Qualla: Sportpark Het Schootsveld

Sportpark Het Schootsveld: Introduction

Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

On 17 June 2018, two cricket teams walked off a quiet ground in Deventer with the match level and nobody quite sure what was supposed to happen next. Scotland and Ireland had just played a tied T20 international at Sportpark Het Schootsveld, the kind of result that, under freshly minted International Cricket Council rules, should have triggered a Super Over. It didn't. The ICC later apologised. For a small Dutch cricket ground tucked between birch trees and bike paths, that single oversight is probably the most famous thing about it.

Sportpark Het Schootsveld: Cricket in a Football Country

Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

The Netherlands is not where you expect to find first-class cricket. The national obsession is football, and the second tier belongs to cycling, speed skating, korfball, anything that involves either a ball at your feet or a bike under you. Yet here at Het Schootsveld, the home o...

Sportpark Het Schootsveld: A Borrowed Stage

Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Through the 1990s and 2000s, Het Schootsveld kept punching above its weight. The Dutch national team brought four matches of the 1990 ICC Trophy here. In 1999 it hosted its first List A match - the Netherlands against Cambridgeshire in the NatWest Trophy - and in 2004 its first p...

Sportpark Het Schootsveld: The Tie That Wasn't Untied

Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Then came the 2018 Netherlands Tri-Nation Series. Scotland and Ireland, two of cricket's great underdog stories, met at Het Schootsveld for a T20 international. Paul Stirling hit 81 for Ireland. The scores finished level. Under the ICC's updated playing conditions, brought in the...

Sportpark Het Schootsveld: A Ground That Outlives Its Moment

Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Cricket grounds are usually remembered for centuries or collapses, for one batter's hour in the sun. Het Schootsveld is remembered for an administrative error nobody wanted. That feels harsh, because the ground continues to do what small cricket venues everywhere do: hosting loca...