Indoor Cricket Court renovated; National Teams in training

In order to allow practice opportunity in Male' for the National Male and Female Cricket team competing at the Regional Tennis Tournament, the Cricket board has renovated the indoor cricket training facility.

This facility was built in the 1980s. The National Cricket Board has renovated the facility multiple times since then.

The national Male and Female cricket team will be competing in three tournaments next month.

According to the Cricket Board, team training will be carried out in this indoor facility until the team’s departure.

The Male team has been qualified for the KCC T20 Challenger Cup that will be held in Thailand from February 1 to 11. Maldives is categorized in Group B alongside Thailand, Japan and Singapore in this tournament.

The winning two teams of this Group will compete in the semi-finals.

The teams moving to the finals will qualify for the ACC T20 Premier Cup scheduled to be held in April this year.

It has been decided that following the Challenger Cup, a Quad Series tournament will be played with Saudi Arabiya, Bhutan and Thailand

On the 27th of this month, the male team competing in the Challenger Cup will be departing for Thailand.

The female team is competing in the ACC Women’s T20 Premier Cup slated to be held next month in Malaysia.

For this tournament, Maldives is categorized within the group of Bhutan, Hong-Kong and Nepal.

The female team will depart for this tournament on February 8.