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View All FixturesThe Norway national cricket team represents Norway in international cricket matches. The Norwegian Cricket Federation became an affiliate member of the International Cricket Council (ICC) in 2000, and the national side played its first international match in August the same year. Most of the side's matches have been against members of the European Cricket Council (ECC), although in more recent years Norway has fielded sides in the lower divisions of the World Cricket League (WCL). The team's current head coach is Muhammad Haroon, a former first-class player in Pakistan, who was appointed in early 2014. In 2017, they became an associate member of the ICC. Norway achieved their highest ever ICC T20I ranking (30th) under Haroon’s coaching. Norway was also honoured with the ICC Accelerated Growth Member Award in 2017. This recognition was part of the ICC’s annual Development Awards, which celebrate outstanding contributions to the growth of cricket among its member nations.
Norwegian cricket was first organised in the 1960s by a few Asian immigrants and has grown to the current state of 55 clubs playing in five divisions. Norway became a member of the International Cricket Council in 2000 [1] and played in their first international tournament – the European Representative Championships in Austria – that same year. They won the tournament without losing a game, but did not play again until 2003, when they took part in the ECC Trophy for the first time.
They won this tournament too, again without losing a game. This qualified the team for a place in Division Two of the European Championship in 2004. They finished fourth in the six-team tournament, gaining wins against Gibraltar and Israel.
In 2005 Norway won the European Affiliates Championship, the equivalent of the ECC Trophy. They once again won the tournament without losing a game, and again qualified for Division Two of the European Championship in 2006. They won the tournament, beating debutants Jersey in the final after losing to them in the group stage.
This gave Norway a place in Division One for the first time in 2008 and earned them a place in Division Five of the World Cricket League. In May 2008, Norway travelled to Jersey to take part in the Division Five tournament. Although they beat Vanuatu in Group A, it was the team's only group stage win and with four loses they failed to make the semi-finals.
Norway finished ninth overall after defeating the Bahamas and then Japan in positional playoff matches. With only the top two from this tournament qualifying for Division Four in Tanzania later in the year, Norway missed out on the chance to take their 2011 World Cup dream any further. In July 2008, Norway met the top nations of European cricket when they participated in Division One of the European Championship.
The Norwegians finished sixth overall in the six-team tournament, beaten convincingly in four of their matches – against Denmark, Ireland, the Netherlands, and Scotland – whilst their match against Italy was abandoned owing to rain. In August 2009, Norway travelled to Singapore to compete in Division Six of the World Cricket League. They won only one of five group matches and finished sixth overall after losing a positional playoff to Botswana.
From the Wikipedia article "Norway national cricket team", available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
