The Men’s Japan National Team will travel to Oman on 30th September for the ICC T20 World Cup Asia & EAP Qualifier, where nine teams will fight for three places at the T20 World Cup.
The team is made up of 15 players who will play two warm-up matches against Samoa and United Arab Emirates (UAE) before featuring in Group B against Kuwait and Nepal.
Kendel Kadowaki-Fleming again captains the team while Esam Rahman is in line to make his international debut after impressing the selectors on the recent tour of Sri Lanka.
Two teams will advance from each of the three groups and play matches against the remaining four teams to decide the qualifiers.
The travelling team is as follows:
- Abhishek Anand (Tokyo Falcons Cricket Club)
- Benjamin Gou Ito-Davis (Chiba Sharks Cricket Club)
- Charles Hara-HInze (Northern Suburbs Cricket Club)
- Kendel Kadowaki-Fleming (Chiba Sharks Cricket Club)
- Wataru Miyauchi (Wyverns Cricket Club)
- Esam Rahman (ACT Comets)*
- Sabaorish Ravichandran (Tigers Cricket Club)
- Reo Sakurano-Thomas (Sano Cricket Club)
- Abdul Samad (Tokyo Wombats Cricket Club)
- Alexander Shirai-Patmore (Sano Cricket Club)
- Shoma Sugaya-Slater (Melville Cricket Club)
- Declan Suzuki-McComb (Sano Cricket Club)
- Ibrahim Takahashi (Chiba Sharks Cricket Club)
- Makoto Taniyama (Sano Cricket Club)
- Lachlan Yamamoto-Lake (Sano Cricket Club)
*Selected for the first time
The full match schedule is as follows:
Warm Up Matches:
- 3rd October (Friday) 19:00 Japan vs Samoa
- 5th October (Saturday) 14:30 Japan vs UAE
Tournament Matches:
- 9th October (Thursday) 14:30 Japan vs Kuwait
- 10th October (Friday) 14:30 Japan vs Nepal
*Oman is 5 hours behind Japan
Other Groups:
- Group A : UAE, Malaysia, Qatar
- Group C : Oman, PNG, Samoa
All tournament matches can be watched live on ICC.tv while matches can also be followed live on the JCA App.
Good luck boys!
(Due to circumstances regarding the JCA website, the announcement of the squad was delayed. We sincerely apologize for this.)
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