Teams from five continents prepare to meet in Italy next month as the truly global nature of international cricket is illustrated once again with the Pepsi ICC World Cricket League Division 4 (WCL Div. 4).
Teams from Nepal, USA, Italy, Cayman Islands, Argentina and Tanzania will converge on Bologna to compete in the fourth step of the World Cricket League as they push ultimately towards inclusion in the next ICC Cricket World Cup Qualifier (CWCQ) which is scheduled for 2013.
The top four finishers of the ICC CWCQ 2013 win themselves a place at the ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 to be staged in Australia and New Zealand.
The top two sides at WCL Div. 4, which will be played from 14 to 21 August in Bologna, will win promotion to the WCL Div. 3 to be staged in Hong Kong in January 2011.
The sides are to be hosted on three grounds for the tournament – Pianora, Medicina and Bologna.
The full schedule for WCL Div. 4 is as follows:
12 August – Team arrivals
13 August – Practice
14 August – USA v Nepal (Pianora); Italy v Cayman Islands (Medicina); Tanzania v Argentina (Bologna)
15 August – Italy v Nepal (Pianora); Argentina v Cayman Islands (Medicina); USA v Tanzania (Bologna)
16 August – Rest/Reserve Day
17 August – Italy v Argentina (Pianora); Nepal v Tanzania (Medicina); USA v Cayman Islands (Bologna)
18 August – Cayman Islands v Tanzania (Pianora); Italy v USA (Medicina); Nepal v Argentina (Bologna)
19 August – Rest/Reserve Day
20 August – USA v Argentina (Pianora); Cayman Islands v Nepal (Medicina); Tanzania v Italy (Bologna)
21 August – Final (Pianora); third/fourth play-off (Medicina); fifth/sixth play-off (Bologna)
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@Antonio: Former test cricketer, wow! Which nation? When did you play and how many matches?
Arun,
Where did you find Antonio was TEST Player?
Anyway, I have a question for you: Are they going to play on Astro Turf PITCH ? Or only OUTFIELD is Astro Turf ?
Raj, it’s the pitch man, not outfield. And, antonia has written that he is a former test cricketer, now working in italy in his recent comment on this very article.
@Antonio. Are u working for italian cricket team?
DEAR ANTONIO!
Glad 2 hear mor abt italy criket.
Malaysia is old criketing nationg. B4 div2 in 2005,they hv organised first ACC TROPHY IN 1996! Also they hv included criket in comonwealth games in 1998!
Div 4 sud hv hosted in Argentina instead of ITALY!
4m which country how many test u played? R u lokal club coach?
Italy had won few matches in european divs 1 bt against A Team of scotland n holand. I read d names it sounds amazing they al r srilankans!
So in div 4 Nepal wil face chalenge 4m WEST INDIES REJECT 11(USA) n SRILANKA SOUTH AFRIKA Lokal CLUB (ITALY)!
Nepal had alwys gud spiner bt can batsman overply them 4 6?
How italy criket asociation going 2 organise event? R there original italians in asociation? So there wil b no crowds xcept xtra players n coach n match refre!
We want 2 win not 1ly div 4 bt div 3 in hongkong!
Cayman island hv players 4m west indies. Tanzania is also gud team!
Lets pray 4 NEPAL!
Bivik
I very much appriciate your friendly communications. Its been a pleasure to talk to you.
Napel will do very very well in italy. Spinners are a must in August Bologna heat. Every team must have a decent chance. Dont get down to much on the conditions, as i said the Italians havent played on them either.
Grounds..i found this to look at……….., shows all the grounds that are providing much interest.
http://cricketitalia.blogspot.com/2010/03/i-campi-della-world-cricket-league-4.html
best of luck to nepal for the world div 4 cricket..#
Sanjeev bro, i truely agree wid u, bt what i have known being a cricketer myself is…when we ask our neighbouring countries to send their state team or club team or like that….they really dnt send their quality players n instead they send the players my taking money from them…now u imagine that bro…when i played against india (chandigarh) a lad from that team told me in a i’l conversation..that he came to pay in nepal paying 7000 rs….now u believe it??n trust me man, every time they come, we’ve sent them getting them white-washed most of the time…now u tel me, we being Nepal A players, can beat them easily, then wud it b any sort of practise match for our seniors???nt at all!!!infact, it wud ruin all their temperaments!!