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2012 ICC World Cricket League Division Eight

Administrator(s)	International Cricket Council
Cricket format	Limited overs cricket
Tournament format(s)	Round-robin and Knockout
Host(s)	Samoa
Champions	Vanuatu (1st title)
Participants	8
Matches	20
Player of the series	Nalin Nipiko (Van)
Most runs	Alexander Patmore (Jap)
Most wickets	Patrick Matautaava (Van)
← 2010

The 2012 ICC World Cricket League Division Eight was a cricket tournament which took place on 15–22 September 2012 in Samoa. It formed part of the World Cricket League and 2019 Cricket World Cup qualifying.

Teams

The teams that took part in the tournament were decided according to the results of the 2010 ICC World Cricket League Division Eight, the 2011 ICC World Cricket League Division Seven and regional tournaments.

Teams that qualified automatically were:

•  Norway (5th in 2011 ICC World Cricket League Division Seven)
•  Japan (6th in 2011 ICC World Cricket League Division Seven)
•  Vanuatu (3rd in 2010 ICC World Cricket League Division Eight)

The remaining five teams were determined by the ICC Development Committee based on the most recent regional results and other factors.

•  Samoa
•  Bhutan
•  Ghana
•  Suriname
•  Belgium

Europe's qualifier was determined in a four-team tournament held in June in La Manga, Spain, between Austria, Belgium, France and Gibraltar.

Groups and squads

Group A

Ghana	Norway	Samoa	Vanuatu
Peter Ananya (C) Isaac Aboagye Moses Anafie Kind-David Ankrah Lawrence Ateak Vincent Ateak Samson Awiah Kofi Bagabena Francis Bakiweyem Mark Bawa (wk) Matthew Bawa Obed Harvey Julius Mensah (wk) James Vifah	Muhammad Butt (C) Babar Shahzad (vc) Waheed Aamir Shahid Ahmed Waqas Ahmed Tafseer Ali Waseem Gill Ehtsam ul Haq (wk) Safir Hayat Shahid Mahmood Usman Sahi (wk) Ali Saleem Zeeshan Siddiqui Wasim Tahir	Benjamin Mailata (C) Geoff Clarke (vc) (wk) Tiafala Alatasi Daniel Burgess Sean Cotter Loutala Fuinaomo Taitoe Kaisala (wk) Winston Mariner Faasao Mulivai Pritchard Pritchard Murphy Su'a Naa Vaasili Sipiliano Tua Ian West	Andrew Mansale (C) Jonathon Dunn (vc) Michael Avok Jelany Chilia Aby John Worford Kalworai Trevor Langa (wk) Patrick Matautaava Lenica Natapei Nalin Nipiko Simpson Obed Damian Smith Kenny Tari Niko Unavalu

Group B

Belgium	Bhutan	Japan	Suriname
Andre Wagener (C) Jamie Farmiloe Aamir Iqbal Faisal Khaliq Mahesh Krishnamoorthy Shaival Mehta Shahid Muhammad Simon Newport Ali Raza (wk) Abdul Rehman Waqas Shafiq Nirvam Shah Sunny Sheikh Eddie Wright	Jigme Singye (C) Tshering Dorji (vc) (wk) Manoj Adhikari (wk) Dampo Dorji Nima Gurung Sanjeevan Gurung Bikash Luitel Suprit Pradhan Dilip Subba Kumar Subba Sonam Tobgay Barun Wakhley Phuntsho Wangdi Lobzang Yonten	Tatsuro Chino (C) (wk) Takuro Hagihara Hanif Khan Muhammad Masaomi Kobayashi Daniel Mee Naoki Miyaji Naotsune Miyaji Satoshi Nakano Kazuyuki Ogawa Tomoki Ota Alexander Patmore Jarrad Shearer Makoto Taniyama Fumihiko Uegaki	Shazam Ramjohn (C) Carlton Baker Mohindra Boodram Yuvraj Dayal Charles Douglas Troy Dudnath Arun Gokoel Troy Haley Kemraj Hardat (wk) Raief Hasrat Radjeev Jagroep Terbhawan Ranjit Vishwar Shaw Vishaul Singh

Fixtures

Group stage

Group A

Team	P	W	L	T	NR	Points	NRR	Status
Vanuatu	3	3	0	0	0	6	+0.781	Advanced to the semifinals
Ghana	3	2	1	0	0	4	+0.495
Samoa	3	1	2	0	0	2	-0.063	Parachuted to the Playoffs and automatically relegated to regional competitions
Norway	3	0	3	0	0	0	-1.202

Matches

Ghana  206 (48.3 overs)	v	Samoa 156 (38.2 overs)
Francis Bakiweyem 52 (61) Sipiliano Tua 3/22 (6 overs)		Benjamin Mailata 61 (69) Kofi Bagabena 4/38 (8 overs)

• Samoa won the toss and elected to field.

