The ICC Development Committee announced Nepal as the host of the Pepsi ICC World Cricket League Division 5 to be held in January 2010.
According to a release by the International Cricket Council (ICC), the committee which has been meeting this week in Dubai decided about venues of different development events.
The six-team event is to be played by Nepal, USA (as the third/fourth position holders from last year’s event), Fiji, Jersey (two teams relegated from Division 4 last year) and two teams promoted from Division 6 to be held in Singapore in August/September 2009.
Top two teams from Division 5 will be promoted to Division 4 to be held in Italy in June, 2010.
This will be the first ICC event Nepal will host. “We feel honored,” CAN president Binaya Raj Pandey told myrepublica.com adding that the decision was made due to craze and potential of cricket in Nepal.
Pandey also said that a team of ICC would be visiting Nepal to assess the hosting but believed that Nepal is capable of hosting the event successfully.
The meeting also decided, among others, to include UAE and USA in the ICC World Twenty20 Cup qualifiers and expand ICC Intercontinental Cup by including four teams in the second layer, to be called ICC Intercontinental Shield.