UAE U20 - News & Discussion

[MrMoose]

Touring Squad has been selected for the upcoming Div 1 OD Tour.

• Tour starts on the 30th October

• Games 0900 Daily

• Pitches: 2 Slows, 3 Drys

Congratulations to all managers who have had their players selected for this tour and thank you for training UAE players. Thank you also for letting us steal them away from club duties for a week.

We have 10 players making their U20 National Debut Tours:
Alam Bishr - Dawn
Akil Dhul - NorthernEagles
Ala Qasem - Lightning Dragon CC
Baligh Rasheed - Googly Good Cricket
Kaseem Qaraja - Walking Champ
Salman Iqbal - Strand Honde
Jabir Mukhtar - The Dragon Pearl
Yusuf Saleem - Cloud Puppies XI
Zubair Taymulla, Sheikh Mohammed Al Maktoum - Buggles United

They will be joined by the seasoned veterans:
Abu-al Rashad - Hassanites - 11 U20 ODs
Zubair Najeeb - SP Dragons - 9 U20 ODs
Zaki Kareem - PKF Tigers 2nd XI - 6 U20 ODs
Kareem Murat - Sydney Cricket Club - 5 U20 ODs
Donquixote Doflamingo - Sterling Archers - 5 U20 ODs
Kadin Ahmed - Scott's Tots - 4 U20 ODs
Jumah Omer - Indian Capers - 2 U20 ODs
Georgia Wareham - The Pink Ladies - 2 U20 ODs

Tune in from 0900, 30th October.

Div 1 OD Tour for the seniors starts tomorrow - games 0200 daily.

[MrMoose]

Match Details
Home New Zealand U20
Away UAE U20
Ground Dry Crack Memorial Oval
League U-20 One Day 1
Date 30 Oct. 23 09:00
Crowd 20,000
Weather Cloudy
Pitch Slow

New Zealand won the toss and sent UAE into bat.

Qaraja dropped on 4 in the 4th over, goes on to make 67.
Omer out for 11 in the 10th over.
Qaraja and Donquixote put on a 50 run partnership before Don departs for 23.
Ahmed dropped on 1, goes on to make 20.
Bishr dropped on 20, goes on to make 69.
Najeeb should have been runout for a diamond duck, goes on to make 37.

The missed chances helping us to set a target of 260. Nonetheless some great batting performances from Bishr and Qaraja with plenty of support from the others.

Oh here we go we all thought. Lord dropped on 19, fortunately is dismissed the next over, the drop costing just 2 runs.
Murat breaking a 50 run partnership and then getting the set bat out the ball before drinks.
A missed stumping followed up immediately with a clean bowled by Wareham.
A runout for the Don and Sheikhs maiden international wicket as the NRR climbed.
Watt dropped on 39 (ended unbeaten on 64) but a wicket down the other end in the same over.
A drop in the last over that cost just one extra run, we hold on to win by 18 runs.

Skipper Bishr (69) and Qaraja (67) the best two performers for us. We also got undeniably lucky with dropped catches with more than 150 runs coming from the second life’s our batsmen were given compared to New Zealand who only profited 29 runs from the missed chances.

Around the ground Ireland were handed another advantage gaining a +3.96 NRR and England held onto beat the Aussies in an absolute thriller.

Up next, we hope to upset some of that luck the Irish are having.

[MrMoose]

We win against Ireland and make it 2/2.

Superb bowling from Kareem 3/16 and Rashad 4/16 meant Ireland could only set a target of 150. After a nervous start Saleem and Ahmed dug into see the chase through with 14 overs and 7 wickets to spare.

Around the grounds New Zealand beat England and Australia beat the West Indies, meaning we sit top of the table after 2 matches.

It goes without saying, the hard work for the week starts here with all 3 (England, WI and Australia) all rating well over the 170k mark already this week.

[NPD-PowerBug]

Huge start! But yes still 3 big games ahead. My two lads have started slow, hopefully saving themselves for a couple of big ones at the back end of the week

[MrMoose]

A big win against England built mostly around Dhuls 70 and Murats 5 wickets.

Yesterday’s win means we will avoid relegation this week which was our major goal for the week and will go a long way to locking away a spot in the next World Cup.

We now turn our attention to the West Indies. let’s go win a Div 1 title lads.

[MrMoose]

Bat first. Bat big. Win.

A saying as old as time itself.

236 thanks to 62 from Qaraja and some late pinch hitting from Qasem and Omer.

The bowlers than all contributed to bowl the West Indies out 54 runs short of their target.

Around the grounds: Australia held onto beat New Zealand despite a strong New Zealand batting performance and England held out Ireland.

It’s time for maybe the easiest mathematical methods with moose ever:
Tomorrow against Australia
Win = win title.
Lose little = win title.
Lose large = Australia win title.

All 3 matches tomorrow are important, the other two are essentially (give or take a few scenarios) shootouts to remain in Div 1. Win = in.

Sri Lanka and the Netherlands look poised to step up to Div 1 whilst USA and India look likely to drop down to Div 3. Canada* and Kenya look likely to escape Div 3. Plenty to play for tomorrow.

Tune in at 0900 it’s the great enemy, Goliath, Australia. Just remember lads if it bleeds we can kill it. Let’s go win a Div 1 title.

[MrMoose]

We went with option 2, my lord.

Lose little = win Div 1 title.

I think the lads may have known the equation and decided to save beating the Aussies for when it matters (hopefully a World Cup final).

Absolutely stoked to win a Div 1 title! Probably just beginners luck but let’s try and ride that for as long as possible.

After the Aussies had batted I felt we’d probably given away 20-25 runs too many. Our bowling performance was pretty tidy bar one ridiculous over where a bowler took a quality leg spinner for 22 runs.

