Our National Teams

Senior Men

Baggy Red Club | PDF | 111 Kb

Our National Team plays official matches within competitions organised by the International Cricket Council (ICC), The formal rules by which players can be eligible for selection in the National Team are determined by the ICC, but the main criteria are shown below:

A player must:

• have Croatian citizenship or have permanent residence in the Republic of Croatia; and
• have played in at least 50% of their club's domestic league matches in at least 3 of the past 5 years; or
• have spent at least 100 (full-time) working days in the Republic of Croatia working in the area of developing cricket in the country.

Once a player has qualified under the above croteria and has played at least one match for his country then the above rules are no longer applied.

Even though the Croatian Cricket Federation was formally registered in 2004, Croatian National Teams have been competing in official ICC European competitions since 2000.

The table below shows the results achieved by our National Team in competitions from 2000 onwards.

Apart from competing in various ICC European competitions, our National Team has gone down in the history of world cricket as the first team to play an official international cricket match in Israel since the formation of the modern Israeli state.  The match was play on November 18th 2007 in Tel Aviv.

You can find details of our National Team's results as well as statistics for individual players on the 'Results' page.

Senior Men - Croatia 'A'

Croatia 'A' Caps | PDF | 264 kb

The Croatia 'A' team plays in matches approved by the Croatian Cricket Federation.  The rules by which players can be eligible to play for the 'A' team are determined by the CCF, and the main citeria are shown below:

A player must:

• be a citizen or resident of the Republic of Croatia; or
• be of Croatian descent; and
• participate in the Croatian domestic league and/or other domestic competitions, or actively participate in the development cricket locally.

Euro Twenty-20, 2008

The 'A' team was first selected in 2008, to represent the CFF at the inaugural Euro Twenty-20 tournament which was held in Carmel (Wales) from 13-20 July.  The team finished in a creditable 4th position after being narrowly beaten by 9 runs by a Polish XI.  Of the 5 matches played at the tournament the team won 2 - which was an excellent result given that most players had not experienced the Twenty-20 format of the game.

Following on from the success in 2008, the 'A' team again competed at the Euro Twenty-20 in 2009, travelling to Carmel again for the tournament.  The team was strengthened in relation to the previous year and started the tournament as one of the favourites.

Euro Twenty-20, 2009

As preparation for the tournament, an international friendly match was arranged with Ireland 'A' in Dublin.  Ireland is the strongest cricket team in Europe (excluding England which is one of the 'big 10' teams and a test match playing nation), and the difference between the two teams was very evident on the field as Ireland 'A' ran out comfortable winners.  The only highlight of the match from our perspective was a fine 50 scored by Michael Gržinić.

The players has possibly not got the Ireland match out of their minds as the Euro Twenty-20 started, and the opening  matches were unexpectedly bad.  The team lost both opening matches to the Isle of Alderney and Russia, teams who, on paper at least, were not as strong as our team.  The turnaround started against Bulgaria, who were resoundingly beaten, and continued against Hungary and then New Victoria CC (a local club) in the plate final.

Besides the satisfaction of winning the plate final, the team had naother reason to celebrate, one of the youngest players of the 'A' team, 19 year-old Nikola Davidović, received the 'best-bowler' award.  Nikola took 11 wickets during the tournament at an average of 8.64 runs per wicket.

You can find details of our 'A' Team's results as well as statistics for individual players on the 'Results' page.