UAE U20 - News & Discussion

[MrMoose]

Today starts the first T20 tour in the new format (6 matches, home and away against Nepal, Scotland and Kenya) kick off at 10.00 with games Monday until Saturday.

[MrMoose]

Not the best start to our t20 tour and the new format. Tough loss to Scotland where our bowlers leaked too many and our bats never got motoring.

[MrMoose]

We finish the first week of the new format tours with 3 wins and 3 tight losses keeping our NRR respectable and sitting 4th in the group.

Afzal has stepped away from the assistant role and we thank him for his time as assistant.

This means we have a wonderful opportunity for an interested manager to come on board as an assistant for the remaining tour and World Cup before the next election (I’m not running again so can’t speak longer term than that).

If you are interested, please shoot me a message.

Most of our management correspondence does happen via Discord so it is preferred that assistants are happy to communicate via Discord.

[MrMoose]

Monday kicks off the final tour for the season. Div 1 in Bangladesh on Uneven/Green/Hard pitches.

This tour somewhat marks the end of a few eras being the last Division Tour and my last tour as UAE U20 National Manager.

Games are 0200 daily.

Touring Squad of 20:
Fadil Hasan [Emirates Academy]
Dirar Omar [Hassanites]
Adil Hamid [Buggles United]
Kalid Khatib [Crimson Tide]
Abbud Mazin [Ashburn CC]
Nuri Sharrif [bigsexybarry]
Abbud Hadi [Buggles United]
Rayleigh Silvers [Sterling Archers]
Ameer Mahmad [Ashburn CC]
Kadar Mu'izz [Dragons]
Ziyad Wahhab [Hassanites]
Ramiz Hadi [Ashburn CC]
Samir Sam [Ashburn CC]
Qadim Jabbar [Ashburn CC]
Atif Kaleel [Emirates Academy]
King Ramesses II [Abu Dhabi Academy]
Yahir Muttalib [Ashburn CC]
Abbud Ibraheem [Tell Your Story]
Muhammad Jafar [Buggles United]
Jawad Abdellah [Hassanites]

[MrMoose]

A chance to add a final division 1 title today. A win should do exactly that. 0200 start.

[MrMoose]

World Cup just around the corner and we look forward to another chance to win the holy grail that has to this point avoided the UAE U20 side. Tune in 1100 Monday - hopefully Sunday next week.

Most of the commentary throughout the week will be via the UAE FTP discord.

[MrMoose]

In truth a disappointing World Cup effort. Just the two wins and finishing bottom of our group.

That ends my time in charge as I’ll be stepping back from the National manager role after 4 terms (more than 2 years irl). Thank you all for your support and trust over that time. Finishing the tier era div 1 in both formats and a stack of Div 1 titles but ultimately never able to go the distance and win that elusive World Cup.

[MOD-wmchamps]

Thank you to the UAE community and supporters for the support, looking forward to working with the team.

[MOD-wmchamps]

We are embarking on our first T20I tour, and below are our selected 20.

Batters and Keepers

Jawad Abdellah (Hassanites) T20I Debut
King Ramesses II (Abu Dhabi Academy) T20I Debut
Ziyad Ayasha (Ashburn CC) U20 Debut
Jibril Basit (Beautiful Valley CC) T20I Debut
Kaden Fattah (PKF Tigers 2nd XI) U20 Debut
Aden Ibrahim (Emirates Academy) U20 Debut
Abbas Kalil (Mighty Tigers CC) U20 Debut
Kadeem Mousa (Chesney Champions) T20I Debut
Kale Ali (PKF Tigers) T20I Debut

All-Rounders and Bowlers

Khalil Aliyy RFS (Legends of Cuba) U20 Debut
King Khufu RFS (Abu Dhabi Academy) U20 Debut
Irfan Ibrahim LFS (Worralls Wizards) U20 Debut
Yahir Muttalib RWS (Ashburn CC) 1 cap
Yusuf Ababneh RWS (The Hurlutown Partnership) 3 caps
Arif Imran RM (PKF Tigers) U20 Debut
Jibril Khatib RFM (Scott's Tots) U20 Debut
Abbud Ibraheem RFM (Tell Your Story) 2 caps
Jamel Abdulah RFM (Emirates Academy) U20 Debut
Muhammad Jafar (Buggles United) T20I Debut
Atif Kaleel RF (Emirates Academy) T20I Debut

Pitches

16 Feb vs England U20: Slow
17 Feb vs Netherlands U20: Dry
18 Feb vs Bangladesh U20: Uneven
19 Feb vs England U20: Dry
20 Feb vs Netherlands U20: Crumbling
21 Feb vs Bangladesh U20: Dry

[MOD-wmchamps]

Game saw us play away against England U20, who opted to bat first in Slow/Cloudy conditions.