All bowlers contributed but the Aussies are strong and they made 229 our target. Contributions from most of the top order saw us get to 200 and be exactly that 23 runs away from winning.

Ultimately we knew with a match in hand we could afford to lose and the title was locked away about halfway through our chasing innings.

It’s fantastic to win a title in a week where I genuinely thought we would be fighting hard to avoid the drop. The quality of our spinners and bats really shone through this tour and it was great to see.

6 of the touring squad age up before the next tour and we thank them for their contributions as Youth Nat players:
Alam Bishr - ends his Nat youth career with a batting average of 117 (across three innings, only dismissed once)

Akil Dhul - ends with a batting average of 50.5 (101 runs over 3 innings including one not out).

Zaki Kareem - 13 wickets over 10 YOD matches. Kareem has been a stelwart for quite a few tours now and it’ll be sad to see him go. His best return 3/16 against Ireland.

Ala Qasem - just the two outings for Ala Qasem but 4 wickets and 31 runs at a strike rate over 100 is nothing to sneeze at. Also captain the lads to a win against the West Indies.

Baligh Rashid - 3 matches, 3 catches and 48 runs.

Jumah Omer - averaged 42.25 at a strike rate near 100 over his 5 match career. Just the one catch and one stumping.

We thank all the above players for their service and thank all managers who have trained and produced UAE players.

We move our minds to the next tour, T20!

[NPD-PowerBug]

What a tour result!!

First time ever that UAE have been the reigning champs of both seniors and U20 OD

[heppa]

Very strong start to the tenure. Great to see.

[MrMoose]

T20 tour starts tonight.

10.00 game times.

Aussies first up!

[MrMoose]

T20 Div 1 Tour Time!

Games are 10.00 Daily (hosted by England) and we play Australia, England, Ireland, Kenya and Netherlands (in that order).

Tour squad is:
Wafiq Ali - What A Time To Affliliatise
Zubair Najeeb - SP Dragons
Kaseem Qaraja - Walking Champ
Abu-al Rashad - Hassanites
Kareem Murat - Sydney Cricket Club
Kadin Ahmed - Scott's Tots
Donquixote Doflamingo - Sterling Archers
Zafar Razzaq - FreshCut CC
Ahmad Saheed - Los Pollos Hermanos
Aden Khaleel - Ashburn CC
Abu Khaleel - PKF Tigers
Jumah Haddad - PKF Tigers 2nd XI
Georgia Wareham - waityesno_sorrymate
Ghiyath Mazin - Amsterdam Knights
Yusuf Saleem - Cloud Puppies XI
Sheikh Mohammed Al Maktoum - Buggles United
Akram Essa - Hassanites
Salim Hassan - Emirates Academy

[MrMoose]

Well what a start to the week.

A 1 run loss to the Aussies and two draws against England and Ireland. We go again, let’s get a win!

[MrMoose]

Well that hurts.

A 1 run loss to the Aussies, 2 draws, a win and a complete capitulation today see us demote to Div 2.

Hopefully we can bounce straight back up next season.

[MrMoose]

The last tour of this season kicks off tomorrow

Games are in New Zealand so 2200 daily (nice and early).

Touring Squad:
Aden Khaleel - Ashburn CC
Salman Iqbal - Strand Honde
Abu Khaleel - PKF Tigers
Yaman Musa - Scott's Tots (National Debut)
Shafiq Qassem - PKF Tigers 2nd XI (National Debut)
Jumah Haddad - PKF Tigers 2nd XI
Tahir Shakur - PKF Tigers (National Debut)
Georgia Wareham - waityesno_sorrymate
Jabir Mukhtar - The Dragon Pearl
Muhammad Hanna - Ella XI (National Debut)
Hatim Awad - Buggles United (National Debut)
Rashid Saleem - Abu Dhabi Academy (National Debut)
Zubair Taymulla - Buggles United
Zaim Abolhassan - Bailey (National Debut)
Akram Essa - Hassanites
Nasir Hussain - CMK Cricket Academy (National Debut)
Salim Hassan - Emirates Academy
Bilal Omar - Buggles United (National Debut)

Monday - Sri Lanka
Tuesday - England
Wednesday - Australia
Thursday - New Zealand
Friday - Netherlands

[MrMoose]

Home Sri Lanka U20
Away UAE U20
Ground The Unkindness of Ravens Den
League U-20 One Day 1
Date 10 Dec 23 22:00
Crowd 28,666
Weather Cloudy
Pitch Slow

Toss: Sri Lanka U20 won the toss and elected to bowl.
Man of the match: Bandula Perera (3 points), Tharanath Kehelgamuwa (2), Georgia Wareham (1)

Sri Lanka U20 UAE U20
Batting - Top Order 10,416 9,361
Batting - Middle Order 8,186 8,017
Batting - Tail 3,974 4,649
Bowling - Seam 9,831 (40) 9,127 (30)
Bowling - Spin 11,355 (10) 10,723 (20)
Fielding/Keeping 11,107 10,449
Overall 170,334 163,635

Batting first we managed to stumble our way to 200 with starts from Qassem (30), Haddad (32), Hussain (49) and a half century from Abu Khaleel (51).

Sri Lanka's openers than got off to a flyer, 96 for the first wicket in just under 16 overs.

Wareham then broke the game open with two in an over, followed up with 2 in 2 balls just a few overs later. Sri Lanka looked set to consolidate needing only 2 runs an over, but a flurry of wickets saw the last 5 wickets fall for just 14 runs.

Around the Grounds:
England rated 179k and beat Netherlands by 3 wickets.
Australia rated 193k and beat New Zealand by 60 runs.