UAE Cricket to host 2024 ICC U19 World Cup Asia Division 1 qualifier

Emirates Cricket Board (ECB) will be hosting the 2024 ICC U19 Men’s World Cup Asia Division 1 qualifier at Ajman from February 24th – March 02nd, 2023, in which U19 National teams from UAE, Nepal, Singapore, Malaysia, Kuwait and Hong Kong will be competing for the lone qualification spot into the main draw of the 2024 event. While UAE are the current winners of the Plate Championship from the 2022 edition of the World Cup, Nepal, Kuwait and Malaysia have been directly placed in Division 1 based on their previous performances in qualifiers, while Singapore and Hong Kong have qualified from the Division 2 tournament held in Oman in September/October 2022.

Three (3) games will be played in each of the match-days during the competition, with Malek ground ovals 1 and 2 and Eden gardens oval to host the matches in Ajman at 9am local time start. Some of the teams have already lined-up practice games before the start of the tournament, with Hong Kong U19 heading to Oman for a bi-lateral series, while Malaysia U19 heading to Sri Lanka for a preparation camp involving nine (9) practice games. The host’s U19 team have already played a bi-lateral series with England U19 team back in December 2022, and have played practice games with Singapore U19 team in Ajman in February 2023.

Squads

UAE U19 Men’s: Aayan Khan (Captain), Ammar Badami, Aryan Saxena, Aryansh Sharma, Deepak Gajraj, Dhruv Parashar, Ethan D’Souza, Harit Shetty, Harsh Desai, Harshit Seth, Maroof Merchant, Monish Gajesh, Omid Rehman and Tanish Suri

Singapore U19 Men’s: Jeevan Santhanam (Captain), Arjun Nagpal, Aryaveer Chaudhary, Abhuday Chhajer, Kabir Zandani Biren, Pranav Ramanatha Siva, Adwitya Bhargava, Pranav Maheshwari, Venkatesan Thiyanesh, Mahiyu Bhatia, Aaryan Modi, Sidhanth Srikanth, Rahil Khan and Pratham Somani

Malaysia U19 Men’s: Karthik Rajaratnam (Captain), Muhammad Akram, Muhammad Azmi, Muhammad Syahir, Haziq Haiqal Idris, Muhammad Azhar, Mohammad Hairil, Hamzah Panggi, Mohammad Afnan, Muhammad Aalif, Siddharth Neelakantan, Rahul Rajaratnam, Muhammad Zaquan and Mohammad Faiz Fitri

Kuwait U19 Men’s: Jude Saldanha (Captain), Jay Mehta, Saud Mohamed, Janath Jeewanga, Talha Hassan, Ethan Cherian, Muhammad Shaheer, Henry Thomas, Het Kishore, Arsh Sahil, Gautham Poolakkal, Haiber Ali, Yusuf Basha and Muhammad Aqif

Hong Kong U19 Men’s: Ahan Trivedi (Captain), Aarez Dar, Abdul Samad Khan, Jayden Botfield, Mudassar Khan, Paraspreet Singh, Parth Bhagwat, Shiv Mathur, Charlie Walsh, Aliyaan Mohmmad, Ansh Doshi, Aryan Chandrimani, Danny Mapp and Darsh Vora

Nepal U19 Men’s: Dev Khanal (Captain), Aakash Tripathi, Hemant Dhami, Arjun Kumal, Dipak Bohara, Uttam Thapa Magar, Deepak Bohara, Dipesh Kandel, Dipak Dumbre, Durgesh Gupta, Akash Chand, Subash Bhandari, Bishal KC and Milan Bohara

2024 ICC U19 Men’s World Cup Asia Division 1 Qualifier Schedule

02nd March 2023: Nepal U19 vs UAE U19 (Scorecard) ; Kuwait U19 vs Singapore U19 (Scorecard) ; Hong Kong U19 vs Malaysia U19 (Scorecard)

28th February 2023: Malaysia U19 vs Nepal U19 (Scorecard) ; Kuwait U19 vs UAE U19 (Scorecard) ; Singapore U19 vs Hong Kong U19 (Scorecard)

27th February 2023: Nepal U19 vs Hong Kong U19 (Scorecard) ; UAE U19 vs Singapore U19 (Scorecard) ; Malaysia U19 vs Kuwait U19 (Scorecard)

25th February 2023: Kuwait U19 vs Nepal U19 (Scorecard) ; Malaysia U19 vs Singapore U19 (Scorecard) ; Hong Kong U19 vs UAE U19 (Scorecard)

24th February 2023: Nepal U19 vs Singapore U19 (Scorecard) ; UAE U19 vs Malaysia U19 (Scorecard) ; Kuwait U19 vs Hong Kong U19 (Scorecard)