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The 2011 World Cup Qualifiers have just been finalized but in just over a month's time the 4 year process for Qualifying for the 2015 ICC World Cup in Australia and New Zealand begins.
The 2009 ICC World Cricket League Division 7 kicks things off it is being held in Guernsey in late May/Early June.
Here are the competing teams
Bahrain (Qualified by finishing 7th in 2008 Asia Trophy Elite)
Gibraltar (Qualified by finishing 3rd in 2008 Europe Division 2)
Guernsey (Qualified by finishing 2nd in 2008 Europe Division 2)
Japan (Qualified by finishing 10th in 2008 ICC WCL Division 5)
Nigeria (Qualified by finishing 2nd in 2008 Africa Division 2)
Suriname (Qualified by finishing 6th in 2008 Americas Division 1)
Japan have a ICC Ranking for 38. All other sides have a provisional Ranking of 42.
The top 2 from this tournament will advance to 2009 ICC World Cricket League Division 6 being played in September in Singapore. Involving teams Botswana, Norway, Singapore and Malaysia.
What Division is Greece in? Is it Division 4?
Marklar_33
20 Apr 2009, 21:06
Almost 6 years for qualifiers? I guess it doesnt matter to these teams but its a bit long winded :)
What Division is Greece in? Is it Division 4?
Greece have not qualified for the ICC Cricket League. They are in Europe Division 5.
They will play Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Sweden, Turkey in Greece in September where the winner will advance to Division 4 in 2010.
Ill Chicken
20 Apr 2009, 23:48
Almost 6 years for qualifiers? I guess it doesnt matter to these teams but its a bit long winded :)
For their development it is required. These teams don't have the grass roots and cricketing structures of the greater test nations nor the poorer ones. For them to get better they need to play a large amount of games where they are rewarded for success which enables them to play against slightly better opposition each time so that once they reach the top level, it hopefully won't be a team getting rolled for 50 chasing 300+.
PunyHumans!!!
21 Apr 2009, 11:43
Well I think that until they develop their grass roots cricket and the adminstrative and training side etc they will always be getting rolled against the bigger boys (blatantly obvious I know)
In any case, it will be interesting to see who qualifies. What about The Netherlands?
Never mind, I just read the thread about the ODI WC Qualifiers
Ill Chicken
21 Apr 2009, 20:47
Well I think that until they develop their grass roots cricket and the adminstrative and training side etc they will always be getting rolled against the bigger boys (blatantly obvious I know)
In any case, it will be interesting to see who qualifies. What about The Netherlands?
Never mind, I just read the thread about the ODI WC Qualifiers
Yes but it is these senior players that then take it back to the grass roots, with experience expertise and knowledge of what it takes to succeed at a greater level.
Marklar_33
26 Apr 2009, 23:05
For their development it is required. These teams don't have the grass roots and cricketing structures of the greater test nations nor the poorer ones. For them to get better they need to play a large amount of games where they are rewarded for success which enables them to play against slightly better opposition each time so that once they reach the top level, it hopefully won't be a team getting rolled for 50 chasing 300+.
Yeah, I understand it. Afghanistan are a shining example of this, but also one out of the box that wont happen often
Howard Littlejohn
27 Apr 2009, 10:51
Almost 6 years for qualifiers? I guess it doesnt matter to these teams but its a bit long winded :)
Very few of them will be playing for six years, the top tiers of Associate nations don't come in until much later do they? Most of the sides starting this far out will probably be gone with 5 years of qualifying to run.
It does seem too long though. Form now and form 5 years from now are very different beasts. But they aren't professional cricketers, and can only take 2 weeks off a year for their cricket rather than a couple of qualifying stages of 5-6 weeks apiece.
Fixture for WCL Divison 7 games in Guernsey next month
Sunday May 17
Bahrain vs Gibraltar,Guernsey vs Japan,Suriname vs Nigeria
Monday May 18
Bahrain vs Suriname,Guernsey vs Gibraltar,Japan vs Nigeria
Wednesday May 20
Gibraltar vs Nigeria,Guernsey vs Bahrain,Japan vs Suriname
Thursday May 21
Bahrain vs Japan,Gibraltar vs Suriname,Guernsey vs Nigeria
Saturday May 23
Bahrain vs Nigeria,Gibraltar vs Japan,Guernsey vs Suriname
Sunday May 24
FINALS
Top 2 sides advance to WCL Division 6 in Singapore in September
Games get underway this Sunday at 11am local time (8pm AEST).
