The Spanish cricket team is the team that represents the country of Spain

Spain

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 in international 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...

 matches. They became an affiliate member of the International Cricket Council

International Cricket Council

The International Cricket Council is the international governing body of cricket. It was founded as the Imperial Cricket Conference in 1909 by representatives from England, Australia and South Africa, renamed the International Cricket Conference in 1965, and took up its current name in 1989.The...

 in 1992. They made their international debut in the ECC Trophy in 2001, finishing in 6th place. They played in the tournament again in 2001, this time finishing seventh. In the equivalent tournament in 2005, the European Affiliates Championship, they put in a much improved performance to finish in third, just missing out on promotion to Division Two of the European Championship

European Cricket Championship

The European Cricket Championship is a group of various tournaments in which national cricket sides throughout Europe compete. The tournament is designed to encourage and develop the best players in countries where cricket is not a major sport and Europe's only Test cricket playing country,...

. They played in Division Three of that tournament in 2007 and will play in Division Three once again in 2009.

Current squad

The following list contains the 14 players in Spain's squad for the European Cricket Championship Division 3:

• Graham Howe(Manager)
• Mark Spencer(Captain
  Captain (cricket)
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• Muhammad Shafique Ali (wk)
• Shoaib Hussein
• Armaghan Khan
• Sam Peter Lupson
• Farhat Mahmood
• James Morgan
• Christian Munoz - Mills
• Talat Nadeem
• Philip John Reid
• Tanveer Iqbal
• Wasim Ur Rehman Khan
• Pedro Venus Valiente