Germany Aiming To Make Progress Tell

GERMANY head to Guernsey in search of unlikely cricket glory this week – and ruing the fact that two of their biggest stars won’t be able to join them in the Channel Islands.

- Richard Edwards

Currently the fastest growing cricket nation on earth, primarily as a result of the influx of refugees into the country in the past five years, Germany have been actively recruiting players from across Europe to fuel their ambitions of challenging the likes of the Netherlands and Scotland in the not too distant future.

That included German-born Ollie Rayner, who last week joined Kent on loan from Middlesex, Glamorgan’s Craig Maschede and Dieter Klein of Leicestershire, both of whom have German passports.

There were also rumours that Durham’s Michael Richardson could receive a call-up as a result of his mother hailing from the country.