VCC has qualified for the final week of the European T10 Championship in southern Spain. It should have cricketed for three days, but that was made impossible by persistent rain showers. In the end, the tournament organization came up with a bizarre way to still determine the placement. In the process, VCC won – somewhat surprisingly.
T10 (sixty balls per team) is an ultra-short variant of cricket, shorter than a soccer match. Usually the weather in southern Spain in March is good enough to play at least four – and sometimes even five – of these games in one day.
This year, however, VCC had extreme bad luck with the weather. Not one match could take place. Therefore, the tournament organization came up with the following: six players each bowl one ball; not at an opponent, but at a teammate. The team that scores the most runs in those six balls will advance to the final week from March 17-21.
Cedric de Lange, Waseem Mohsen and Nehaan Gigani hit a total of 16 runs. The other three VCC batsmen failed to score. Somewhat surprisingly, that was enough for the win. therefore, VCC may go to Spain again soon.
Captain Floris de Lange: “We are very happy with this result after an unimaginable tournament; we were supposed to play three days, but after a rollercoaster of 15 minutes we qualified for the final week!”
And now let’s hope the weather is better than in the past week!
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