Ashish Bagai was one of Canada’s few bright lights of the WCL tournament with his usual solid wicket-keeping and a good performance with the bat. He was rewarded by being named to the ICC tournament team.
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\nICC release<\/p>\n
The ICC has announced its team of the tournament for the ICC World Cricket League Division 1 which finished in the Netherlands on Saturday.<\/p>\n
The team was chosen by a select group of experts who were given the task of picking a balanced side for all conditions on the basis of performances in the tournament. Statistics were used but were not the sole basis for selections.<\/p>\n
The selectors chose Ireland\u2019s Trent Johnston as captain of the side that also includes player of the tournament, Tom Cooper of the Netherlands. The side, which includes a 12th man, contains four players from Ireland, two each from Afghanistan, the Netherlands and Scotland, and one each from Canada and Kenya.<\/p>\n
The team (in batting order):<\/p>\n
Paul Stirling (Ireland)
\nAshish Bagai (Canada) (wicketkeeper)
\nTom Cooper (The Netherlands)
\nNawroz Mangal (Afghanistan)
\nKevin O\u2019Brien (Ireland)
\nNeil McCallum (Scotland)
\nThomas Odoyo (Kenya)
\nSamiullah Shenwari (Afghanistan)
\nTrent Johnston (Ireland) (captain)
\nGeorge Dockrell (Ireland)
\nMark Jonkman (The Netherlands)
\n12th man Gordon Drummond (Scotland)<\/p>\n
The selection panel that chose the ICC World Cricket League Division 1 team of the tournament consisted of
\nAdrian Griffith (ex-West Indies Test opener and ICC match referee)
\nKumar Dharmasena (former Sri Lanka off-spinner and now member of the Emirates International Panel of ICC Umpires)
\nJeroen Smits (Former Netherlands captain)
\nRob Kemming (tournament director and member of the KNCB)
\nIan Callender (a leading cricket journalist for outlets including CricketEurope).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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