Vanuatu  173 (41.2 overs)	v	Norway 95 (38.1 overs)
Lenica Natapei 60 (61) Muhammad Butt 4/27 (10 overs)		Ali Saleem 28 (54) Patrick Matautaava 6/10 (9.1 overs)

• Vanuatu won the toss and elected to bat.

Ghana  197 (44.2 overs)	v	Vanuatu 198/5 (42.1 overs)
Obed Harvey 51* (100) Patrick Matautaava 3/23 (9 overs)		Nalin Nipiko 58* (46) Kofi Bagabena 2/18 (3.1 overs)

• Ghana won the toss and elected to bat.
• Rain stopped the Ghana innings after 9.2 overs, thus setting Vanuatu a target of 198 in 45 overs

Norway  188 (42.5 overs)	v	Samoa 190/5 (30.4 overs)
Zeeshan Siddiqui 57 (104) Benjamin Mailata 4/15 (3.5 overs)		Benjamin Mailata 79* (76) Babar Shahzad 2/37 (6 overs)

• Norway won the toss and elected to bat.
• Rain stopped the Norway innings after 11.5 overs, thus setting Samoa a target of 186 in 45 overs

Vanuatu  193 (49.4 overs)	v	Samoa 172 (38.1 overs)
Trevor Langa 36* (36) Benjamin Mailata 4/21 (4.4 overs)		Faasao Mulivai 33 (17) Nalin Nipiko 3/17 (6.1 overs)

• Samoa won the toss and elected to field.

Ghana  159 (39.3 overs)	v	Norway 125 (42.4 overs)
Samson Awiah 50 (76) Zeeshan Siddiqui 2/20 (6 overs)		Zeeshan Siddiqui 27 (77) Obed Harvey 3/24 (9 overs)

• Ghana won the toss and elected to bat.

Group B

Team	P	W	L	T	NR	Points	NRR	Status
Japan	3	3	0	0	0	6	+2.007	Advanced to the semifinals
Belgium	3	2	1	0	0	4	+1.339
Suriname	3	1	2	0	0	2	-1.951	Parachuted to the Playoffs and automatically relegated to regional competitions
Bhutan	3	0	3	0	0	0	-1.335

Matches

Bhutan  79 (35.4 overs)	v	Belgium 81/1 (25.1 overs)
Sonam Tobgay 17 (26) Aamir Iqbal 3/4 (6 overs)		Nirvam Shah 34* (60) Jigme Singye 1/23 (6.1 overs)

• Bhutan won the toss and elected to bat.

Japan  229/8 (50 overs)	v	Suriname 87 (36.2 overs)
Jarrad Shearer 59 (101) Vishaul Singh 4/50 (10 overs)		Vishaul Singh 35 (76) Satoshi Nakano 5/27 (10 overs)

• Suriname won the toss and elected to field.

Japan  203/8 (42 overs)	v	Bhutan 144 (36.1 overs)
Alexander Patmore 91 (109) Lobzang Yongteng 3/36 (9 overs)		Jigme Singye 51 (86) Takuro Hagihara 2/23 (6.1 overs)

• Japan won the toss and elected to bat.
• Rain stopped the Japan innings after 7.4 overs, thus setting Bhutan a target of 205 in 42 overs

Belgium  283/7 (42 overs)	v	Suriname 115 (30.4 overs)
Abdul Rehman 81 (34) Shazam Ramjohn 3/56 (6 overs)		Mohindra Boodram 47 (64) Faisal Khaliq 2/10 (5 overs)

• Belgium won the toss and elected to bat.
• Rain stopped the Belgium innings after 9 overs, thus setting Suriname a target of 286 in 42 overs

Suriname  152(48.3 overs)	v	Bhutan 117 (45.1 overs)
Carlton Baker 46 (82) Lobzang Yonten 4/27 (10 overs)		Dampo Dorji 18 (18) Yuvraj Dayal 2/7 (3 overs)

• Suriname won the toss and elected to bat.

Japan  194/9 (50 overs)	v	Belgium 111 (35 overs)
Daniel Mee 59 (91) Shaival Mehta 3/43 (10 overs)		Jamie Farmiloe 32 (41) Naoki Miyaji 3/19 (8 overs)

• Japan won the toss and elected to bat.

