The ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2024 in the West Indies and the USA journey continues, this time, Nepal welcomes Bahrain, Hong Kong, Kuwait, Malaysia, Oman, Singapore and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to her shores for the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup Asia Qualifier Final from 30 October to 6 November 2023.
The eight participating teams will take each other on over seven days to earn one of two places in the biggest ICC Men’s T20 World Cup yet, featuring 20 teams in total. The event promises to be a competitive affair, with all the teams confident of their chances of making it through to the main stage. Here’s all you need to know about the tournament.
T20 World Cup qualifiers groups:
Group A: Nepal, Singapore, Oman, Malaysia | Group B: UAE, Bahrain, Hong Kong, Kuwait |
T20 World Cup fixtures;
| Day | Date | TU Ground | Mulpani Ground | Time |
| 1 | 30-Oct-23 | Nepal v Singapore | UAE v Bahrain | 9:00 AM |
| Oman v Malaysia | Hong Kong v Kuwait | 1:15 PM | ||
| 2 | 31-Oct-23 | Singapore v Oman | Bahrain v Hong Kong | 9:00 AM |
| Malaysia v Nepal | Kuwait v UAE | 1:15 PM | ||
| 3 | 01-Nov-23 | Rest Day | ||
| 4 | 2-Nov-23 | Nepal v Oman | Hong Kong v UAE | 9:00 AM |
| Singapore v Malaysia | Bahrain v Kuwait | 1:15 PM | ||
| 5 | 03-Nov-23 | SF 1: 1st A v 2nd B | SF 2 : 1st B v 2nd A | 11:00 AM |
| 6 | 04-Nov-23 | Rest Day | ||
| 7 | 05-Nov-23 | Finals : Winner SF1 v Winner SF 2 | 11:00 AM | |
Squads:
Bahrain
Umer Iimtiaz (captain), Abdul Majid Abbasi, Imran Ali Butt, Sohail Ahmed, Haider Ali, Imran Javed Anwer, Junaid Aziz, Rizwan Butt, Ali Dawood, Ahmer Bin Naser, Sarfraz Ali, Yasser Nazeer, Sathaiyah Veerapathiran, Sachin Kumar, Sai Sarthak.
Hong Kong
Nizakat Mohammad Khan (captain), Mohammad Aizaz Khan, Babar Hayat, Ehsan Khan, Adit Gorawara, Anshuman Rath, Ayush Shukla, Raag Kapur, Yasim Murtaza, Zeeshan Ali, Mohammad Ghazanfar, Haroon Mohammad Arshad, Nasrulla Rana, Martin Coetzee, Scott Stephen Mckechnie.
Kuwait
Mohamed Aslam (captain), Ali Zaheer, Usmangani Ibrahim, Bilal, Yasin Ishak, Ravija Sandaruwan, Meet Bhavsar, Diju Sheeli , Parvindar Kumar, Mirza Ahmed, Sayed Monib, Nimish Lathief, Clinto Velookkaran Anto, Mohamed Shafeeq Manakkadavath, Ilyas Ahmed.
Malaysia
Ahmed Faiz Mohammad Noor (captain), Virandeep Singh, Syed Aziz Syed Mubarak, Vijay Unni Suresh Unni, Muhammad Amir Azim ABD Shukor, Rizwan Haider, Khizar Hayat Durrani, Ainool Hafizs MD Yatim, Pavandeep Singh Jagjit Singh, Ahmad Zubaidi Zulkifle, Syazrul Ezat Idrus, Haiqal Mohd Khair, Sharvin Muniyandy, Muhammad Aiman Zaquan Muhammad Ridzuan, Muhammad Fitri Mohd Sham.
Nepal
Rohit Kumar Paudel, Mahamad Asif Sheikh, Kushal Bhurtel, Lalit Narayan Rajbanshi, Kusal Malla, Dipendra Singh Airee, Sndeep Lamichhane, Karan KC, Gulshan Kumar Jha, Sompal Kami, Pratis GC, Sundeep Jora, Binod Bhandari, Bibek Kumar Yadav, Abinash Bohara.
Oman
Zeeshan Maqsood, Aaqib Ilyas Sulheri, Khashyapkumar Prajapati, Shoaib Khan, Ayaan Mohammed Khan, Muhammad Nadeem, Muhammad Naseem, Bilal Khan, Ahmad Fayyaz Butt, Kaleemullah, Shakeel Ahmad, Mehran Khan, Prathik Athavale, Sandeep Goud Shreemantula, Siddharth Prasad Bukkapatnam.
Singapore
Aritra Dutta (captain), Rohan Rengarajan, Surendran Chandramohan, Anish Paraam, Manpreet Singh (wk), Janak Prakash, Akshay Roopak Puri, Thilip Omamdurai Thilappan, Ramesh Kalimuthu, Anantha Krishna, Utsav Rakshit, Aaryan Russell Menon, Amartya Kaul, Aryaveer Chaudhary, Harsha Bharadwaj.
United Arab Emirates (UAE)
Muhammad Waseem, Aryansh Sharma, Alishan Sharafu, Junaid Siddique, Basil Hameed, Asif Khan, Aayan Khan, Ali Naseer, Kharthik Meiyappan, Sanchit Sharma, Zahoor Khan, Muhammad Jawadullah, Nilansh Keswani, Khalid Shah, Vriitya Aravind.
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