus is like the kind of guest that arrives at your party as an invite of a friend of a friend, who turns out to be a proper obnoxious git. Part 1 –  Contract The Virus…

CRICKET ESPAÑA DAILY SNIPPET Cricket España will share a daily snippet on their website to encourage social activity and interaction among the cricket community. We start the ball rolling with a small challenge set by the Times newspaper entitled “Could you be a cricket umpire. Here is your chance to see how you would do…

Enthusiasm grows amongst the Spanish cricket fraternity as the start of the European Cricket Series edges ever closer. With just a day to go before the first match takes place between Sporting Alfas and Pinatar Pirates, players are begining to start to feel the excitement of participating in the event, and are already expressing their…

Intellectuals of Alicante and Pinatar Pirates warmed up for the new season with two matches at Bonalba last weekend. First of all they played a thirty over match, swiftly followed by a T10 encounter. In the thirty over contest the visitors batted first and posted a total of 296 for six from their over allocation….

ENTREVISTA – REVISTA METROPOLITAN Hablamos con el Presidente del Madrid Cricket Club, John Woodward acerca de los altibajos de jugar al Cricket en España. CRICKET EN ESPAÑA ¿Como comenzó Madrid CC? Me trasladé a Mallorca cuando tenía 22 años y desde ahí a Madrid en el 2001, donde a mitad de mi primer año allí,…

Last year eight teams from the Bangladesh Community played in the Madrid tape ball league and earlier this month the winners Dhaka Frutas Sporting Club picked up an award for their endeavours at a prize giving function. Ittfaq Ahmed from Madrid United was the guest of honour on the night for his support to the…

Cricket in Spain is starting to get international recognition after recently live streaming world wide their T20I series with Portugal and Gibraltar. Indeed, only last week the very first Spanish regional midweek T10 matches were transmitted to a global audience via you tube. As a result the North American blog Cricktalk20 requested an update on…