{"id":30873,"date":"2025-04-21T20:41:27","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T11:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/?p=30873"},"modified":"2025-04-22T21:53:18","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T12:53:18","slug":"2025%e5%b9%b4-%e7%94%b7%e5%ad%90%e6%97%a5%e6%9c%ac%e4%bb%a3%e8%a1%a8%e5%bc%b7%e5%8c%96%e9%81%b8%e6%89%8b%e5%9b%a3%e5%8f%8a%e3%81%b3%e7%94%b7%e5%ad%90%e6%97%a5%e6%9c%aca%e4%bb%a3%e8%a1%a8%e5%bc%b7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/en\/2025%e5%b9%b4-%e7%94%b7%e5%ad%90%e6%97%a5%e6%9c%ac%e4%bb%a3%e8%a1%a8%e5%bc%b7%e5%8c%96%e9%81%b8%e6%89%8b%e5%9b%a3%e5%8f%8a%e3%81%b3%e7%94%b7%e5%ad%90%e6%97%a5%e6%9c%aca%e4%bb%a3%e8%a1%a8%e5%bc%b7\/","title":{"rendered":"Men\u2019s Japan National Squad and Men\u2019s Japan A Squad 2025 Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-474 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/JapanNationalTeamLogo-254x300.png\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 100px) 100vw, 100px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/JapanNationalTeamLogo-254x300.png 254w, https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/JapanNationalTeamLogo.png 594w\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"118\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/mki_logo_w300h108-e1691293923269.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12609 size-full aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/mki_logo_w300h108-e1691293923269.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"64\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The National Selection Committee for the Men\u2019s Japan National Squads, chaired by Dhugal Bedingfield, have announced the preliminary Squads for Japan Men and Japan A.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Koji Hardgrave-Abe and Kiefer Yamamoto-Lake are promoted from the Japan National Academy while Abhishek Anand is promoted from Japan A.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In addition, Charlie Hara-Hinze and Kazuma Kato-Stafford are also part of the squad, while also remaining part of the Japan National Academy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There may be additional members added following the Japan Premier League and early rounds of the domestic season.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Men\u2019s Japan National Squad<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Abhishek Anand (Tokyo Falcons Cricket Club)*<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ryan Drake (Sano Cricket Club)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Koji Hardgrave-Abe (Sano Cricket Club)**<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Benjamin Gou Ito-Davis (Chiba Sharks Cricket Club)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Alester Kadowaki-Fleming (Chiba Sharks Cricket Club)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kendel Kadowaki-Fleming (Chiba Sharks Cricket Club)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kohei Kubota (Wyverns Cricket Club)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Piyush Kumbhare (Tigers Cricket Club)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wataru Miyauchi (Wyverns Cricket Club)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sabaorish Ravichandran (Tigers Cricket Club)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Reo Sakurano-Thomas (Sano Cricket Club)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Abdul Samad (Tokyo Wombats Cricket Club)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Alexander Shirai-Patmore (Sano Cricket Club)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Declan Suzuki-McComb (Sano Cricket Club)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ibrahim Takahashi (Chiba Sharks Cricket Club)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Makoto Taniyama (Sano Cricket Club)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Marcus Thurgate (Chiba Sharks Cricket Club)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kiefer Yamamoto-Lake (Sano Cricket Club)**<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lachlan Yamamoto-Lake (Sano Cricket Club)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">*Promoted from Japan A<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">**Promoted from Japan National Academy<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><b>Men\u2019s Japan National Squad and Japan National Academy<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Charlie Hara-Hinze (Northern Suburbs Cricket Club) &#8211; Under 19 and Under 16<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kazuma Kato-Stafford (MAX Cricket Club) &#8211; Under 19\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Men\u2019s Japan A Squad has also been announced, with Ghufran Mir and <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kawshan Kulasooriya named for the first time, while Dylan Kai Fujioka-Fletcher and Aarav Tiwari are promoted from the Japan National Academy.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Men\u2019s Japan A Squad<\/b><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kazumasa Hiratsuka (Sano Cricket Club)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dylan Kai Fujioka-Fletcher (Albion Eagles)**<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Zubair Khan (Sano Cricket Club)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Shogo Kimura (Wyverns Cricket Club)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kawshan Koolasuriya (Sano Cricket Club)*<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jake Kusuda-Nairn (Sano Cricket Club)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ghufran Mir (Chiba Sharks Cricket Club)*<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Masato Morita (Wyverns Cricket Club)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Manav Natarajan (Chiba Sharks Cricket Club)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Supun Nawarathna (Kawasaki Knight Riders Cricket Club)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kento Ota-Dobell (Chiba Sharks Cricket Club)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Muneeb Siddique Mian (Chiba Sharks Cricket Club)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tsuyoshi Takada (Chiba Sharks Cricket Club)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Aarav Tiwari (Kawasaki Knight Riders Cricket Club)**<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ashley Thurgate (Chiba Sharks Cricket Club)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">*Selected for the first time<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">**Promoted from Japan National Academy<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Congratulations to all those selected and good luck for the year ahead.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Men\u2019s Japan National Squad is an annual training squad consisting of the top performing players. The aim of the squad is to build an inspirational Men\u2019s National Team. Men\u2019s Japan National Teams that play International Cricket are selected from this squad.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Men\u2019s Japan A Squad, is an annual training squad consisting of promising players with the potential of representing Japan. This squad aims to help such players maximise their potential.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><strong>About the Men\u2019s Japan National Squad<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Men\u2019s Japan National Squad is an annual training squad consisting of the top performing players. The aim of the squad is to build an inspirational Men\u2019s National Team. Men\u2019s Japan National Teams that play International Cricket are selected from this squad, the Men\u2019s A Squad and the National Academy Squads.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>About the Men\u2019s Japan A Squad<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Men\u2019s Japan A Squad, is an annual training squad consisting of promising players with the potential of representing Japan. This squad aims to help such players maximise their potential.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><b>Men\u2019s National Team Partner<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">Mitsui Knowledge Industry Co., Ltd.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Mitsui Knowledge Industry Co., Ltd. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Mitsui &amp; Co., Ltd. (MKI) specialized in providing services and products related to ICT (information and communication technology). Partnering with various global ICT vendors and supporting more than 2,500 companies, MKI offers best-in-class solutions to customers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Website:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mki.co.jp\/english\/\">https:\/\/www.mki.co.jp\/english\/<\/a><\/p>\n<h2><b>J<\/b><strong>CA Official Social Media<\/strong><\/h2>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">Facebook:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/cricketjapan\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/cricketjapan<\/a><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">Instagram:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/japan_cricket\">https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/japan_cricket<\/a><\/li>\n<li>X:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CricketJapan\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/CricketJapan<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Selection Committee for the Men\u2019s Japan National Squads, chaired by Dhugal Bedingfield, have announced the preliminary Squads for Japan Men and Japan A.\u00a0 Koji Hardgrave-Abe and Kiefer Yamamoto-Lake&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":29251,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,7,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-news-and-articles","category-mens-national-team","region-east-kanto-rca","region-hokkaido-rca","region-hokushinetsu-rca","region-kyushu-rca","region-south-kanto-rca","region-tohoku-rca","region-tokai-rca","region-west-kanto-rca","region-454","region-kansai-rca"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30873","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\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30873"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31022,"href":"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30873\/revisions\/31022"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}