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and there's an ancestral link with South Africa
I do recall the old fashioned matting type wickets that were used and that was in the 1980's
Most of their real good ones played or currently play in the English County championship

Thanks for your topic La Hincha..Didn't know much about Dutch Cricket.But was aware they have been playing for a long time.Also know that that Holland is a very good sporting nation,Olympics-Team sports.

LH -- good post. The Dutch beat the touring Australians in 64. The main problem, as you know, is that, it is played by the elites. The boers, have also, finally, taken up the game in full, avoiding it like the plague in the past. Wesseles meant what he said to Craddock in that interview, cricket made him an outcast amongst Afrikaners and the English took the piddle out of him and told him to go back to rugby.

Namibia is an interesting one, it would be the only country in the world where a home grown ethnic german speaking population plays cricket. There may be one or two people of German descent in PNG whose interest is following the sport, in addition. I don't think we shot them all in 14.

Can anyone name the little place where they play cricket all year? Hint: it was awarded the 'George Cross'.

LH and all: Do people like the new semi league format in the cricket? It seems to have some merit.

There has been some bloody good cricketers of a Dutch background/heritage here in Australia as well- Tim Zoehrer (WA) being the first one who springs to mind, Michael Swart (WA), Tom Cooper (SA), Dirk Nannes (VIC), Dirk Tazelaar (QLD), Tim Van Der Gugten (NSW) etc and dare I say it Bob Holland
Former WA keeper/batsman Ryan Campbell was coaching the Netherlands at last recall.

BH: that bloke whom played for QLD in the early 80s, De Jong
Watching the tele, the other day, too, and there was a De Groen bowllng for NZ
I see the NZists also refer to de grandhomme as 'Dutchie', despite him, obviously. being descended from French protestants in South Africa. It seems the family must have moved to R-Z at some point in its history.

While we on things Dutch and Boer, in my last post I really should have given the Afrikaners credit for spreading the game to Namibia, not many poms moved there after the First World War.

AR & LH did either of you see the Netherlands celebrations in the changerooms after their win in the qualifiers to make the T20 World Cup from memory?
It definitely had Campbo's (Aussie Rules) influence all over it.

www.icc-cricket.com/video/1474002

great posts guys

I find the situation interesting in France: they play almost every British sport, including RL, to a pretty good standard, accepting cricket. Petain tried to ban RL during the war because it was working class.

Christian Vieri, the Italian forward, always loved his cricket; Border was his hero, apparently. He had to explain his significance to the press; remembering that Mlan was actually founded as a cricket club.

Malta is the country where they play all year.

LH, BH, Kenya? I still think Tikolo has been the best Bantu speaking batsman to come out of Africa.

Kenya played some decent cricket in a few World Cups going back to the 90s AR. Tikolo and a few others looked very good cricketers.

bease: they bloody did. I guess things go in cycles a little bit?

Gee you really know your world cricket LH.
It is good to see it is starting to get great traction outside of the dozen Test playing nations.
On Fox Sports there used to be a good show called ICC World Cricket which had a lot of stories on the developing cricket nations.
I have never understood why cricket wasnt as popular in fellow Commonwealth country Canada as baseball is...possibly the neighbouring USA influence?