Norway excluded from Euro tournament - Oslo clubs form League

Norway has missed out on a place in the ECC's Representative Festival to be held in Austria in August following an administrative bungle.

Failure to formulate an effective constitution and forward it to the ECC has seen Norway lose its place at the inaugural six country tournament.

Norway was deemed to be ineligiblo through not having a properly constituted administrative body.

Ironically, while Norway has at least 10 clubs in Oslo alone, apart from Austria and Finland, the other approved participants - Croatia, Czech Republic, Poland and Slovenia, are all one-club countries.

Norway will be the first 'reserve' in case any of the invited teams should withdraw.

Participating teams which field mainly indigenous players at the tournament are likely to be invited to official ECC tournaments.

Meanwhile, cricket officials in Norway are checking the eligibility of players for the national team with a view to it touring later this year.

On the domestic front, an Oslo-based League involving Sentrum, Sinsen, City, Oslo, Jinnah, United, Drammen, Nor and Tamil clubs will be contested this year.

Teams will play each other once with matches likely to be 40-overs-per-side.

Two matches will be played each Saturday and Sunday, with the practice nets utilised every evening.

Later in the season, it is hoped to hold a knockout competition.

Officials are hoping to hold junior coaching clinics with assistance from the ECC.

However, for the now, the immediate problem, not surprisingly, is snow!

Cricket is also likely to be played this Norwegian summer in the centres of Stavanger, Trondheim, Bergen and Asker.