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Read the English version below.<\/a><\/p>\n

\"TheJeder Cricket-Fan auf der Welt kennt Wisden<\/a>, mit vollem Namen Wisden Cricketer’s Almanack<\/a>, ein seit 1864 erscheinendes Periodikum, das im Cricketsport den Status von Bibel und Kuran imnehat. Seit 2012 erscheint The Nightwatchman – the Wisden Cricket Quarterly<\/a>, ein Magazin, das sich ausf\u00fchrlichen und hochqualitativen Artikeln verschrieben hat, die mindestens ein bisschen von Cricket handeln. Im Guardian<\/a> sagt Matt Thacker, der Herausgeber des Nightwatchman, worauf er und sein Team bei der Zusammenstellung eines Bandes Wert legen: „…quality of writing, geographical mix, split of cricket journalists and ‚outsiders‘, gender mix, subject range, mix of big names and unknowns.“<\/p>\n

Gleich eine ganze Reihe dieser Kriterien erf\u00fcllt ein Text von Crispin Andrews in der neuesten Ausgabe. Der Artikel „Complicated, illogical, effeminate“ behandelt die Geschichte des Cricket in Deutschland – und tr\u00e4gt somit wahrlich zum geographischen Mix bei. Der Titel ist anscheinend ein Zitat Adolf Hitlers und benennt, was Hitler an Cricket nicht leiden konnte.<\/p>\n

Gl\u00fccklicherweise fand Mr. Andrews mehr Deutsche als nur Hitler, die sich mit Cricket besch\u00e4ftigen und die er zitieren konnte. Er fand unter anderem ein paar Mitglieder der Pilgrims und ihres Schwesterklubs, des THCC Rot-Gelb Hamburg<\/a>. Offensichtlich war Crispin selbst froh, diesen Deutschland-Artikel nicht mit Hitler schlie\u00dfen zu m\u00fcssen, denn er schreibt:<\/p>\n

Thankfully, there are a lot of things about modern Germany that Hitler wouldn\u2019t have liked: Jerome Boateng, Sami Khedira and Mesut Ozil \u2013 brilliant footballers of African, Tunisian and Turkish descent \u2013 lighting up the German national team with flair, physical presence and athleticism. Or The Scorpions, German heavy rock musicians, performing shows to sold out crowds all over the world and writing hit songs about Germany\u2019s friendship with Russia.<\/p>\n

And now, it seems, there are Germans who play cricket. Proper rules: pads, gloves and sometimes even helmets.<\/p>\n

Last May, 34 of them jumped out of small open boats, onto the beach at Heligoland. There was no mooring place for the Cuxhaven Ferry on this famous little island, which used to be a British colony before the Brits traded it for Zanzibar in 1890. THCC Rot-Gelb Cricket Hamburg were to play Heligoland Pilgrims, a team made up of Hamburg players and friends from other local clubs. The same two sides met at the same place last year for the island\u2019s first cricket match. Some players wore their whites on the ferry. Time was short. A two-day, two-innings, 30-overs-a-side match to get through. A return ferry to catch the following evening.<\/p>\n

The game went to a nail-biting finish. The Hamburg captain was caught at long on with nine to win. \u201cAn unnecessary bold shot,\u201d Hamburg player Tim Tigges called it. Tigges, who first played cricket at Green Point Cricket Club in Cape Town, wasn\u2019t complaining though. The shot, the tension, as the ball flew towards the boundary fielder, just added to the drama.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Wahre Worte, wenn man unserem eigenen Bericht<\/a> \u00fcber dieses Spiel glauben mag. Der Erdinger Alkoholfrei Atlantik-Cup<\/a> ist sicher ein gro\u00dfartiges Beispiel, wie man den Spirit of Cricket auch in die entlegensten Winkel der Welt f\u00fchrt. Und ein gro\u00dfartiger Gedanke ist es auch, dass Cricket-Liebhaber auf der ganzen Welt nun im Nightwatchman davon lesen. Darin lernen sie, Deutschland mit einer sehr sympathischen Haltung gegen\u00fcber Cricket zu verbinden, wenn Andrews unseren Pr\u00e4sidenten zitiert (auch wenn Andrews hier ein Fehler unterlaufen ist, da unser Pr\u00e4sident in Sidmouth nur Ferien gemacht hat):<\/p>\n

