Guernsey to play host to Gibraltar's cricket team in WCL event
The ICC Development Committee has approved in principle that the Pepsi ICC World Cricket League Division 7 (WCL Div. 7) tournament will be held in May/June 2009 in Guernsey and that the Pepsi ICC World Cricket League Division 6 (WCL Div. 6) tournament will be held in September in Singapore.
European nations Gibraltar, Guernsey and Norway have been named among the 10 teams that will compete across the two divisions. Gibraltar will travel to the Channel Islands to join Guernsey in Division 7, whilst Norway will journey to Singapore to take part in Division 6.
The decisions were made as the committee gathered in Spain for one of its biannual meetings, which concluded on Sunday, and the choice of venues are now subject to appropriate finalisation of arrangements.
In arriving at the determination of which teams would participate in each tournament, the Development Committee considered the relative strength of each region given the results of the WCL Div. 5 event in Jersey earlier this year as well as the most recent regional results and the desire to recognise all five regions of the Pepsi ICC Development Programme.
The Development Committee allocated the 10 positions across the two divisions by region assigning three teams from Asia (two for WCL Div. 6 and one for WCL Div. 7), three teams from Europe (one for WCL Div. 6 and two for WCL Div. 7), two teams from Africa (one for each division), one team from the Americas (for WCL Div. 7) and one team from East Asia-Pacific (also for WCL Div. 7).
In line with current ICC regional rankings, the make-up of the two tournaments will be as follows:
Pepsi ICC World Cricket League Division 7, May 2009 (Guernsey): Guernsey, Nigeria, Japan, Suriname, Bahrain and Gibraltar
Pepsi ICC World Cricket League Division 6, September 2009 (Singapore): Singapore, Botswana, Norway, Malaysia and top two teams qualifying from WCL Div. 7
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