{"id":32144,"date":"2025-09-26T13:33:41","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T04:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/?p=32144"},"modified":"2025-10-04T12:40:39","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T03:40:39","slug":"icc%e7%94%b7%e5%ad%90t20%e3%83%af%e3%83%bc%e3%83%ab%e3%83%89%e3%82%ab%e3%83%83%e3%83%97-%e3%82%a2%e3%82%b8%e3%82%a2%e3%83%bbeap%e4%ba%88%e9%81%b8%ef%bd%9c%e7%94%b7%e5%ad%90%e6%97%a5%e6%9c%ac%e4%bb%a3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/en\/icc%e7%94%b7%e5%ad%90t20%e3%83%af%e3%83%bc%e3%83%ab%e3%83%89%e3%82%ab%e3%83%83%e3%83%97-%e3%82%a2%e3%82%b8%e3%82%a2%e3%83%bbeap%e4%ba%88%e9%81%b8%ef%bd%9c%e7%94%b7%e5%ad%90%e6%97%a5%e6%9c%ac%e4%bb%a3\/","title":{"rendered":"Men\u2019s Team for ICC Men&#8217;s T20 World Cup Asia &#038; EAP Qualifier 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\" \/><\/p>\n<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>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Men\u2019s Japan National Team will travel to Oman on 30th September for the ICC T20 World Cup Asia &amp; EAP Qualifier, where nine teams will fight for three places at the T20 World Cup.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">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.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">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.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Two teams will advance from each of the three groups and play matches against the remaining four teams to decide the qualifiers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The travelling team is as follows:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Abhishek Anand (Tokyo Falcons Cricket Club)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Benjamin Gou Ito-Davis (Chiba Sharks Cricket Club)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Charles Hara-HInze (Northern Suburbs Cricket Club)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kendel Kadowaki-Fleming (Chiba Sharks Cricket Club)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wataru Miyauchi (Wyverns Cricket Club)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Esam Rahman (ACT Comets)*<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sabaorish Ravichandran (Tigers Cricket Club)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Reo Sakurano-Thomas (Sano Cricket Club)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Abdul Samad (Tokyo Wombats Cricket Club)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Alexander Shirai-Patmore (Sano Cricket Club)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Shoma Sugaya-Slater (Melville Cricket Club)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Declan Suzuki-McComb (Sano Cricket Club)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ibrahim Takahashi (Chiba Sharks Cricket Club)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Makoto Taniyama (Sano Cricket Club)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lachlan Yamamoto-Lake (Sano Cricket Club)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">*Selected for the first time<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The full match schedule is as follows:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Warm Up Matches:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">3rd October (Friday) 19:00 Japan vs Samoa\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">5th October (Saturday) 14:30 Japan vs UAE\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tournament Matches:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">9th October (Thursday) 14:30 Japan vs Kuwait\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">10th October (Friday) 14:30 Japan vs Nepal\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">*Oman is 5 hours behind Japan<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Other Groups:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Group A : UAE, Malaysia, Qatar<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Group C : Oman, PNG, Samoa<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All tournament matches can be watched live on <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/icc.tv\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ICC.tv<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> while matches can also be followed live on the JCA App.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Good luck boys!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>(Due to circumstances regarding the JCA website, the announcement of the squad was delayed. We sincerely apologize for this.)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\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 Men\u2019s Japan National Team will travel to Oman on 30th September for the ICC T20 World Cup Asia &amp; EAP Qualifier, where nine teams will fight for three places&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":384730,"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-32144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-news-and-articles","category-mens-national-team"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32144","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\/384730"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32144"}],"version-history":[{"count":31,"href":"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32220,"href":"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32144\/revisions\/32220"}],"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=32144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}