Emirates Cricket Board (ECB) have announced the 14-member men’s national squad for the upcoming round 3 of ICC CWC League 2 Championship in UAE from Dec 09th – 15th, 2019. UAE will make their tournament debut, while USA and Scotland have already played 4 matches each in the Championship so far, winning 3 of them to be on top of the current points table.
UAE will play two matches each at Sharjah Cricket Stadium and ICC Academy Oval 1 ground during the tournament. Karthik Meiyappan, Vritya Aravind and Jonathan Figy, who have come up in the ranks through age-group cricket in UAE, will be featuring for the first time in the senior squad in 50-overs cricket. Vritya Aravind was part of the UAE squad in the T20 World Cup Qualifiers, after wicketkeeper Ghulam Shabber left the squad midway through the tournament.
UAE players were part of Abu Dhabi T20 tournament recently and will be looking forward to get back to the longer format of the white-ball cricket. All the matches in round 3 will be live streamed on Emirates Cricket Board’s YouTube channel.
UAE Squad
Ahmed Raza (Captain), Rohan Mustafa, Jonathan Figy, CP Rizwan, Junaid Siddique, Muhammad Usman, Basil Hameed, Zawar Farid, Vriitya Aravind (WK), Waheed Ahmed, Karthik Meiyappan, Zahoor Khan, Darius D’Silva & Chirag Suri
UAE Fixtures
08th Dec 2019: USA v UAE (Sharjah Cricket Stadium)
11th Dec 2019:Â UAE v Scotland (Sharjah Cricket Stadium)
12th Dec 2019: USA v UAE (ICC Academy Oval 1)
15th Dec 2019:Â UAE v Scotland (ICC Academy Oval 1)
