Oman Cricket have announced that they will be hosting the Men’s National squads from Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Canada for a T20I quadrangular series (Desert Cup T20I Series) at the Oman Cricket Academy grounds in Al Amerat from November 14th – 21st, 2022. Canada Men’s team will further stay back after the conclusion of the series to play a three (3) match series with Oman in the 50-overs format to prepare for the final round of CWC Challenge League group A event in Malaysia in December 2022.
All the participants will play against each other in a single round-robin group stage format, before the top two (2) teams meet in the Final on 21st November. Oman National Head Coach Dileep Mendis said “We would like national teams of Saudi Arabia and Bahrain to get good exposure by playing against stronger teams. There are not many matches with other international teams for them. So, we decided that it will be a positive step to get them play against us and Canada. Though our national team do not have an immediate international assignment as we have completed the ICC World Cricket League (WCL) 2 engagements, we would like to have our boys in good form and in match-playing mode.”
Squads
Oman: Zeeshan Maqsood (Captain), Jatinder Singh, Kashyap Prajapati, Shoaib Khan, Sandeep Goud, Ayaan Khan, Mohammed Nadeem, Rafiullah, Sufyan Mahmood, Mohammed Naseem, Samay Shrivastav, Ahmed Fayyaz Butt, Bilal Khan and Kaleemullah
Canada: Saad bin Zafar (Captain), Aaron Johnson, Akhil Kumar, Ammar Khalid, Armaan Kapoor, Dilon Heyliger, Harsh Thaker, Kaleem Sana, Matthew Spoors, Navneet Dhaliwal, Nicholas Kirton, Nikhil Dutta, Pargat Singh, Ravinderpal Singh, Salman Nazar, Shreyas Movva and Srimantha Wijeyeratne
Bahrain: Sarfaraz Ali (Captain), Umer Imtiaz, David Mathias, Haider Ali, Veerapathiran Sathiayah, Sikder Al Mostasim Billa, Sachin Kumar, Shahid Mahmood, Imran Khan, Ahmer Bin Nasir, Sohail Ahmed, Danish Jasnaik, Muhammad Rizwan, Abdul Majeed Malik and Imran Javed
Saudi Arabia: Abdul Waheed, Atif Ur-Rahman, Faisal Khan, Haseeb Ghafoor, Imran Yousaf, Irfan Sarfaraz, Irshad Mubbashar, Ishtiaq Ahmad, Kashif Siddique, Mohammed Hisham, Nawazish Akhtar, Saad Khan, Usman Najeeb and Zain ul Abidin
Desert Cup One-Day Series Schedule
23rd November 2022: Canada vs Oman (Scorecard)
25th November 2022: Canada vs Oman (Scorecard)
26th November 2022: Canada vs Oman (Scorecard)
Desert Cup T20I Series Schedule
14th November 2022: Oman vs Saudi Arabia (Scorecard) ; Canada vs Bahrain (Scorecard)
15th November 2022: Saudi Arabia vs Canada (Scorecard) ; Bahrain vs Oman (Scorecard)
16th November 2022: Saudi Arabia vs Bahrain (Scorecard) ; Oman vs Canada (Scorecard)
17th November 2022: Oman vs Saudi Arabia (Scorecard) ; Canada vs Bahrain (Scorecard)
19th November 2022: Saudi Arabia vs Canada (Scorecard) ; Bahrain vs Oman (Scorecard)
20th November 2022: Canada vs Oman (Scorecard) ; Bahrain vs Saudi Arabia (Scorecard)
21st November 2022: 3rd/4th play-off (Scorecard) ; FINAL (Scorecard)