Play-offs

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Plate

5th place semifinals

Bhutan  129 (46.4 overs)	v	Samoa 130/4 (25.1 overs)
Sonam Tobgay 31 (46) Naa Vaasili 3/27 (10 overs)		Taitoe Kaisala 49 (44) Dilip Subba 2/36 (10 overs)

• Bhutan won the toss and elected to bat

Suriname  235/6 (50 overs)	v	Norway 238/6 (47.4 overs)
Mohindra Boodram 103* (104) Zeeshan Siddiqui 1/25 (7 overs)		Muhammad Butt 77 (73) Vishwar Shaw 2/16 (3 overs)

• Suriname won the toss and elected to bat.

7th Place Playoff

Suriname  206 (48.2 overs)	v	Bhutan 203 (48.1 overs)
Troy Dudnath 54 (55) Lobzang Yonten 3/27 (9 overs)		Suprit Pradhan 82 (104) Carlton Baker 4/34 (10 overs)

• Suriname won the toss and elected to bat.

5th Place Playoff

Norway  271/7 (50 overs)	v	Samoa 137 (38 overs)
Ali Saleem 89 (88) Tiafala Alatasi 3/51 (8 overs)		Benjamin Mailata 30 (49) Tafseer Ali 5/30 (9 overs)

• Samoa won the toss and elected to field.

Semifinals and Final

Semifinals

Vanuatu  227/9 (50 overs)	v	Belgium 144 all out (44.1 overs)
Patrick Matautaava 48 (48) Andre Wagener 4/66 (10 overs)		Aamir Iqbal 34 (52) Jelany Chilia 2/12 (10 overs)

• Vanuatu won the toss and elected to bat

Ghana  198 (48.1 overs)	v	Japan 136 (46.2 overs)
Samson Awiah 28 (64) Daniel Mee 3/21 (6 overs)		Tatsuro Chino 24 (69) Kofi Bagabena 2/25 (9 overs)

• Ghana won the toss and elected to bat.

3rd Place Playoff

Japan  180 (47.5 overs)	v	Belgium 170 (47.2 overs)
Alexander Patmore 101 (155) Faisal Khaliq 5/20 (8.5 overs)		Shaival Mehta 27* (33) Makoto Taniyama 5/55 (10 overs)

• Japan won the toss and elected to bat.

Final

Vanuatu  222/9 (50 overs)	v	Ghana 183 (42.5 overs)
Jonathon Dunn 78 (139) Isaac Aboagye 4/39 (10 overs)		Obed Harvey 33 (35) Simpson Obed 3/17 (4 overs)

• Vanuatu won the toss and elected to bat first.

Statistics

Most runs

The top five run scorers (total runs) are included in this table.

Player	Team	Runs	Inns	Avg	S/R	HS	100s	50s
Alexander Patmore	Japan	237	5	47.40	66.20	101	1	1
Nalin Nipiko	Vanuatu	213	5	53.25	77.17	59	0	2
Benjamin Mailata	Samoa	200	5	50.00	86.58	79*	0	2
Mohindra Boodram	Suriname	189	5	47.25	73.82	103*	1	0
Samson Awiah	Ghana	147	5	29.40	57.19	50	0	1

Most wickets

The top five wicket takers (total wickets) are listed in this table.

Player	Team	Wkts	Mts	Ave	S/R	Econ	BBI
Patrick Matautaava	Vanuatu	14	5	8.71	18.5	2.82	6/10
Faisal Khaliq	Belgium	11	4	7.18	17.7	2.43	5/20
Abdul Rehman	Belgium	11	5	12.09	19.0	3.80	3/32
Kofi Bagabena	Ghana	11	5	12.81	19.6	3.91	4/38
Lobzang Yonten	Bhutan	10	5	11.70	21.0	3.34	4/27

Final Placings

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

Pos	Team	Status
1st	Vanuatu	Promoted to Division Seven for 2013
2nd	Ghana
3rd	Japan	Relegated to regional competitions
4th	Belgium
5th	Norway
6th	Samoa
7th	Suriname
8th	Bhutan

References

1. "Vanuatu win World Cricket League Division 8". ICC. 22 September 2012. Archived from the original on 7 November 2012.
2. ICC announce Pepsi World Cricket League Division 8 host ICC Official Website. Retrieved 29 January 2012
3. "Belgium Qualify For World Cricket League Division Eight". CricketWorld. 23 June 2012. Retrieved 11 February 2021.
4. ^ "Squads and fixtures announced for Pepsi ICC WCL Division 8". International Cricket Council. Archived from the original on 26 January 2013. Retrieved 22 September 2012.
5. ICC World Cricket League Division Eight Samoa- BCCB has confirmed squad for Samoa Archived 2012-09-23 at the Wayback Machine Bhutan Cricket. Retrieved 13 August 2012

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