The 2012 ICC World Twenty20 Qualifier was played in early 2012 as a part of the ICC World Twenty20 Qualifier series. This edition of the qualifier for the 2012 ICC World Twenty20 was an expanded version comprising ten qualifiers from regional Twenty20 tournaments, in addition to the six ODI/Twenty20 status countries. It was staged in the UAE.
ICC Associate and Affiliate Members from around the globe had the opportunity to qualify for the 2012 ICC World Twenty20 in Sri Lanka. Regional qualifying events were held in the five regions to provide a qualifying pathway to the 16-team qualifier which took place in early 2012 in the United Arab Emirates. The six Associate/Affiliate Members with ODI status – Afghanistan, Canada, Ireland, Kenya, Netherlands and Scotland – have automatically qualified for this event.
Three teams from the Asia region, two teams from Africa, Americas and Europe, and one team from East Asia-Pacific had the opportunity to qualify for the ICC World Twenty20 2012 global qualifier. Some ODI status Associate/Affiliate sides took part in these qualifying events, along with emerging teams from ICC Full Members (e.g., South Africa and Zimbabwe). In such cases, the highest placed Associate and Affiliate sides from these events progressed to the global qualifier, based on the qualifying spots available.
The tournament was won by Ireland, who defeated Afghanistan in the final, in a rematch of the 2010 ICC World Twenty20 Qualifier. Both the teams qualified for the 2012 ICC World Twenty20 in Sri Lanka. Paul Stirling was the highest run-getter with 357 runs including the second-fastest half-century ever in T20I match (17 balls) in the final, while Dawlat Zadran with 17 wickets was the highest wicket-taker. Namibia's Raymond van Schoor was the Player of the Tournament.Final Scorecard Cricinfo. Retrieved 28 March 2012Stirling whirlwind takes Ireland to title Cricinfo. Retrieved 28 March 2012
Entrants Qualification for 2012 World Twenty20 Qualifier involves 81 ICC member countries to battle their way from regional Division 3 to Division 1 and eventually World Twenty20 Qualifier. Three of the 81 teams are already qualified but are participating as a part of division members. Pre-qualified teams are Afghanistan, Canada, and Kenya. Zimbabwe A team is involved as a part of Africa Division 1 but as a full member Zimbabwe national cricket team is already qualified for 2012 ICC World Twenty20.
Regional qualification Africa (ACA) Date Event Venue Competing Teams Qualified Team(s)24–27 Feb 2011ICC Africa Division 3Cameroon, Gambia, Lesotho, Mali, Morocco, Rwanda, Seychelles14–18 May 2011ICC Africa Division 2Ghana, Malawi, Mozambique, Sierra Leone, Swaziland, Tanzania, Nigeria, Botswana, Rwanda, 9–15 July 2011ICC Africa Division 1 Entebbe, UgandaKenya, Namibia, Uganda, Nigeria, Ghana,,
Asia (ACC) Date Event Venue Competing Teams Qualified Team(s)1–10 December 2011ICC ACC T20 NepalAfghanistan, Nepal, UAE, Oman, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Bhutan, Kuwait, Maldives, Saudi Arabia, , ,
Americas (ACA) Date Event Venue Competing Teams Qualified Team(s)14–18 March 2011ICC Americas Division 3Belize, Chile, Peru, Mexico, Costa Rica, Falkland Islands9–15 April 2011ICC Americas Division 2Bahamas, Belize, Brazil, Panama, Suriname, Turks and Caicos Islands17–24 July 2011ICC Americas Division 1 Lauderhill, Florida, USAArgentina, Bermuda, Canada, Cayman Islands, USA, Suriname, ,
East Asia and Pacific (EAP) Date Event Venue Competing Teams Qualified Team(s)4–8 April 2011ICC EAP Division 2Indonesia, Samoa, Tonga, Cook Islands, Philippines, South Korea4–7 July 2011ICC EAP Division 1Papua New Guinea, Fiji, Japan, Vanuatu, Samoa
Europe (ECC) Date Event Venue Competing Teams Qualified Team(s)11–14 May 2011ICC Europe Division 3Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Slovenia, Sweden, Turkey20–25 June 2011ICC Europe Division 2†/Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Finland, Greece(Hellas), Isle of Man, Luxembourg, Malta, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, 19–24 July 2011ICC Europe Division 1/Croatia, Denmark, France, Germany, Gibraltar, Guernsey, Israel, Italy, Jersey, Norway, Austria, Belgium, † Switzerland were due to take part, but withdrew due to internal difficulties, and were automatically relegated.
