About the Austrian Cricket Association

The Austrian Cricket Association is the National Governing Body of Cricket

Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

 in Austria

Austria

Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...

. It was founded in 1981 by Kerry Tattersall, as the Austrian Cricketers Association, following the re-introduction of cricket to Austria in 1975, with the founding of Vienna Cricket Club - as 1. Vienna Cricket Verein. Cricket was recorded as being played in Vienna as far back as the 1890s, traditionally by gardeners of mercantile families. During the post-war occupation of Austria, cricket was also played by allied forces members. Since 1992, the Austrian Cricket Association has been an affiliate member of the International Cricket Council

International Cricket Council

The International Cricket Council is the international governing body of cricket. It was founded as the Imperial Cricket Conference in 1909 by representatives from England, Australia and South Africa, renamed the International Cricket Conference in 1965, and took up its current name in 1989.The...

, and it is one of the founding members of the European Cricket Council

European Cricket Council

The European Cricket Council is an international body which oversees cricket in European countries other than the Test-playing cricketing nation of England and Wales.-Activities:...

. The European Cricket Council, now known as ICC Europe, is responsible for the administration of the ICC's European Development Program.

Executive committee

The Executive Committee of the ACA is elected every two years and usually consists of five elected members
all of which are volunteer workers.

Current Acting Executive Committee

Name	Position
Naresh Laddha	Chairman
Thomas C. Pühringer	Secretary
Anup Lamba	Treasurer
Siva Nadarajah	Chairman of the Cricket Committee
Walter Blaschke	Chairman of the Cricket Development and Infrastructure Committee

List of Chairmen of the Austrian Cricket Association

From	To	Chairman
1996	March 2005	Andrew Simpson-Parker
March 2005	April 2008	Michael Bailey
May 2008	June 2009	Marcel Biersteker
June 2009		Naresh Laddha

Member Clubs

The association's members are 13 cricket clubs, each holding a single vote, with clubs having to be registered with the Austrian Vereinspolizei. Currently there are clubs from four of Austria's 9 federal provinces: Whilst the majority of clubs are based in Vienna

Vienna

Vienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...

, there are also clubs in Graz

Graz

The more recent population figures do not give the whole picture as only people with principal residence status are counted and people with secondary residence status are not. Most of the people with secondary residence status in Graz are students...

, Salzburg

Salzburg

-Population development:In 1935, the population significantly increased when Salzburg absorbed adjacent municipalities. After World War II, numerous refugees found a new home in the city. New residential space was created for American soldiers of the postwar Occupation, and could be used for...

, Steyr

Steyr

Steyr is a town, located in the Austrian federal state of Upper Austria. The town is situated at the confluence of the rivers Steyr and Enns. Steyr is Austria's 12th most populated town and simultaneously the 3rd largest town in Upper Austria....

 and Velden

Velden

Velden may refer to several places:*Velden am Wörther See, a municipality in Austria on the Wörthersee*Velden, Limburg, a village in the municipality of Venlo, Netherlands*Velden , a town in the district of Nürnberger Land in Bavaria, Germany...

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List of Current Member Clubs

ASKÖ CC Steyr (ASCC)

Austria Cricket Club Wien (ACC Wien)

Cricket Club Velden '91 (CCV91)

Five Continents Cricket Club (FCCC)

Graz Cricket Club (GCC)

Lords Cricket Club (LCC)

Pakistan Cricket Club (PCC)

Pakistan Falken Cricket Club (PFCC)

Salzburg Cricket Club (SCC)

Sri Lankan Cricket Club (SLCC)

United Nations Cricket Club (UNCC)

Vienna Cricket Club (VCC)

Vienna Lions Cricket Club (VLCC)

List of Former Member Clubs

Pakistan United Cricket Club (PUCC)

Sri Lankan Sports Club (SLSC)

St Pölten Cricket Club (SPCC)

Competitions organised

The Austrian Cricket Association is responsible amongst other duties for the administration of organised cricket competitions in Austria, with the ACA Open League perceived to be its premier competition. In 2008 the ACA Trophy, which had been a 40 over knockout tournament, and which had been geographically split since 2002 was replaced with a 20 overs competition, with a development remit.

ACA Open League

The ACA Open League is a single innings league, and in 2006 was split into two parallel conferences (Austrian Conference and National Conference) to allow more teams to enter the league. The top three teams of each conference qualified for the Super Sixes stage, with the top two contesting a final to decide the Open League Champions. Teams not qualifying for the Super Sixes stage played in localised plate competitions - the Viennese Plate and the Southern Plate.

