ICC Asia has announced the launch of its Asia Cricket Week, to take place from 28th April to 05th May 2024. In many of the ICC Asia Associate member countries, various Activities will be taking place, which ranges from Women’s Trainer Workshop, Cricket clinics and Workshops in Nepal, Community Outreach programme in Singapore to foundation coaching courses to school Physical Education teachers in Uzbekistan. The ICC’s Criiio training and education programme will be live in Bahrain, Mongolia, Qatar and Tajikistan, while Junior cricket and Schools’ events will be hosted in Cambodia, China, the Maldives, Myanmar, Oman, Saudi Arabia and Thailand.
Malaysia Cricket will be hosting the 2nd edition of the Super Women League featuring players from Malaysia and other 9 Associate member countries in the Asia region, with matches to be live streamed on ICC TV. Both Men’s and Women’s Premier League T20 competitions in Hong Kong-China will take place on 05th May 2024, while Women’s domestic T20 competition is also starting off in Qatar. Kuwait Cricket are hosting the T20 series (Yalla Shabab) with Bahrain Nationals. The 100% indigenous Arab T20 series is designed to encourage local support ahead of the 2030 and 2034 Asian Games in Doha and Riyadh respectively.
Aminul Islam, Regional Manager, ICC Asia:Â “The enthusiastic response has been truly overwhelming, and we are thrilled with the buy-in from our members. The unique combination of broad reach, the power to overcome barriers, and the capability for low-cost, high-impact engagement makes Asia Cricket Week an effective tool in achieving our development goals.
We are deeply impressed by the depth and breadth of each program designed by our members. Their genuine interest and dedicated efforts fill us with optimism for the future.”