ICC World Twenty20 Qualifier

[Sir john]

Scotland name touring squads

The Intercontinental Cup squad will depart from Glasgow Airport on Friday 10 February in preparation for their ICC Intercontinental Cup game against the UAE which will take place between the 16th and 19th of February. This will be Scotland’s third game in the 2011-2013 competition, following a rain affected draw with Holland and a winning draw against Namibia. Missing from that squad will be batsman Josh Davey, who is currently in South Africa with Middlesex as part of his rehabilitation from surgery late last year, while Kyle Coetzer will also miss out, due to his participation in the Bangladesh Premier League. This will mean opportunities for Ewan Chalmers and Freddie Coleman to impress; both young batsmen are exciting prospects who have emerged through the Scottish age group system and now will have the opportunity to push for a place in the national side. Opening bowler Alasdair Evans has been selected in the squad to supplement the pace bowling attack. After the Intercontinental Cup match, Scotland will travel to Sri Lanka for an intensive training camp where they will play a combination of 50 and 20 over matches against quality Sri Lankan sides. Fraser Watts, Calvin Burnett, Jan Stander and Josh Davey will join the squad at this point of the tour. The squad will then return to the UAE on the 5th of March for two vital games in the World Cricket League Championship. These matches against the UAE will take place on the 7th and 9th of March. The focus of the tour then switches to T20 with the ICC World T20 Qualifier being held from the 13th to the 24th of March. Matthew Parker has been recuperating from hip surgery last year and will make a welcome return to the squad for the first time since sustaining the injury early last summer. He will travel to the UAE but will not play in the I Cup game but will use the time to prepare for the one day and T20 matches which follow. Commenting on the forthcoming tour, head coach Peter Steindl stated “This will be a challenging tour for the squad, which will incorporate all three forms of the game. Our preparations have gone well to date and we are looking to transfer this work quickly when we arrive in Sharjah on Saturday”. Intercontinental Cup squad v United Arab Emirates; 16 to 19 February Gordon Drummond (Captain), Preston Mommsen, Alasdair Evans, Ryan Flannigan, Simon Smith (wk), Ewan Chalmers, Richie Berrington, Freddie Coleman, Calum MacLeod, Craig Wallace, Gordon Goudie, Safyaan Sharif, Majid Haq Training Camp in Sri Lanka: 21 February to 5 March: Gordon Drummond , Preston Mommsen Fraser Watts, Ryan Flannigan, Josh Davey, Richie Berrington, Calum MacLeod, Craig Wallace (wk) Matthew Parker, Calvin Burnett, Gordon Goudie, Jan Stander, Majid Haq, Safyaan Sharif ICC World Cricket League Championship v UAE, 7 and 9 March: Gordon Drummond (Captain), Preston Mommsen Fraser Watts, Ryan Flannigan, Josh Davey , Richie Berrington, Calum MacLeod, Craig Wallace (wk), Matthew Parker, Calvin Burnett, Kyle Coetzer, Gordon Goudie, Jan Stander, Majid Haq, Safyaan Sharif ICC World T20 qualifier, Dubai, 13 to 24 March: Gordon Drummond (Captain), Preston Mommsen, Fraser Watts, Ryan Flannigan, Josh Davey, Richie Berrington, Calum MacLeod, Craig Wallace (wk), Matthew Parker, Kyle Coetzer, Gordon Goudie, Jan Stander, Majid Haq, Safyaan Sharif

[khanjee]

Rite choice to have Nadkarni the captain. Also one of the better hitters in the team is Roopnarine Gowkaran. He is perfect player for this format. I played and bowled against him.

tics, i'm sure you remember when I got him clean bowled after some trash talk we both had..:two_thumbs_up: lets hope he continue to do the things that he does in WCL....great to see couple of guys from our league are playing in this tournament...hopefully Bhatti will also show some of his stuff.... GO USA>..

[Cricketics]

tics, i'm sure you remember when I got him clean bowled after some trash talk we both had..:two_thumbs_up: lets hope he continue to do the things that he does in WCL....great to see couple of guys from our league are playing in this tournament...hopefully Bhatti will also show some of his stuff.... GO USA>..

Haha. Remember that. Yes, hoping for the same. I hope they stream these games somewhere. Would live to watch these matches. Let's go USA.

