The 2010 ICC World Twenty20 Qualifier was played from 9–13 February 2010 in the United Arab Emirates and a part of ICC World Twenty20 Qualifier series. The top two teams progressed to play in the 2010 ICC World Twenty20, the international championship of Twenty20 cricket.
The eight competing teams were: Afghanistan, Canada, Ireland, Kenya, the Netherlands, Scotland, UAE and the USA.
The groups were devised by virtue of seedings from the previous ICC World Twenty20 Qualifier, which was won jointly by Ireland and the Netherlands and, for the teams not participating in that event (Afghanistan, UAE and USA) on latest one-day rankings.
The tournament winners go into Group C of the ICC World Twenty20 2010 along with South Africa and India while the runners up will join West Indies and England in Group D. The tournament was won by Afghanistan who defeated Ireland by 8 wickets in the final. This was the first major tournament Afghanistan qualified for, while leading associates the Netherlands and Scotland failed to qualify this time.
Squads Nowroz Mangal (captain) Aftab Alam Asghar Afghan Dawlat Ahmadzai Hamid Hassan Karim Sadiq Mirwais Ashraf Mohammad Nabi Mohammad Shahzad (wicketkeeper) Noor Ali Raees Ahmadzai Samiullah Shenwari Shafiqullah Shapoor Zadran Kabir Khan (coach)Rizwan Cheema (captain) Arsalan Qadir Ashish Bagai (wicketkeeper) Harvir Baidwan Geoff Barnett Umar Bhatti Ian Billcliff John Davison Sunil Dhaniram Sandeep Jyoti Shaheed Keshvani Khurram Chohan Hiral Patel Henry Osinde Saad Bin Zafar Abdool Samad Usman Limbada Pubudu Dassanayake (coach)William Porterfield (captain) Andre Botha Peter Connell Alex Cusack George Dockrell Trent Johnston Nigel Jones Gary Kidd John Mooney Kevin O'Brien Niall O'Brien (wicketkeeper) Paul Stirling Andrew White Gary Wilson Phil Simmons (coach)Morris Ouma (captain/wicketkeeper) Jimmy Kamande Shem Obado Alex Obanda Collins Obuya David Obuya Nehemiah Odhiambo Nelson Odhiambo Lameck Onyango Elijah Otieno Rakep Patel Tony Suji Steve Tikolo Hiren Varaiya Eldine Baptiste (coach)
Peter Borren (captain) Mudassar Bukhari Atse Buurman (wicketkeeper) Tom de Grooth Tim Gruijters Mark Jonkman Alexei Kervezee Mohammad Kashif Edgar Schiferli Pieter Seelaar Eric Szwarczynski Ryan ten Doeschate Daan van Bunge Bas Zuiderent Peter Drinnen (coach)Gavin Hamilton (captain) Richie Berrington Kyle Coetzer Gordon Drummond Gordon Goudie Majid Haq Ross Lyons Neil McCallum Dewald Nel Navdeep Poonia Simon Smith (wicketkeeper) Jan Stander Ryan Watson Peter Steindl (coach)Khurram Khan (captain) Abdul Rehman (wicketkeeper) Ahmed Raza Arfan Haider Awais Alam Fayyaz Ahmed Mohammad Iqbal Moiz Shahid Naeemuddin Aslam Qadar Nawaz Qasim Zubair Saqib Ali Shoaib Sarwar Shadeep Silva Colin Wells (coach)Steve 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 (wicketkeeper) Clayton Lambert (coach)
Group stage
Group A
Group B
Super Four
Final
Both finalists qualified for the 2010 ICC World Twenty20 – Afghanistan for Group C and Ireland for Group D.
Statistics Most runs Most wickets Niall O'Brien 188 Mohammad Nabi 13 Noor Ali 182 Hameed Hasan 12 Alex Cusack 166 Trent Johnston 10 Saqib Ali 161 Peter Connell 10 William Porterfield 146 Shadeep Silva 8
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