Dubai, June 25, 2012: ICC CWC 2015, Six of the eight teams that are currently part of the Pepsi ICC WCL Championship and ICC Intercontinental Cup are turning their attention in the coming weeks to the longer formats of the game with the upcoming fourth round fixtures of the two tournaments.
Ireland is hosting Afghanistan at Clontarf in Dublin for its ODIs on Tuesday, 3 July and Thursday, 5 July, as part of the WCL Championship. The two sides will then face-off in an Intercontinental Cup fixture from 9 July.
Meanwhile, Scotland will play host to Canada at Uddingston for its ICC Intercontinental Cup fixture from 4 to 7 July, while the Pepsi ICC WCL Championship ODI matches are scheduled to be played in Edinburgh on 9 July and 11 July respectively. Later in the month, Netherlands will take on UAE in their ICC Intercontinental Cup match to be played in Deventer starting on 16 July. The two sides will then play each other in the Pepsi ICC WCL Championship on 21 July and 23 July in Rotterdam.
The current Pepsi ICC WCL Championship table is topped by ICC WT20Q UAE 2012 champions Ireland, who despite being on equal points with the UAE, has managed to edge into the top spot currently due a superior net run-rate in the competition. Afghanistan will be hoping to improve on its current ranking of fifth in the table after its matches in Dublin while Scotland will have the opportunity to usurp UAE should they perform well against bottom of the table Canada later next month.
Meanwhile, Netherlands will be looking to continue its recent run of good form in the English domestic leagues into the WCL Championship and beat UAE in its two fixtures and thus improve its position on the points table.
The Pepsi ICC WCL Championship, together with the ongoing global divisions of the Pepsi ICC World Cricket League (WCL), is an extremely important event on the calendar of ICC Development Programme as it provides a dual pathway for all Associate and Affiliate Members to qualify for the ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 to be staged in Australia and New Zealand.
The top two teams from the WCL Championship will automatically join ICC’s 10 Full Members in the ICC CWC 2015, while the bottom six teams in the WCL Championship will receive a second qualifying opportunity when they will lock horns for the remaining two places in the ICC CWC 2015 by competing in the ICC Cricket World Cup Qualifier (CWCQ) in early 2014.
Pepsi ICC WCL Championship squads
Scotland (from) – Gordon Drummond (captain), Ryan Flannigan, Matthew Parker, Alisdair Evans, Richard Berrington, Majid Haq, Craig Wallace, Gordon Goudie, Preston Mommsen, Calum MacLeod, Jan Stander, Kyle Coetzer, Fraser Watts, Joshua Davey
Canada (from) – Jimmy Hansra, Rizwan Cheema, Hiral Patel, Ruvindu Gunasekera, Nitish Kumar, Junaid Siddiqui, Henry Osinde, Usman Limbada, Zeeshan Siddiqui, Durand Sorraine, Jeremy Gordon, Parth Desai, Parvin Soroye, Damoder Daesrath
Ireland (from) – William Porterfield (captain), Alex Cusack, George Dockrell, Trent Johnston, Ed Joyce, John Mooney, Tim Murtagh, Kevin O’Brien, Niall O’Brien, Max Sorensen, Paul Stirling, Stuart Thompson, Andrew White, Gary Wilson
