The Austrian Cricket Team is the representative cricket

Cricket

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 team of the country of 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...

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Austria was elected to the ICC

International Cricket Council

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 in 1992 and is today an ICC Affiliate Member.

The Austrian National Team is composed of players who belong to Austrian cricket clubs and play their cricket either wholly or predominantly in the Austrian cricket leagues. The National Team is selected in line with ICC regulations on player eligibility, with the team composed of a mixture of Austrian citizens, residents and acquired passport holders, and with a maximum of 2 deemed nationals who have been resident for a minimum of 4 years.

International Competition

The Austrian National Team has participated in a considerable number of international tournaments, including hosting three tournaments since 2000:

2000 ECC (European Cricket Council) Representative Festival (5 teams - Norway, Slovenia, Croatia, Finland and Austria)
2001 ECC Trophy in Seebarn and Velden (10 teams - Sweden, Malta, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, Greece, Belgium, Austria, Croatia and Finland)
2002 ECC European Cricket Championships, B Division in Northern Ireland (6 teams - Austria, France, Germany, Gibraltar, Israel and Portugal)
2003 ECC Notts Sport Trophy in Seebarn and Markomannenstrasse (11 teams - Malta, Portugal, Spain, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Greece, Belgium, Croatia, Finland, Austria and Norway)

They have been placed in Division Five of the newly-expanded European Championship

European Cricket Championship

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 from 2008.

European Cricket Championship

European Cricket Championship

The European Cricket Championship is a group of various tournaments in which national cricket sides throughout Europe compete. The tournament is designed to encourage and develop the best players in countries where cricket is not a major sport and Europe's only Test cricket playing country,...

• 2002 (Division Two): 6th place
• 2009 (Division Four): 3rd place

Club Cricket In Austria

There are three club competitions within Austria: the ACA (Austrian Cricket Association) League, and ACA Trophy (north & south).

The ACA League comprises (in 2006) 14 teams, 10 of which 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...

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The ACA Trophy sometimes includes teams from outside Austria, for example from Poland

Poland

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 and the Czech Republic

Czech Republic

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The future

Austria will play in the ICC European Division 1 Championship (T20) in Jersey

Jersey

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 and Guernsey

Guernsey

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, to be held from 19–24 July.

Current squad

The following list contains the 13 players in Austria's squad for the European Cricket Championship Division 4:

• Timothy Simpson (Captain
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• Muhammad Akhtar
• Klemens Cathcart
• Erwin Grasinger
• Lakmal Kasthuriarachchige
• Satish Kaul
• Benjamin Loader
• Amar Naeem
• Ranga Peiris
• Wasif Saluja
• Nitin Sharma
• Shivam Subhash
• Satyam Subhash