its Vision Statement To promote and develop cricket in Belgium by increasing the visibility of the game by taking it to the schools and the local community, promote transparency of the federation’s functioning and maintain clear and sustained communication with the cricketing fraternity. Improve cricketing facilities/infrastructure across the country, create financial sustenance by actively working towards securing a sponsor to generate non-ICC income for funding cricket development in Belgium. Actively work towards establishing partnerships with local councils and the various national sports governing bodies in order to maximize the footprint of the game. Significantly improve the results of the national senior, junior and women’s team’s performances at European and Global level. Club cricket in Belgium More and more clubs were formed in the 1950s, 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. Today, 18 clubs and one school are members of either the Belgian Cricket Federation or its regional Flemish organisation Cricket Vlaanderen. In addition, there are a number of teams representing businesses and other organizations playing in a mid-week T20 competition and other non-League events. International Cricket Matches On the European stage, Belgium has been a committed supporter of the ECC and ICC-Europe for many years with senior national teams taking part in championships and, since 2001, sending junior national sides to European Championships as well. Belgium is the current holder of the ICC-Europe Under-19 Division 2 title and has previously held Under-13 and Under-17 titles. In 2011 the senior focus will shift towards T20 cricket in preparation for the new ICC-Europe Championship format. Belgium hosted 12 countries for the ICC-Europe T20 Championships Division 2 in June 2013 and 5 nation European Cricket One-day U19 Tournament in August 2015. A women’s cricket competition is held at Royal Brussels CC each year with a team selected to play home and away matches against Thoiry (Paris). Grounds See also Belgium national cricket team Belgium women's national cricket team Belgium national under-19 cricket team References External links Official website Cricket administration Cricket Sports organizations established in 1990 1990 establishments in Belgium Sport in Ghent