Moritz Hagenmeyer, who bowls \u201cslow-motion donkey-drops\u201d for Heligoland Pilgrims, sees himself as the happy eccentric who plays for friendship, fun and the sheer joy of taking part. Hagenmeyer \u2013 who has followed the game since 1981 when he lived in Sidmouth and watched Botham\u2019s Ashes on TV \u2013 says: \u201cI can\u2019t really play at all, but my friends know I\u2019m mad, so it doesn\u2019t matter.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Wer den ganzen Artikel lesen m\u00f6chte, kann die aktuelle Ausgabe (#7) f\u00fcr kleines Geld als E-Book auf der Site des Nightwatchman herunterladen<\/a>. F\u00fcr deutsche Cricket-Liebhaber lohnt sich diese Ausgabe ganz besonders – denn sie enth\u00e4lt gleich noch einen zweiten Artikel \u00fcber Deutschland: „In search of Felix Menzel – Dan Waddell becomes obsessed by a man who lived for cricket in Nazi Germany“.<\/p>\n

Anscheinend k\u00f6nnen die englischen Schreiber nicht anders, als Deutschland nur im Zusammenhang mit der Nazi-Zeit zu nennen. Da ist es nur fair, wenn Crispin Andrews in seinem Artikel abschlie\u00dfend die Retourkutsche bringt:<\/p>\n

Tigges thinks that it\u2019s a good job for England that Germans didn\u2019t take to cricket too seriously. \u201cWill, determination, gamesmanship, efficiency, tactical awareness \u2013 with all our clich\u00e9d characteristics, we\u2019d have been a premier cricketing nation by now,\u201d he says. \u201cBut aren\u2019t England used to inventing great games only to see other countries learn to play the game better?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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<\/a>HPCC in The Nightwatchman<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"TheEvery cricket fan on earth knows Wisden<\/a>, full name: Wisden Cricketer\u2019s Almanack, the annual reference book which, having been published since 1864, holds the esteem of Bible and Quran in the world of cricket. Since 2012, The Nightwatchman \u2013 The Wisden Cricket Quarterly<\/a>, is dedicated to comprehensive and high quality articles dealing at least partly with cricket. Matt Thacker, The Nightwatchman\u2019s editor, explains his and his team\u2019s priorities when compiling an issue of this magazine: \u201c\u2026\u00a0quality of writing, geographical mix, split of cricket journalists and \u2018outsiders\u2019, gender mix, subject range, mix of big names and unknowns.\u201d
\nCrispin Andrews meets a number of these criteria with his article \u201cComplicated, illogical, effeminate\u201d in the latest issue. The text deals with the history of cricket in Germany \u2013 and thus actually contributes the desired geographical mix. Allegedly the title is a quote of Adolf Hitler and mentions what Hitler did not like regarding cricket.
\nIt is quite fortunate that Mr Andrews found more Germans than Hitler who are occupied with cricket and whom he could quote. Amongst others, he got in touch with a couple of Pilgrims and members of their sister club THCC Rot-Gelb Hamburg<\/a>. It appears that Crispin himself was glad not to have to end his journey article with Hitler because he writes:<\/p>\n

Thankfully, there are a lot of things about modern Germany that Hitler wouldn\u2019t have liked: Jerome Boateng, Sami Khedira and Mesut Ozil \u2013 brilliant footballers of African, Tunisian and Turkish descent \u2013 lighting up the German national team with flair, physical presence and athleticism. Or The Scorpions, German heavy rock musicians, performing shows to sold out crowds all over the world and writing hit songs about Germany\u2019s friendship with Russia.<\/p>\n

And now, it seems, there are Germans who play cricket. Proper rules: pads, gloves and sometimes even helmets.<\/p>\n

