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Young cricketers get into the swing of cricket
Young cricketers show off their winners' medals
Berlin CC teamed up with kids from the Quentin Blake School at the end of last year to get younger players involved in the game. After several months of training and indoor games, they were ready to venture out on to Körnerplatz, the home of cricket in Berlin.
Thanks to committed parent, Louise Tweedale, and trainers Hans and Martin (pictured above), 25 regular cricket players from the bilingual school in Dahlem took the field to practice what they'd learned throughout the winter. The opposition was a formidable but inexperienced team of parents whose strategy seemed to be filling the kids up with scones, cream cakes, biscuits, tea, orange juice and various other delicacies, until they weren't unable to run between the wickets.
After two hours of hard-fought cricket, the kids finally won by a seemingly tampered margin of 43 runs. Louise said afterwards, "Well, despite the score line I think everyone has had a lot of fun and hopefully we can make this a regular fixture with another youth team in Berlin." For the kids' team, demon opening bowler and modest top-5 batsman Mark noted, "If it hadn't been for my dad digging out all those yorkers I bowled - we would have won by at least an innings!"
Many thanks go to the parents who made the event so enjoyable and for your continued support for cricket at Quentin Blake and, of course, to Louise for coming up with the idea in the first place, and to Hans for his commitment in getting cricket into Berlin schools. Hopefully this will be the first of many such games eventually leading to a youth league with some of these players then going on to represent Berlin or even Germany!
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