All the info plus scores can be found at http://www.pepsiiccworldcricketleague.com/
Round 1 Results played this morning
Bahrain 4/52(13 overs) vs Gibraltar (No Result)
Japan 1/28(7 overs) vs Guernsey (No Result)
Suriname vs Nigeria (No Play)
(These games may be replayed on Tuesday)
Round 2 played today starts at 11am local time (8pm AEST)
Japan vs Nigeria
Gibraltar vs Guernsey
Bahrain vs Suriname
Results of Round 2 games played overnight
Gibraltar 7/227(50)(Ferrary 90,Latin 42*) lost to Guernsey 6/228(49.3)(Savident 53,Le Prevost 45,Harkins 3/42)
Japan 8/187(50)(Irie 55*,4 run outs) lost to Nigeria 8/188(48.1)(Adegbola 48,Beath 3/20)
Bahrain 5/278(50)(Sajjad 106,Hanif 60*,Azeem Ul Haq 60*) def Suriname 117(36.2)(Qamar Saeed 3/10)
Round 1 will be replayed today after Sunday's washouts(start at 11am local,8pm AEST)
Bahrain vs Gibraltar,Suriname vs Nigeria,Guernsey vs Japan
Results from Round 1 replayed last night
Suriname 8/260(Dudnath 92.V.Singh 91,Onwuzulike 3/17,Adegbola 3/51) def Nigeria 165(Adegbola 39,Gokoel 3/33)
Bahrain 9/235(Hanif 92,Mirpuri 3/27) def Gibraltar 98(Qamar Saeed 3/20)
Japan 8/150(Irie 49,Rich 2/27) lost to Guernsey 3/152(38.3)(Frith 56*,Kneller 44*)
LADDER AFTER 2 ROUNDS
Bahrain 4pts NRR +3.39
Guernsey 4pts +0.55
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Suriname 2pts -0.75
Nigeria 2pts -0.87
Japan 0pts -0.55
Gibraltar 0pts -1.40
Round 3 being played today starting at 11am local(8pm AEST)
Guernsey vs Bahrain
Suriname vs Japan
Nigeria vs Gibraltar
Bahrain would be full of subcontinent expats wouldn't it? Surprised they're as low as Div 7.
Results from Round 3 played overnight
Nigeria 8/217(Okwudili 70*,Adegbola 44,Mirpuri 6/61) def Gibraltar 129(Adeoye 3/19)
Suriname 65(Gokoel 31,Giles-Jones 7/9(10 overs,5 wides),(they were 8/7 at one stage)) lost to Japan 2/67(20.1 overs)
Bahrain 9/257(Yaqoob 101,Adil Hanif 69,Firth 4/67) def Guernsey 9/232(Frith 65,Le Prevost 47,Tahir Dar 3/45,Qamar Saeed 3/47)
LADDER AFTER ROUND 3
Bahrain 6pts
Guernsey 4pts
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Nigeria 4pts
Japan 2pts
Suriname 2pts
Gibraltar 0pts
Round 4 games being played today (start at 11am local,8pm AEST)
Gibraltar vs Suriname
Japan vs Bahrain
Nigeria vs Guernsey
Results from Round 4 games played overnight
Bahrain 260(Qamar Saeed 75*,Adil Hanif 73,Yaqoob 51,Giles-Jones 5/39) def Japan 64(Yaser Sadeq 3/15,Naeem Amin 3/15,Qamar Saeed 3/15)
Nigeria 5/217(Ofem 78*,Onikoyi 54) lost to Guernsey 2/218(47)(Frith 101*,Le Prevost 59*)
Gibraltar 8/218(Rocca 50,Latin 41*,Ramjohn 3/33) def Suriname 179(V.Singh 60,Latin 6/23)
LADDER AFTER ROUND 4
Bahrain* 8pts +2.76
Guernsey 6pts +0.23
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Nigeria 4pts -0.06
Japan 2pts -0.83
Gibraltar 2pts -0.95
Suriname 2pts -1.28
*Promoted to Division 6
Final Round of games played on Saturday (start at 11am local,8pm AEST)
Suriname vs Guernsey
Bahrain vs Nigeria
Gibraltar vs Japan
Results of Final Round of games played overnight
Guernsey 3/315(Frith 106,Le Provest 67*,Oliver 52) def Suriname 52(Frith 5/8)
Bahrain 5/273(Ashraf Yaqoob 104*,Azeem Ul Haq 83) def Nigeria 97(Zafar Zaheer 4/27)
Japan 8/227(Giles-Jones 69) def Gibraltar 198(Hagihara 3/35)
FINAL LADDER
Bahrain 10pts
Guernsey 8pts
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Japan 4pts
Nigeria 4pts
Gibraltar 2pts
Suriname 2pts
The finals being played tonight starting at 11am local (8pm AEST)
FINAL(Both teams have qualified for WCL Division 6)
Bahrain vs Guernsey
3rd/4th Playoff(Both teams will remain in 2011 WCL Division 7)
Japan vs Nigeria
5th/6th Playoff(Both teams have been relegated to 2010 WCL Division 8)
Gibraltar vs Suriname
Results from finals played overnight
FINAL
Guernsey 9/204(Ferbrache 51,Qamar Saeed 5/44) lost to Bahrain 7/207(46.1)(Qamar Saeed 55*,Rich 3/39)
3rd/4th Playoff
Nigeria 9/221(Okwudili 68,Murata 3/27) def Japan 153
5th/6th Playoff
Suriname 9/300(Dudnath 130,V Singh 46) def Gibraltar 9/292(Latin 73,Rocca 50)
Bahrain and Guernsey join Botswana,Malaysia,Norway and Singapore in WCL Division 6 tournament to be held in Singapore in late August.
Japan and Nigeria will remain in Division 7 for tournament in 2011.
Suriname and Gibraltar have been relegated to Division 8 for tournament in Mid to Late 2010. The other 6 countries in this Division to be determined by the ICC.
The next stage of the ICC World Cup Qualifiers begins on Saturday week in Singapore.
This is the ICC World Cricket League Division 6 tournament.
The countries involved are Singapore,Malaysia,Botswana,Norway,Bahrain and Guernsey. Bahrain and Guernsey qualified form Division 7.
The top 2 sides will advance to the Division 5 tournament early in 2010.
3rd and 4th will remain in Division 6 for tournament in 2011.
5th and 6th will be demoted to Division 7 for tournament in 2011.