The league is played as a 50 overs tournament, with the exception of 2009, where due to difficulties in scheduling the League due to the unavailability of Austria CC Wien's ground in the Markomannenstrasse, it has been necessary to reduce the competition to a 35 overs format in order to ensure that the competition can be played to a conclusion. In 2008 logistical issues had meant that the parallel conference system was in abeyance, with a regionalised structure (a Vienna group and a non-Vienna group) with a knock-out stage for the top 6 Viennese teams joined by the top 2 from the non-Vienna group. The 2008 Open League champions were Pakistan CC, retaining the title they had won in 2007.

The first winners of the Open League since its split into parallel conferences was Vienna Lions CC in 2006, defeating Five Continents CC in the final played in September 2006 in Seebarn. United Nations CC won the Viennese Plate competition, with CC Velden '91 winning the Southern Plate competition.

ACA Open League Champions and Runners-up 1991-2011

Year	Open League Champions	Open League Runners-Up
1991	Concordia CC	Vienna CC
1992	Vienna CC	Concordia CC
1993	Concordia CC	Vienna CC
1994	Pakistan CC	Vienna CC
1995	Pakistan CC	Vienna CC
1996	Concordia CC	Pakistan CC
1997	Lords CC
1998	Lords CC
1999	Lords CC
2000	Lords CC	United Nations CC
2001	Concordia CC	Pakistan Falken CC
2002	Pakistan Falken CC	Pakistan CC
2003	Concordia CC	Five Continents CC
2004	Vienna CC	Austria CC Wien
2005	Austria CC Wien	Pakistan CC
2006	Vienna Lions CC	Five Continents CC
2007	Pakistan CC	Salzburg CC
2008	Pakistan CC	Austria CC Wien
2009	Pakistan CC	Vienna CC
2010	Pakistan CC	Lords CC
2011	Pakistan Cricket Wien	Vienna CC

Champions:

6: Concordia CC/Austria CC Wien, Pakistan CC
4: Lords CC
2: Vienna CC
1: Pakistan Falken CC, Vienna Lions CC, Pakistan Cricket Wien

ACA Trophy

Pakistan CC were the last winners of the ACA Trophy (North), in 2007, defeating reigning ACA Trophy (North) holders Vienna Lions CC in the final in Seebarn. Vienna Lions CC had won the 2006 ACA Trophy (North). The competition has been regionalised since 2002, with Salzburg CC having dominated the ACA Trophy (South).

ACA Trophy Champions and Runners-Up

Year	Champions	Runners Up
2000	Vienna CC	Pakistan CC
2001	Pakistan CC	Vienna CC
2002	N: Lords CC S: Salzburg CC	N: Five Continents CC S: Ljubljana CC
2003	N: Pakistan CC S: Salzburg CC	N: Concordia CC S: Ljubljana CC
2004	N: Austria CC Wien S: in abeyance	N: Sri Lankan CC S: in abeyance
2005	N: Austria CC Wien S: Salzburg CC	N: Lords CC S: Graz CC
2006	N: Vienna Lions CC	N:
2007	N: Pakistan CC	N: Vienna Lions CC

ACA Twenty20 Tournament

The inaugural Twenty20 tournament was contested by five teams in Vienna in 2008, with Pakistan CC defeating Pakistan Falken CC in the final in 2008 to become the inaugural winners of the competition. In 2009, United Nations CC defeated the reigning champions to win the second Twenty20 tournament, contested by six clubs. In 2010 the tournament was contested by 7 teams. In 2011 the competition split into two groups due to demand for the competition. A plate competition was introduced to ensure extra cricket for sides eliminated in the group stage of the competition.

ACA Twenty20 Champions 2008-present

Season	Winner	Runner-Up	Plate Winners	Plate Runner-Up	Participating teams
2008	Pakistan CC	Pakistan Falken CC	-	-	5
2009	United Nations CC	Pakistan CC	-	-	6
2010	Pakistan CC	Pakistan Falken CC	-	-	7
2011	Vienna Lions CC	Pakistan CC	United Nations CC	Vienna CC	12

Austrian National Team

The Austrian national team is open to players who are qualified to play for Austria under the International Cricket Council's qualification criteria and fulfil a nationality and development criteria. The Austrian national team made its competitive début in 1990 in Guernsey and played regularly until 2003. In 2006 the national team was revived, playing two international matches against the Czech Republic.

The team's return to competitive cricket was to ICC Europe's European Championships Division 4, held in Cyprus in September 2009, with the team finishing third after wins against Luxembourg, Cyprus, Slovenia and Finland and a loss against Switzerland.