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Singapore Cricket Association creates history by organizing first ever ICC T20 international cricket series in Singapore between Singapore National Women’s team and Myanmar National Women’s team.
Singapore Cricket association (The governing body of Cricket in Singapore) invited Myanmar Cricket Federation to play 3 ICC international cricket matches in Singapore.
All the 3 matches were played under the flood lights from 18th April to 20th April 2019.
Out of 3, Myanmar won 2 matches and the 3rd and last match was cancelled due to heavy rain.
Matches Summary:
Day 1 (18 April 2019): Myanmar won the toss and elected to field first. Singapore women’s set the target of 60 runs in 20 overs by losing 9 wickets. Myanmar completed the target and made 61 runs in 7.3 overs without losing any wicket.
Day 2 (19 April 2019): Singapore won the toss and put Myanmar to bat first. Myanmar set the target of 135 runs in 20 overs by losing 7 wickets. Singapore Women’s gave a very good start but due to quick fall of wickets and few run outs they could achieve only 86 runs in 20 overs by losing 9 wickets.
Day 3 (20 April 2019): Singapore Women’s did few changes in the team and were quite confident to win the last and final match. However, the match was cancelled due to heavy rain and Myanmar won the series by 2-Nil.
Singapore Cricket Association is committed and putting lots of efforts in growing this wonderful sport in the Singapore. In South East Asia, they are the first one to install flood lights to play cricket in night so that that the Singapore citizens could come and learn Cricket after finishing their schools or work etc. from their high level experienced international coaches.
GROUP B | MATCH 1 | SINGAPORE VS BHUTAN
20th April 2019
Singapore took on Bhutan in their first Group B match at the beautiful settings of the Royal Chiangmai Golf Club. Winning the toss and electing to bowl first, the Singaporean pace attack, though wayward at times, struck crucial blows to the Bhutanese batting line up, most notably Aaron Varghese who took 3 wickets in one over, with all three victims clean bowled. Varghese finishing with figures of 3/9 off 3 overs while his partner in attack, Neil Karnik registering figures of 2/3 in his 4 overs.Jeevan Santhanam was introduced into the bowling attack and his left arm spin wrecked further havoc on the Bhutanese as they were wrapped up for 48 in 14 overs, Santhanam helping himself to 5 wickets for 11 runs in 3 overs.
Singapore in to bat and openers Chajjer and Maheshwari made light work of the chase, especially the left hander Chhajer who took to the Bhutanese bowling attack scoring 27* (22) while Maheshwari scoring a run a ball 16*.Jeevan Santhanam named Man of the Match for his 5 wicket haul.
A commanding 10 wicket victory in the first fixture of the campaign and a big boost to the confidence of the team who had come off a difficult series against the Malaysians in the revamped Carl Schubert Trophy, all of whom were playing representative cricket for the first time. However, the experience of playing age group representative level just before the ACC ER Trophy seemed to have paid off well with a win at the start of this campaign and should bode well for the rest of the tournament.
Singapore play Hong Kong in their next fixture on the 23rd of April and a win in this fixture would confirm qualification for the semi-finals of the tournament.
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Players family and friends gather at Changi Airport to see off Under 19 team.
“We are looking forward to give our best as a team” Player.
The 14 player squad for Singapore U19s at the ICC U 19 CRICKET WORLD CUP DIVISION 1 – ASIA are:
We are not building future for our Youth, but we are building our youth for the future.
The Carl Schubert Trophy, historically played since 1970 as a 3 day fixture between the Singapore and Malaysia U23s sides will now be converted into a U16s trophy for its 49th year of being contested.
With sights firmly set on the developmental aspects of junior representative cricketers in both nations and also keeping with the times with cricket development requirements on a global scale with ICC, providing a competitive series of fixtures annually between a Singapore U16s and Malaysia U16s side would expose these cricketers to playing representative cricket in a hotly contested trophy.
This would also serve as preparations for the Asian Cricket Council ( ACC) Eastern Region U16s Trophy played every two years and also set U16s representative players well in progressing through the talent pathway into U19s and Senior representative cricket for both nations.
