Cricket news: Squads announce for Pepsi ICC WCL Division 5

The International Cricket Council (ICC) today announce the 14-man squads for the six teams scheduled to compete in the upcoming Pepsi ICC World Cricket League Division 5 (WCL Div. 5) which will be held in Singapore from 18 to 25 February.

Six teams will compete for the opportunity to finish in the top two of the event and ultimately gain encouragement to the Pepsi ICC World Cricket League Division 4 which will be held later in the year.

The teams, Argentina, Bahrain, Cayman Islands, Guernsey, Malaysia and hosts Singapore will play across three venues - Kallang Cricket Ground, Singapore Cricket Club (SCC) and the Indian Association Ground (IA) - which also played host to the Pepsi ICC WCL Division 6 in 2009.

Former Australia opener Trevor Chappell returns as Singapore coach during the tournament, Chappell previously coached the side in September 2009.

Former Sri Lanka batsman Roy Dias will be seen taking charge of Malaysia during the tournament. Dias, who was earlier coach of Nepal and Oman, is now the new Director of Coaching at the Malaysia Cricket Association and will be performing the role of head coach during the tournament.

The full squads are as follows:


Squads

Argentina: Esteban MacDermott (captain), Grant Dugmore, Martin Siri, Pablo Ferguson, Gary Savage, Tomas Francis, Hernan Williams, Matias Paterlini, Pablo Ryan, Lucas Paterlini, Alejandro Tissera, Agustin Husain, Hernan Fennell, Lautaro Musiani

Bahrain: Yaser Sadeq (captain), Naeem Amin, Tahir Dar, Shehzad Ahmed, Adil Hanif, Mirza Ashraf Yaqoob, Zafar Zaheer, Halal Abbasi, Rizwan Baig, Qamar Saeed, Anasim Khan, Adnan Butt, Mirza Azeem Ul Haque, Fahad Sadeq

Cayman Islands: Abali Hoilett (captain), Steve Gordon, Ryan Bovell, Ainsley Hall, Alistair Ifill, Conroy Wright, Kevin Bazil, Zachary McLaughlin, Omar Willis, Troy Taylor, Ramon Sealy, Marlon Bryan, Pearson Best, Kervin Ebanks


Guernsey: Stuart Le Prevost (captain), Gary Rich, Jamie Nussbaumer, William Peatfield, Jeremy Frith, Tom Kimber, Stuart Bisson, Tim Duke, David Hooper, Tim Ravenscroft, Matthew Renouf, Ben Ferbrache, Ross Kneller, GH Smit

Malaysia: Suresh Navaratnam (captain), Rakesh Madhavan, Hammad Khan, Hassan Ghulam Muhammad, Ahmad Faiz Noor, Suhan Alagaratnam, Shukri Abdul Rahim, Ezrafiq Aziz, Rashid Ahad, Shafiq Mohd Sharif, Mohd Anwar Arudin, Suharril Fetri Shuib, Shahrulnizam Yusof, Hiran Ralalage

Singapore: Saad Khan (captain), Chethan Suryawanshi, Chaminda Kumarage, Anish Param, Buddhika Mendis, Kshitij Baliram Shinde, Dharmichand Mulewa, Shoib Abdul Razzak, Pramodh Raja, Amjad Mahboob, Narender Reddy, Munish Arora, Abjiraj Rajdeep Singh, Christopher Janik

The full schedule for the Pepsi ICC WCL Div. 5 is as follows:

The International Cricket Council (ICC) today announce the 14-man squads for the six teams scheduled to compete in the upcoming Pepsi ICC World Cricket League Division 5 (WCL Div. 5) which will be held in Singapore from 18 to 25 February.

Six teams will compete for the opportunity to finish in the top two of the event and ultimately gain encouragement to the Pepsi ICC World Cricket League Division 4 which will be held later in the year.

The teams, Argentina, Bahrain, Cayman Islands, Guernsey, Malaysia and hosts Singapore will play across three venues - Kallang Cricket Ground, Singapore Cricket Club (SCC) and the Indian Association Ground (IA) - which also played host to the Pepsi ICC WCL Division 6 in 2009.

Former Australia opener Trevor Chappell returns as Singapore coach during the tournament, Chappell previously coached the side in September 2009.

Former Sri Lanka batsman Roy Dias will be seen taking charge of Malaysia during the tournament. Dias, who was earlier coach of Nepal and Oman, is now the new Director of Coaching at the Malaysia Cricket Association and will be performing the role of head coach during the tournament.

The full squads are as follows:

Squads

Argentina: Esteban MacDermott (captain), Grant Dugmore, Martin Siri, Pablo Ferguson, Gary Savage, Tomas Francis, Hernan Williams, Matias Paterlini, Pablo Ryan, Lucas Paterlini, Alejandro Tissera, Agustin Husain, Hernan Fennell, Lautaro Musiani

Bahrain: Yaser Sadeq (captain), Naeem Amin, Tahir Dar, Shehzad Ahmed, Adil Hanif, Mirza Ashraf Yaqoob, Zafar Zaheer, Halal Abbasi, Rizwan Baig, Qamar Saeed, Anasim Khan, Adnan Butt, Mirza Azeem Ul Haque, Fahad Sadeq

Cayman Islands: Abali Hoilett (captain), Steve Gordon, Ryan Bovell, Ainsley Hall, Alistair Ifill, Conroy Wright, Kevin Bazil, Zachary McLaughlin, Omar Willis, Troy Taylor, Ramon Sealy, Marlon Bryan, Pearson Best, Kervin Ebanks

