ICC announced their World Cup Qualifiers XI team for the tournament on 26th Mar 2018, and two Associate cricketers (Kyle Coetzer and Safyaan Sharif from Scotland) made it in the playing XI squad.
However, we do feel that few other players could have made the cut in the final XI in places of Najibullah Zadran, Marlon Samuels and Boyd Rankin. While Super Sixes only had Scotland and UAE representing the Associates, it was in the group stage where some of the most memorable performances were dished out by Associate players during the first few weeks of the Qualifiers.
Taking into consideration, some of those performances, here’s our Associate XI for the ICC World Cup Qualifiers:
1) Kyle Coetzer (Scotland) – 276 runs in 7 matches @55.20 with 2 half-centuries
2) Tony Ura (Papua New Guinea) – 251 runs in 5 matches @50.20 with 1 century
3) Calum McLeod (Scotland) – 303 runs in 7 matches @50.50 with 1 century and 1 half-century
4) Safyaan Sharif (Scotland) – 17 wickets in 7 matches @13.94 average with 1 five wicket haul
5) Rameez Shahzad (United Arab Emirates) – 188 runs in 4 matches @62.66 with 1 century and 1 half-century
6) Mohammad Naveed (United Arab Emirates) – 14 wickets in 7 matches @24.64 average with 1 five wicket haul
7) Norman Vanua – 12th Man (Papua New Guinea) – 14 wickets in 6 matches @16.92 average with 2 four wicket hauls
8) Roelof van der Merwe (Netherlands) – 16 wickets in 6 matches @12.25 average with 3 four wicket hauls
9) Ehsan Khan (Hong Kong) – 15 wickets in 6 matches @14.66 average with 1 four wicket haul
10) Paras Khadka (Nepal) – 231 runs in 6 matches @38.50 with 2 half-centuries
11) Sandeep Lamichhane (Nepal) – 13 wickets in 6 matches @18.23 average with 1 four wicket haul
12) Rohan Mustafa (United Arab Emirates) – 198 runs in 7 matches @28.28 with 1 half-century and 13 wickets @22.76 average with 1 five wicket and 1 four wicket hauls
