Cricket in Norway Norway is one of cricket's most northern stations however the game has a solid and developing situation in the country, but most players of the sport are from or descended from South Asia, and the playerbase among Norwegians is low.
The first cricket match in Norway was played in 1866, and the Norwegian-born cricketer Buster Nupen played for the South Africa national cricket team from 1922 to 1936.[4] Regardless of endeavours to develop the game at the time in Norway, cricket had everything except vanished by the turn of the century.
During the 1970s, cricket encountered a resurrection in Norway as South Asian migrant workers began playing matches in and around Oslo. Subsequently, the first Norwegian cricket club was established in 1974. The Norwegian Cricket Board was founded in 1994 and, in June 2000, joined with the ICC. In May 2007, The Norwegian Cricket Federation joined the Norwegian Olympic and Paralympic Committee and Confederation of Sports.
Today, there are 67 cricket clubs in Norway with 5000 members combined. There are six divisions for men and one division for woman.[5]
