Still Going Strong Cricket ClubDrielandentoernooi en Vierlandentoernooi - Axel Morild Triangular Trophy en Four Nations Trophy Algemene informatie, programma en verslagen |
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Algemene informatie bij het Drielandentoernooi / Quadrangular Tournament Jaarlijks spelen de XL clubs van Nederland, Engeland en Denemarken een toernooi om de Axel Morild Triangular Trophy. Dit is een wisseltrofee. Vanaf 2014 speelt ook Spanje mee. SGS stelde hiervoor de 4Four Nations Trophy ter beschikking. De oude landen vinden echter de traditie van de Axel Morild wisseltrofee waardevol. Om die reden blijft ook deze trofee binnen het toernooi verspeeld worden. Het toernooi wordt beurtelings in één van de deelnemende landen gespeeld. Alle deelnemers spelen één keer tegen elkaar. SGS stelt het sterkste team op uit de dan beschikbare spelers voor de wedstrijden om de Four Nations Trophy en de Axel Morild Triangular Tournament Trophy. Naast deze competitie is ook het sociale een belangrijk aspect. Veel deelnemers doen jaarlijks aan dit toernooi mee waarbij internationale vriendschappen gemaakt en hernieuwd worden. Om ervoor te zorgen dat alle deelnemers aan de tournee kunnen spelen wordt hiernaast een T20 toernooi georganiseerd om de T20 Cup. Ook bij deze wedstrijden gaat het dus ergens om, een echte challenge! Voorafgaand aan het toernooi worden meestal enkele "warming up" wedstrijden gespeeld, bijvoorbeeld tegen lokale tegenstanders.
Onderstaand informatie
over de reeds gespeelde toernooien. De eerste jaren werd "echt cricket"
gespeeld. De latere jaren gingen ook de veteranen met hun tijd mee en werd
overgestapt op limited over cricket. Vanaf die tijd kende het toernooi elk
jaar een winnaar.
In 2012 werd voor het eerst in Spanje gespeeld. In 2013
speelde een "Spaans" team voor het eerst ook in het buitenland
mee. Historisch overzicht van het toernooi.
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De Gentleman's Cup (24-09-2018) In Køge werd door de
Spanjaard Rico de fel begeerde cup uitgereikt aan Jan Willem Heshusius vanwege
zijn jarenlange inzet voor het toernooi. Onderstaand de jaartallen
en de namen en de toevoeging aan de toernooi gegevens. --------------- The Gentleman's Cup was donated by a former Dansk XL player, Henning T. Olesen. The cup is presented each year to a player who has served the Triangular Tournament well, or who has participated for many years. “From a grateful Dansk XL former player to a worthy gentleman”
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Lees hier een tweetal artikelen die dit belangrijke evenement uitgebreid beschrijven. Het eerste artikel is alweer een paar jaar geleden geschreven
Lees hier het artikel van Peter Hargreaves
over het ontstaan van het Drielandentoernooi in 1969
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"The
Forty Clubs' Triangular Tournaments"
In november 2020 is een nieuw artikel verschenen over het Vierlandentoernooi op de website van de Forty Club dat door Barry Aitken is doorgestuurd aan Duco Ohm op 28 november. Dit artikel is ook weer geschreven door Peter Hargreaves, nu echter als gevolg van de uitbreiding naar vier deelnemende landen. Het is nu geworden het Quadrangular Tournament. Wij publiceren dit onverkort op onze SGS Website omdat dit uitstekend weergeeft wat het toernooi is en betekent. Quadrangular Tournament by Peter S.Hargreaves of the Forty Club (2020)
The Quadrangular Tournament is an annual competition
between teams from the UK, Denmark, The Netherlands and Spain. A little bit of history... In a generation where international meetings within the auspices of the Masters' Games and the Golden Oldies have become established, the annual event of the original three veteran cricket clubs in Europe - the Forty Clubs - deserves a bit more limelight, not least for having been in operation since 1969, with the 20th of such tournaments having taken place in July 1991. But our story begins earlier than that. In 1929 the eldest of the trio of the clubs, Still Going Strong CC, was founded in Holland by AJH Eyken, where its activities were confined for almost 10 years. In 1936 in England Henry Grierson and his friends founded The Forty Club, which ranks among the largest in the world today in terms of membership. In 1940 in Holland a man destined to do much for the game in his country joined the administration of SGS CC. He was RG Ingelse who in 1951 took the club on tour to England for the first time, and repeated the feat in 1954 and 1956. It was not until 1961, in Rotterdam, where the two clubs SGS and XL met for the first time, and in 1963 The Forty Club returned to Holland. 1963 marked the founding of the third of the clubs, Dansk XL CC. Later that year a side of Forty Club players led by AL Newbery met the new club at Hjørrinq, in North Jutland, and in the same summer SGS met The Forty Club for the first time on English soil, at Sunbury-on-Thames. In 1965 The Forty Club then met SGS at Amsterdam, followed by SGS making a first visit to Denmark, playing Dansk XL teams at Funen and in Jutland, in the second of which encounters the perennial Aksel Morild made 84. In 1966 two notables were included in the Forty Club's side which visited Denmark, (Sir) Len Hutton and R.T. Simpson - the first being sensationally bowled by Tom Provis fourth ball for a duck and the second falling also to this bowler, in Copenhagen. When SGS met The Forty Club again at Sunbury-on-Thames in 1966 an historic, first Dutch victory in England resulted, mainly through an unbeaten 89 by Dr G Eikelboom, an