International Cricket Council (ICC) have announced the schedule for the upcoming Men’s T20 World Cup Asia regional finals, to be hosted by Singapore Cricket Association (SCA) from Jul 22nd – 28th, 2019.
Host’s Singapore will compete against Nepal, Malaysia, Kuwait and Qatar for one of the two spots available for qualification from the Asia region into the Global Qualifiers, to be held in Oct/Nov 2019 in UAE. All matches in the regional finals will carry official T20I status and will count towards ranking points in the global T20I team rankings.
UAE and Nepal were involved in a bi-lateral series in Jan/Feb 2019, which included 3 T20I matches, while Kuwait and Qatar played their first T20I matches in the Asian Cricket Council (ACC) Western Region T20, held in Jan 2019 in Oman. Malaysia and Nepal also played a 2-match T20I series prior to travelling to Singapore for the qualifiers, while Qatar hosted Kuwait for a 3-match T20I series to prepare for the tournament.
All matches will be played at the Indian Association Ground in Singapore, where recently the SCA’s Elite player series took place, in which Malaysia’s Virandeep Singh participated along with players from Botswana and Uganda. As previously announced that Malaysia were expected to host the qualifiers and UAE were set to participate before the ICC board meetings held in Mar 2019, UAE have automatically qualified for the Global qualifiers as the host’s and don’t have to go through the regional finals.
Squads
Malaysia: Ahmad Faiz (Captain), Shafiq Sharif, Virandeep Singh, Anwar Rahman, Syahadat Ramli, Anwar Arudin, Fitri Sham, Syed Aziz Syed Mubarak, Pavandeep Singh, Sharvin Muniandy, Nazril Abd Rahman, Pasha Ali, Aminuddin Ramli & Neville Liyanage
Nepal: Paras Khadka (Captain), Abhinash Bohara, Basant Regmi, Binod Bhandari, Dipendra Singh Airee, Gyanendra Malla, Karan KC, Lalit Narayan Rajbanshi, Pawan Sarraf, Pradeep Airee, Rohit Kumar Paudel, Sandeep Lamichhane, Sharad Vesawkar & Sompal Kami
Kuwait: Adnan Idrees, Ahsan Naseer, Bilal Khan, Hamoud Jandu, Ilyaas Ahmad, Kashif Shareef (Captain), Meet Bhavsar, Mohammed Aslam, Nawaf Ahmed, Naveed Fakhr, Ravija D’ Silva, Sanker Warathapan, Shiraz Khan & Usman Waheed
Qatar: Inam Ul Haq, Awais Malik, Mohammed Rizlan, Khadeer Mohammed, Iqbal Hussain Chaudhary, Khurram Shahzad, Qalandar Khan, Muhammad Nadeem, Kamran Khan, Tamoor Sajjad, Zaheer Ibrahim, Muhammad Tanveer, Noman Sarwar & Hasmukh Patel
Singapore: Amjad Mahboob (Captain), Rohan Rangarajan, Chetan Suryawanshi, Anish Param, Timothy Hays David, Surendran Chandramohan, Manpreet Singh, Navin Param, Rezza Gaznavi, Janak Prakash, Anantha Krishna, Aahan Achar, Vinoth Baskaran & Selladore Vijayakumar
Live match streams will be updated in the match links in the schedule provided below.
ICC Men’s T20 World Cup Asia Regional Finals Schedule:
| Date | Match | Venue | Timing (Local) |
| 22 July 2019 | Singapore vs Qatar | Indian Association Ground | 10:00AM |
| Kuwait vs Malaysia | Indian Association Ground | 2:30PM | |
| 23 July 2019 | Qatar vs Nepal | Indian Association Ground | 10:00AM |
| Singapore vs Kuwait | Indian Association Ground | 2:30PM | |
| 24 July 2019 | Nepal vs Malaysia | Indian Association Ground | 10:00AM |
| 26 July 2019 | Qatar vs Kuwait | Indian Association Ground | 10:00AM |
| Singapore vs Malaysia | Indian Association Ground | 2:30PM | |
| 27 July 2019 | Kuwait vs Nepal | Indian Association Ground | 10:00AM |
| Malaysia vs Qatar | Indian Association Ground | 2:30PM | |
| 28 July 2019 | Singapore vs Nepal | Indian Association Ground | 10:00AM |
Host’s Singapore will have the services of Timothy Hays David, who has played for Western Australia and for Perth Scorcers in KFC Big Bash League in Australia. Kuwait’s Ravija de Silva is one of the leading T20I run-scorer’s in 2019 among all countries (Full member or Associate member).
Recent Results
Kuwait vs Qatar T20I Series – Link 1 & Link 2
Nepal vs Malaysia T20I Series – Link
Singapore SG PAK T20 Series – Scorecard, Scorecard (2) & Scorecard (1)
