Squads announced as teams touch down in Malaysia for the ICC Under 19 Cricket World Cup Asia Qualifier Division 2 2016

The International Cricket Council (ICC) today announced the final squads for the ICC Under 19 Cricket World Cup Asia Qualifier Division 2 2016 to be held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia from September 26th – 6th October , 2016.

There are ten(10) teams competing in the tournament with the top two (2) teams to be promoted to the Division 1 ICC Asia Qualifier to be held in 2017 and is the pathway to 2018 ICC Under 19 Cricket World Cup. The participating teams are host Malaysia, Bahrain, Hong Kong, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Thailand and United Arab Emirates.

“This tournament will give all the teams and the administrators in Asia, an opportunity to establish the ranking of the 10 participating teams “ said Mr Bandula Warnapura - ICC Asia Consultant and former ICC Asia Regional Development Manager.

“We are privileged and honored to be hosting the first ICC Asia tournament. MCA will certainly do the very best to stage a successful tournament.” said V. Clarence Selvam, General Manager – Malaysian Cricket Association.

The matches are being played at Kinrara Oval, Club Aman Oval, Bayuemas Oval, Royal Selangor Club (RSC) Oval and will be live scored through ESPNcricinfo.

SQUADS:

Malaysia
Virandeep Singh (C ), Syed Aziz Syed Mubarak, Ainool Haqqiem Md Yatim, Muhammad Hafiz Mohd Khair, Muhamad Solihin Mohd Rusli, Muhammad Faadli Haris Abdul Rahman ,Ahmad Zaim Asnawi Osman, Muhammad Islah Muhaimin Zol, Arjoon Thillainathan, Saifullah Malik, Ahmad Zubaidi Zulkifle, Mohd Hasif Norhaizan, Muhammad Amir Azim Abd Shukhor, Muhammad Haziq Hashim
Coach : Suresh Navaratnam

Bahrain
Mohammed Avais (C ), Rakshit Puppala, Mohammad Haris Khan, Himalaya Sanjay Rathod, Nikhil Malcom D’Souza, Lijo Jose, Mohammad Faisal, A Subhan, Muhammad Zain Tariq, Mohammad Waleed, Lakshman, Subhodip Karmakar, Jagan Vijaykumar, Anand Athreya Veeraraghvan,
Coach: Faustinus Branson Arulvasagam

Hong Kong
Jhathavedh Sankrithi Subramanyan (C), Sikandar Zafar, Sher Yar Saeed, Raag Kapur, Nasrulla Rana, Sarfaraz Khan, Waqas Khan, Kabir Sodhi, Hamed Khan, Harpreet Singh, Karandeep Singh, Hamaz Mohammad, Haroon Mohammad Arshad, Deepinder Singh
Coach : Simon James Cook

Kuwait
Anas Ashfaq(C ), Mushtaq Ahmad, Nomaan Sidiq Budroo, Abdul Haseeb Tufail, Abdul Sadiq, Manjot Singh, Jandu Hamoud Amanullah, Akhil Sajeev Nair, Ahmad Khalid, Govind Sunil Kumar, Nauwaf Ahmad Mohideen , Gokul Sunil Kumar, Mohammad Saif, Varun Bhavsar
Coach: Arjuna Amaratunga

Oman
Wasim Ali (C ) , Paritosh Hitesh Kumar Bhatt, Vivek Shreeraman Iyer, Suhail Hakim Al Balushi, Mohammed Salman, Muhannad Said Haider Al Balushi, Hemil Maheshkumar Ganatra, Ivan joseph Manjila, Mohit Kaniyalal Badiyani, Mohammed Mohsin Qureshi, Vikram Nabira, Indunil Udara Palihawadana, Prathyosh Sivakumar, Ubaid Ullah
Coach : NileshKumar Parmar

Qatar
Hamad Mirza Baig (C), Jassim Khan, Omar Sayeed, Visakh Roji, Shubh Agarwal, Obaid Hassan, Dhruv Atul Patel, Milan Ashvinbhai Bhva, Darren Alton D’Souza, Asif Khan, Fawaz Suhail Khan, Hussain Khan, Khalid Moiz Siddiqui, Ahmed Mushtaq
Coach : Arjuna D Silva

Saudi Arabia
Saud (C), Arsalan, Mirza Mohammad Baig, Mohammed Nabil Abdul Rashid Pilar, Mohamed Nawazish Jezuli, Saeed Ahmad, Zahid Saleem Malik, Muhammad Shahzad, Abdullah, Mahir, Abdul Rab, Omar Wasim Mushir, Mohammed Zohair Ahmed, Abdus Sami Munshi
Coach : Immad Shams
Singapore
Janak Prakash(C), Ansh Bhargava, Aahan Gopinath Achar, Rohan Rangarajan, Aryaman Sunil Uchil, Abdul Rahman Bhadelia, Hanshul Deep Singhania, Avi Dixit, Anirudh Harikrishnan Chalapathy, Sidhanth, Sean Agarwal, Bir Bikram Biswasray, Aman Desai, Aryan Kiran Badhe
Coach : Mohamed Shoib

Thailand
Kiatiwut Suttisan (C), Payuputh Sungnard, Kamron Senamontree, Saran Maliwan, Prakit Janarachit, Pakin Munsri, Suwat Rastanaumuaykool, Panasak Daenmalidoi, Sakchai Prakae, Kongkidakon Rueangrotchanachai, Rueangsak Karakam, Sarawut Maliwan, Arthit Sroimat, Agam Sanjay Shah

United Arab Emirates
Yodhin Punja (C), Sachin Jha, Krishna Monish Lakhani, Shah Faisal Khan, Sushain Thappar, Muhammad Ehtesham Siddqui, Justin D’souza, Muhammad Ali Mirza, Fahad Nawaz Choudhry, Kartihik Palaniapan Meiyappan, Jonathan Figgy John, Aryan Lakra, Salah Shakeel, Ansh Tandon
Coach : Filipe Dominic Telo

Fixtures

For results, live scores and information on the ICC Under 19 Cricket World Cup Asia Qualifier – Division 2 2016 please go to:
http://www.icc-cricket.com/fixtures
http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/series/1058342.html?template=fixtures