[Zero_Unit]

This is ridicilous. At this rate, cricket will not go anywhere. 2 teams, commo'n now ... make it 4 atleast!

[Sir john]

Four new faces in USA's World T20 qualifiers team

USA have included four uncapped players in their final 14-man squad on Thursday for the 2012 World Twenty20 Qualifier next month in the UAE. Only six players were retained from the squad that finished runner-up to Canada at last summer's ICC Americas Division One Twenty20 tournament in Florida. Elmore Hutchinson, Adil Bhatti, Abhimanyu Rajp and Nauman Mustafa are the first-timers who will be flying to Dubai in March. Offspinner Rajp, 25, was the vice-captain for the USA Under-19s team at the 2006 ICC U-19 World Cup in Sri Lanka. He had a five-wicket haul against New Zealand during the tournament and was the leading wicket-taker in USACA national tournaments in 2010, but is only now getting a chance to tour with the senior national team. Mustafa was originally included in USA's squad for the ICC Americas tournament in July, but was then removed from the squad to make way for Sushil Nadkarni, who had been controversially dropped and then recalled to the USA squad for Florida. Nadkarni wound up being the leading scorer for USA in the event and was recently named captain for the team travelling to the UAE. The selection of Mustafa, 37, as first-choice wicketkeeper comes at the expense of Akeem Dodson, 24. Dodson had been seen as a wicketkeeper of the future for the United States and was one of just two US-born players in the preliminary squad, along with Steven Taylor. However, USACA sent invitations to as many as six other wicketkeepers for a selection camp last month in a sign that they were not confident in Dodson's short-term prospects, despite the fact that he received the Best Wicketkeeper Award at the ICC Americas tournament in July. Overall, the squad is one of the youngest ones the USA has fielded in recent times, with eight players under the age of 30. Former USA player Mark Johnson has been named head coach and former Pakistan international Asif Mujtaba has been named assistant coach. Shoaib Ahmed will be the team manager on tour. A pair of USACA board members will also be part of the travelling party. Akhtar Masood Syed and Nasir Javed, both longtime allies of USACA president Gladstone Dainty, will serve as the team physiotherapist and bowling coach respectively. USA is tentatively scheduled to leave on March 6 from New York for Dubai to get acclimatized to conditions before their first match of the tournament on March 13 against Uganda in Sharjah. USA is also scheduled to play Ireland, Italy, Kenya, Namibia, Oman and Scotland in Group B. USA squad: Sushil Nadkarni (capt), Aditya Mishra (vice-capt), Orlando Baker, Adil Bhatti, Ryan Corns, Muhammad Ghous, Elmore Hutchinson, Asif Khan, Andy Mohammed, Nauman Mustafa (wk), Abhimanyu Rajp, Gowkaran Roopnarine (wk), Usman Shuja, Steven Taylor (wk).

[Sir john]

