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WCL5 Round-up
World Cricket League Division Five gets under-way in Jersey in less than two weeks, and teams are warming-up with varying degrees of success.
Nepal played the Pakistan Cricket Academy, losing the first two matches but gaining an unlikely win in the last. Vanuatu lost 2-0 to Fiji in a three match series, whilst Singapore whitewashed Malaysia […]
Posted: May 13th, 2008 under Japan, Afghanistan, Malaysia, Nepal, Jersey, Singapore, Fiji, Vanuatu.
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Ireland and Malaysia win in Under-15 tournament
The main tournament of the Under-15 International tournament in the West Indies started yesterday. Five associate teams are taking part in the eight team tournament - Ireland, Kenya, Malaysia, the Netherlands and a combined Americas team.
In yesterday’s matches Ireland beat Kenya by 7 wickets after bowling them out for 110, Malaysia beat the Americas XI […]
Posted: April 27th, 2008 under Ireland, Kenya, Bermuda, Netherlands, USA, Malaysia, Canada, Bahamas.
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Bad day for the associates
It’s been a bad day for the associates at the Under-19 World Cup in Malaysia with all four losing. Most surprising was Ireland’s ten wicket defeat by England, as that match was thought to be the best chance for an associate win.
You can read a full report from that match here, and a round-up of […]
Posted: February 17th, 2008 under Ireland, Namibia, Malaysia, PNG.
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Ireland beat PNG in warm-up
Ireland Under-19s have beaten Papua New Guinea Under-19s by 2 wickets in a warm-up match for the Under-19 World Cup. James Hall was the key player, scoring 70 and taking 2/21. Full report at CricketEurope here.
Malaysia Under-19s were the other associate side involved in warm-ups today, losing to Bangladesh by 165 runs.
Posted: February 11th, 2008 under Ireland, Malaysia, PNG.
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ACC Twenty20 underway
The first ACC Twenty20 Cup is underway, and the first day’s play saw Nepal beat Malaysia, Afghanistan beat Qatar, the UAE beat Kuwait and Singapore beat Hong Kong. Read my full report on the days play at CricketEurope here.
So far on the second day, the UAE picked up their second win, beating Singapore, and Qatar […]
Posted: October 28th, 2007 under UAE, Afghanistan, Malaysia, Nepal, Hong Kong, Singapore, Kuwait, Qatar.
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Under-19 World Cup
Fixtures for the Under-19 World Cup have been announced, and are available in the BTB calendar (link in the menu to the left).
Host’s Malaysia have a tough first round group coming up against New Zealand, Pakistan and Zimbabwe, whilst Papua New Guinea don’t have it much better, in the same group as India, South Africa […]
Posted: October 18th, 2007 under Ireland, Bermuda, Namibia, Malaysia, Nepal, PNG.
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Associate players in Twenty20 action.
England’s Twenty20 Cup got under way today, and three associate players were involved in the opening round of matches.
Eoin “Twenty20 more important than ODI” Morgan opened the batting for Middlesex against Surrey, scoring 26 from 18 balls, but it wasn’t enough to win the game, as Surrey won by six wickets.
Malaysia’s Arul Suppiah got an […]
Posted: June 22nd, 2007 under Ireland, Netherlands, Malaysia.
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ACC focus on Malaysia
The Asian Cricket Council (ACC) has published a couple of articles relating to Malaysian cricket including a spotlight on Malaysia, and an interview with Malaysia’s national coach, the South African-born John Bailey, who discusses his coaching process and his vision for Malaysian cricket. It does surprise a few that Malaysia don’t perform better at the […]
Posted: May 23rd, 2007 under Malaysia.
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Tough Twenty20 draws for Kenya and Scotland
The draw has been made for the first Twenty20 World Cup, and Scotland and Kenya handed tough first round groups.
The tournament will feature four first round groups of three teams each. Kenya will be in Group C with New Zealand and Sri Lanka, whilst Scotland will be in Group D with India and Pakistan. The […]
Posted: March 19th, 2007 under Scotland, Kenya, Netherlands, Denmark, UAE, Afghanistan, Malaysia, Nepal, Canada, Oman, Hong Kong, Bahrain, Singapore, Kuwait, Qatar.
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Year in review: Part Four
Part four of our review of the year continues with the associates as we cover Kenya through to Nepal.
Kenya
Very much a hit and miss year for Kenya in 2006. They started with a 2-2 drawn ODI series against Zimbabwe, but followed this with a 4-0 defeat to Bangladesh. This was closely followed by a rain […]
Posted: December 16th, 2006 under Kenya, Namibia, Malaysia, Nepal, Kuwait.
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