Squads and fixtures announced for Pepsi ICC WCL

Dubai, August 08, 2012: The International Cricket Council (ICC) today announced the six squads that will travel to Malaysia for Pepsi ICC World Cricket League (WCL) Division 4 from 3 to 10 September 2012. The teams, Denmark, Nepal, USA, Singapore, Tanzania and hosts Malaysia will play in Kuala Lumpur, which also played host to Pepsi ICC WCL Division 6 in 2011.

The teams will compete for the opportunity to finish in the top two of the event and ultimately gain promotion to the Pepsi ICC WCL Division 3 which will be held next year in Bermuda from 28 April to 5 May 2013. Pepsi ICC WCL Div. 4 will be played on three grounds, Kinrara Oval, Selangor Turf Club and Bayuemas Oval. These venues were also used for the ICC U19 Cricket World Cup which was held in Malaysia in 2008.

Squads

Denmark: Michael Pedersen (captain), Aftab Ahmed, Shehzad Ahmed, Taha Ahmed, Sair Anjum, Bobby Chawla, Henrik Hansen, Frederik Klokker, Andreas Lambert, Rizwan Mahmood, Carsten Pedersen, Bashir Shah, Hamid Shah, Lejf Slebsager

Malaysia: Suhan Alagaratnam (captain), Abdul Rashid Ahad, Nik Azril Ariffin, Anwar Arudin, Hiran Ralalage, Khizar Hayat Durrani, Hassan Ghulam Muhammad, Rakesh Madhavan, Ahmad Faiz Noor, Mohd Shafiq Mohd Sharif, Shahrulnizam Yusof, Suresh Navaratnam, Suharril Fetri Shuib, Hammad Ullah Khan

Nepal: Paras Khadka (captain), Pradeep Airee, Prithu Baskota, Amrit Bhattari, Binod Das, Shakti Gauchan, Subash Khakurel, Gyanendra Malla, Anil Mandal, Basant Regmi, Sanjam Regmi, Chandra Sawad, Sharad Vesawkar, Rahul Vishwakarma

Singapore: Saad Khan Janjua (captain), Shoib Abdul Raza, Munish Arora, Rezza Gaznavi, Chris Janik, Chaminda Kumarage, Amjad Mahboob, Dharmichand Mulewa, Anish Param, Pramodh Raja, Narender Reddy, Kshitij Shinde, Abhiraj Singh, Chetan Suryawanshi

Tanzania: Hamisi Abdallah (captain), Seif Abdul, Zamayoni Jabeneke, Tambwe Juma, Issa Kikasi, Ally Kimote, Enjo Kiongozi, Rizki Kiseto, Nasibu Mapunda, Kassim Mussa, Benson Nyaikini, Abhik Patwa, Kahlil Rehemtulla, Nassoro Saidi

USA: Steve Massiah (captain), Timroy Allen, Orlando Baker, Ryan Corns, Akeem Dodson, Muhammad Ghous, Elmore Hutchinson, Rashard Marshall, Aditya Mishra, Sushil Nadkarni, Abhimanyu Rajp, Usman Shuja, Steven Taylor, Aditya Thyagarajan

Fixtures

1 September – Team Arrivals, 2 September – Practice

3 September – Tanzania v Denmark (Kinrara Oval), Nepal v Singapore (Selangor Turf Club), Malaysia v USA (Bayuemas Oval)

4 September – Malaysia v Singapore (Kinrara Oval), USA v Denmark (Selangor Turf Club), Tanzania v Nepal (Bayuemas Oval)

5 September – Reserve Day

6 September – USA v Tanzania (Kinrara Oval), Malaysia v Nepal (Selangor Turf Club), Denmark v Singapore (Bayuemas Oval)

7 September – Nepal v USA (Kinrara Oval), Singapore v Tanzania (Selangor Turf Club), Malaysia v Denmark (Bayuemas Oval)

8 September – Reserve Day

9 September – Denmark v Nepal (Kinrara Oval), Malaysia v Tanzania (Selangor Turf Club), Singapore v USA (Bayuemas Oval)

10 September – Final (Kinrara Oval), 3rd/4th Play-off (Selangor Turf Club), 5th/6th Play-off (Bayuemas Oval)

All matches are scheduled to start at 1030 local time. —- ICC