The cricketers trained there and played some friendlies, but the space was too small for an official match. The first place in Madrid they managed to get access to, back in 2004, was the football pitch of the British Council School in Somosaguas in the municipality of Pozuelo de Alarcón. In the meantime, they helped launch the East Coast and Central League, of which they are a part of to this day. The first thing the newly reformed MCC did was to buy this equipment. In addition, the ball is particularly hard, so protective material is also needed. Batting is done from the center, on a rectangle with a firmer surface, similar to a golf green. MADRID CRICKET CLUBĬricket is played on an oval field, which is roughly equivalent to two football pitches. An MCC player batting during a match in La Manga. From then on, players started getting together for informal matches on a regular basis, as a way of socializing and speaking a bit of English. But in the 1990s it disappeared and there were only a few teams left on the coast,” says Woodward, who has researched the history of the sport in Spain since he has been in charge of the club. It was started in the 1960s by a Briton after getting some equipment from the Embassy. The current president of MCC, Jon Woodward, refounded the club after that Sunday in 2001.

While the Madrid Cricket Club (MCC), the most organized team, plays in a league against clubs from other cities, but its home matches are played in La Manga in Murcia. Even so, Madrid’s teams still manage to play: some still do so with tennis balls and plastic bats on basketball courts. However, 20 years later, there is still no proper field in the city. There are now three active teams in the city – and a few others that are more informal – bringing together around 150 players of more than 14 nationalities to play the world’s second most popular sport. It was the summer of 2001 and a few Englishmen responded and got together one Sunday afternoon to play cricket on an asphalt court in the Estrella neighborhood of the Retiro district. It all started with a small ad in a Madrid newspaper inviting anyone who wanted to play cricket to get in touch.

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