Last May, 34 of them jumped out of small open boats, onto the beach at Heligoland. There was no mooring place for the Cuxhaven Ferry on this famous little island, which used to be a British colony before the Brits traded it for Zanzibar in 1890. THCC Rot-Gelb Cricket Hamburg were to play Heligoland Pilgrims, a team made up of Hamburg players and friends from other local clubs. The same two sides met at the same place last year for the island\u2019s first cricket match. Some players wore their whites on the ferry. Time was short. A two-day, two-innings, 30-overs-a-side match to get through. A return ferry to catch the following evening.<\/p>\n

The game went to a nail-biting finish. The Hamburg captain was caught at long on with nine to win. \u201cAn unnecessary bold shot,\u201d Hamburg player Tim Tigges called it. Tigges, who first played cricket at Green Point Cricket Club in Cape Town, wasn\u2019t complaining though. The shot, the tension, as the ball flew towards the boundary fielder, just added to the drama.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

True words, if one can believe our own report of this match<\/a>. The Erdinger Alkoholfrei Atlantik-Cup<\/a> certainly is a great example of how one can lead the spirit of cricket also in the remotest corners on earth. And it is also a great idea that cricket lovers all over the world can now read about this in the Nightwatchman. They can learn to connect Germany with a rather friendly approach to cricket, if Andrews quotes our president (although Andrews made a mistake because our president only spent his holidays in Sidmouth):<\/p>\n

Moritz Hagenmeyer, who bowls \u201cslow-motion donkey-drops\u201d for Heligoland Pilgrims, sees himself as the happy eccentric who plays for friendship, fun and the sheer joy of taking part. Hagenmeyer \u2013 who has followed the game since 1981 when he lived in Sidmouth and watched Botham\u2019s Ashes on TV \u2013 says: \u201cI can\u2019t really play at all, but my friends know I\u2019m mad, so it doesn\u2019t matter.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If you want to read the whole article, you can download it (#7) for small change as an e\u001ebook on the Nightwatchman\u2019s website<\/a>. This issue is particularly interesting for German cricket lovers \u2013 because it contains a second article on Germany: \u201cIn search of Felix Menzel \u2013 Dan Waddell becomes obsessed by a man who lived for cricket in Nazi Germany\u201d.
\nApparently English writers cannot but mention Germany in connection with the Nazi period. Then it is only fair if Crispin Andrews concludes his article with a tit-for-tat-response:<\/p>\n

Tigges thinks that it\u2019s a good job for England that Germans didn\u2019t take to cricket too seriously. \u201cWill, determination, gamesmanship, efficiency, tactical awareness \u2013 with all our clich\u00e9d characteristics, we\u2019d have been a premier cricketing nation by now,\u201d he says. \u201cBut aren\u2019t England used to inventing great games only to see other countries learn to play the game better?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Read the English version below. Jeder Cricket-Fan auf der Welt kennt Wisden, mit vollem Namen Wisden Cricketer’s Almanack, ein seit 1864 erscheinendes Periodikum, das im Cricketsport den Status von Bibel und Kuran imnehat. Seit 2012 erscheint The Nightwatchman – the Wisden Cricket Quarterly, ein Magazin, das sich ausf\u00fchrlichen und hochqualitativen Artikeln verschrieben hat, die mindestens […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,14],"tags":[16,15],"class_list":["post-110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-atlantik-cup","category-pressebericht","tag-the-nightwatchman","tag-wisden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heligolandpilgrimscc.de\/cms\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heligolandpilgrimscc.de\/cms\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heligolandpilgrimscc.de\/cms\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heligolandpilgrimscc.de\/cms\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heligolandpilgrimscc.de\/cms\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.heligolandpilgrimscc.de\/cms\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1580,"href":"https:\/\/www.heligolandpilgrimscc.de\/cms\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions\/1580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heligolandpilgrimscc.de\/cms\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heligolandpilgrimscc.de\/cms\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heligolandpilgrimscc.de\/cms\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}