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Cricket in other Countries - Germany

Cricket is officially in Germany by the German Cricket Federation eV represent the country through various associations. Performance, Germany is on the cricket world ranking currently at number 42 and in Europe outside the British Isles the biggest Landesverband.

The origin of cricket in Germany was then in Berlin. Since at least 1873 men played there from England and the USA this sport. 1888 began Germania 88, later Victoria 89, Union 92, Britannia 92 and Heligoland with a regulated gaming. Over many decades certain Viktoria 1889 the sport and won many championships (21mal for Men / the last time 1959). Similar to the scheme in football may Viktoria 1889 won championships for the four stars on the jersey wear. The 1st German Championship of Women - the first time in 2006 off - was approved by the Victoria Women with a victory against the Schweriner BBCCC eV won. The team moved after the victory in the championship completely to another club (Reinickendorfer foxes).

Current German champions (men) in the 2008 season, the team of the DSSC Berlin captain Asif Khan and national player Javeed Iqbal - in the final in Hamburg, the Hamburger SV defeated. The DSSC (The Sports & Social Club in Berlin and Brandenburg eV) is the third time in a row (2006, 2007, 2008) became German champion, overall, this title has already won six times. These add up to a championship, DCL (2004) and ten titles as a Berlin master / master of the Eastern League.

Meanwhile there is a cricket league in five seasons, Berlin was the first association set up a second Bundesliga. Until now only played in Germany the Berlin Football and Cricket Club (BFC) Victoria 1889 eV continuous cricket and is regarded as the oldest German Football and Cricket Club, where the club is no longer to the former glory days may be linked.

In Sydney, there are about a dozen cricket clubs that regularly in the Bundesliga West participate. The oldest club, the Cricket Club Frankfurt eV, was founded in 1974. There are also clubs in Darmstadt (Darmstadt, Cricket Club), Wiesbaden, Rodgau, Olympia Frankfurt, Hellas Frankfurt and Walldorf. From 2009 Frankfurt Corinthians CC is also a member of the Bundesliga West.

Currently there are under a European Cricket Council Development program specific efforts, cricket in Germany to further develop and in particular the youth and women to further expand the field (so have the ladies teams of the Oldenburger CC, the Schweriner BBCCC, the Berlin and Reinickendorfer foxes Tegernsee CC of Munich in the interest of the Metropolitan Community Cricket Team Germany together). Regional development is the focus in the eastern federal states, which still have a great potential slumbering. Previously existed in eastern Germany with the Schweriner BBCCC (apart from the clubs in Berlin), only an official cricket club. Meanwhile, the cricket team "Weisser Hirsch in Dresden and the RV Havelländische Werder Cricket Club (founded in April 2007) their activities, and Dresden in the 2008 season already on the 2nd play Bundesliga participated. At the Universities of Leipzig and Rostock, there are sports related.

Takes a special position in Germany Husum Cricket Club, which his games in Hattstedt austrägt and the first Danish (!) League play - this is much stronger than the German leagues. Husum is also regularly National Player of the German and the Danish National Team. The local stadium has been the only pure Cricket Stadium in Germany. With the construction of up to 60,000 square foot facility in Werder / Havel as cricket center of the North German Cricket Association / NOCV and the new Havelländischen cricket clubs Werder / HCCW but is an additional, attractive focal point for cricket in Germany in construction - construction was in September 2008. The future plant with six-grass fairways and an artificial turf pitch is in Germany and in continental Europe, Husum and Amsterdam until the third of its kind

The related, local training opportunities for the German national team also increase the performance of the teams in the Division 5 to the Cricket World Cup, which Germany now has been approved.