2015–17 ICC Intercontinental Cup

2015–17 ICC Intercontinental Cup
Administrator(s) International Cricket Council
Cricket format First-class cricket
Tournament format(s) Round-robin
Host(s) Various (home and away)
Participants 8
Matches played 29

The 2015–17 ICC Intercontinental Cup is the seventh edition of the ICC Intercontinental Cup, an international first-class cricket tournament between leading associate members of the International Cricket Council (ICC). The tournament is running from 2015 to 2017. It runs in parallel with the 2015–17 ICC World Cricket League Championship but with slightly different teams. As Ireland and Afghanistan have qualified for the ICC One Day International Championship ranking qualification process, they are replaced by Kenya and Nepal in the limited over event; however they continue to play the four-day event.

As a result of changes to the structure of international cricket announced by the ICC in January 2014, the winner of the 2015-17 Intercontinental Cup (and following editions of the tournament) will play four five-day matches against the bottom ranked Test nation (two home and two away matches), an event known as the 2018 ICC Test Challenge.[1][2][3][4] Should the winner of the Intercontinental Cup go on to win the ICC Test Challenge they will become the 11th Test nation.[5]

Teams

The following are the 8 teams participating in the competition based on the results from 2011–13 ICC World Cricket League Championship, 2014 Cricket World Cup Qualifier & 2015 ICC World Cricket League Division Two.

Preparations

Of the eight teams participating in the 2015-17 ICC Intercontinental Cup, only Papua New Guinea has never played a first-class match before.[6] Afghanistan, Ireland, Namibia, Scotland, The Netherlands and the UAE had all appeared before in the previous Intercontinental Cup of 2011-2013, while Hong Kong had last appeared in the 2005 Intercontinental Cup and last played in an international multi-day cricket tournament in late 2006 at the 2006/07 ACC Fast Track Countries Tournament.

Though never having played a first-class match, Papua New Guinea (PNG) have played two-day cricket in the South Australian Premier League in 2013 and 2014. Though finishing at the bottom of the league in both seasons, the experience seems to have hardened the team as they convincingly beat Hong Kong in a three-day match in Australia and one of PNG's openers admitted that participation in the league had been critical to exposing the players to multi-day cricket.[6]

11–13 November 2014
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469/7d (104 overs)
Assad Vala 98 (117)
Nadeem Ahmed 4/114 (28 overs)
205 (67.5 overs)
Anshuman Rath 72 (112)
Charles Amini 3/34 (14 overs)
114/8d (23 overs)
Assad Vala 40* (13)
Haseeb Amjad 3/35 (10 overs)
245 (71.5 overs)
Jamie Atkinson 63 (87)
Norman Vanua 5/36 (15.5 overs)
Papua New Guinea won by 133 runs
Tony Ireland Stadium, Townsville
Umpires: Alu Kapa (PNG) and Nigel Morrison (Van)
  • Papua New Guinea won the toss and elected to bat

Fixtures

The breakdown of fixtures is as follows:[7]

Round Window Home team Away team Result
1 May – June 2015  Namibia  Hong Kong  Namibia by 114 runs
 Ireland  United Arab Emirates  Ireland by an innings and 26 runs
 Scotland  Afghanistan Match drawn
 Netherlands  Papua New Guinea  Papua New Guinea by 5 wickets
2 August – November 2015  Netherlands  Scotland  Netherlands by 44 runs
 Namibia  Ireland  Ireland by an innings and 107 runs
 United Arab Emirates  Hong Kong  Hong Kong by 276 runs
 Afghanistan  Papua New Guinea  Afghanistan by 201 runs
3 January – June 2016  Hong Kong  Scotland No result
 United Arab Emirates  Netherlands  Netherlands by 4 wickets
 Papua New Guinea  Ireland  Ireland by 145 runs
 Afghanistan  Namibia  Afghanistan by an innings and 36 runs
4 August – November 2016  Netherlands  Afghanistan
 Scotland  United Arab Emirates
 Ireland  Hong Kong
 Papua New Guinea  Namibia
5 February – June 2017  Afghanistan  Ireland
 United Arab Emirates  Papua New Guinea
 Hong Kong  Netherlands
 Scotland  Namibia
6 July – November 2017  Hong Kong  Afghanistan
 Papua New Guinea  Scotland
 Ireland  Netherlands
 Namibia  United Arab Emirates
7 Simultaneous Round November – December 2017  Afghanistan  United Arab Emirates
 Ireland  Scotland
 Hong Kong  Papua New Guinea
 Namibia  Netherlands