Afghanistan (from) – Karim Sadiq (captain), Mohammed Nabi, Asghar Stanikzai, Mohameed Shehzad, Javid Ahmadi, Samiullah Shinwari, Amir Mangal, Gulbadin Naib, Dollat Zadran, Izzatullah Dawlatzai, Amir Hamza Hotak, Shahpoor Zadran, Shabir Noori, Najibullah Zadran
The Netherlands (from) – Peter Borren (captain), Wesley Barresi, Mudassar Bukhari, Tom Cooper, Tom de Grooth, Tim Gruijters, Timm van der Gugten, Tom Heggelman, Alexei Kervezee, Ahsan Jamil Malik, Stephan Myburgh, Pieter Seelaar, Eric Swarczynski, Michael Swart
UAE (from) – Khurram Khan (captain), Mohammed Tauqir, Ahmed Raza, Amjad Javed, Amjad Ali, Rohan Mustafa, Saqib Ali, Vikrant Shetty, Haroon Iftikhar, Arfan Haider, Manjula Guruge, Shaiman Anwar, Asadullah Shareef, Muhammad Naveed
ICC Intercontinental Cup squads
Scotland (from) – Gordon Drummond (captain), Ryan Flannigan, Matthew Parker, Alisdair Evans, Richard Berrington, Majid Haq, Simon Smith, Gordon Goudie, Preston Mommsen, Calum MacLeod, Ewan Chalmers, Jan Stander, Moneeb Iqbal, Joshua Davey
Canada (from) – Jimmy Hansra, Rizwan Cheema, Hiral Patel, Nitish Kumar, Junaid Siddiqui, Henry Osinde, Usman Limbada, Zeeshan Siddiqui, Jason Sandher, Durand Sorraine, Jeremy Gordon, Parth Desai, Parvin Soroye, Damodar Daesrath
Ireland (from) – Kevin O’Brien (captain), Andrew Balbirnie, Alex Cusack, Trent Johnston, Rory McCann, Graeme McCarter, John Mooney, John Anderson, Maz Sorensen, Paul Stirling, Stuart Thompson, Albert van der Merwe, Andrew White, Ben Wylie
Afghanistan (from) – Karim Sadiq (captain), Mohammed Nabi, Asghar Stanikzai, Mohameed Shehzad, Javid Ahmadi, Samiullah Shinwari, Afsar Zazai, Gulbadin Naib, Dollat Zadran, Izzatullah Dawlatzai, Amir Hamza Hotak, Shahpoor Zadran, Shabir Noori, Noorulhaq Malekzai
The Netherlands (from) – Peter Borren (captain), Wesley Barresi, Sebastiaan Braat, Mudassar Bukhari, Steven Bruin, Tom de Grooth, Tim Gruijters, Timm van der Gugten, Tom Heggelman, Ahsan Malik, Stephan Myburgh, Pieter Seelaar, Eric Swarczynski, Michael Swart
UAE (from) – Khurram Khan (captain), Mohammed Tauqir, Ahmed Raza, Amjad Javed, Amjad Ali, Rohan Mustafa, Saqib Ali, Vikrant Shetty, Haroon Iftikhar, Arfan Haider, Manjula Guruge, Shaiman Anwar, Asadullah Shareef, Muhammad Naveed
Upcoming fixtures and match official appointments
Pepsi ICC World Cricket League Championship
3 Jul – first ODI, Ireland v Afghanistan, Clontarf, Dublin (umpires: Richard Smith and Shaun George, match referee: David Jukes)
5 Jul – second ODI, Ireland v Afghanistan, Clontarf, Dublin (umpires: Richard Smith and Shaun George, match referee: David Jukes)
9 Jul – first ODI, Scotland v Canada, The Grange, Edinburgh (umpires: Ian Ramage and Mark Hawthorne, match referee: David Jukes)
11 Jul – second ODI, Scotland v Canada, The Grange, Edinburgh (umpires: Ian Ramage and Mark Hawthorne, match referee: David Jukes)
21 Jul – first one-day match, Netherlands v UAE, VOC, Rotterdam (umpires: Buddhi Pradhan and Vineet Kulkarni, match referee: David Jukes)
ICC Intercontinental Cup
4-7 Jul – Scotland v Canada, Uddingston, Edinburgh (umpires: Ian Ramage and Mark Hawthorne)
9-12 Jul – Ireland v Afghanistan, Leinster CC, Dublin (umpires: Richard Smith and Shaun George, match referee: David Jukes)
16-19 Jul – Netherlands v UAE, Salland CC, Deventer, (umpires: Buddhi Pradhan and Vineet Kulkarni, match referee: David Jukes). —- ICC
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