No Ten Doeschate for World T20 qualifier

The Netherlands will go into the World Twenty20 qualifying tournament next month without Ryan ten Doeschate, who has declared himself unavailable because of other cricket commitments. Ten Doeschate is again in the Kolkata Knight Riders side for the IPL season, which starts on 4 April. But the squad which took part in the Calypso Cup competition in the West Indies in January will be reinforced by the return of South Australia and VRA Amsterdam’s Tom Cooper, which means that there is no place in the T20 squad for Cooper’s VRA clubmate Eric Szwarczynski, despite his innings of 44 in the final Calypso Cup match against Jamaica. Szwarczynski will, however, join the side for the three matches against Afghanistan which follow the qualifier, while Alexei Kervezee, who will be available for the two ODIs, will be unavailable for the four-day Intercontinental Cup match because of his commitments with Worcestershire. Timm van der Gugten will again spearhead the attack, with Mudassar Bukhari, Ashan Malik, Tom Heggelman and captain Peter Borren completing the seam department. Left-arm spinner Pieter Seelaar will be complemented by four possible off-spinners in Michael Swart – who sometimes opened the bowling in the West Indies – Cooper, Stephan Myburgh and Tim Gruijters. The batting is likely to be led off by Myburgh and Swart, with Kervezee, Cooper, Wesley Barresi, Tom de Grooth, Borren, Bukhari and Gruijters to follow. Reserve wicketkeeper Atse Buurman completes the squad. With only two places in the World Twenty20 tournament on offer, the sixteen-team qualifier seems certain to be a tough and demanding competition, with sides needing to finish in the top three of their group to have any chance of going through. Afghanistan will be among the strongest opponents the Dutch will face in the group phase, but Canada, Papua New Guinea, Hong Kong and Nepal will all be looking to reach the play-offs, and neither Bermuda nor Denmark, who complete the group, should be taken lightly. Announcing the squad, chairman of selectors Jeroen Smits said that despite the unavailability of Ten Doeschate the selectors had been able to assemble a strong combination both for theTwenty20 qualifier and the Afghanistan series, where the two ODIs will form part of the qualifying process for the 2015 World Cup. ’These are exciting months for Dutch cricket,’ Smits added, ‘and we are convinced that with this squad we will be able to compete strongly for qualification in both T20 and the 50-over game.’ His words were echoed by national coach Peter Drinnen, who said: ‘It is a well balanced squad and one that is well suited to both the format and the conditions that are going to be encountered in the UAE. ’I know the quality of the work the players have put in over recent months and I feel they are well prepared and looking forward to the challenges that lie ahead. All who are competing know the significance of the tournament and it is going to be extremely tough few weeks though I know we have the squad to do well.’ The full squad for the World Twenty20 qualifier is: Peter Borren (captain), Wesley Barresi (both VRA Amsterdam), Mudassar Bukhari (ACC), Atse Buurman, Tom Cooper (both VRA), Tom de Grooth (HCC), Tim Gruijters (Quick Haag), Timm van der Gugten (New South Wales), Tom Heggelman (Excelsior ’20 Schiedam), Alexei Kervezee (Worcestershire), Ashan Malik (VOC Rotterdam), Stephan Myburgh (Excelsior ’20), Pieter Seelaar (Hermes-DVS Schiedam), Michael Swart (Western Australia).

[Sir john]

Hemp leads Bermuda at T20 Qualifers

David Hemp, the former Glamorgan and Warwickshire batsman, will again lead Bermuda as they attempt to reach a global one-day tournament at the World Twenty20 Qualifiers in UAE next month. Bermuda have not appeared at a top-level event since the 2006-07 World Cup after which the game has suffered from some difficult times. David Moore, the current coach, has challenged this group of players to make the most of their opportunity in the UAE. Just two sides from the 16-team event will qualify for the World Twenty20 in Sri Lanka during September and October. "The squad that has been picked provides a good balance for the challenges and nuances of the T20 game," Moore said. "The squad selected provides a wide number of bowling options while still allowing a strong batting group. All players have been committed to the task of improving fitness and skill during the training period. "The program is coming together so that the player's fitness and skill will be peaking at the right time for the tournament. It is now up to all players to take the opportunity that they have been given to perform at the highest Associate level and give the team the best possible opportunity to qualify for the World T20."

http://www.espncricinfo.com/world-twenty20-qualifier-2012/content/squad/553175.html

[Sir john]

No place for Murtagh in Ireland squad

Tim Murtagh's Irish passport hasn't proved an immediate route into the Ireland team after he was left out of the 14-man squad for the ICC World Twenty20 qualifying tournament in the UAE. The squad includes 12 of the players who toured the subcontinent for the World Cup. Murtagh, the Middlesex pace bowler, had recently become eligible for Ireland but had to content with a place among the reserve players for the tournament. Rory McCann was selected as the replacement for Niall O'Brien, who wasn't considered due to his participation in the Bangladesh Premier League which meant he didn't tour Kenya, while the allrounder Max Sorensen also made the cut. Chairman of selectors Ross McCollum said: "We felt that the squad that had been preparing together all through the winter deserved the opportunity to gain qualification. It is indeed a very experienced squad, which we feel will serve us in good stead in high pressure games. "While we haven't named Tim Murtagh or Albert van der Merwe in the 14, both are in our named replacements, and we'll have no hesitation in bringing either in if any injuries occur. Stuart Poynter was unlucky to miss out, but we felt that given the prolific form that Rory McCann showed in domestic cricket in 2011 in the NCU, that he deserved his chance." Ireland feature in Group B in the 16-team tournament alongside Scotland, Namibia, Oman, Uganda, Kenya, USA, and Italy. Two qualification places are on offer, for the World T20 in Sri Lanka in September. Ireland will head to South Africa for a training camp following their current tour of Kenya. They will play three warm-up Twenty20s against the Warriors franchise before heading to UAE. Ireland squad William Porterfield (capt), Alex Cusack, George Dockrell, Trent Johnston, Nigel Jones, Ed Joyce, John Mooney, Rory McCann, Kevin O'Brien, Boyd Rankin, Max Sorensen, Paul Stirling, Andrew White, Gary Wilson Replacements: Tim Murtagh, Andrew Poynter, James Shannon, Albert van der Merwe

