Bulgaria national cricket team
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The Bulgarian Cricket Team is a fledgling team which represents the nation of Bulgaria
in International Cricket competitions.
The game is well supported by ex-pats from the United Kingdom, and is becoming more popular with the locals. There are teams in the capital, Sofia, and also in the city of Varna on the Black Sea.
They were granted affiliate status in June 2008 by the ICC
.
Bulgaria took part in a European Twenty20 tournament held by Carmel & District Cricket Club
in July 2009.
Bulgaria
Bulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a parliamentary democracy within a unitary constitutional republic in Southeast Europe. The country borders Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, as well as the Black Sea to the east...
in International Cricket competitions.
The game is well supported by ex-pats from the United Kingdom, and is becoming more popular with the locals. There are teams in the capital, Sofia, and also in the city of Varna on the Black Sea.
They were granted affiliate status in June 2008 by the ICC
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...
.
Bulgaria took part in a European Twenty20 tournament held by Carmel & District Cricket Club
Carmel & District Cricket Club
Carmel & District Cricket Club is a team based in Flintshire North Wales who play competitive cricket in the North Wales Cricket League. They are also the only Welsh village team to defeat an international cricket team and have staged several matches between national teams at their Pen-y-Gelli...
in July 2009.
Current squad
- The following table lists the players in the Bulgaria squad for the 2010 European Twenty20 ChampionshipEuropean Twenty20 ChampionshipThe European Twenty20 Championship is a cricket tournament played for the first time in July 2007 in Belfast, Northern Ireland. It was be the first international Twenty20 tournament ahead of the inaugural Twenty20 World Championship later in the same year....
:- Saif–ur-Rehman (CaptainCaptain (cricket)The captain of a cricket team often referred to as the skipper is the appointed leader, having several additional roles and responsibilities over and above those of a regular player...
) - Vikram Tewatia
- Prakash Mishra
- Rajab Ali Khan
- Ivailo Katzarski
- Grant Baben
- Georgi Velinov
- Masseeh Dlir
- Vladimir Ruskov
- Henry Rowlands
- Mushtaq Lone
- Tim Buiserete
- Tsoneo Savekov
- Danail Trenev
- Saif–ur-Rehman (Captain