From March 8 to 10 in southern Spain, VCC has a chance to become European T10 champions.
Cricket has two major formats: 300 balls per team and 120 balls per team. Years ago, however, Australian Daniel Weston, who lives in Germany, invented an even shorter variant of sixty balls per at bat. This variant became wildly popular and is now played throughout continental Europe.
The winner of the Dutch T20 competition has long been allowed to participate in the European T10 Championship. For the first time this honor fell to Voorburg CC in 2024. Also this year the championship will be played in Southern Spain.
Does VCC have a chance of a high final ranking in this European T10 Championship? That is difficult to predict. Unfortunately, the Voorburg Topclassasser has to miss its internationals. They will be in Namibia with the Dutch team in the first half of March, playing World Cup qualifiers against Canada and the host country.
Still, VCC, which has a wide selection, brings a strong team to the field. There is room not only for VCC selection players like Laurens Boissevain, Nehaan Gigani, Floris de Lange, Steffen Mulder and Mees van Vliet. Talents like Nirav Kulkarni, Cedric de Lange and Tom de Leede will also get to prove themselves on this stage. Fortunately, they will be joined by the experience of newcomers Patient Charumbira (HCC), Waseem Mohsen (VCC 3), Carl Mumba (Midwest Rhinos & Zimbabwe), Udit Nashier (VRA) and veteran Usman Malik.
Coach Tim de Leede of the Voorburgers: “T10 is a relatively unknown format for us and we will have to adapt very quickly to this short form and to the small field. But we have a team that can adapt quickly and can go for a surprise.”
The team is seeded with the champions of Sweden (Ariana CC), Estonia (Tallinn Strikers), Finland (Empire CC), and Ireland (Lisburn), with the latter possibly being the favorite in the group. The No. 1 seed in the pool will qualify with seven other clubs for the finals week of March 17-21.
