Koninklijke Nederlandse Cricket Bond

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Koninklijke Nederlandse Cricket Bond
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Sport Cricket
Jurisdiction Cricket in the Netherlands
Founded1883 (1883)
Headquarters Nieuwegein
Location Nieuwegein
Men's coach Anton Roux
Women's coach Ed de Moura Correia
Sponsor ABN AMRO, Amul, Canterbury
Official website
www.kncb.nl
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The Koninklijke Nederlandse Cricket Bond (KNCB; English: Royal Dutch Cricket Board) is the governing body of cricket in the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It was formed in 1883 and received a Royal charter in 1958. The KNCB is responsible for the national men's and women's teams, and also for the various domestic competitions, including the Topklasse (Division One) and Hoofdklasse (Division Two) leagues, and the Twenty20 Cup. The KNCB has been an associate member of the International Cricket Council since 1966. It is one of the oldest national governing bodies in the sport, older than those of many full ICC members. The KNCB is also a member of the European Cricket Council, which organises the European Cricket Championship.

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Cricket Team sport played with bats and balls

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Overview

Koninklijke Nederlandse Cricket Bond is an administrative organization responsible for the promotion, development, and organization of the sport of cricket in the Netherlands. It controls the men's national team, and the women's national team teams. The women's national team currently have Test status and played their first Test match in 2007. A total of 57 cricket clubs take part in the domestic season, which include the Hoofdklasse, Topklasse and the region T20 cricket. [1]

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Test cricket the longest form of the sport of cricket; so called due to its long, grueling nature

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History

Cricket was first seen being played on Dutch soil in the 1780s by an English traveller in Scheveningen, and by the turn of the 20th century, Dutch teams were touring England regularly. Cricket was one of the most popular sports in the Netherlands in the 19th century, surpassed since by many other sports, most notably association football. Cricket even found enough of a following to survive the German occupation of the country between May 1940 and May 1945. The sport, famously dismissed as "unmanly and un-German" and "insufficiently violent" by Adolf Hitler himself, endured thanks in no small part to the dogged enthusiasm of local players, who shrugged off the requisitioning of grounds and restrictions on weekend travel – not to mention the presence of thousands of heavily armed Nazis and the bombing of the main sports dealers in Rotterdam – to organise as many as 300 matches a year. [2]

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The KNCB has been an associate member of the International Cricket Council since 1966. [3] There are a few cricket grounds in the Netherlands which are officially sanctioned by the ICC to host ODIs such as Amsterdam, Amstelveen and Voorburg. It hosted some of the matches of the 1999 Cricket World Cup, though the Dutch did not participate in that tournament. [4]

International Cricket Council governing body for the sport of cricket

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The Dutch participated in the 1996 Cricket World Cup, 2003 Cricket World Cup, 2007 Cricket World Cup, and 2011 Cricket World Cup. In their debut campaign, they lost all of their matches barring a respectful performance against England. They qualified for the 2003 edition after winning the 2001 ICC Trophy, [5] with their only win of the World Cup tournament coming against fellow qualifier Namibia. It was around this time that stars and excellent cricketers like Ronald Lefebvre and Ryan ten Doeschate started emerging to make Dutch cricket much more strong.

1996 Cricket World Cup Cricket World Cup

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2003 Cricket World Cup ICC Cricket World Cup

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Present Day

The Dutch qualified for the 2007 World Cup with a fifth-place finish at the 2005 ICC Trophy. [6] The Dutch had a poor tournament, losing all three of their games, with South African Herschelle Gibbs notably hitting Dan van Bunge for six sixes in an over. After failing to qualify for the 2007 ICC World Twenty20, they qualified for the 2009 ICC World Twenty20, [7] where they shocked host England at Lord's. [8]

The 2005 ICC Trophy was a cricket tournament held in Ireland between 1 July and 13 July. It was an international one-day tournament played over 50 overs per side between 12 associate members of the International Cricket Council. It came with the prize of a place in the 2007 Cricket World Cup for the five top-ranked teams, and with the prize of official One Day International status from 1 January 2006 for the five top-ranked teams along with Kenya, who had already been given official one-day status until the 2009 ICC Trophy and a spot in the 2007 World Cup.

