News: ACC U15…
Posted on November 26, 2007 by Nasir M. Khan
A few rather surprising results…..
Hong Kong beat Malaysia today. Thailand completely outplayed by Oman. Nepal has already beaten Malaysia yesterday.
btw…. why did Bhutan withdraw from the tournament? They were so ecstatic about the win in the qualifiers……
The tournament is taking place in Nepal, and they have a good system in place to bring updated scores. You can check the website here
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For me, both Nepal and Afghanistan stand as a probable winner. On one hand, Nepal seems outstanding in its bowling department ( as usual), Afghanistan has an upper hand in batting. Other teams are not very impressive, however; I am very much surprised with the performance of Malaysian. It’s said that Malaysia has the best young team after Nepal. But the recent performance shows that it’s still lacking quality in its preparation.
i think students in Bhutan and Maldives have their final exams during this period and thus couldn’t play this tournament.
Correction, and this goes for the ACC Website as well. Thailand replaced Bahrain who have been suspended from the ACC for domestic political problems, while Saudi Arabia replaced Bhutan, who were originally supposed to be replaced by Iran, and then Maldives.
Thailand, however, seem to be putting up no fight whatsoever..quite embarrassing!
Today Nepal won the match against Oman in exciting manner.
It was really a thriller where Nepal has to defend mere 188 and at late 5 overs were real thriller. And at last over Oman has to get 1 more run to level the match and 2 runs to win, thier highest scorer(79*) has to face last over but Nepalese spin bowler Bhuwan Karki has different idea and he delivered a maiden over and win for NEPAL.
Singapore and Kuwait will play the final of this tournament after every other team has been kicked out for fielding over-age players. Kuwait and Singapore are the only two teams capable of fielding a side consisting solely of eligible players.
What the hell…..
My thoughts exactly Nasir.
This is absolute crap….. what the hell is ACC doing, all the money and all, if 90% of the teams get disqualified!?!?!?
I dont remember ever seeing anything like this, and that includes the local marble league that used to run in my village……
I am socked when I heard the news…..I don’t have anythings to say to other country but Nepal..I give damn to those selectors…We were always shouting for age verification in our FAN CLUB website…but CAN again made mistake and made us to feel shy…..really crap….
Cricket Europe are reporting that the HKCA are disputing the tests, and their evidence is pretty damning, so it sounds like the tests may have been faulty (which surely when all but 2 teams are kicked-out, should have sounded some alarm bells with the testing!)
see http://www.cricketeurope4.net/DATABASE/ARTICLES/articles/000060/006001.shtml
What a stuff up.
I have spoken to a few people about this debacle and I am somewhat dismayed at what has happened and why. the test used is interesting and the predictions claimed for accuracy from a major European or American European database are very good indeed. But I somewhat wonder about the certainty of the databases used for this particular event.
I do wonder how a person can be ruled out on a test when there is a full set of medical and legal documentation that shows the test is incorrect?