The 2008 ICC World Cricket League Division Five is a cricket tournament that took place between 23 and 31 May 2008 in Jersey. It formed part of the ICC World Cricket League and qualification for the 2011 World Cup tournament. Afghanistan won the competition. They went on to qualify for the 2015 Cricket World Cup and gain Test status in 2017.
Teams
The top two teams from this tournament progressed to the Division Four.
Squads Nowroz Mangal (c) Ahmed Shah Asghar Afghan Dawlat Ahmadzai Gulbadin Naib Hamid Hassan Hasti Gul Jalat Khan Karim Khan Mohammad Nabi Noor Ali Raees Ahmadzai Samiullah Shenwari Shapoor Zadran Narendra Ekanayake (c) Gary Armstrong Whitcliff Atkinson Jonathan Barry Andrew Ford Mario Ford Lee Melville Roderick Mitchell Dannavan Morrison Himchan Rampersaud Wayne Patrick Ryan Tappin Gregory Taylor Dwight Weakley Tshepo Mhozya (c) Omar Ali Manon Barot Dave Buchanan Akrum Chand Mosa Gaolekwe Karan Kapoor Shah Zaib Khan Karabo Modise Saad Mohiyuddin James Moses Abdul Patel Denzil Sequiera Nadeem Tajbhay Graham Sommer (c) Farooq Ahmed Abdul Bhatti Anees Butt James Eggleston Milano Fernando Javed Iqbal Asif Khan Ehsan Latif Barkatullah Masaud Surya Narayanan Ayoub Pasha Srinivas Satyanarayana Rajeev Vohra Ko Irie (c) Gavin Beath Tatsuro Chino Takuro Hagihara Patrick Giles-Jones Courtney Jones Naoki Kamatani Kensuke Kobayashi Masaomi Kobayashi Yuta Matsubara Naoki Miyaji Ahmad Munir Kenji Murata Satoshi Nakano Matthew Hague (c) James Brewster Steve Carlyon Tony Carlyon James Caunt Andrew Dewhurst Ryan Driver Jonathan Gough Peter Gough Christopher Jones Robert Minty Thomas Minty Sachin Patidar Mark Saralis Bradley Vowden Shoaib Younis (c) Giovanni Fiorentino Imran Ismail Nadir Karim Jadesh Khorava Aasif Koliya Imtiyaz Lili Zainul Patel Chandra Puspussen Kamran Qadir Kaleem Shah Mahomad Sidat Wayne Smith Binod Das (c) Mehboob Alam Amrit Bhattarai Dhirendra Chand Dipendra Chaudhary Mahesh Chhetri Shakti Gauchan Paras Khadka Paresh Lohani Gyanendra Malla Raj Pradhan Basanta Regmi Sanjam Regmi Sharad Vesawkar Shahid Ahmed (c) Munawar Ahmed Zeeshan Ali Zaheer Ashiq Mubasshar Bhatti Abdul Hadi Adeel Ibrar Waseem Gill Saqib Qayyum Sameer Sachdev Zeeshan Siddiqui Ehetsham Ul-Haq Aamir Waheed Majid Zia Chaminda Ruwan (c) Syed Ali Mulewa Dharmichand Christopher Janik Chongwei Low Rizwan Madakia Buddhika Mendis James Muruthi Anish Paraam Narender Reddy Zeng Renchun Mohamed Shoib Chetan Suryawanshi Arun Vijayan Steve Massiah (c) Imran Awan Orlando Baker Lennox Cush Rahul Kukreti Rashard Marshall Mohamed Masood Sushil Nadkarni Steve Pitter Gowkaran Roopnarine Niraj Shah Khawaja Shuja Wahab Syed Aditya Thyagarajan Patrick Haines (c) Michael Avok Lazaro Carlot Pierre Chilia Selwyn Garae Aby John Trevor Langa Andrew Mansale Eddie Mansale Patrick Matautaava Kenneth Natapei Lenica Natapei Manu Nimoho Simpson Obed Richard Tatwin
Group stage Points Tables Group A PosTeamPldWLTNRPtsNRR1 5 4 0 0 1 9 +3.0392 5 4 0 0 1 9 +2.1043 5 3 2 0 0 6 +0.6754 5 1 3 0 1 3 −2.1595 5 1 4 0 0 2 −0.5456 5 0 4 0 1 1 −3.520Group B PosTeamPldWLTNRPtsNRR1 5 4 0 0 1 9 +2.4642 5 3 1 0 1 7 +1.6263 5 3 1 0 1 7 +0.2184 5 1 3 0 1 3 −0.7245 5 0 3 1 1 2 −1.3546 5 0 3 1 1 2 −2.655
Fixtures and results
Semifinals
3rd Place Playoff
Final
Plate
Final Placings
PosTeamPromotion/Relegation 1st Promoted to 2008 Division Four 2nd 3rd Remain in 2010 Division Five 4th 5th Relegated to regional competitions 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th 11th 12th
Statistics Most Runs Most Wickets Shahid Ahmed(cricketer) 349 Mehboob Alam 19 Peter Gough 312 Khawaja Shuja 17 Gavin Beath 201 Anish Param 16 Gyanendra Malla 185 Hamid Hassan 15 Sushil Nadkarni 180 Ehsan Latif 15 Kaleem Shah 170 Basanta Regmi 14 Zaheer Ashiq 167 Farooq Ahmed 14 Steve Carlyon 164 Ryan Driver 12 Karim Khan 164 Javed Iqbal 12 Buddhika Mendis 162 Mubasshar Bhatti 11
See also World Cricket League
References and notes
External links World Cricket League structure Official site Jersey to host ICC World Cricket League Division 5 tournament Cricinfo article on tournament