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SINGAPORE




Population: 4, 839, 400 (2008 est.)
Population Aged 0-15: 18%.
National Coach: Saad Khan Janjua
National Captain: Saad Khan Janjua
Women’s Captain: Diviya GK
Clubs: 72
Grounds: 21
Turf wickets: 4
Playing Season: January to November

ACC Member since 1983
ACC Development Officer: Aminul Islam

Pepsi ICC World Cricket League Division 6 winners
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Recent Achievements:
2006 Winner of ICC Development Award: Best Overall Cricket Development Award
2007 ACC U-15 Elite Winners
2008 First, ACC Rankings 2007- 2008
2009 Winners, Pepsi ICC World Cricket League Division 6
2010 Winners, ACC U-16 Elite Cup

Fifth in ACC Rankings for 2009 and 2010 seasons
First in ACC Rankings for 2007 and 2008 seasons
Personnel qualified from ACC Courses:
Coaches: Level I - 20; Level II - 4
Umpires: Level I - 15; Level II - 10

500 cricketers, 100 teams, 80 umpires, 35 fixtures a week and a corps of emerging young male and female cricketers, Singapore Cricket is riding an upswing of interest in the game. Domestic cricket has never been busier with many new teams joining the Association in the past two years with a range of league and Cup matches arranged last year. Singapore holds the highest number of officially-sanctioned cricket matches of any non-Test playing country in the world. To put this growth in context, there were just 14 Singapore League fixtures in 2003.

An influx of seasoned new players is adding to the strength of the team and if Singapore can master the transition of junior cricketers to the senior ranks, then they’ll have a truly competitive team. In 2010 former Sri Lankan ace Marvan Atapattu came on board as national coach, following a short and successful spell by former Australian international Trevor Chappell. Singapore missed out by the narrowest of margins, in controversial circumstances, on a place in the final of Pepsi ICC World Cricket League Division 5 last year, a circumstance which has derailed much of their forward momentum.

The Singapore Cricket Association are actively engaging with the state in order to seek further state support and funding. They are emphasising cricket’s virtues as a character and team-spirit builder in order to do so, knowing full well that these will appeal to the administrators of the nation-state.

Singapore is reaping the reward for having a strong forward-thinking administration coupled with players who have consistently shone at youth level. “We will spread our programs now to reach other areas,’’ adds Mr. Imran. “Being No.1 is great. Now we must stay there and apply a fresh perspective to the younger lot of players.” The U-16s repaid that attention in winning the 2010 ACC U-16 Elite Cup. The senior team and U-19 team have slipped down to the Challenge Division but are confident of winning promotion back to the Elite next time round.

2011 Women’s Squad Singapore, Winners of the 2010 ACC U-16 Elite Cup Age-group coaching at Kallang

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