Japan Cricket Association Men’s Touring Team Announced for Thailand Quadrangular Series

The Men’s Japan National Team will tour Thailand subsequent week to play in opposition to three different worldwide groups. 

The workforce shall be made up of 14 gamers and can have matches in opposition to hosts Thailand together with Bahrain and Bhutan. 

Two gamers, Reo Sakurano-Thomas and Lachlan Yamamoto-Lake, are unavailable from the Asia/EAP Regional Final in Oman final 12 months, whereas Kohei Kubota returns. 

Head Coach shall be Dhugal Bedingfield, whereas Devon Van Onselen will mix his position as Strength and Conditioning Coach with being Team Manager. Hiromu Inoue will reprise his position as Trainer which he final carried out for the lads in October 2024. 

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(from left): Alexander Shirai-Patmore, Makoto Taniyama, Kendel Kadowaki-Fleming (centre), Declan Suzuki-McComb, Charles Hara-Hinze

The travelling workforce is as follows: 

1. Kendel Kadowaki-Fleming (Chiba Sharks Cricket Club) – Captain
2. Abhishek Anand (Tokyo Falcons Cricket Club)
3. Benjamin Gou Ito-Davis (Chiba Sharks Cricket Club)
4. Charles Hara-Hinze (Northern Suburbs Cricket Club)
5. Kohei Kubota (Wyverns Cricket Club)
6. Wataru Miyauchi (Wyverns Cricket Club)
7. Esam Rahman (ACT Comets)
8. Sabaorish Ravichandran (Tigers Cricket Club)
9. Abdul Samad (Tokyo Wombats Cricket Club)
10. Alexander Shirai-Patmore (Sano Cricket Club)
11. Shoma Sugaya-Slater (Melville Cricket Club)
12. Declan Suzuki-McComb (Sano Cricket Club)
13. Ibrahim Takahashi (Chiba Sharks Cricket Club)
14. Makoto Taniyama (Sano Cricket Club)

The full match schedule is as follows: 

Tournament Matches:

• twenty fifth February (Wednesday) 11:00 Thailand vs Japan
• twenty sixth February (Thursday) 15:30 Bahrain vs Japan
• twenty seventh February (Friday) 11:00 Bhutan vs Japan
• twenty eighth February (Saturday) TBC

*Thailand is 2 hours behind Japan

**Following the primary three rounds of matches there shall be a third-place play off at 11:00 and a remaining at 15:30. 

We count on all matches to be stay streamed on the Cricket Thailand YouTube web page. Please verify our social media accounts for affirmation. 

Good Luck Boys!

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