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 Dear cricketers,

After weeks of planning, organisation and preparations, we finally met on the morning of January, the 29th, for the first Franken Indoor Cricket Tournament.

Six teams, two from Würzburg, two from Nürnberg and ofcourse two from Erlangen FSV,  followed my invitation for this six a side, six over per inning tournament.  After the captains briefing at 9:40am we started off with the first match at 10:00am sharp.  A total of fifteen games had to be played with hardly any break inbetween to stay within the time plan. This was quite a task, but we managed very well.

For each match I had planned 30 minutes and at the end of the fifteenth match, we were exactly on time. Each team had completed 5 games. The best four teams went through to the semi finals. The semi finals were drawn and the semi finalists were:

NCC2  vs. FSV1 and FSV2 vs. NCC1.  FSV 2 and NCC1 came through for the final match. In the end it was NCC1 who came out on top. Unfortunately, some players forgot their manners during one semi final and started shouting and insulting the umpires. After some stern words, we got the situation back under controll.  Some people still don't understand that cricket is about mutual respect, fairness, sportsmanship and team spirit and not about getting offended and emotional when you don't get your way.

All in all ,it was a great experience and everyone had loads of fun. The venue was perfect, the pizzas were warm, the tea was hot and the cricket bats were swinging. 

At the end of the day, I came to one conclusion: We certainly had worthy winners and we all congradulate them for their performance. But we also have the moral winners: The two teams from Würzburg. These two teams played 10 matches, won only one but each time they came out to play, you could see the joy and happiness in their faces, they fought for each game and never gave up till the last ball was bowled. They even had one of the later semi finalists on the verge of a defeat. They were the ones who rocked the hall !! And as Mohinder was on a hattrick, the hall was literally on fire.  I pay tribute to the true cricketers from Würzburg and look forward to the future matches with them.

A special thanks to Tanvir for helping me doing all the organising and giving me support and advice at all times. And ofcourse, Vishnu and Marcel who did all the scoring, recording, and paper work. One can hardly realise how much hard work it is to score through a whole tournament. Thankyou guys, you did a great job. 

The First Franken Indoor Tournament was a great success and I'm already working on the next one.  This tournament has been great promotion for cricket in Franken. In the last week , I have had three new signups. The cricket message is beeing heard....

 Dear cricketers,

We are organising an Indoor cricket Tournament on the 29th of January. This will be held in the FIS gym in Erlangen from 10:00am to about 7:00pm. Six teams are taking part. Each team consists of 6 players and each match consists of 6 over per inning. We play according to slight amended BCV Indoor cricket rules.  After the group matches, there will be the semi-finals and the final.

We are all looking forward to a great day of exciting cricket. These are the trofies the teams will be fighting for.

I wish all the teams success.....

 Dear fellow cricketers,

We are in the process of organising an Indoor Cricket Tournament for the the cricket teams in Franken. The Tournament will take place in the FIS Gym in Erlangen. A total of six teams should be participating. The indoor rules are a bit different to the outdoor rules, the matches are much shorter (6 overs per inning) with extra methods to score runs.

The tournament will take place on the 29th of January 2012, starting at 10:00am sharp and finishing around 7:30pm. Food, drinks and tea will be provided to all teams. We hope that we have a big croud to support the teams.

We are looking forward to this cricket event and I'm sure, we'll all have great fun.

 FSV cricket has now opened its Facebook account for everyone. Go to:

http://www.facebook.com/groups/184926838217049/

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