[Sir john]

26 days left :yoyo:

[Sir john]

Squads for World Twenty20 Qualifier

Some of the very best cricketers from ICCÃÔ Associate and Affiliate members countries will assemble in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) next month when the 16-team ICC World Twenty20 UAE 2012 will be staged across five venues of Abu Dhabi, Dubai and Sharjah. All 16 squads for the event, which will be staged from 13 to 24 March, have now been finalised. At stake in the UAE will be the two available places in the ICC World Twenty20 Sri Lanka which will be played in Colombo, Hambantota and Pallekele from 18 September to 7 October. A total of 72 matches will be played over 12 days and the first qualifier will emerge after the 61st match while the second qualifier will be known after the 71st match. The winner of the 72nd and final match of the tournament will complete Group B by joining Australia and West Indies while the runner-up will team up with defending champion England and former winner India in Group A. Afghanistan will be defending the title it had won in 2010 when the qualifying tournament was an eight-team event. The Asian side had beaten Ireland in the final in Dubai by eight wickets but both the sides qualified for the ICC World Twenty20 2010 which was staged in Barbados, St Lucia and Guyana. Afghanistan has named eight players in the squad who were members of the side which made history in the UAE two years ago. Captain Nawroz Mangal, Merwais Ashraf, Mohammad Nabi, Hamid Hassan, Mohammad Shahzad, Karim Khan Sadeq, Samiulah Shinwari and Shahpoor Zadran will again be returning with a challenge to guide their side to the second successive ICC World Twenty20. Ireland, which missed the inaugural event in 2007 but appeared in 2009 and 2010, has named a formidable side as it has retained no less than 10 players from the 2010 campaign. Returning to the UAE will be captain William Porterfield, Alex Cusack, George Dockrell, Trent Johnston, John Mooney, Kevin Oãrien, Boyd Rankin, Paul Stirling, Andrew White and Gary Wilson. The four new faces in the Ireland squad for this event are 29-year-old all-rounder Nigel Jones, 33-year-old Ed Joyce, who has also played ODIs and two T20Is for England as an opener, 27-year wicketkeeper-batsman Rory McCann and an uncapped 26-year-old fast bowler Max Sorensen. Peter Borren will once again lead the Netherlands which played in the 2007 event and upset England in the tournament opener at LordÃÔ. The other survivors from the unsuccessful 2010 qualifier event include Mudassar Bukhari, Atse Buurman, Tom De Grooth, Tim Gruijters, Alexei Kervezee and Pieter Seelaar. While the Dutch side will be without the services of Ryan ten Doeschate, the Associate ODI Player of the Year in 2008, 2010 and 2011, it will be bolstered by the inclusion of fast emerging Tom Cooper. The 25-year-old opener is yet to make his T20I debut but averages 54 from 18 ODIs and just under 40 from as many first-class matches. The other popular name in the Associate and Affiliate world, Ashish Bagai of Canada, will also be missing from next monthÃÔ action. The wicketkeeper batsman captained his side in the ICC Cricket World Cup 2011. The event will see in action two international stars of the recent past Michael Di Venuto and Geraint Jones. Di Venuto, who will represent Italy, has played nine ODIs for Australia in 1997 while Jones, who will play for Papua New Guinea (PNG), has played 34 Tests, 49 ODIs and two T20Is for England between 2004 and 2006. The 38-year-old Di Venuto has become eligible after securing an Italian passport while 35-year-old Jones can play for PNG as he was born in Kundiawa, the capital of Simbu province in PNG. Squads: Afghanistan - Nawroz Mangal (captain), Javed Ahmadi, Merwais Ashraf, Mohammad Nabi, Hamid Hassan, Mohammad Zamir Khan, Mohammad Shahzad, Gulbadin Naib, Shabir Ahmed Noori, Karim Khan Sadeq, Samiullah Shinwari, Dollat Zadran, Noor Ali Zadran, Shapoor Zadran Bermuda - David Hemp (captain), Jason Anderson, Lional Cann, Fiqre Crockwell, Terryne Fray, Joshua Gilbert, Stefan Kelly, Kamau Leverock, Stephen Outerbridge, Josclyn Pitcher, Samuel Robinson, Curt Stovell, Rodney Trott, Janeiro Tucker Canada Jimmy Hansra (captain),Manninder Aulakh, Harvir Baidwan, Rustam Bhatti, Rizwan Cheema, Khurram Chohan, Tyson Gordon, Ruvindu Gunasekera, Zahid Hussain, Nitish Kumar, Henry Osinde, Hiral Patel, Raza Rehman, Junaid Siddiqi Denmark - Michael