The SCA have nominated a 14-man squad which will travel to KL, Malaysia to face Malaysia U16s in a three-match series contesting the Carl Schubert Trophy.
The three-match series will consist of two T20 matches and a 35 over match of which the winner of most matches will secure the trophy for the year. For the 2019 edition, the matches will be played at the Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) Oval in Bangi. Two T20 matches will be played on the 11th of April while the 35 Over Match will be played on the 12th of April 2019.
Coincidentally, the Carl Schubert Trophy for 2019 will also act as ideal preparations for both U16s teams as they will compete in the ACC Eastern Region U16s Trophy to be held in Chiangmai, Thailand from the 18th -29th of April 2019. While captain for the U16s, Raoul Sharma and Arnaav Chabria will be playing at the ICC Asia U19s CWC Qualifiers during the same time, Girin Gune will take on the captainship for these matches against Malaysia U16s.
The Singapore U16s Team for the Carl Schubert U16s Trophy are:
CARL SCHUBERT TROPHY U16s SQUAD
1 Girin Rahul Gune ©
2 Akshay Roopak Puri
3 Arjun Nagpal
4 Sharanya Sharma
5 Sidhanth Srikanth
6 Aryaveer Chaudhary
7 Aaron Joseph Varghese
8 Neil Anant Karnik
9 Jeevan Santhanam
10 Abhuday Chhajer
11 Aditya Kalra
12 Vihaan Maheshwari
13 Eshaan Govil
14 Divakar Dessai
1 Arjun Menon (Coach)
2 Narendran Jayaraman (Manager)
The SCA have selected a 14-member squad which will represent Singapore U19s at the upcoming ICC UNDER – 19 CRICKET WORLD CUP Div.1 – Asia which is to be hosted in Malaysia from the 10 April 2019 – 18 April 2019
The team will be led by Aman Desai.
Singapore Under 19 cricketers have had a memorable history to qualify in the Asia Cup for the first time in 2016.
The 14 player squad for Singapore U19s at the ICC U 19 CRICKET WORLD CUP DIVISION 1 – ASIA are:
1. | Aman | Desai © |
2. | Sai Harsha | Venugopal |
3. | Ishaan | Paul Sawney |
4. | Yashaswi | Agrawal |
5. | Aryan | Berry |
6. | Aiden | Brian Sherry |
7. | Raoul | Sharma |
8. | Atharva Rahul | Gune |
9. | Sathish | Kannusami |
10. | Vinit | Chittesh Mehta |
11. | Pramesh | Singhavi |
12. | Arnaav Karan | Chabria |
13. | Chandramauli | Sridev |
14. | Pranav Sudarshan | Rajesh Krishnan |
1. | MANPREET | SINGH | COACH |
2. | ADITYA | SUDARSHAN | MANAGER |
3 | SUBRAMANIAM | VEERASAMY | PHYSIOTHERAPIST |
TOURNAMENT FIXTURES.
ACC UNDER 16 EASTERN REGION – CHIANGMAI, THAILAND – April 18 to 29, 2019
The SCA have selected a 14-member squad which will represent Singapore U16s at the upcoming ACC U16s Eastern Region Trophy which is to be hosted in Chiang Mai, Thailand from the 18th -29th April 2019.
The team will be led by Raoul Sharma, who interestingly is already a seasoned campaigner with the U16s having represented the same in 2017 at the last ACC U16s tournament.
While Raoul will already have had a taste of representative cricket for Singapore at age group level, the rest of the squad will be experiencing their first tournament at international level.
Singapore will come up against Hong Kong, Bhutan and China in Group B after which the top two will play crossover semi-finals with winners moving on to the finals.
Singapore U16s have had a proud history at the ACC U16s Trophy having won it in 2007 and then famously in 2010 when they beat powerhouses Nepal in their own backyard.
Singapore made the finals in 2017 against habitual finalists Nepal, but lost the encounter to finish second overall.
Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal and hosts Thailand will make up the teams in Group A.
