Qatar Cricket Association (QCA) will be hosting the Men’s National teams from United Arab Emirates, Oman, Bahrain, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia for the inaugural edition of Men’s Gulf T20I Championship (Gulf Cricket Championship) at Doha from September 15th – 20th, 2023. In January 2023, members of all the six (6) Cricket Boards met with each other at the ECB (Emirates Cricket Board) office at ICC Academy during the ILT20 tournament and held discussions with regards to Gulf bi-lateral tournaments & T20I Championships in the categories of Men’s, Women’s and Juniors in order to further grow and develop the game in the region. The Men’s tournament will be the first one to take place along the new arrangement between the Board, although a stand-alone Women’s Gulf T20I Tournament did take place in Oman in March 2022.
Qatar Cricket are also scheduled to host one of the Asian sub-regional qualifiers towards qualification for Asia Qualifier (Finals) for 2024 Men’s T20 World Cup in September-end 2023, where three (3) of the teams from this event including the host’s (along with Kuwait and Saudi Arabia) will be taking part.
Gulf Cricket Championship Schedule
15th September 2023: Kuwait vs Saudi Arabia (Scorecard) ; Bahrain vs Qatar (Scorecard)
16th September 2023: Oman vs UAE (Scorecard) ; Bahrain vs Kuwait (Scorecard)
17th September 2023: UAE vs Saudi Arabia (Scorecard) ; Qatar vs Oman (Scorecard)
18th September 2023: Saudi Arabia vs Bahrain (Scorecard) ; Kuwait vs Qatar (Scorecard)
19th September 2023: UAE vs Kuwait (Scorecard) ; Oman vs Bahrain (Scorecard)
20th September 2023: Qatar vs UAE (Scorecard) ; Saudi Arabia vs Oman (Scorecard)
21st September 2023: Qatar vs Saudi Arabia (Scorecard)
22nd September 2023: Bahrain vs UAE (Scorecard) ; Oman vs Kuwait (Scorecard)
23rd September 2023: FINAL (Scorecard)
Squads
Bahrain: Umer Toor (Captain), Abdul Majid Abbasi, Imran Ali Butt, Ahmer Bin Nasir, Sohail Ahmed, Haider Ali, Muhammed Rizwan Butt, Imran Javed, Sathyaiah.V, Yasser Nazir, Mohsin Zaki, Fiaz Ahmed, Junaid Niazi and Ali Dawood
Saudi Arabia: Mohammed Hisham Shaikh (Captain), Usman Najeeb, Zain ul Abidin, Atif ur-Rehman, Ishtiaq Ahmad, Abdul Gaffar, Zeeshan Sarfraz Butt, Faisal Khan, Saad Khan, Kashif Abbas, Waheed Baladraf, Mohammed Khalander Mustafa, Mohsin Shabbir Rajput and Abdul Ali
United Arab Emirates: Mohammad Waseem (Captain), Ali Naseer, Aayan Afzal Khan, Ansh Tandon, Aryansh Sharma, Asif Khan, Basil Hameed, Junaid Siddique, Muhammad Faraazuddin, Muhammad Jawadullah, Nilansh Keswani, Raja Akifullah Khan, Sanchit Sharma, Vriitya Aravind and Zahoor Khan
Kuwait: Mohammad Aslam (Captain), Shiraz Khan, Ali Zaheer, Adnan Idrees, Ahsan ul Haq, Clinto VA, Meet Bhavsar, Parvinder Kumar, Ravija de Silva, Sharukh Quddus, Shafeeq, Syed Monib, Usman Gani and Yasin Patel
Oman: Aaqib Ilyas (Captain), Ayaan Khan, Jatinder Singh, Kashyap Prajapati, Shoaib Khan, Mohammad Naseem, Jay Odedra, Mohammad Nadeem, Bilal Khan, Kaleemullah, Mehran Khan, Rafiullah, Fayyaz Butt and Shakeel Ahmed
