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The 15 players and six staff who will travel to Namibia for the 2026 Under 19 World Cup have been confirmed today.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Head Coach Reo Sakurano-Thomas had some difficult decisions to make, with two players returning to the team which travelled to UAE for the recently completed ACC Premier Cup.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Nikhil Pol and Timothy Moore return, while Kazuma Kato-Stafford retains the captaincy.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The players chosen are:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \uff0aThe header photo was taken at the ACC Premier Cup in the UAE (Nov.).<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Japan have been drawn in Group A of the tournament alongside defending champions Australia plus Sri Lanka and Ireland.<\/span><\/p>\n The team will depart for Africa on the 5th January with warm up matches against Tanzania and the West Indies scheduled for January 10th and 12th respectively.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The management team will be led by Alan Curr as Team Manager while Men\u2019s team captain Kendel Kadowaki-Fleming reprises his role of Assistant Coach as held at the 2020 World Cup and at the successful qualifier tournament earlier this year.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n All times are Japan Standard Time. All matches are 50 Overs.<\/span><\/p>\n All matches will be available to watch on ICC TV and the JCA Social Media platforms will be active with plenty of content and behind the scenes clips – so be sure to follow closely!<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The 15 players and six staff who will travel to Namibia for the 2026 Under 19 World Cup have been confirmed today.\u00a0 Head Coach Reo Sakurano-Thomas had some difficult decisions…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":33018,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,7,442],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-news-and-articles","category-mens-national-team-u19"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32984","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=32984"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33168,"href":"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32984\/revisions\/33168"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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