achievement which made the BBC's news headlines. Later the same summer SGS then hosted Dansk XL for the first time at Apeldoorn. In 1967 when The Forty Club visited Holland the West Indies leg-spinner Dr CB Clarke took the first of probably only two hat tricks recorded to date between the three clubs. In 1968 SGS faced a strong Forty Club side at Headingly, and later the same year XL visited Denmark, this time with the West Indies all-rounder, Denis Atkinson, in its ranks. The series begins By 1969 it had become obvious that far more enjoyment at less expense could be had if the three clubs could meet annually in a triangular tournament instead of in pairs, and with that year marking the 40th anniversary of SGS CC, the oldest, it was natural for the first of such series to be played in Holland, at Wassenaar. On this occasion two trophies were introduced, the Grierson-Ingelse and the Eikelboom cups. The course of the tournaments has contained highlights in plenty, and it is of significance that on only about three occasions over the past 22 years the event has not been able to be completed for some reason or other. On the occasion of the 20th of them, at Slagelse in Denmark, a check revealed that two men had played in most of them - Jørqen Morild of Denmark. and Daan Ingelse of Holland. Just for fun Ludicrous as this might sound to historians and statisticians, study has revealed that in many instances no set tournament or match format was laid down although, fairly obviously, upon one club's team beating the other two it would clearly automatically be the tournament winner. Prior to 1984 drawn matches occurred in plenty, and even upon limited overs becoming introduced in that year the event of rain intervening especially on the third day still frustrated the outcome. Suggestions may have been made about taking averages and other factors into account, but as if by consensus nothing was ever laid down about this, almost as if to leave the issues as interesting material for discussion at the tables of the traditional banquet on the final night each year. In short, an element of playing for the fun of it could be claimed to have been preserved here, for all the keenness generally apparent when any pair of the clubs have clashed. On a single occasion one club, for certain reasons was unable to appear at short notice, leaving the other two to have to make do with a slightly more friendly match than usual in what had to be declared as a ‘no contest’ year.
Where
the strength has been concerned, The Forty Club, with so big a membership
on which to draw, has generally tended to be the best equipped, especially
in batting on turf in England. But there have been exceptions and surprises
in plenty, as the accompanying table reveals. Both SGS and Dansk XL have
tended to be stronger in their own countries for obvious reasons, where
the hurdles of finance and getting time off work have been less difficult
for their players. Prior to the introduction of limited overs in 1984 there was a greater chance of a single bowler dominating the scene, even if this seldom occurred. The more prominent batsmen of The Forty Club tended to run up big scores, with R.T. Simpson and J.P. Fellows-Smith notoriously in the van, but when they failed the element of uncertainty frequently entered as if with a vengeance. SGS’s doyen batsman, Dr G Eikelboom headed the run-makers of his club, but after he stopped playing the contributions to its batting have been more spread, with powerful hitting in the middle order often being a feature. For Dansk XL the now legendary Aksel Morild was a bulwark to the side's innings in his time, and his younger brother Jørqen has also been a most consistent performer during a long career.
A
few performances stand out particularly vividly over the years in these
matches. In 1973 in a Dansk XL vs The Forty Club match, Aksel Morild,
at the age of 61, had given his Danish side a feasible chance of a victory
when carrying his bat right through the innings. The Forty Club’s
man from Yorkshire, Bill Reader, who had earlier taken 6 wickets then followed
this up by making 99 not out, to clinch the game when it might have gone
either way. For SGS one has to mention the second hat trick achieved in matches between the clubs, which occurred at Amstelveen in 1990. Following a record high total, the host side opened with Theo Burki, known perhaps for living in the shadow of his brother Coen as a bowler, and within a few overs Dansk XL lost 5 wickets to this man. The proper spirit Although these games have been generally played hard, importance has always been placed on their being played fairly, and woe betide the batsman getting a fine edge who dare so much as cast any challenging glance towards the umpire. Now and then walkover victories have occurred, but the number of genuine, uncontrived cliff-hanger finishes has far outweighed these which, without doubt, has been as the players for the most would prefer them, not least as subject matter for discussion at the Tournament dinner. The tournaments are held traditionally in the' third week of July each year, with the venues generally being rotated unless one club happens to have an anniversary to be marked From Three to Four
In
2012, in a controversial move, The Forty Club hosted the tournament at La
Manga in Spain in October. However given that this would not impact upon
the usual summer programme of cricket, and that it would be played in broad
sunshine and warmth, this turned out to be quite popular with the players.
Johnny T Barclay, President The Forty Club |