GROUP – A| NEPAL, MALAYSIA, THAILAND, MYANMAR GROUP – B | SINGAPORE, HONG KONG, CHINA, BHUTAN
The 14 player squad for Singapore U16s at the ACC Eastern Region U16s Trophy are:
1. | RAOUL © | SHARMA |
2. | VIHAAN | MAHESHWARI |
3. | SHARANYA | SHARMA |
4. | NEIL ANANT | KARNIK |
5. | JEEVAN | SANTHANAM |
6. | GIRIN RAHUL | GUNE |
7. | ESHAAN | GOVIL |
8. | ARYAN | LAD |
9. | ARJUN | NAGPAL |
10. | ABHUDAY | CHHAJER |
11. | AARON JOSEPH | VARGHESE |
12. | ADITYA | KALRA |
13. | ARNAAV KARAN | CHABRIA |
14. | SIDHANTH | SRIKANTH |
1. | ARJUN | MENON | HEAD COACH |
2. | NARENDRAN | JAYARAMAN | MANAGER |
3 | SUBRAMANIAM | VEERASAMY | PHYSIOTHERAPIST |
Tournament fixtures.
The SG Crimsons won the Inaugural Mariners Elite Player 50 Over Series on the 3rd of March 2019 after defeating the SG Stars by 6 wickets and also winning within 41 overs to overcome the Star’s NRR to come out top of the table.
The SG Crimsons won the toss and elected to bowl first on what was thought to be a sticky wicket. The opening bowlers of Janak Prakash and Tafara Chingwara could not curb the flurry off runs as Stars batters Mutreja and Virandeep Singh went on the offensive. The SG Crimsons had no answers as the pair continued their dominance on the flat pitch and put on an imposing 179 run partnership in just 26.4 overs. The breakthrough came off a solitary over from Suryawanshi who took a simple return catch off Mutreja just as he reached his 100 off 89 balls. The breakthrough brought some reprieve for the Crimsons bowlers as they slowly worked themselves back into the game and after dismissing Stars skipper Gaznavi, took the crucial wicket of Virandeep Singh, caught behind after a sharp delivery from Chingwara, bringing an end to a well-crafted 76 off 93 balls. From then on, the SG Stars began their capitulation and were finally all out for 256 in 45 overs. Opening bowlers Prakash and Chingwara coming back strongly to take 6 wickets between them after conceding heavily in their opening overs.
With the SG Stars having a superior run rate as the start of the match and with the SG Crescents out of the equation, a win alone for the SG Stars would have sufficed to take the series. The SG Crimsons however had to chase down 257 within 44 overs to overcome the SG Stars NRR. Things could not have been started better for the Crimsons with the in form Rangarajan taking charge from the word go, hitting his first ball of the day for six over long off. The tone was set for the 19-year-old Rangarajan as he took on all the SG Stars bowling attack had to throw at him while opening partner Motlhanka rotated the strike. Motlhanka departed in the 13th over for an anchor role of 15 (28) but things did not stop there for Rangarajan as now paired with Navin Param, the SG Stars bowlers could not make any headway as the pair took the score to 183 in the 27th over and even as Navin Param left the middle with 34 (44) and a quick flurry of wickets saw Suryawanshi and Prasheen Param back in the pavilion, Rangarajan’s rampage showed now signs of slowing down as he kept the foot on the pedal and saw the game off in 37.4 overs as he walked off to the cheers of his team mates sitting on 153* off 123 balls which consisted of 15 boundaries and 9 sixes. The SG Crimsons taking the series after losing their first two 50 overs matches and then picking up the pace with two commanding wins which saw them leapfrog the Stars and Crescents to the top of the table on NRR after all having been tied on 6 points apiece.
Along with the Player of the Match, Rohan Rangarajan also picked up the Batter of the Series with 208 runs off 3 innings while the lanky Zimbabwean pace bowler from the SG Crimsons, Tafara Chingwara was awarded the Bowler of the Series for his 11 wickets off 4 matches. The SG Stars opening batsman, Arjun Mutreja, did not leave empty handed as he was named Player of the Series for his 226 runs in 3 innings which consisted of two centuries.
The T20 Series will be contested next on the 14th of March 2019 as two more group stage matches remain to determine the finalists. The SG Crescents and the SG Stars will play the SG Crimsons once each in the group stages on the 5th and 7th of March at IA.