Bowling first, we picked up 2 quick wickets in the first 3 overs, before a brisk 63 run partnership for the 3rd wicket put the English in a good position and helped them get to 135/7.
Pick of the bowlers who was also the MOTM as well as our Player of the Day was Atif Kaleel, with economical figures of 4-0-15-2.

The less said about the batting the better, as our batters looked all at sea against the English bowlers and it was only thanks to a pair of 20s from Kaden Fattah and Yusuf Ababneh that we managed to cross the 100 mark, eventually getting to 104/9. Skipper Yusuf Ababneh top scored with an unbeaten 21.

Match Ratings
England U20 UAE U20
Batting - Top Order 10,147 9,316
Batting - Middle Order 7,335 8,159
Batting - Tail 4,206 3,523
Bowling - Seam 9,519 (16) 9,488 (12)
Bowling - Spin 11,755 (4) 10,323 (8)
Fielding/Keeping 11,377 11,155
Overall 166,512 163,052

[MOD-wmchamps]

Apologies for not being able to put up a game summary for each game, so here is an overall tour summary encompassing the rest of the games.

Game 2 vs Netherlands U20: UAE U20 won by 8 wickets
Disciplined bowling performance restricted them to 111/9 which was comfortably chased thanks to an unbeaten 73 run partnership for the 3rd wicket.
Keeper Kale Ali was the Player of the Day for 5 catches, 1 stumping, and an unbeaten 42 from 35 balls.

Game 3 vs Bangladesh U20: Bangladesh U20 won by 5 wickets
Heartbreaking loss as they got the winning runs on the final ball of the match.
Player of the Day was Yahir Muttalib for his figures of 4-0-20-2

Game 4 vs England U20: UAE U20 won by 5 wickets
Another comfortable chase thanks to multiple batting contributions.
Player of the Day was Khalil Aliyy for figures of 4-0-22-3

Game 5 vs Netherlands U20: Match tied
Extremely fortunate to walk away with a tie here, as we needed 17 from 2 overs with a bowling AR and a bowler at the crease with only bowlers to follow.
Player of the Day was Khalil Aliyy again with figures of 4-0-16-4

Game 6 vs Bangladesh U20: Bangladesh U20 won by 6 wickets
Under-par batting performance saw us only get to 133/6 which was comfortably chased down.
Player of the Day was top scorer Jawad Abdellah with 59.

We are now at 8th place on the points table, and the top 6 will qualify for the World Cup.
We are up against it with just one more T20 tour to go, but the team will be doing their best to get us to qualification.

[MOD-wmchamps]

Time for the ODI tour now, here is the selected 20.

Batters and Keepers

Jawad Abdellah (Hassanites) 5 caps
Jibril Basit (Beautiful Valley CC) 2 caps
Aden Ibrahim (Emirates Academy) ODI Debut
Kadeem Mousa (Chesney Champions) 3 caps
Nawfal Raghib (Ashburn CC) U20 Debut
Akram Wahid (Tell Your Story) U20 Debut
Saad Wajih (Sterling Archers) U20 Debut
Ameer Yasar (Romanian Ravens) U20 Debut
Muwaffaq Ghafur (Ashburn CC) U20 Debut

All-Rounders and Bowlers

Khalil Aliyy RFS (Legends of Cuba) ODI Debut
Farooq Kalil (Tell Your Story) U20 Debut
Yahir Muttalib RWS (Ashburn CC) 5 caps
Yusuf Ababneh RWS (The Hurlutown Partnership) 3 caps
Zafar Iqbal RWS (The El Dude Brothers) U20 Debut
Arif Imran RM (PKF Tigers) ODI Debut
Riyad Sad LM (Walking Champ) U20 Debut
Jibril Khatib RFM (Scott's Tots) ODI Debut
Abbud Ibraheem RFM (Tell Your Story) 5 caps
Jamel Abdulah RFM (Emirates Academy) ODI Debut
Muhammad Jafar (Buggles United) 3 caps

Pitches

9 March vs Scotland U20: Dry
10 March vs West Indies U20: Dry
11 March vs Nepal U20: Dry
12 March vs Scotland U20: Dry
13 March vs Wet Indies U20: Dry
14 March vs Nepal U20: Green