Nepal will travel to Jersey, a tiny island located off the north coast of France, to participate in the ICC World Cricket League Division 5 in 2008.
The International Cricket Committee (ICC) confirmed that Jersey will host the event after a visit of an ICC Development team to inspect the country’s suitability for promotion to Associate membership, which will be voted on at the ICC Annual Conference in June 2007.
According to ICC, the country with a population of 90,000 people has six grounds with turf squares.
“This is tremendous, not only for Jersey cricket, but also for Jersey. We are looking forward to the challenges that this will present and will be doing all we can to ensure it is a successful tournament,†Chris Minty, Jersey Cricket Board’s director of cricket, was quoted in the ICC site.
The exact date is not confirmed for the event which will take place sometime in May or June of 2008, ICC said.
The event will see Botswana, USA (relegated from Division 3), Afghanistan, Norway, Nepal, Singapore, Jersey, Mozambique, Bahamas, Germany and two teams yet to qualify from the East-Asia Pacific region fighting for the place in final which will promote them to Division 4.
Division 4 is a six-team round-robin event to be staged in late 2008 at a venue yet to be confirmed.