All the 6 countries to participate in the upcoming ICC WCL Division 2 tournament in Namibia have announced their squads for the event.
Teams:
Canada:Â Nitish Kumar (captain), Bhavindu Adhihetty, Cecil Pervez, Dhanuka Pathirana, Ruvindu Gunasekera, Hamza Tariq, Srimantha Wijeyeratne, Junaid Siddiqui, Nicholas Kirton, Navneet Dhaliwal, Nikhil Dutta, Dilon Heyliger, Saad Zafar, Satsimranjit Dhindsa
Kenya: Rakep Patel (captain), Collins Obuya, Gurdeep Bhagat, Dhiren Gondaria, Irfan Karim, Nelson Odhiambo, Shem Ngoche, Hiren Varaiya, Nehemiah Ngoche, Emmanuel Ringera, Lucas   Ndandason, Rushabhvardhan Patel, Alex Auma, Karan Kaul
Namibia: Sarel Burger (captain), Jean Milner Bredenkamp, Stephan Baard, Petrus Jacobus Burger, Merwe Gerhard Erasmus, Jan Nicolaas Frylinck, Zane Edward Green, Jean-Pierre Kotze, Lohandre Louwrens, Bernhard Scholtz, Johannes Smit, Louis van der Westhuizen, Christoffel Viljoen, Craig Williams
Nepal: Paras Khadka (captain), Gyanendra Malla, Sharad Vesawkar, Basant Regmi, Shakti Prasad Gauchan, Sompal Kami, Anil Kumar Sah, Rohit Kumar Paudel, Karan KC, Md. Arif Sheikh, Sandeep Lamichhane, Dipendra Singh Airee, Dilap Nath, Lalit Bhandari
Oman:Â Sultan Ahmed (captain), Aaqib Ilyas Sulehri, Ahmad Fayyaz Butt, Ajay Vrajlal Lalcheta, Swapnil Sunil Khadye, Bilal Khan, Khawar Ali, Muhammed Nadeem, Muhammad Naseem, Zeeshan Maqsood, Jay Viram Odedra, Jatinder Singh, Vaibhav Shridhar Wategaonkar, Kaleemullah Kaleemullah
United Arab Emirates: Rohan Mustafa (captain), Muhammad Ashfaq Ahmed, Ghulam Shabbir, Rameez Shahzad, Muhammad Boota, Muhammad Usman, Adnan Mufti, Shaiman Anwar, Ahmed Raza, Imran Haider, Qadeer Ahmed, Muhammad Naveed, Muhammad Amir Hayat, Zahoor Khan
The match officials are:
Match Referee – Dev Govindjee
Mentor Umpire – Langton Rusere
Umpires – Claude Thorburn, Kalidas, Alex Dowdalls, Sarika Prasad, Buddhi Pradhan, Akbar Ali Khan, Tabarak Dar and David Odhiambo
All the matches will be played across three venues in Namibia, Wanderers, Windhoek Afrikaans Primary School Ground & Trustco United Ground. Each match day will see all the 6 teams in action at all the three venues.
Top two teams from the WCL Division 2 will join West Indies, Ireland, Netherlands, Papua New Guinea, Afghanistan, Zimbabwe, Scotland and Hong Kong in the World Cup Qualifiers. Netherlands and the top 3 associates countries with best finish in the points table amongst the remaining 5 countries will earn ODI status till FY2022.
ICC WCL Division 2 Schedule:
8th Feb 2018: Kenya vs UAE (Wanderers), Nepal vs Namibia (WAP) & Oman vs Canada (Trustco United)
9th Feb 2018: UAE vs Canada (Wanderers), Nepal vs Oman (WAP) & Namibia vs Kenya (Trustco United)
11th Feb 2018: Namibia vs Oman (Wanderers), Kenya vs Canada (WAP) & Nepal vs UAE (Trustco United)
12th Feb 2018: Kenya vs Nepal (Wanderers), UAE vs Oman (WAP) & Namibia vs Canada (Trustco United)
14th Feb 2018: Nepal vs Canada (Wanderers), UAE vs Namibia (WAP) & Kenya vs Oman (Trustco United)
15th Feb 2018: Final (Wanderers), 3rd/4th play-off (WAP) & 5th/6th play-off (Trustco United)