Intercontinental Cup 2007/08

[andrew_nixon]

Schedule for 2007

28th June: Canada v Netherlands at Maple Leaf CC, King City
28th June: Scotland v UAE at Ayr
7th July: Canada v UAE at Maple Leaf CC, King City
2nd August: Scotland v Netherlands at Aberdeen
9th August: Ireland v Scotland at Belfast
13th August: Netherlands v Bermuda at Amstelveen
23rd August: Ireland v Bermuda at Clontarf
12th October: Kenya v Canada at venue TBA
25th October: Namibia v Canada at venue TBA
1st November: Kenya v Bermuda at venue TBA
8th November: UAE v Bermuda at venue TBA

Provisional Schedule for 2008

23rd February: Kenya v Namibia
1st March: UAE v Namibia
12th March: UAE v Kenya
27th March: Namibia v Scotland
2nd April: UAE v Netherlands
9th April: Namibia v Netherlands
27th June: Bermuda v Canada
3rd July: Bermuda v Scotland
3rd July: Ireland v UAE
10th July: Canada v Scotland
10th July: Netherlands v Ireland
7th August: Ireland v Canada
7th August: Bermuda v Ireland
9th August: Netherlands v Kenya
16th August: Scotland v Kenya
24th October: Kenya v Ireland
30th October: Namibia v Ireland
12th November Final at Dubai

All matches are four days in duration, except the final which is planned to be a five day game.

Zimbabwe could be added to this tournament, depending on the ICCs vote on their cricket committee's recommendations.

 

[madmusician]

Is this meant to be the level just below Test cricket?

Seems like a good set of teams - could be some exciting matches!

 

[Griffo]

I didnt think that the UAE were that good, i also thought that Bermuda were far below this standard

 

[cricketmad09]

Just one dayers? Or 4 dayers?

 

[andrew_nixon]

Just one dayers? Or 4 dayers?

errr...

All matches are four days in duration, except the final which is planned to be a five day game.

 

[Griffo]

which players cant play due to county commitments?

 

[andrew_nixon]

which players cant play due to county commitments?

Do you really expect me to know which counties are not going to release their players for every game?

 

[Griffo]

no im just wondering what players have county contracts

 

[andrew_nixon]

no im just wondering what players have county contracts

Netherlands: Ryan ten Doeschate, Alexei Kervezee
Bermuda: David Hemp
Ireland: Niall O'Brien, Eoin Morgan, Gary Wilson, Boyd Rankin
Scotland: Dougie Brown, Navdeep Poonia, Kyle Coetzer.

And probably some more I've forgotten about.

 

[Griffo]

Kervesee? Thats with Worcestershire he didnt really convince me of his "talent" in the world cup this year but they compared him to Hick

 

[andrew_nixon]

Kervesee? Thats with Worcestershire he didnt really convince me of his "talent" in the world cup this year but they compared him to Hick

To be fair, he was playing against the two top ranked teams in the world and he is still only 17!

 

[Griffo]

Does he play 2nd XI?

 

[andrew_nixon]

Does he play 2nd XI?

He's played a few second XI games this season, with a top score of 48, but most of them have been affected by rain.

 

[Griffo]

awesome i love your work Andrew you always keep me up to date i would really like to watch these matches but I cant think of a way how ill be checking cricinfo for the scores though but they dont update very often...

 

[andrew_nixon]

awesome i love your work Andrew you always keep me up to date i would really like to watch these matches but I cant think of a way how ill be checking cricinfo for the scores though but they dont update very often...

You don't want to be checking cricinfo for coverage of non-test cricket... you want CricketEurope for that!