Kuwait City. 17 th Feb.2010
Kuwait Cricket has immense pleasure in inviting cricketers to register themselves to be active members of Kuwait National cricket team which will be participating in the forthcoming ACC trophy Elite 2010, which is slated to be conducted at Kuwait during the first week of April 2010. Any cricketer with established records of playing quality cricket in Kuwait or any other nations and who is a resident of Kuwait and has been staying for a minimum period of 4 years and above do qualify in accordance with the ICC players qualification criteria for selection trials.
After its much impressive performance in the recently concluded ACC T20 trophy in Dubai, where the talented Kuwaiti squad competed with the 10 top non-test playing nations in Asia and had the distinction of being ranked 4 th. ACC Trophy is a prestigious tournament for non test playing countries which provides a chance for the both finalist teams to participate in the Asia Cup tournament where the top 4 Test playing nations of Asia namely India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka & Bangladesh compete with much pomp and fare.
Kuwait Cricket is highly honored to have got the opportunity to organize the fabulous ACC trophy for the first time and this is the result of its proven track records of its abilities to organize and deliver top-class International tournaments in the past. Kuwait cricket is highly indebted to Asian Cricket Council (ACC) & ICC (International Cricket Council) for providing an opportunity to stage International events. Kuwait and Bhutan’s performance in the last ACC Trophy round sees them playing in the Pepsi ICC World Cricket League Division 8 which is to be held in Kuwait in December 2010.
Since its inception in 1996 , The ACC Elite Trophy has evolved into a highly competitive tournament and they have been emblematic of just how much cricket has developed in Asia as a whole in the past fourteen years. Without a doubt, the gap between our top-ranked test playing nations and the non test playing nations are quite substantial but if the non test playing nations truly wish to bridge the gap and achieve ODI status one day, this is the stepping stone for them to achieve full fledge International status.
Bangladesh won the first ACC Trophy fourteen years ago and step by step they reached the glory of achieving Test status and so is the story of Afghanistan who started playing in the ACC Elite trophy and now has qualified to participate in the T20 World Cup which is to be played in the West Indies shortly.
The participating teams are Afghanistan, Nepal, UAE, Oman, Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Bahrain, Bhutan and host Kuwait.
For registration and further information Mr. Sheikh Ayub a formidable cricketer, Cricket Australia and ACC level 2 Qualified Coach and Kuwait Cricket representative for this assignment can be contacted on 97962009. |
