The Danish Cricket Federation (
Danish
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: ''Dansk Cricket Forbund''; DCF) is the official
governing body
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of the sport of
cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striki ...
in the
Kingdom of Denmark
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. Its current headquarters is in
Brøndby,
Copenhagen
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.
History
The DCF was founded in 1953, at a meeting of 31 clubs in
Odense
Odense ( , , ) is the third largest city in Denmark (behind Copenhagen and Aarhus) and the largest city on the island of Funen. As of 1 January 2022, the city proper had a population of 180,863 while Odense Municipality had a population of 20 ...
. Cricket in Denmark had previously been organised by the
Danish Football Association
The Danish Football Union ( da, Dansk Boldspil-Union; DBU) is the governing body of football in Denmark. It is the organization of the Danish football clubs and runs the professional Danish football leagues and the men's and women's national t ...
, a consequence of both sports being introduced by British expatriates. The organisation joined the
International Cricket Council
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(ICC) in 1966, as an associate member, and was later also a founding member of the
European Cricket Council
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...
.
Histori
– Dansk Cricket Forbund (in Danish). Retrieved 15 April 2016.
In the year 1840, a few Danish high school teachers were on a study visit to England and brought back the basics of the game of cricket to Denmark. Later in the 1860s the English railway engineers who constructed the railway tracks through Denmark founded cricket clubs in the cities of Randers and Odense. Further, the famous Danish fairy tale author Hans Christian Andersen
Hans Christian Andersen ( , ; 2 April 1805 – 4 August 1875) was a Danish author. Although a prolific writer of plays, travelogues, novels, and poems, he is best remembered for his literary fairy tales.
Andersen's fairy tales, consisti ...
mentions in his diary from 1857 that he was playing cricket while visiting Charles Dickens
Charles John Huffam Dickens (; 7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian e ...
in England and he got an injured finger hitting the ball. Many cricket clubs combined the cricket activities with football which meant that cricket was organized by the Danish Football Association, called Dansk Boldspil Union (DBU).
See also
* Denmark national cricket team
The Denmark national cricket team represents Denmark in international cricket. They have been an associate member of the International Cricket Council (ICC) since 1966,
* Denmark women's national cricket team
The Denmark women's national cricket team represents the Kingdom of Denmark in international women's cricket. The team is organised by the Dansk Cricket Forbund, an associate member of the International Cricket Council (ICC).
Denmark's first r ...
* Denmark national under-19 cricket team
The Denmark Under-19 cricket team represents the country of Denmark in U-19 international cricket.
Denmark played their first Under-19 fixture against the Netherlands Under-19 in Toronto in 1979. The team played 6 youth One Day International's ...
References
External links
Official website
ICC associate members: Denmark
Cricket administration
Cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striki ...
Sports organizations established in 1953
1953 establishments in Denmark
Cricket in Denmark
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