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Wednesday 9th August 2007 Mežica Tournament - August 24th, 25th and 26th
The rather fine-looking promotional poster for the forthcoming tournament.
Mežica CC have announced the playing schedule for the forthcoming tournament. The following 6 teams will be participating at the opening of Mežica new ground. The tournament will take place from Friday 24th August until Sunday 26th. More details to follow shortly.
Rematch VS Maribor CC for "Začnimo poletje v Mežici" Mežica have won in a rematch of the Slovene National Championships. The match took place at NK Mežica's football ground on Friday the 22nd of June. For a report and scorecards click here. Click here for a link to some photos from the match.
Mežica CC become first National Champions
Mežica CC has won the 2007 Harvey Norman Slovenian National Cricket Championships beating Maribor CC in the final and finsihing above Bela Krajina CC and Ljubljana Slovenes.
Mežica's only hiccup along the way was to eventual runners-up Maribor in game 3 of the first day. However Mežica had the last laugh winning the rematch (the Final) as well as winning the prize for best batsman of the tournament to Rudi Lasnik. Although he didn't score the highest score of the tournament he consistently held the Mežica batting line up together, scoring regualrly along the way. Mežica won the first game of Day 2 against the strongly fancied Bela Krajina outfit. Mežica constantly applied the pressure to the big hitting Bela Krajina boys and ran out the dangerous pairing of both Egon and Robi Jakofčič (both Slovenian representative players). This put them into the final against Maribor where they racked up a commanding 72 runs due to some extraordinarily fine batting from veterans Borut Čegovnik and Rudi Lasnik. Both batsmen played some excellent shots for four when the Maribor bowlers strayed onto the legside. Sensible and accurate bowling allowed Mežica to come out as victors by a margin of 17 runs. Congratulations to Mežica, who everyone would agree were worthy champions. Some pictures from the day (more will appear when we move to a new server sometime in the next week) .
Tuesday 15th May 2007
Monday 14th May 2007 ALL TEAMS TIED ON ONE WIN, ONE LOSS AFTER 1ST DAY Saturday the 12th of May saw Mežica play 2 matches in the Harvey Norman Slovene National Championships. First up was a match against Ljubljana which saw Mežica win the toss and decide to bat. Openers Sandi Steblovnik and Rudi Lasnik played a fine selction of shots all around the ground and the inexperienced Ljubljana side were never really allowed to compete. In the 2nd match however the game went to the final ball of the match, which was successfully scored off by Maribor to clinch victory in a thriller. Scorecards and report ot follow.
Mežica CC vs Maribor CC at Ručnik nad Mežico Wednesday 2nd May 2007
Saturday 5th May 2007 MEŽICA VS MARIBOR DAY A HUGE SUCCESS. BOTH CLUBS WIN ONE MATCH EACH. In the historic meeting between these 2 teams on Wednesday 2 games were played. Mežica won the first by 12 runs and Maribor recorded their first victory in the 2nd game. The first game took the format of a 15 over a side match, the 2nd was 10 overs each. The game was played on a Flicx pitch in a spectacular meadow at Ručnik nad Mežico and we're sure you will agree that there are not too many grounds in the world anything like this one. Please enjoy the following pictures.
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FOR MORE - PICTURES AND STORY ON THIS HISTORIC MATCH
Thursday 10th May 2007 MEŽICA CRICKET AS IT USED TO BE These fantastic photos show us a glimpse of what it used to be like. These were taken in the same field that the recent Mežica CC vs Maribor CC took place. Join us in April 1981.
Wednesday 25th April 2007 MEŽICA PREPARE FOR MARIBOR FIXTURE Mežica cricket club has just sent us these terrific photos and news about their upcoming match against Maribor CC. Founder Borut Čegovnik explains. "We have revived the single wicket tournaments we played as kids in Mežica." (Borut first encountered Single Wicket cricket in Birchington, Kent way back in 1974). "Each player plays for himself with the bat and the ball, until he is out. Up to five players play at once in a round robin system and if we have more we introduce quarter finals, semis etc until we have a winner." Borut then went on to explain that they had held several of these tournaments over the past 3 years. One tournament was named the "Metod Sterže memorial tournament", another the "Jure Uran memorial tournament" both in memory of young players who had sadly died over the years since the first games were played. Another tournament is named the "Jakopič memorial tournament" in memory of the farmer who used to let the boys play on his meadow. "We are trying to get the original meadow, we played on all those years ago, as the venue for our match against Maribor." Thanks to Borut for sending the photos and sharing the story about a very important part of Slovenian cricket history and heritage. We look forward to sharing more about the big Mežica / Maribor match next week.
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