Herschelle Gibbs cricketer

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2007 ICC World Twenty20 first Twenty20 cricket World Championship

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After years of stagnation, the women's game is also developing rapidly in the Netherlands. Recently, the women's team outshone the men's team and they were given Test cricket status by the ICC in 2007 unlike their male counterparts. They played their inaugural Test match against South Africa Women in 2007.

The Dutch team qualified for the 2011 Cricket World Cup by coming third in the 2009 ICC World Cup Qualifier. [9] They did not make much of an impression, losing all of their matches, but giving England a fright in Nagpur, where Ryan ten Doeschate smashed 119 runs. [10]

2010 turned out to be a memorable year for Dutch cricket as they defeated to Test-playing nations in the form of Bangladesh and Zimbabwe.

The Netherlands cricket team are currently participating in the Intercontinental Cup and Intercontinental Cup One-Day while the women's team won the 2011 Women's European Championship Twenty20. [11] More recently, they participated in the 2011 ICC Women's World Cup Qualifier where they came third in Group A, thus gaining both ODI Status and World Cup participation. [12]

Name Change

Before 1958 it was known as the Nederlandse Cricket Bond or the Dutch Cricket Board. After receiving a Royal charter in 1958, a "Royal" was added before the board's name known simply as Koninklijke in Dutch. The following names have been for the board in their history:-

Competitions

As well as maintaining Dutch international sides, the KNCB is also responsible for managing the regional domestic competitions. The following domestic competitions are organized in the Netherlands:-

In addition, a number of youth programs as well as ladies programs are organized in the Netherlands. [13]

Women's cricket

The Netherlands Women's Team was traditionally weak but in the last few years, they have made tremendous development, gaining Test status and out showing the men in recent times.

Sponsorship

Amul was the official sponsor of the Dutch cricket team during the 2011 Cricket World Cup. [14] More recently, the KNCB had a ground-breaking sponsorship with leading Dutch bank ABN AMRO, with chief executive Richard Cox announcing that with this partnership, by the 2015 Cricket World Cup, they can contract professionally many players. It is a four-year deal running till 2016. [15]

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  1. ↑ Informatie Clubs KNCB (This page is in Dutch.) Retrieved 12 January 2012
  2. ↑ Eyeing the orange future ESPNCricinfo. Retrieved 12 January 2012
  3. ↑ Netherlands Profile CricketArchive. Retrieved 12 January 2012
  4. ↑ ICC Cricket World Cup 1999 Static Cricinfo. Retrieved 12 January 2012
  5. ↑ ICC Trophy 2001 Static Cricinfo. Retrieved 12 January 2012
  6. ↑ ICC Trophy 2005 Archived 3 April 2007 at the Wayback Machine CricketEurope (Official Website). Retrieved 12 January 2012
  7. ↑ ICC World T20 Qualifier 2008 Archived 6 August 2008 at the Wayback Machine CricketEurope. Retrieved 12 January 2012
  8. ↑ Tom de Grooth leads Netherlands to famous win ESPNCricinfo. Retrieved 12 January 2012
  9. ↑ ICC World Cup Qualifier 2009 Archived 25 June 2009 at WebCite Yahoo-Cricket (Official Website). Retrieved 12 January 2012
  10. ↑ England survive ten Doeschate brilliance ESPNCricinfo. Retrieved 12 January 2012
  11. ↑ Women's European Championship Twenty20 2011 ESPNCricinfo. Retrieved 12 January 2012
  12. ↑ 2011 ICC Women's World Cup Qualifier ESPNCricinfo. Retrieved 12 January 2012
  13. ↑ Evenementen en Toernooien KNCB (This page is in Dutch.). Retrieved 12 January 2012
  14. ↑ Dutch Cricket announces Amul as World Cup sponsor SportzPower. Retrieved 12 January 2012
  15. ↑ Netherlands gain sponsorship deal ESPNCricinfo. Retrieved 12 January 2012
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