Points table

Team Pld W L T D A FI Pts Q
 Ireland 3 3 0 0 0 0 3 60 2.344
 Netherlands 3 2 1 0 0 0 3 46 1.021
 Afghanistan 3 2 0 0 1 0 1 41 1.421
 Hong Kong 3 1 1 0 0 1 1 30 1.054
 Scotland 3 0 1 0 1 1 1 23 1.115
 Papua New Guinea 3 1 2 0 0 0 1 20 0.791
 Namibia 3 1 2 0 0 0 1 20 0.640
 United Arab Emirates 3 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0.610

Source

Matches

Round 1

The fixtures for round one were announced on 5 May 2015.[8]

10-13 May 2015
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272 (102.3 overs)
Nicolaas Scholtz 85 (180)
Haseeb Amjad 5/49 (23 overs)
203 (82.3 overs)
Nizakat Khan 58 (158)
JJ Smit 4/57 (15 overs)
234/5d (89 overs)
Xander Pitchers 107* (269)
Irfan Ahmed 2/29 (8 overs)
187 (75.2 overs)
Skhawat Ali 43 (75)
Bernard Scholtz 3/53 (24 overs)
Namibia won by 114 runs
Wanderers Cricket Ground, Windhoek
Umpires: Adrian Holdstock (SA) and Wynand Louw (Nam)
Player of the match: Xander Pitchers (Nam)

2-5 June 2015
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492 (118.3 overs)
Ed Joyce 231 (232)
Amjad Javed 4/117 (24.3 overs)
213 (71.3 overs)
Shaiman Anwar 57 (90)
John Mooney 3/36 (12 overs)
253 (100.4 overs) (f/o)
Swapnil Patil 63 (110)
George Dockrell 4/93 (34 overs)
Ireland won by an innings and 26 runs
Malahide Cricket Club Ground, Malahide
Umpires: Mark Hawthorne (Ire) and Chettithody Shamshuddin (Ind)
Player of the match: Ed Joyce (Ire)
  • United Arab Emirates won the toss and elected to field.
  • The start on day 1 was delayed by rain.
  • Ed Joyce's score of 231 is the highest by an Ireland player in multi-day cricket and was the first double century scored by an Irish player on home soil.[9][10]

2-5 June 2015
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233 (72.2 overs)
Preston Mommsen 77 (126)
Samiullah Shenwari 3/23 (13 overs)
135 (61.4 overs)
Samiullah Shenwari 51* (152)
Con de Lange 3/21 (14 overs)
Match drawn
New Williamfield, Stirling
Umpires: Gregory Brathwaite (WI) and Allan Haggo (Sco)
Player of the match: Samiullah Shenwari (Afg)
  • Afghanistan won the toss and elected to field.
  • No play was possible on day 1 due to rain. A wet outfield delayed the start of day 2 until 2pm. Rain delayed the start of day 3 until 2:50pm. Rain delayed the start of day 4 until after tea.
  • Andrew Umeed (Sco) made his first-class debut.

16-19 June 2015
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209 (64.4 overs)
Paul van Meekeren 34 (66)
Loa Nou 5/55 (18 overs)
128 (48.4 overs)
Mahuru Dai 26 (47)
Timm van der Gugten 6/29 (17 overs)
223 (60.3 overs)
Timm van der Gugten 57 (96)
John Reva 4/42 (15.3 overs)
305/5 (76.3 overs)
Assad Vala 124* (199)
Paul van Meekeren 3/44 (20 overs)
Papua New Guinea won by 5 wickets
VRA Cricket Ground, Amstelveen
Umpires: Gregory Brathwaite (WI) and Sarika Prasad (Sin)
Player of the match: Assad Vala (PNG)

Round 2

The fixtures for round two were announced in August 2015.[12]

8-11 September 2015
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210 (71.1 overs)
Roelof van der Merwe 73 (136)
Josh Davey 3/36 (16 overs)
133 (53.3 overs)
Robert Taylor 46 (75)
Vivian Kingma 4/36 (16 overs)
123 (43 overs)
Michael Rippon 37 (49)
Josh Davey 3/43 (14 overs)
156 (64.2 overs)
Richie Berrington 59 (143)
Peter Borren 4/1 (3.2 overs)
Netherlands won by 44 runs
Sportpark Westvliet, The Hague
Umpires: Peter Nero (WI) and Chettithody Shamshuddin (Ind)
  • Scotland won the toss and elected to field.
  • No play was possible on day 1 due to a wet outfield.
  • Rahil Ahmed and Ben Cooper (both Ned) made their first-class debuts.

