Cricket Oman (CO) have announced a 14-member men’s senior national squad, which will be competing in a T20I quadrangular series against the visiting teams from Ireland, Scotland and Netherlands.
A Development XI squad was also announced by the selectors, which will play two T20 matches against Ireland before the start of the Quadrangular tournament. Oman Development team will also play some practice matches against the Senior Oman side leading to the Quadrangular T20 tournament.
The tournament will see all the teams play each other once and the top team at the end of the group-phase will be declared the winners. Oman are high on confidence factor after winning the ICC World Cricket League Division 3 at home in Nov 2018 but a disappointment campaign in the ACC Emerging Nations Asia Cup in Dec 2018 will spur them back on to start 2019 on a more positive note.
With high stakes tournaments lined up in 2019 with ODI status in the offing in ICC World Cricket League Division 2 and 2020 Men’s T20 World Cup spot in the offing in the Global Qualifiers, the year couldn’t be anymore bigger for Cricket Oman and the T20I Quadrangular will be the perfect preparatory start towards greater targets in the year.
Oman Squad for T20I Quadrangular (13th Feb – 17th Feb 2019):
Ajay Vrajlal Lalcheta (Captain), Khawar Ali, Jatinder Singh, Muhammad Nadeem, Khurram Nawaz Khan, Mehran Khan, Sufyan Mahmood, Aamir Kaleem, Raja Waseem, Fayyaz Butt, Bilal Khan, Kaleem Ullah, Jay Odedra & Wasim Ali
Oman Development XI Squad:
Twinkal Bhandari (Captain), Sufyan Mahmood, Nester Danem, Wasim Ali, Ayaan Khan, Sanuth Ebrahim, Shoaib Albalushi, Sindo Moonamchery, Sandeep Shreemanthula, Badal Singh, Bilal Butt, Gopendra Bohra, Ubaid Khan & Suraj Ks
The team will also play 3 matches in 50-overs format against Scotland scheduled immediately after the Quadrangular T20 tournament to prepare for WCL Division 2. The squad for the 3 matches will be announced at a later date.
