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…

Last week Sporting Alfas hosted the very first inaugural Spanish T10 midweek league and it was the local team that ended up the winners of the five team tournament. The whole event was live streamed throughout the world with a camera crew on site for all five days and every match can be watched in…

MINHAJ BARCELONA EYEING ECL GLORY Prior preparation prevents poor performance so the old adage goes and this definitely rings true for Minhaj Cricket Club Barcelona. Already thinking well ahead to ECL20 qualification, the Catalunya region in Spain held a special T10 event, with Minhaj Barcelona prevailing in a busy 12-team competition last summer. Minhaj, the…

A new competition, the Spanish Regional T10 midweek league will commence in January with five teams from the ECCL in the inaugural competition. Hosts Sporting Alfas will be joined by Pinatar Pirates, La Manga CC and two teams from Madrid (Madrid CC and Madrid United) and they will play each other once in a round…

Mumbai Stars Narrowly Defeat Costa del Sol Crusaders by 10 runs. Egan’s half-century in vain. By Simon Levitt The fifth game between the Crusaders and Mumbai Stars was held on Boxing Day at Cartama Oval, with the away side eager to win after losing the last encounter between the two teams by 67 runs. The…