Sweden national cricket team

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Sweden
Swedish Cricket Federation logo.png
Association Swedish Cricket Federation
International Cricket Council
ICC status Associate member [1] (2017)
Affiliate member (1997)
ICC region Europe
ICC RankingsCurrent [2] Best-ever
T20I 54th 37th (2 May 2019)
International cricket
First international Flag of Sweden.svg Sweden v. Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg
(Berlin, Germany; 13 July 1993)
Twenty20 Internationals
First T20Iv Flag of Denmark.svg  Denmark at Svanholm Park, Brøndby; 14 August 2021
Last T20Iv Flag of Finland.svg  Finland at Solvangs Park, Glostrup; 21 May 2023
T20IsPlayedWon/Lost
Total [3] 21 8/12 (1 tie, 0 no results)
This year [4] 0 0/0 (0 ties, 0 no results)
As of 1 January 2024

The Sweden national cricket team is the team that represents Sweden in international cricket. It is organised by the Swedish Cricket Federation which has been an affiliate member of the International Cricket Council (ICC) since 1997 [5] and an associate member since 2017. [1] The team coach is former South African international Jonty Rhodes, who was appointed in September 2020. [6]

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Sweden made its international debut in 1993, at the European Nations Cup, and has since played regularly in the lower divisions of European Cricket Council tournaments and in other series against European teams. [7] Sweden first hosted an ICC-approved international cricket tournament in August 2016, when the 2016 ICC Europe Division Two was played in Stockholm. [8]

In April 2018, the ICC decided to grant full Twenty20 International (T20I) status to all its members. Therefore, all Twenty20 matches played between Sweden and other ICC members after 1 January 2019 will be a full T20I. [9]

History

The first cricket club in Sweden was formed in Gothenburg in 1883; one of the founders, Erik Blidbert, had learnt the game in London, [10] and became a natural leader for Sweden's pioneering Cricket enthusiasts. The club's full name was Lyckans Samfund (Society of Joy), a pun on the name of the local neighbourhood.

The first organised club of modern times called the Stockholm Cricket Club, was created in 1948 by the staff of British Embassy in Stockholm. They played against the crews of passing ships and made annual visits to Helsinki. Västerås started in the 1960s and teams from Gothenburg and Mariestad (founded by Ugandan-Indians) followed in the 1970s.

The Swedish Cricket Federation (SCF) was formed in 1990. The driving force behind it was Guttsta Wicked Cricket Club. The Swedish Cricket Federation became a Member of the ICC in 1991. Over the years, clubs like Stockholms Akademiska Cricketsällskap set-up by students at Stockholm University in 1996, which is now one of the largest club in the country, fuelled the growth of Cricket in Sweden. Initial years, the progress was slow but the interest was there. Foreign teams also toured Sweden from time to time to keep things interesting. MCC visited Sweden in June 1999 which was one of the high points for the Cricket in the country.

After becoming an affiliate member of ICC, Sweden participated in many ICC-organised tournaments. In 1997 Sweden successfully hosted its first ever ICC Europe (then ECF) tournament, an indoor tournament in Halmstad.

In 2011 Sweden participated and won the European Division 3 in Slovenia. The following year Sweden became runners-up in European Division 2 championship in Corfu, Greece which earned the national team a place in the European Division 1, the highest-level tournament Sweden ever played in.

The national club scene inspired by the achievements of the national team started taking cricket seriously and in 2012 the SCF increased its membership to 21 clubs. The newly formed Division 2 was set up the same year. In 2013, six new clubs joined the league with total numbers of players in the country then standing at around 1500. With the ICC development fund, youth cricket also got much attention with youth camps organised in the three larger cricketing regions: Stockholm, Malmö and Göteborg. All of this meant further strengthening of the club scene adding to the membership of SCF. In 2014 the SCF applied to become members of the Swedish Sports Confederation (Riksidrottsförbundet, RF). The RF accepted the application and recognized SCF as its 71st member organisation in May 2015.

2016 was the first year the government funding was available to SCF. This helped build many new cricket facilities in the country that also made it possible to host ICC Europe WCL Division 2 tournament in Stockholm. Sweden finished runners-up in that tournament and once again gained promotion to European division 1. In 2015–16 Sweden was one of the largest receivers of refugees in Europe; many of these refugees came from cricket-playing countries. This helped form many new clubs and helped existing clubs gain new members because of government's integration initiatives. Cricket is growing at a rapid pace in Sweden and clubs exist in almost every part of the country.

In 2021, Sweden was among five teams excluded from the ICC T20I Championship for failing to play enough fixtures in the relevant period, an effect of the COVID-19 pandemic. [11]

Sweden will make their T20I debut during the tour to Denmark in August 2021.

14 August 2021
10:30
Scorecard
Denmark  Flag of Denmark.svg
111 (19.5 overs)
v
Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden
103/6 (20 overs)
Hamid Shah 25 (21)
Hassan Mehmood 5/14 (3.5 overs)
Abhijit Venkatesh 27 (31)
Delawar Khan 3/17 (4 overs)
Denmark won by 8 runs
Svanholm Park, Brøndby
Umpires: Allan From (Den) and Jesper Jensen (Den)
Player of the match: Hassan Mehmood (Swe)
  • Sweden won the toss and elected to field.
  • First T20I match for Sweden.

Squad

Tournament History

Records

International Match Summary — Sweden [12]

Last updated 21 May 2023

Playing Record
FormatMWLTNRInaugural Match
Twenty20 Internationals218121014 August 2021

Twenty20 International

T20I record versus other nations [12]

Records complete to T20I #2076. Last updated 21 May 2023.

OpponentMWLTNRFirst matchFirst win
Flag of Austria.svg  Austria 2020010 June 2022
Flag of Croatia.svg  Croatia 1100013 July 202213 July 2022
Flag of Denmark.svg  Denmark 4220014 August 202114 August 2021
Flag of Finland.svg  Finland 7241021 August 202122 August 2021
Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 202009 June 2022
Flag of Greece.svg  Greece 1100018 July 202218 July 2022
Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 1010015 July 2022
Flag of Norway.svg  Norway 2110018 May 202319 May 2023
Flag of Romania.svg  Romania 1100019 July 202219 July 2022

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  3. ↑ "T20I matches - Team records". ESPNcricinfo.
  4. ↑ "T20I matches - 2024 Team records". ESPNcricinfo.
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  6. ↑ "Jonty Rhodes signs on with Sweden". 10 September 2020.
  7. ↑ Other matches played by Sweden Archived 27 November 2017 at the Wayback Machine – CricketArchive. Retrieved 14 September 2015.
  8. ↑ Andrew Nixon, "Germany top after opening day in Stockholm", CricketEurope, 17 August 2016. Retrieved 18 August 2016.
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  13. ↑ "Records / Sweden / Twenty20 Internationals / Highest totals". ESPNcricinfo . Retrieved 22 August 2021.
  14. ↑ "Records / Sweden / Twenty20 Internationals / High scores". ESPNcricinfo . Retrieved 22 August 2021.
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