Cricket: Bahrain women face Kuwait in ACC T20 opener – Gulf Digital News

Cricket: Bahrain women face Kuwait in ACC T20 opener – Gulf Digital News

The Bahrain women’s national team will take on Kuwait tomorrow in their opening game of the 2022 Asian Cricket Council (ACC) Women’s T20 Championship.

The week-long tournament will also serve as a qualifying round for the 2022 ACC Women’s Asia Cup scheduled for October in Bangladesh. The two finalists in the championship will qualify for the main draw of the Asia Cup.

“We’ve spent the three days since our 14-member squad landed here on June 12, acclimatising to the conditions and playing a couple of practice matches,” coach Prabodha Arthavidu told the GDN by phone from the Malaysian capital, Kuala Lumpur, yesterday.

Bahrain have been slotted in Group B, along with Nepal, Hong Kong, Kuwait and Bhutan. Hosts Malaysia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Oman, Qatar and Singapore are in Group A.

Arthavidu said that, while the team’s performance in the second practice match yesterday against a Malaysian President’s XI was ‘satisfactory’, they had been below par in the first match against the same side on June 13. Bahrain lost both matches.

“I suppose you could put it down to jet-lag, or just general tiredness,” he added. “But that is still no excuse. To be honest, in that first game, they didn’t bowl well, they