Guernsey: Stuart Le Prevost (captain), Gary Rich, Jamie Nussbaumer, William Peatfield, Jeremy Frith, Tom Kimber, Stuart Bisson, Tim Duke, David Hooper, Tim Ravenscroft, Matthew Renouf, Ben Ferbrache, Ross Kneller, GH Smit

Malaysia: Suresh Navaratnam (captain), Rakesh Madhavan, Hammad Khan, Hassan Ghulam Muhammad, Ahmad Faiz Noor, Suhan Alagaratnam, Shukri Abdul Rahim, Ezrafiq Aziz, Rashid Ahad, Shafiq Mohd Sharif, Mohd Anwar Arudin, Suharril Fetri Shuib, Shahrulnizam Yusof, Hiran Ralalage

Singapore: Saad Khan (captain), Chethan Suryawanshi, Chaminda Kumarage, Anish Param, Buddhika Mendis, Kshitij Baliram Shinde, Dharmichand Mulewa, Shoib Abdul Razzak, Pramodh Raja, Amjad Mahboob, Narender Reddy, Munish Arora, Abjiraj Rajdeep Singh, Christopher Janik

The full schedule for the Pepsi ICC WCL Div. 5 is as follows:

Fixtures

17 Feb - Team Practices

18 Feb - Singapore v Cayman Islands (Kallang), Guernsey v Bahrain (SCC), Argentina v Malaysia (IA)

19 Feb - Argentina v Bahrain (Kallang), Malaysia v Cayman Islands (SCC), Singapore v Guernsey (IA)

20 Feb - Rest/Reserve Day

21 Feb - Malaysia v Singapore (Kallang), Argentina v Guernsey (SCC), Cayman Islands v Bahrain (IA)

22 Feb - Guernsey v Malaysia (Kallang), Bahrain v Singapore (SCC), Argentina v Cayman Islands (IA)

23 Feb - Rest/Reserve Day

24 Feb - Cayman Islands v Guernsey (Kallang), Argentina v Singapore (SCC), Bahrain v Malaysia (IA)

25 Feb - Final (Kallang), Third/Fourth play-off (SCC), Fifth/Sixth play-off (IA)

17 Feb - Team Practices

18 Feb - Singapore v Cayman Islands (Kallang), Guernsey v Bahrain (SCC), Argentina v Malaysia (IA)

19 Feb - Argentina v Bahrain (Kallang), Malaysia v Cayman Islands (SCC), Singapore v Guernsey (IA)

20 Feb - Rest/Reserve Day

21 Feb - Malaysia v Singapore (Kallang), Argentina v Guernsey (SCC), Cayman Islands v Bahrain (IA)

22 Feb - Guernsey v Malaysia (Kallang), Bahrain v Singapore (SCC), Argentina v Cayman Islands (IA)

23 Feb - Rest/Reserve Day

24 Feb - Cayman Islands v Guernsey (Kallang), Argentina v Singapore (SCC), Bahrain v Malaysia (IA)

25 Feb - Final (Kallang), Third/Fourth play-off (SCC), Fifth/Sixth play-off (IA)

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cricket news: Rain wash out bulk of day two

New Zealand 392 for 5 (Watling 52*, Bracewell 11*) v Zimbabwe

Only 15.2 overs were bowled on the second day of the Test between New Zealand and Zimbabwe at McLean Park earlier than light, but persistent, rain set in to make further play not possible. BJ Watling shone throughout the gloom of the shortened morning session to consolidate his side's dominance with a bright fifty, his second in Tests. Watling finished unbeaten on 52, having helped his side advance to 392 for 5, with a large first-innings score becoming ever more critical following the loss of two and a half sessions of play.

New Zealand managed to waltz through unharmed on the scorecard, but continued an injury to overnight centurion Ross Taylor, who retired hurt before being taken to hospital with a suspected calf tear. It may mean today's modest gain of 61 runs proves a potentially pyrrhic victory for the hosts, with South Africa, the home summer's main event, due in the country in two weeks.

Watling passed his first Test as wicketkeeper-batsman by produce the kind of innings the selectors signed him on for in his first dig in the new role. Watling began the morning with a pair of liquid drives throughout the off side, and rarely allowable a half-volley to go unpunished. With an abnormally docile Ross Taylor's sights seemingly set on long occupation on day two, it fell to Watling to provide the early impetus, and he responded with a brace of runs square of the wicket, even as his partner's start starved him of the strike.

As in the morning session on day one, Zimbabwe's bowlers were guilty of straying too often, particularly on the pads, and despite the already-slow outfield becoming ever more sluggish as drizzle set in, Watling's timing ensured wayward bowlers paid due penance.

The visitors also lacked strength on the field, again much as they had for in the opening day, with Brendan Taylor positioning a solitary slip instead of pressing for early breakthroughs under some cloud cover. Ross Taylor was happy to allow the bowlers come to him, dealing in languid singles instead of militant strokeplay, with his counterpart seemingly content to leave enough gaps to allow him his leisurely approach.

Ross Taylor's plan to build patiently struck an abrupt roadblock when he pulled a calf, setting off for his 122nd run. Unable to summon a runner under the new rules, the New Zealand captain was forced to leave the field.

Zimbabwe's woes were then both epitomized and compounded by perhaps the worst drop in Tests so far in 2012. Doug Bracewell toed a sitter to Forster Mutizwa at cover, handing the debutant a chance not even worthy of being called catching practice. Mutizwa shelled the opportunity, and a few overs later, Watling edge through vacant first slip to reach his fifty before the rains came down.

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