EKL News
April 2025
BOARD NEWS
EKL AGM
The 2025 EKL AGM was held on April 30th with 4 board positions confirmed for the next 3 years.
Position: President
Tim Cross
Position: Secretary
Liis Bolton
Position: Marketing
Zahaan Khan
Position: Facilities
Moshur Rahman
Mart Tammoja continues in his role as Finances Director until 2026.
A new vision and development plan for 2025-2030 was adopted by the AGM and can be found here:
Vision + Development Plan 2025-2030
Facilities Care
We are now in full swing of the next round of leagues for the T20, and as such we would like to remind the clubs of a few things to help keep everything running smoothly and make sure the facilities are nice for everyone to use.
Please ensure you use the correct bins, one for bottles and cans and one for general waste. The recycling bin is not there to be used if the other bin is full. We now have an extra large bin by the groundskeeping container so if the bin is full please try and take it over to empty or simply take any excess away with you. Iqos and cigarette butts shouldn’t be left around nets or grounds so please tidy up after yourselves or we will need to revert back to the smoking zones if we cannot manage to tidy up after ourselves.
If you are on pack up please remember the 30 yards discs and ropes (ropes only for last match of weekend). Equipment should be put in the relevant ground section of the container not in the corridor where it blocks access to things further back.
OPERATIONS
European Cricket Series Tallinn
This year’s European Cricket Series Tallinn was a huge success.
Six teams competed this year, with Tallinn United, Tallinn Strikers, Tallinn Hippos and Tallinn Stallions winning their way through to finals day.
The final between Tallinn Stallions and Tallinn Hippos saw the top two teams from the League stage face off, with Stallions batting first and setting an imposing 183/5 with openers Rifaq Khan (67) and Saif Rehman (77) scoring the bulk of the runs. Henri Pattenden and Kalle Vislapuu each picked up two wickets for the Hippos.
In response the Hippos could only manage 156/5 despite a brilliant 82 from Nicolas Salonen. Aditya Panwar took 2 wickets for the Stallions.
Congratulations to Tallinn Stallions who won the tournament and were crowned European Cricket Series Champions for 2025!
Habib Khan of Tallinn Strikers was named player of the tournament.
Women’s Cricket Tournament
Estonian Cricket hosted the FTI women’s cricket festival on June 13 at Tiskre
5 teams travelled from the UK to compete against a combined Estonian team in an 8 a side softball tournament.
Leyton won the final against Crowthorne B, with Estonia picking up third place! Ragne Hallik from the Estonian side was selected as the best batter from Group B.
We look forward to continuing our partnership with FTI Sports in the coming years.
Eesti Premium Liiga
The EPL kicked off on June 14, with 6 teams competing in Division 1, and 5 teams competing in Division 2.
Thanks to EPL Sponsors Viking Security for their continued support of Estonian Cricket!
Division 1: Tallinn Strikers, Tallinn Hippos, Tallinn Stallions, Tallinn United, Tartu Wolves, Viking Stars.
Division 2: Tallinn Riders 2.0, Mustamäe Bulls, Tallinna Kriketiklubi, Saaremaa Whales, NATO BG Warriors.
The league will run until August 24, with the winners of Division 1 rewarded with the chance to represent Estonia in next year’s European Cricket League.
Pro40 Liiga
The Pro40 Liiga is scheduled to begin on August 23, with 6 teams competing in 2 groups, with the top 2 from each group advancing to the semi finals.
Thanks to Asset Maintenance who have joined as new sponsors for the 40 over competition!
Group A: Tallinn Strikers, Tallinn Riders, Tallinn Stallions.
Group B: Tallinn Hippos, Tallinn United, Tartu Wolves.
Naiste Super8 Liiga
The women’s Super8 League gives all women’s players the opportunity to play hard ball pairs cricket.
Saaremaa Kriketiklubi will compete against a joint team made up of players from Tiskre Penguins and Tallinna Kriketiklubi.
The first round was played on June 8th, with 2 more matches scheduled for August 24 and September 13.
Eesti Eliitliiga
The Eesti Eliitliiga is a women’s T20 league that gives the top women’s players in Estonia the opportunity to compete against each other. The league is designed to build a bridge between domestic and international cricket.
Available players will be assigned to teams by the Women’s National Team leadership group. The Northern Lights will be captained by Annemari Vessik, with the Southern Thunder captained by Laima Dalbina.
The first match will take place on Sunday July 13th, with 2 more matches taking place on August 24th and September 13th.
DEVELOPMENT
Coaching Development
High performance director Richard Cox will lead a fielding based coach development session on Wednesday July 30th at Tiskre from 18:00-21:00.
This session is open to anyone in Estonia that is interested in coaching cricket.
Tallinn Junior Training
Junior soft ball training takes place at Snelli Stadium on July 10, July 24, August 7 and August 21 from 13:00-14:30. The training fee is 10€ per session.
To register your child click here
Finland U15 Tournament
Our junior hard ball team travels to Finland in August to take on hosts Finland and a club team from Sweden.
The team will play 4 T20 matches across the weekend of August 2-3 in what will be their first competitive outdoor matches.
Squad: Henri Pattenden (c), Ajinkya Kulkarni, Aryaa Kulkarni, Binara Sirimewan, Erik Beswick, Kaisa Frey, Kris Cross, Lukas Gilden, Lukas Noodla, Maier Ahmed, Robert Cross, Tanmay Chaudhary.
HIGH PERFORMANCE
Men’s National Team
The men kicked off the year with a trip to Malta for a T10 series followed by a T20I series from May 3-7.
Results did not go our way, with Malta winning all of the T10 matches, before securing the T20I series 2-1.
Notable performances:
Well done to Arslan Amjad and Stuart Hook who combined for a match winning 116 run partnership in the 2nd T20. This is the 8th highest 5th wicket partnership in T20I matches.
Women’s National Team
The women began 2025 with a home T20i series followed by a T10 series, both against Bulgaria from May 15-18.
It was an incredible 4 days for the team who not only won their first ever T20I match, but went on to win all 10 matches across both series!
Notable performances:
Viktoria Frey picked up only the second 5 wicket haul for an Estonian woman in the 2nd T20I (5/13).
Lisa Bowring was awarded player of the T10 series.
Viktoria Frey was awarded player of the T20I series.
Finland Women’s T20I Tri Series
Next up for the women’s team is a T20I tri series in Finland against the hosts and Switzerland from July 18-20.
Estonia will play Switzerland on Friday July 18, then Finland on Saturday July 19, before a double header with a game against each team on Sunday the 20th.
The matches will be streamed live on the Finnish Cricket youtube channel.
Baltic Cup + Finland T20I Series
Following the women’s trip to Finland, the Finnish men will be travelling to Estonia to take part in this year’s Baltic Cup, as well as 2 more T20I matches against our men’s team.
Estonia will play Finland in a T20I on Friday July 25, before taking on Lithuania and Finland on Saturday July 26. The final Baltic Cup match against Latvia will be played on Sunday July 27, before a final T20I against Finland that afternoon.
All of Estonia’s matches will be streamed live on the Estonian Cricket youtube channel.
Men’s T20I Bilateral vs Switzerland
The following weekend, the men’s team takes on Switzerland in a T20I series.
The teams will play 3 times over the weekend, with one game on Saturday August 2nd, and two games on Sunday August 3rd.
Women’s T20I Bilateral vs Gibraltar
On the same weekend, the women’s team takes on Gibraltar in a T20I series.
The teams will play 3 times, with two games on Saturday August 2nd, and the final game on Sunday August 3rd.
