cricket
has
arrived
in
Mongolia
welcome to the wonderful world of cricket
WHAT
is cricket?
Cricket - the king of sports and cousin of guidig matka - is a bat and ball team sport, full of strategy and respect that can be played by young & old, girls & boys, and able and disabled.
LEARN
to play
No experience is needed and it's free for beginners!
There are regular training sessions all through the year! Perhaps even form a team!
BECOME
a coach
Every great team has a great coach and we can help train you up. All you need is a love of sport and teaching kids and if your really good we'll hire you!
SPONSOR
cricket
mongolia
There is a great appetite for cricket in Mongolia and we have been asked to teach in many more schools.
Please help to train up two more coaches!
our mission
The Mongolian Cricket Association (MCA) and its friends are all about building a socially inclusive community through cricket that helps the children of Mongolia.
We believe that team sports have enormous individual and community benefits and that cricket is inclusive with respect to age, build, temperament, gender and ability.
We also believe it helps form lasting friendships
that lead to unknowable and unquantifiable opportunities.
Apart from introducing cricket, we aim to:
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encourage indigenous participation from all Mongolia with as little gender, geographic or socioeconomic bias as possible
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have a positive effect at an individual and community level
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be sustainable over the long term
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be accessible to an ever-widening audience
We do this by:
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spreading the Spirit of Cricket through fair play and fun
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developing facilities & sourcing kit
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encouraging teams to form and organising tournaments
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promoting indoor cricket in school gyms through our Schools' Programme
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providing coaching and "coach the coach" courses
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managing high performance squads for both men and women
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encouraging fair practice including Anti-Corruption and Anti-Doping (see here for prohibited substances)
We thank the many people and organisations that have helped with this grassroots cricket initiative.
Everyone is welcome at the Mongolian Friendship Cricket Ground
cricket in the National Park of Ulaanbaatar
and in school sports halls during the winter
help us build our coaching team
We now have an ongoing Schools' Programme with cricket being played regularly in Ulaanbaatar as well as in the provinces of Mongolia. We have a small paid coaching team and a larger group of community coaches. We also have a high performance squad and have sent our international Men and Women's teams to play in the Asian Games (2023), bilateral T20i series in Japan and Indonesia and to compete in the World Cup T20 Qualifiers in Malaysia in 2024.
We are looking for a group of sponsors to help us pay for our coaching team. For this, USD 30,000 of regular funding is needed each year. Without long term sponsorship it is very difficult to plan for the future, so if you feel your company aligns with our mission and goals please contact us for a discussion.
We are dedicated to providing positive life experiences for our young cricketers, developing a community that spans the grassroots to the elite, spreading the Spirit of Cricket and an ethos of cooperation through team sport and fun. We hope cricket can find its place in Mongolian life and be a positive force for society.
The history so far:
phase 0 - sow the seeds - 2007 to 2015
phase 1 - raise funds & build a ground – 2015/16
phase 2 – year round Cricket Outreach Schools' Programme starts in the schools of Ulaanbaatar – 2017/18
phase 3 - start helping cricket start outside Ulaanbaatar - 2019
phase 4 – train up coaches, hold tournaments & form leagues - 2020
phase 5 – compete with neighboring countries - joined ICC in 2021 and competed in 2023 Asian Games, bilaterals with Japan and Indonesia and World Cup Qualifiers in Malaysia 2024
Please contact us at cricketmgl@gmail.com if you would like to help with this.
Mongolian Friendship Cricket Ground
The finest cricket pitch for miles.
In 2024 we thank sponsors both new and old as well as Japan and Indonesia cricket boards for hosting our men and women's teams this year and for Malaysia for hosting our men's team for the World Cup Qualifiers. A massive thank your to Mobicom for their significant help in enabling our trip to Japan.
After sending our teams to the Asian Games last year we are very grateful for those that enabled us to build our international experience. Our young players are having the most amazing experiences and learning so much.
In terms of domestic competitions, we thank the Australian Embassy to Mongolia for continuing to help us. Ongoing assistance means so much to us as without it we cannot build and plan for the future. This year the Embassy sponsored the Women's competition and we equally thank the Indian Embassy and our new donor MEIL for sponsoring this year's Men's competition.
Just as important is our grassroots, with the Schools' Programme growing and evolving, with significant help from the ICC through CRIIIO and Oyu Tolgoi through its own outreach programme, which we have helped administer since 2022.