Qualified teams The ten qualified teams from regional Twenty20 competitions played in the 2012 World Twenty20 Qualifier along with the six associate teams that had automatically qualified. Originally, after the cut of associates from the ICC Cricket World Cup 2015, it was decided to give associates more of a chance in Twenty20 format and expanded the main tournament to 16 teams with top 6 teams from the Qualifier going to the World Cup but after the re-inclusion of Associates in the 50-Over World Cup in 2015, the earlier format was retained and only the top two teams from this event qualifying for the 2012 ICC World Twenty20.
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Match officials The International Cricket Council announced the umpires to officiate in the tournament. There were four Regional Match Referees, plus 12 umpires, seven from the Elite Panel (which included Simon Taufel, a five-time ICC Umpire of the Year Award recipient), and also five ICC Associate and Affiliate Panel umpires.
Umpires Ahsan Raza Buddhi Pradhan Chris Gaffaney Ian Ramage Joel Wilson Johan Cloete Mark Hawthorne Ranmore Martinesz Roger Dill Sarika Prasad Simon Taufel Sudhir Asnani
Match referees Adrian Griffith David Jukes Dev Govindjee Graeme Labrooy
Format The tournament, held from 13 to 24 March, has 72 qualifying fixtures. The sixteen teams participating in this tournament has been divided into two groups of eight each. The top team from each group will meet in the first qualifying final with the winner being guaranteed a place in the World Twenty20 Cup 2012 to be held in Sri Lanka. The loser of that match will play the second qualifying final against the winner of a series of playoff matches. The winners of both qualifying finals will meet in the final at Dubai.Sixteen teams compete for two World T20 spots ESPNCricinfo. Retrieved 23 December 2011
Squads Nawroz Mangal (c) Karim Sadiq (vc) (wk) Javed Ahmadi Aftab Alam Mirwais Ashraf Izatullah Dawlatzai Zamir Khan Mohammad Nabi Gulbodin Naib Shabir Noori Mohammad Shahzad (wk) Samiullah Shenwari Asghar Afghan Dawlat Zadran Peter Borren (c) Wesley Barresi (wk) Mudassar Bukhari Atse Buurman (wk) Tom Cooper Tom de Grooth Tim Gruijters Timm van der Gugten Tom Heggelman Alexei Kervezee Ahsan Malik Stephan Myburgh Pieter Seelaar Michael Swart William Porterfield (c) Kevin O'Brien (vc) George Dockrell Trent Johnston Nigel Jones Ed Joyce Andrew Poynter Rory McCann (wk) Tim Murtagh Boyd Rankin Max Sorensen Paul Stirling Andrew White Gary Wilson (wk) Collins Obuya (c) Ragheb Aga Duncan Allan Tanmay Mishra James Ngoche Shem Ngoche Alex Obanda David Obuya (wk) Nehemiah Odhiambo Nelson Odhiambo Elijah Otieno Morris Ouma (wk) Rakep Patel (wk) Hiren Varaiya
CRICKET CANADA| T20 CWCQ 14 MAN SQUAD ANNOUNCED Cricket Canada. Retrieved 16 February 2012. Archived 2012-02-18. Rizwan Cheema (c) Manny Aulakh Harvir Baidwan Rustam Bhatti (wk) Parth Desai Tyson Gordon Ruvindu Gunasekera Jimmy Hansra Zahid Hussain Nitish Kumar Henry Osinde Hiral Patel Raza-ur-Rehman Junaid Siddiqui Gordon Drummond (c) Richie Berrington Kyle Coetzer Ryan Flannigan Majid Haq Moneeb Iqbal Calum MacLeod Preston Mommsen Matthew Parker Safyaan Sharif Simon Smith (wk) Jan Stander Craig Wallace (wk) Fraser Watts Sarel Burger (c) Raymond van Schoor (vc) (wk) Gerhard Erasmus Hendrik Geldenhuys Zhivago Groenewald Louis Klazinga Ian Opperman Bernard Scholtz Nicholaas Scholtz Gerrie Snyman Ewald Steenkamp (wk) Christi Viljoen Louis van der Westhuizen Craig Williams (wk) Rarva Dikana (c) Jack Vare (vc) (wk) Chris Amini Hitolo Areni Mahuru Dai Willie Gavera Geraint Jones (wk)Geraint Jones to play for Papua New Guinea CricketEurope. Retrieved 17 February 2012 Christopher Kent Jason Kila Vani Morea John Reva Joel Tom Tony Ura Assad Vala
