{"id":25037,"date":"2023-09-03T09:00:36","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T00:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/?p=25037"},"modified":"2023-09-11T00:13:15","modified_gmt":"2023-09-10T15:13:15","slug":"%e7%94%b7%e5%ad%90u19%e6%97%a5%e6%9c%ac%e4%bb%a3%e8%a1%a8%e3%81%8c%e3%82%a2%e3%82%b8%e3%82%a2%e3%82%ab%e3%83%83%e3%83%97%e4%ba%88%e9%81%b8%e3%81%ab%e5%87%ba%e5%a0%b4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/en\/%e7%94%b7%e5%ad%90u19%e6%97%a5%e6%9c%ac%e4%bb%a3%e8%a1%a8%e3%81%8c%e3%82%a2%e3%82%b8%e3%82%a2%e3%82%ab%e3%83%83%e3%83%97%e4%ba%88%e9%81%b8%e3%81%ab%e5%87%ba%e5%a0%b4\/","title":{"rendered":"Men\u2019s Japan Under 19s to Compete in Asia Cup Qualifier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Men\u2019s Japan Under 19 team will be the first Japanese National Team to participate in an Asia Cricket Council event since the Men\u2019s ACC Trophy in 2000*, when they travel to Malaysia this October for the ACC Men\u2019s Under 19 Premier Cup.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The tournament will feature 16 teams in four groups of four. The top team from each group will contest the semi-finals, with the top three finishers qualifying for the 2023 Asia Cup.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Japan Under 19s, who have never competed in an ACC event before, will enter the competition as 12<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">th<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> seed and have been drawn in a group alongside Hong Kong (seeded 4<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">th<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">), Malaysia (5<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">th<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) and Indonesia (13<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">th<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This tournament is the second outing for the Men\u2019s Japan Under 19 team this year, following their strong showing at the recent Under 19 World Cup Qualifier where they finished second out of seven teams, losing only to New Zealand.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The final team of 14 players selected for the tournament will be announced in mid-September.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">*The JCA was a member of the ACC until 2000, at which time it became a member of the East Asia Pacific (EAP) region as classified by the International Cricket Council (ICC).\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At that time it was not an option for us, as a member of the EAP region, to remain an ACC member as well. That has now changed.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The JCA submitted an application for membership at the end of 2022, and although the ACC has not yet formally approved the membership, the Japan National Teams have been invited to participate in ACC competitions from 2023.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Throughout 2023 there have been men&#8217;s and boys Under 16 ACC tournaments, but it was not possible for Japan to participate in either of those due to scheduling.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-25138 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/U19-PREMIER-CUP-MALAYSIA-Colour-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/U19-PREMIER-CUP-MALAYSIA-Colour-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/U19-PREMIER-CUP-MALAYSIA-Colour-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/U19-PREMIER-CUP-MALAYSIA-Colour-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/U19-PREMIER-CUP-MALAYSIA-Colour-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/U19-PREMIER-CUP-MALAYSIA-Colour-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/U19-PREMIER-CUP-MALAYSIA-Colour-2048x2048.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/U19-PREMIER-CUP-MALAYSIA-Colour-180x180.jpg 180w, https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/U19-PREMIER-CUP-MALAYSIA-Colour-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/U19-PREMIER-CUP-MALAYSIA-Colour-125x125.jpg 125w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Men\u2019s Japan Under 19 team will be the first Japanese National Team to participate in an Asia Cricket Council event since the Men\u2019s ACC Trophy in 2000*, when they&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":274,"featured_media":25038,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,442],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-articles","category-mens-national-team-u19"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/274"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25037"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25154,"href":"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25037\/revisions\/25154"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}