The Estonian Cricket Team is a fairly young team which represents the nation of Estonia

Estonia

Estonia , officially the Republic of Estonia , is a state in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland, to the west by the Baltic Sea, to the south by Latvia , and to the east by Lake Peipsi and the Russian Federation . Across the Baltic Sea lies...

 in International Cricket competitions. http://www.estoniancricket.com. Granted Affiliate Status in June 2008. Estonian cricket relies upon the support of touring sides from Britain and other European nations to get matches to play. In the 2007 season they won over 80% of all their games and in 2008 they won amazing 94% of their games (34 out of 36).

The founder of the Estonian Cricket Association (ECA) is Jason Barry, who currently holds the world record for the most amount of countries played in by one person, 128 in total. Estonians who have recently made the grade as International players include Andres Burget, Glebs Bihanovs, Andrus Kämbre, Kristjan Kogerman etc.

The most famous tourists to Estonia have been Sir Tim Rice, and his team the Heartaches, the MCC, the Lord's Taverners and most recently Carmel & District Cricket Club

Carmel & District Cricket Club

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 captained by Timothy Abraham.

The year 2007 saw the formation of the Estonian cricket league

Estonian cricket league

The Estonian Cricket League was formed in 2007 and takes place in Tallinn, Estonia.The league currently consists of four teams in one division, but there are plans to expand the league to six or possibly eight teams in the next four years...

. The league consists of four Tallinn

Tallinn

Tallinn is the capital and largest city of Estonia. It occupies an area of with a population of 414,940. It is situated on the northern coast of the country, on the banks of the Gulf of Finland, south of Helsinki, east of Stockholm and west of Saint Petersburg. Tallinn's Old Town is in the list...

 based teams who compete in a round robin format. Players who are members of the Estonian Cricket League are eligible to be selected for the National side. 2007 & 2008 saw a victory for Kalev CC captained by Andres Burget.

Recent results

Estonia in May 2011 competed in the European T20 Division 3 Championships in Slovenia, where after all matches were completed, finished as runners up to a highly experienced Swedish National Team.

Current

The Estonian Domestic and Premier League competitions are growing year on year and an intense program of regional development will continue into 2011 and onwards. Our numbers of home grown Estonian players is increasing along with the added experience of a number of expatriate persons from full member nations who have been residing in Estonia for a number of years and are always willing to pass on experience and general playing tips to up and coming Estonians for the future of Cricket here.

We have recently had several of our members complete & pass the ICC development course for Umpiring & also for Scoring both courses completed are for level 1.

The future

In June & July 2011 Estonia will take part in a Triangular series between all 3 Baltic Nations being Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia. The first weekend of matches will take place on the weekend of the 11th and 12th of June in Riga Latvia.

Squad

The following list contains members of Estonia's squad for the European Cricket Championship European Cricket Championship 2011:

• Timothy Heath - Captain
• Sivalingham Arunachalam
• Nand Lal Riar
• Anil Puri
• Andres Burget
• Vineeth Govind
• Peter van Buuren
• Kristjan Kogerman
• Murali Obili
• Mart Tammoja
• Marko Vaik
• Kalle Vilslapuu
• Moshiur Rahman
• Oliver Slobodetsky

External links

• Kriket