24-27 October 2015
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251 (97.1 overs)
JP Kotze 78 (152)
Tim Murtagh 2/44 (19 overs)
570/6d (128 overs)
Ed Joyce 205 (201)
Sarel Burger 2/73 (25 overs)
212 (78.5 overs)
JP Kotze 48 (104)
Tim Murtagh 4/18 (13 overs)
Ireland won by an innings and 107 runs
Wanderers Cricket Ground, Windhoek
Umpires: Adrian Holdstock (SA) and Wynand Louw (Nam)
Player of the match: Ed Joyce (Ire)
  • Namibia won the toss and elected to bat.

11-14 November 2015
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378 (125.2 overs)
Babar Hayat 113 (235)
Asif Iqbal 3/38 (14 overs)
181 (92.3 overs)
Swapnil Patil 75 (160)
Anshuman Rath 4/34 (15 overs)
184 (51.4 overs)
Babar Hayat 73 (130)
Ahmed Raza 5/61 (22 overs)
105 (29.2 overs)
Laxman Sreekumar 61 (78)
Haseeb Amjad 4/10 (6.2 overs)
Hong Kong won by 276 runs
ICC Academy Ground, Dubai
Umpires: Vineet Kulkarni (Ind) and Sarika Prasad (Sin)
Player of the match: Babar Hayat (Hong Kong)

21-24 November 2015
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144 (39.4 overs)
Mohammad Shahzad 29 (39)
Norman Vanua 4/36 (7 overs)
295 (73.2 overs)
Mahuru Dai 129 (139)
Zahir Khan 3/44 (11.2 overs)
540 (127.2 overs)
Asghar Stanikzai 127 (163)
Sese Bau 2/50 (16 overs)
188 (61.5 overs)
Assad Vala 81 (151)
Yamin Ahmadzai 4/41 (12.4 overs)
Afghanistan won by 201 runs
Sharjah Cricket Stadium, Sharjah
Umpires: Buddhi Pradhan (Nep) and Raveendra Wimalasiri (SL)
Player of the match: Asghar Stanikzai (Afg)

Round 3

The fixtures for round three were announced in December 2015.[13]

21-24 January 2016
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No result
Mission Road Ground, Mong Kok
Umpires: Vineet Kulkarni (Ind) and Buddhi Pradhan (Nep)
  • No toss.
  • No play was possible due to a wet outfield and waterlogged ground with the match abandoned without a ball bowled.[14]

21-24 January 2016
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164 (51.4 overs)
Swapnil Patil 41 (68)
Michael Rippon 4/45 (13.4 overs)
315 (97.1 overs)
Peter Borren 96 (144)
Farhan Ahmed 5/78 (27.1 overs)
276 (104.5 overs)
Shaiman Anwar 148 (266)
Ahsan Malik 3/55 (27.5 overs)
128/6 (42.5 overs)
Max O'Dowd 36 (67)
Zaheer Maqsood 3/26 (9 overs)
Netherlands won by 4 wickets
Sheikh Zayed Cricket Stadium, Abu Dhabi
Umpires: C. K. Nandan (Ind) and Sarika Prasad (Sin)

31 January - 3 February 2016
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289 (104.4 overs)
Niall O'Brien 63 (168)
Norman Vanua 5/59 (18.4 overs)
188 (84.3 overs)
Assad Vala 120 (231)
Tim Murtagh 4/33 (18.3 overs)
244/5d (64 overs)
Kevin O'Brien 75* (95)
Loa Nou 2/37 (8 overs)
200 (73.4 overs)
Sese Bau 45 (114)
Boyd Rankin 3/31 (15 overs)
Ireland won by 145 runs
Tony Ireland Stadium, Townsville
Umpires: Vineet Kulkarni (Ind) and Buddhi Pradhan (Nep)
  • Papua New Guinea won the toss and elected to field.
  • 21 overs were lost on Day 1 due to bad light and rain.[16]
  • Niall O'Brien (Ire) took his 50th dismissal in Intercontinental Cup matches.[17]

10-13 April 2016
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172 (62.1 overs)
Pikky Ya France 46 (123)
Mohammad Nabi 5/25 (20.1 overs)
334 (118.5 overs)
Mohammad Shahzad 139 (245)
Gerrie Snyman 4/78 (36 overs)
126 (35.3 overs)
Pikky Ya France 40 (91)
Zahir Khan 5/31 (8 overs)
Afghanistan won by an innings and 36 runs
Greater Noida Sports Complex Ground, Greater Noida
Umpires: Ahmed Shah Pakteen (Afg) and Sharfuddoula (Ban)
Player of the match: Mohammad Shahzad (Afg)
  • Namibia won the toss and elected to bat.

Round 4

The fixtures for round four were announced in April 2016.[18][19]



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Round 6

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Round 7

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See also

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