Cricket in Germany

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Cricket in Germany has a history going back to 1850, when a group of people from England and the United States founded the first German cricket club in Berlin. Several more teams were later founded in Berlin and the rest of Germany, as well as a national federation. Cricket lingered on over the following century, with occasional visits of German players to England and British and other foreign teams touring in Germany, but only when it got a foothold in the German universities in the 1980s did the number of German cricket clubs and players start to grow again.^[1]

The national organisation for the game is currently the German Cricket Federation (Deutscher Cricket Bund, DCB), founded in 1988. As a whole there are about 50 cricket clubs in the country.

1 International team
2 Regional associations
3 Club cricket
4 Notes
5 External links

[edit] International team

Germany has a national team that takes part in the European Championship and has also taken part in the ICC Trophy.

[edit] Regional associations

Regional associations include the Norddeutscher Cricket Verband, (North German Cricket Federation). Clubs playing there include:

HSV-Cricket
Oldenburg
HICC
Alster
Pak Alemi
Buxtehude
Hamburg Youth

[edit] Club cricket

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Clubs include the Cricket Team of the University of Göttingen (German: Cricket Team der Uni Göttingen) which started with the help of the British Tourist Board in Frankfurt, the British Army and the 1st Royal Tank Regiment Hildesheim who supplied the team with enough equipment to furnish the club and offered a date for a game on their base. The first team comprised a mixture of people who had played cricket before and some who hadn't. All came from the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, most from the Department of Neurobiology.

A major milestone in Göttingen cricket was gaining permission from the University of Göttingen to make a pitch at the University Sports Ground. The Cricket Team of the University of Göttingen is a founder-member of the DCB. Cooperation with the University of Göttingen has expanded, so that the club hosted several national indoor championships, with greatly increasing numbers of teams. Moreover, nets were erected for practice. A priority in the coming years will be to introduce more students to the game.