Bahrain Cricket Center (BCC) have announced their 14-member men’s senior squad for the upcoming Asian Cricket Council (ACC) Western Region T20 tournament from Jan 18th – 25th, 2019 in Oman.
Bahrain will be competing against Kuwait, Qatar, Maldives & Saudi Arabia in the tournament in which all the participants are going to make their T20I team debuts with all matches being played with official T20I status. To prepare for the tournament, the national squad played few practice games against BCC “A” squad in the week prior to the tournament.
Bahrain National Team Practice Game#1 Scoresheet(5th Jan 2019)
Bahrain National Team Practice Game#2 Scoresheet(12th Jan 2019)
All the team’s took part in the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup Asia sub-regional qualifiers in Kuwait in Apr 2018 and hence, have the knowledge about most of their opponent’s squad members and their strengths.
Bahrain Squad for Western Region T20:
Imran Ali Butt (Captain), Shahbaz Bader, Anasim Khan, Tahir Dar, Ammad Uddin, Imran Javed, Junaid Niazi, Qasim Zia, Zeeshan Abbas, Satya Rumesh, Babar Ali, Rafi Ahmed, Sarfaraz Ali & Adil Hanif
Western Region Schedule (All timings local):
| 20 Jan 2019 | Bahrain v Saudi Arabia at OC Turf 1 @9:30am ; Maldives v Kuwait at OC Turf 2 @9:30am |
| 21 Jan 2019 | Qatar v Saudi Arabia at OC Turf 2 @9:30am ; Bahrain v Maldives at OC Turf 1 @9:30am |
| 22 Jan 2019 | Maldives v Saudi Arabia at OC Turf 2 @9:30am ; Kuwait v Qatar at OC Turf 1 @9:30am |
| 23 Jan 2019 | Bahrain v Kuwait at OC Turf 2 @9:30am ; Maldives v Qatar at OC Turf 1@9:30am |
| 24 Jan 2019 | Bahrain v Qatar at OC Turf 2 @9:30am ; Kuwait v Saudi Arabia at OC Turf 1@9:30am |
| 24 Jan 2019 | Final at OC Turf @07:00pm |
