European Cricket

Netherlands plays first class cricket and participates in international test matches, but the rest of Europe also have their own national teams. The European Cricket League was only founded in 2018 but has a significant number of participants. They play T10 and T20 games.

There are currently 35 countries in the league from all over Europe and also Russia and Israel.

Member Countries

Austria	Belgium	Bulgaria	Croatia	Cyprus	Czech Republic
Denmark	England	Estonia	Finland	France	Germany
Gibraltor	Greece	Guernsey	Hungary	Ireland	Isle of Man
Israel	Italy	Jersey	Luxembourg	Malta	Netherlands
Norway	Portugal	Romania	Russia	Scotland	Serbia
Slovenia	Spain	Sweden	Switzerland	Turkey

The European Cricket Network have lots of videos both live and recorded of matches throughout Europe. They can be watched on their website or on Youtube.

West Indies cricket

West Indies cricket is comprised of 15 mostly English-speaking island countries in the Caribbean. There are two different leagues: Premier League and First-class cricket, and they are not comprised of the same countries.

Six national teams play First-class cricket toward the West Indies Championship: Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, the Leeward Islands*, and the Windward Islands†. Barbados are the defending champions. They also compete in the Super50 Cup (T50) championship. Trinidad and Tobago are the defending champions.

Six teams play Premier League Twenty20 cricket toward the Caribbean Premier League tournament: Barbados Royals, Guyana Amazon Warriors, Jamaica Tallawahs, St Kitts & Nevis Patriots, Saint Lucia Kings, and Trinbago (Trinidad and Tobago) Knight Riders. Trinbago Knight Riders are the defending champions.

Barbados

Guyana

Jamaica

Leeward Islands

Trinidad & Tobago

Windward Islands

Barbados

Guyana

Jamaica

St. Kitts & Nevis

St. Lucia

Trinbago

These national teams are not to be confused with the West Indies team that plays International Test cricket. That team is comprised of players from the various West Indies countries and will play seven test matches in 2024: three against England in July, two against South Africa in August, and two against Bangladesh in November. They also play international T20 games.

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* Leeward Islands – Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, British Virgin Islands, Montserrat, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Sint Maarten, and U.S. Virgin Islands.
† Windward Islands – Dominica, Grenada, Saint Lucia, and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.

Win, Lose or Draw – or tie, abandoned or...

Unlike most sports the results of a cricket game can have a large variety of conclusions. In the expression "Win, Lose or Draw," the term "draw" is synonymous with a tie, but in cricket a draw and a tie are completely different. A tie, as in most games, is when the scores are tied at the end of scheduled play, and this is the same in cricket but is extremely rare. (In over 2,000 matches of International Test Cricket played since 1877 there have been only two ties.)

A draw in cricket is the result when neither side is considered to have successfully beaten the other team regardless of the score. A draw results when both of these two factors result at the end of play:

1. The team batting in the 4th innings of a match fails to score the number of runs required to win or tie the match 
2. The team bowling in the 4th innings of a match fails to bowl the batting side out

I think the reason that the game is considered a draw is because the team batting in the 4th innings runs out of time to acquire sufficient runs to tie or beat the bowling side. Draws occur only in 1st class cricket such as County Cricket in Britain and International Test Matches.

So much for draws and ties. Cricket games can have a few other endings besides a win/loss: No Result, Match Abandoned, or Won via the Duckworth-Lewis-Stern (DLS) Method. From Cricketers Hub website:

No Result: This is usually caused by rain or extremely bad weather stopping one or both teams from batting the minimum number of overs required for a game to be won or lost. In 50 over cricket, both teams must bat for a minimum of 20 overs in order for a winner to be declared, and in 20 over cricket each team must bat a minimum of 5 overs.

Match Abandoned: A match will be abandoned when something like the weather stops the toss taking place, and stops a single ball from being bowled. The game never even started.

Won via the Duckworth-Lewis-Stern (DLS) Method: The DLS method is a mathematical formula that is used when things like bad weather affect a game of cricket, and it allows the winning score for the team batting last to be adjusted to account for the time lost in the game. So even though the first team batting may have scored 180 runs in a T20 match, the second team may have to score only 145 to win. In order for the DLS method to be applied, both teams must bat a minimum of 20 overs in 50 over cricket, and a minimum of 5 overs in T20 matches. If this does not happen, the match will end with No Result.