Pedersen (captain), Aftab Ahmed, Shehzad Ahmed, Sair Anjum, Bobby Chawla, Basit Javed, Frederik Klokker, Jacob Larsen, Kamran Mahmood, Rizwan Mahmood, James Moniz, Martin Pedersen, Bashir Shah, Hamid Shah Hong Kong James Atkinson (captain), Irfan Ahmed, Muhammad Moner Ahmed, Nadeen Ahmed, Waqas Barkat, Babar Hayat, Asif Khan, Mohammad Aizaz Khan, Mohammad Nizakat Khan, Courtney Kruger, Roy Lamsam, Kinchit Shah, Daljeet Singh, Maxwell Tucker Ireland - William Porterfield (captain), Alex Cusack, George Dockrell, Trent Johnston, Nigel Jones, Ed Joyce, Rory McCann, John Mooney, Kevin Oãrien, Boyd Rankin, Max Sorensen, Paul Stirling, Andrew White, Gary Wilson Italy - Alessandro Bonora (captain), Gareth Berg, Damian Crowley, Gayashan Munasinghe, Luis Di Giglio, Michael Di Venuto, Dilan S. Fernando, Damian C. K. Fernando, Andrew Northcote, Hayden Patrizi, DellÃÂgnello, Vincenzo Pennazza, Peter Petricola, Stanly H. J. Samaraweera, Carl Sandri Kenya - Collins Obuya (captain), Ragheb Aga, Duncan Allan, Tanmay Mishra, James Ngoche, Shem Ngoche, Alex Obanda, David Obuya, Nehemiah Odhiambo, Nelson Odhiambo, Elijah Otieno, Morris Ouma, Rakep Patel, Hiren Varaiya Namibia - Craig Williams (captain), Sarel Burger, Merwe Erasmus, Hendrick Geldenhuys, Zhivago Groenwald, Louis Klazinga, Christiaan Opperman, Bernard Scholtz, Nicolaas Scholtz, Gerrie Snyman, Ewald Steenkamp, Louis Van Der Westhuizen, Raymond Van Schoor, Christoffel Viljoen Nepal - Paras Khadka (captain), Pradeep Airee, Mahaboob Alam, Prithu Baskota, Amrit Bhattarai, Shakti Gauchan, Krishna Karki, Paresh Prasad Lohani, Gyanendra Malla, Anil Kumar Mandal, Basant Regmi, Sanjam Regmi, Chandra Sawad, Sharad Vesawkar Netherlands - Peter Borren (captain), Wesley Barresi, Mudassar Bukhari, Atse Buurman, Tom Cooper, Tom De Grooth, Tim Gruijters, Timm Van Der Gugten, Tom Heggelman, Alexei Kervezee, Ahsan Malik, Stephan Myburgh, Pieter Seelaar, Michael Swart Oman - Hemal Mehta (captain), Sultan Ahmed, Qais Bin Khalid Al Said, Syed Amir Ali, Adnan Ilyas,Syed Aamir Kaleem, Awal Khan, Farhan Afzal Khan, Ajay Lalcheta, Sufyan Mehmood, Rajeshkumar Ranpura, Zeeshan Ahmed Siddiqi, Jatinder Singh, Vaibhav Wategaonkar Papua New Guinea - Rarua Dikana (captain), Geraint Jones, Jack Vare-Kevere, Jason Kila, Willie Gavera, Chris Amini, John Boge Reva, Tony Ura, Assadollah Vala, Chris Kent, Mahuru Dai, Vani Vagi Morea, Joel Tom, Hitolo Areni Scotland - Gordon Drummond (captain), Richard Berrington, Kyle Coetzer, Joshua Davey, Ryan Flannigan, Gordon Goudie, Majid Haq, Calum Macleod, Preston Mommsen, Matthew Parker, Safayaan Sharif, Jan Stander, Craig Wallace, David Watts Uganda - Davis Arinaitwe (captain), Arthur Kyobe, Brian Masaba, Deusdedit Muhumuza, Roger Mukasa, Benjamin Musoke, Frank Nsubuga, Jonathan Sebanja, Asadu Seiga, Ronald Semanda, Laurence Sematimba, Henry Ssenyondo, Charles Waiswa, Arthur Ziraba United States of America - Sushil Nadkarni (captain), Orlando Baker, Adil Bhatti, Ryan Corns, Muhammad Ghous, Elmore Hutchinson, Asif Mehmood Khan, Aditya Mishra, Azrudeen Mohammed, Nauman Mustafa, Abhimanyu Rajp, Gowkaran Roopnarine, Usman Shuja, Steven Taylor About ICC WT20Q UAE 2012 The ICC World Twenty20 Qualifier UAE 2012 involves two groups of eight teams with Afghanistan, the Netherlands, Canada, Papua New Guinea (PNG), Hong Kong, Bermuda, Denmark and Nepal making up Group A while Ireland, Kenya, Scotland, Namibia, Uganda, Oman, Italy and USA will fight it out for supremacy in Group B. Ireland, Kenya, Canada, the Netherlands, Afghanistan and Scotland have directly qualified for the qualifier on the basis of their ODI status however, regional qualifying events were held across the ICCÃÔ five regions to provide a qualifying pathway to the 16-team qualifier. From these events the following teams qualified accordingly Asia Hong Kong, Oman and Nepal; Africa Uganda and Namibia; Americas USA and Bermuda; Europe Italy and Denmark; East Asia-Pacific Papua New Guinea. A total of 72 matches will be played over 10 days with Abu DhabiÃÔ Sheikh Zayed Cricket Stadium hosting 12 group stage matches, Sharjah Cricket Stadium hosting 14 games, while the ICC Global Cricket Academy Ovals will play host to 32 matches between them. Dubai International Cricket Stadium at Dubai Sports City will stage eight group stage matches plus five knock-out games and the final. Admission for spectators to all of the matches in the tournament is free of charge.

