Carsten Pedersen is a Danish

Denmark

Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...

 cricket

Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

er. He is a right-handed batsman and a right-arm off-break bowler who has played with the Danish cricket team

Danish cricket team

The Denmark national cricket team is the team that represents the country of Denmark in international cricket matches. They have been an associate member of the International Cricket Council since 1966 and are currently part of the ICC's High Performance Program.-Beginnings:Cricket has been played...

 since 1996.

Pedersen's long list of involvements with the Danish team, since his debut in the 1996 European Championships against a weak Italian

Italian cricket team

The Italy national cricket team is the team that represents the country of Italy in international cricket matches. They have been an associate member of the International Cricket Council since 1995, having previously been an affiliate member since 1984...

 lower-order which saw five men put on three runs for the last five wickets, include ICC Tournaments in 1997, 2000 (the Emerging Nations Tournament), 2001 and 2005, and five consecutive European Championships between 1998 and 2006.

Pedersen is a mid-order batsman with a moderate average currently standing at over 20. His brother, Michael

Michael Pedersen

Michael Pedersen was born on March 1, 1986 and is a cricketer. He is a left-handed batsman and a right-arm offbreak bowler. He has played List A cricket for Denmark since 2005, having previously lined up for the Under-19s. During 2006 and 2007 he has also played for Marylebone Cricket Club Young...

 also plays cricket for Denmark.

External links

• Carsten Pedersen at Cricket Archive