The 2010 ICC World Cricket League Division Five was a cricket tournament that took place in February 2010 in Nepal. It formed part of the World Cricket League competition administered by the International Cricket Council, the international governing body for cricket. The tournament was won by Nepal who defeated the United States by 5 wickets in the final.

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Squads Yaser Sadeq (Captain) Abdul Majeed Adil Hanif Ashraf Mughal Ashraf Yaqoob Azeem ul Haq Fahad Sadeq Halal Abbasi Imran Sajjad Numan Yousuf Qamar Saeed Rizwan Baig Shahzad Ahmed (Wk) Tahir Dar Zafar ZaheerJosefa Rika (Captain) Greg Browne Joji Bulabalavu Iniasi Cakacaka Josefa Dabea Maciu Gauna (Wk) Tikovanualevu Kida Sakaraia Lomani Sekove Ravoka Peni Rika Tavo Sorovakatini (Wk) Tukana Tavo Taniela Waqaituinayau Viliame YabakiRyan Driver (Captain) Iain Crocker Samuel de la Haye Andrew Dewhurst Sam Dewhurst Jonny Gough Peter Gough Matt Hague Thomas le Lievre Bobby Minty (Wk) Dean Morrison Alex Noel Charles Perchard Ben StevensParas Khadka (C) Mehboob Alam Binod Bhandari Amrit Bhattarai Dipendra Chaudhary Mahesh Chhetri (Wk) Binod Das Shakti Gauchan Gyanendra Malla Anil Mandal Basanta Regmi Sanjam Regmi Sharad Vesawkar Rahul VishwakarmaMonish Arora (Captain) Mulewa Dharmichand Riaz Hussien Jackie Munoj-Kumar Buddhika Mendis Mirzan Faizal Mohamed Shoib Narender Reddy Anish Param Pramodh Raja Chandrasekar Rvenkadaramani (Wk) Saad Janjua Chetan Suryawanshi Rohan Tripathi Arun VijayanSteve Massiah (Captain) Timroy Allen Orlando Baker Lennox Cush Kevin Darlington Sudesh Dhaniram Glen Hall Imran Awan Rashard Marshall Sushil Nadkarni Aditya Thyagarajan Usman Shuja Saurabh Verma Carl Wright (Wk) Clayton Lambert (Coach)

Venues Nepal Kirtipur Lalitpur Bhaktapur Tribhuvan University International Cricket Ground Engineering Campus GroundBirendra Sainik Maha Vidyalaya Ground Capacity: 15,000 Capacity: 5,000+ Capacity: 2,500+

Group stage

Fixtures

Play-offs

Statistics Most runs Most wickets Steve Massiah 289 Kevin Darlington 14 Dean Morrison 251 Qamar Saeed 13 Paras Khadka 250 Rahul Vishwakarma 12 Monish Arora 233 Basanta Regmi 12 Ryan Driver 232 Lennox Cush 12

Post-tournament

After the conclusion of the tournament the teams were distributed as follows:

& : Promoted to 2010 Division Four & : Remain in 2012 Division Five & : Relegated to 2011 Division Six

The match between the US and Nepal on 26 February was under investigation by the ICC for the crowd trouble and the calculations of the net-run rate which denied Singapore promotion to Division 4. On 9 May, the ICC released a report, which upheld the umpires decisions during the match and retained the outcome of the tournament.

TV coverage The tournament was covered live on Nepal Television's second channel NTV2 or NTV Metro. This was the first time that any World Cricket League tournament was being broadcast live on TV. Only the games at Tribhuvan University ground were broadcast live.

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