[Sir john]

17 days left

[Sir john]

tournament format The countries that top the two groups will feature in the 1st Qualifying Final on 22 March with the winner sealing their place in the ICC World Twenty20 to be staged in Sri Lanka from 18 September to 7 October 2012. Meanwhile, the sides that finish second and third in the two groups will play cross-over matches. The winners of those matches will meet in the Preliminary Final on 23 March. The 2nd Qualifying Final - for the second spot in the ICC World Twenty20 - will take place on 24 March between the loser of the 1st Qualifying Final and the winner of the Preliminary Final. The winners of the two Qualifying Finals will play in the Tournament Final on the evening of 24 March.

:hmmmm2:

[Sir john]

what kind format this???

[Sir john]

11 days left :yay:

[CG]

Atleast Oman,Italy have players form their own country,But usa is full of indians,pakis.

[Sir john]

ireish playing with east province.

[Sir john]

http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/current/match/556006.html Ireland lose.

[Zelig]

[AfghanCricFan]

Go Afghanistan hard to predict who will win. http://icc-cricket.yahoo.net/media_interactive_zone/broadcast_video.php?mediaId=2703

[Sir john]

Go Afghanistan hard to predict who will win. http://icc-cricket.yahoo.net/media_interactive_zone/broadcast_video.php?mediaId=2703

:hello: mate where was u? seen u here nd there after a year i think.