Jamie Atkinson (c) Nizakat Khan (vc) Irfan Ahmed Waqas Barkat (wk) Munir Dar Mark Ferguson (wk) Babar Hayat (wk) Aizaz Khan Courtney Kruger Roy Lamsam Li Kai Ming Daljeet Singh Kinchit Shah (wk) Max Tucker David Hemp (c) Jason Anderson (wk) Lionel Cann Fiqre Crockwell (wk) Terryn Fray Joshua Gilbert Stefan Kelly Kamau Leverock Steven Outerbridge Justin Pitcher Sam Robinson Dion Stovell Janeiro Tucker Rodney Trott Alessandro Bonora (c) Gareth Berg Damian Crowley (wk) Dilan Fernando Damian Fernando Luis di Giglio Hemantha Jayasena Gayashan Munasinghe Andy Northcote Hayden Patrizi (wk) Vince Pennazza Peter Petricola Carl Sandri Michael di Venuto Hemal Mehta (c) Sultan Ahmed (wk) Qais Al Said Amir Ali Adnan Ilyas Aamir Kaleem Awal Khan Farhan Khan Ajay Lalcheta Sufyan Mehmood (wk) Rajeshkumar Ranpura Zeeshan Siddiqui Jatinder Singh Vaibhav Wategaonkar
Dansk Cricket Forbund Website in Danish. Retrieved 14 February 2012 Four new faces in USA's World T20 qualifiers team Cricinfo. Retrieved 9 February 2012 Michael Pedersen (c) Aftab Ahmed Shehzad Ahmed Sair Anjum Bobby Chawla Frederik Klokker (wk) Zameer Khan Jacob Larsen Rizwan Mahmood Kamran Mahmood (wk) James Moniz Martin Pedersen Basit Raja Bashir Shah Paras Khadka (c) Gyanendra Malla (vc) (wk) Pradeep Airee (wk) Mehboob Alam Prithu Baskota Amrit Bhattarai Shakti Gauchan Krishna Karki Paresh Lohani Anil Mandal Basanta Regmi Sanjam Regmi Chandra Sawad Sharad Vesawkar Davis Arinaitwe (c) Arthur Kyobe Brian Masaba Deusdedit Muhumuza Roger Mukasa (wk) Benjamin Musoke Frank Nsubuga Jonathan Ssebanja Asadu Seiga Lawrence Sematimba (wk) Henry Senyondo Ronald Ssemanda Charles Waiswa Arthur Ziraba (wk) Sushil Nadkarni (c) Aditya Mishra (vc) Orlando Baker Adil Bhatti Ryan Corns Muhammad Ghous Elmore Hutchinson Asif Khan Andy Mohammed Nauman Mustafa (wk) Japen Patel Abhimanyu Rajp Usman Shuja Steven Taylor (wk)
Fixtures and results The groups were announced by the ICC on 21 December 2011. Source:ESPNCricinfoICC World Twenty20 Qualifier, 2011/12 / Fixtures ESPNCricinfo. Retrieved 25 December 2011 All times are given in Arabian Standard Time – GMT+4 (UTC+4)
Group A
Points table
Results
Group B
Points table
Results
Play-off stage
15th place play-off
11th to 14th place play-offs 11th Place Play-Off Semi-Final 1
11th Place Play-Off Semi-Final 2
13th Place Play-Off
11th Place Play-Off
7th to 10th place play-offs 7th Place Play-Off Semi-Final 1
7th Place Play-Off Semi-Final 2
9th Place Play-Off
7th Place Play-Off
1st to 6th Place play-offs Elimination Play-Off 1
Elimination Play-Off 2
5th Place Play-Off
Qualifying Final 1
Elimination Semi-Final
Qualifying Final 2
Final
Final standings Position Team Promotion/Relegation 1st Qualified for 2012 ICC World Twenty20 2nd 3rd Automatic qualification for 2013 ICC World Twenty20 Qualifier 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th 11th 12th 13th 14th 15th 16th
Statistics
Most runs The top five most runs scorers are included in this table.
Player Team Runs Inns Avg S/R HS 100s 50s Paul Stirling 357 11 44.62 157.26 79 0 3 Mohammad Shahzad 352 9 50.28 127.07 77 0 4 Jamie Atkinson 345 8 49.28 149.35 87* 0 4 Raymond van Schoor 324 9 54.00 110.95 79* 0 3 Calum MacLeod 307 9 38.37 135.84 104* 1 2
Most wickets The following table contains the five leading wicket-takers. Player Team Wkts Mts Avg S/R Econ BBI Dawlat Zadran 17 7 7.88 9.2 5.12 5/14 Majid Haq 17 9 11.52 12.5 5.49 3/12 Shakti Gauchan 16 9 11.18 13.5 4.97 4/20 Boyd Rankin 15 11 11.06 15.6 4.25 4/9 Christi Viljoen 14 9 12.71 10.8 7.02 4/8
Broadcasting rights Global – ESPN Star Sports (Qualifying Finals, Preliminary Final, Tournament Final and six matches in all) Scotland – Quipu TV – 14 Group Stage Matches