# 2012 ICC World Cricket League Division Four

The 2012 ICC World Cricket League Division Four was a cricket tournament which took place from 3 to 10 September 2012. It formed part of the ICC World Cricket League and qualifying for the 2015 World Cup.
The host country for the tournament was Malaysia.

## Teams

The teams that took part in the tournament were decided according to the results of the 2010 ICC World Cricket League Division Four, the 2011 ICC World Cricket League Division Three and the 2012 ICC World Cricket League Division Five.
Key :
| † | Denotes relegated teams |
| † | Denotes unmoved teams |
| † | Denotes promoted teams |
| Team | Last outcome |
| Denmark | 5th in 2011 ICC World Cricket League Division Three, Hong Kong |
| United States | 6th in 2011 ICC World Cricket League Division Three, Hong Kong |
| Nepal | 3rd in 2010 ICC World Cricket League Division Four, Italy |
| Tanzania | 4th in 2010 ICC World Cricket League Division Four, Italy |
| Singapore | 1st in 2012 ICC World Cricket League Division Five, Singapore |
| Malaysia | 2nd in 2012 ICC World Cricket League Division Five, Singapore |

## Squads

| Denmark | Malaysia | Nepal | Singapore | Tanzania | United States |
| Michael Pedersen (C) Aftab Ahmed Shehzad Ahmed Taha Ahmed (Wk) Sair Anjum Bobby Chawla Henrik Hansen Frederik Klokker (Wk) Andreas Lambert Rizwan Mahmood Carsten Pedersen Bashir Shah Hamid Shah Lejf Slepsager | Suhan Alagaratnam (C) Rashid Ahad Nik Arifin Anwar Arudin Hiran Brahman Ralalage Khizar Hayat Hassan Ghulam Rakesh Madhavan Ahmad Faiz Shafiq Sharif (Wk) Shahrulnizam Yusof Suresh Navaratnam Suharril Fetri Hammad Ullah Khan | Paras Khadka (C) Gyanendra Malla (vc) (Wk) Pradeep Airee (Wk) Prithu Baskota Amrit Bhattarai Binod Das Shakti Gauchan Subash Khakurel (Wk) Anil Mandal Basanta Regmi Sanjam Regmi Chandra Sawad Sharad Vesawkar Rahul Vishwakarma | Saad Janjua (C) Shoaib Razzak Munish Arora Rezza Gaznavi Christopher Janik (Wk) Chaminda Ruwan Amjad Mahboob Mulewa Dharmichand Anish Param Pramodh Raja Narender Reddy Kshitij Shinde Abhiraj Singh Chetan Suryawanshi (Wk) | Hamisi Abdallah (C) Seif Khalifa Zamayoni Jabeneke Tambwe Juma Issa Kikasi (Wk) Ally Kimote Enjo Kiongozi Riziki Kiseto Nasibu Mapunda Benson Mwita Kassim Nassoro Abhik Patwa (Wk) Khalil Rehemtulla Nassoro Saidi | Steve Massiah (C) Sushil Nadkarni (vc) Timroy Allen Orlando Baker Ryan Corns Akeem Dodson (Wk) Muhammad Ghous Elmore Hutchinson Aditya Mishra Andy Mohammed Abhimanyu Rajp Usman Shuja Steven Taylor (Wk) Aditya Thyagarajan |

## Fixtures
### Group stage
#### Points table

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | T | NR | Pts | NRR | Promotion or relegation |
| 1 | Nepal | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 2.251 | Met in the final and promoted to Division Three for 2013 |
| 2 | United States | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1.240 | Met in the final and promoted to Division Three for 2013 |
| 3 | Singapore | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0.858 | Met in the 3rd place playoff and remained in Division Four for 2014 |
| 4 | Denmark | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0.562 | Met in the 3rd place playoff and remained in Division Four for 2014 |
| 5 | Malaysia | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | −1.496 | Met in the 5th place playoff and relegated to Division Five for 2014 |
| 6 | Tanzania | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3.046 | Met in the 5th place playoff and relegated to Division Five for 2014 |

#### Matches

* 3 September 10:30 Scorecard
| Denmark 224 (50 overs) | v | Tanzania 136/7 (50 overs) |
| Carsten Pedersen 48 (88) Kassim Nassoro 4/40 (10 overs) | | Nasibu Mapunda 32 (66) Lejf Slepsager 3/24 (10 overs) |
* Denmark won by 88 runs Kinrara Academy Oval, Kuala Lumpur Umpires: Viswanadan Kalidas (Mas) and Sri Ganesh (Sin) Player of the match: Aftab Ahmed (Den)
* Denmark won the toss and elected to bat
* 3 September 10:30 Scorecard
| Singapore 111 (39.5 overs) | v | Nepal 112/5 (24.5 overs) |
| Anish Param 31 (89) Amrit Bhattarai 4/28 (9 overs) | | Pradeep Airee 34* (25) Amjad Mahboob 3/37 (7 overs) |
* Nepal won by 5 wickets Selangor Turf Club, Kuala Lumpur Umpires: Sameer Bandekar (USA) and Ranmore Martinesz (Sri) Player of the match: Amrit Bhattarai (Nep)
* Singapore won the toss and elected to bat
* 3 September 10:30 Scorecard
| United States 289/5 (50 overs) | v | Malaysia 219/8 (50 overs) |
| Sushil Nadkarni 73 (96) Nik Arifin 1/27 (4 overs) | | Suharril Fetri 60 (112) Elmore Hutchinson 2/22 (8 overs) |
* United States of America won by 70 runs Bayuemas Oval, Kuala Lumpur Umpires: Wynand Louw (Nam) and Ashwani Rana (Tha) Player of the match: Timroy Allen (USA)
* Malaysia won the toss and elected to field
* 4 September 10:30 Scorecard
| Singapore 230/9 (50 overs) | v | Malaysia 91/8 (29 overs) |
| Christopher Janik 106 (144) Hassan Ghulam 5/39 (10 overs) | | Khizar Hayat 31* (26) Pramodh Raja 3/13 (5 overs) |
* Singapore won by 112 runs (D/L) Kinrara Academy Oval, Kuala Lumpur Umpires: Ranmore Martinesz (Sri) and Ashwani Rana (Tha) Player of the match: Christopher Janik (Sin)
* Singapore won the toss and elected to bat
* Rain stopped the Malaysia innings after 29 overs, thus setting a target of 204 for Malaysia in 29 overs
* 4 September 10:30 Scorecard
| Denmark 244/9 (50 overs) | v | United States 86/5 (23.4 overs) |
| Michael Pedersen 59 (68) Timroy Allen 5/33 (9 overs) | | Steven Taylor 30 (24) Bashir Shah 3/11 (5 overs) |
* Denmark won by 56 runs (D/L) Selangor Turf Club, Kuala Lumpur Umpires: Sri Ganesh (Sin) and Durga Subedi (Nep) Player of the match: Michael Pedersen (Den)
* United States of America won the toss and elected to bowl
* Rain stopped the United States innings after 23.4 overs, thus setting the United States a target of 143 in 23.4 overs
* 4 September 10:30 Scorecard
| Tanzania 82 (31.4 overs) | v | Nepal 83/2 (19.4 overs) |
| Issa Kikasi 33 (47) Paras Khadka 4/24 (9 overs) | | Gyanendra Malla 28* (39) Khalil Rehemtulla 1/22 (4 overs) |
* Nepal won by 8 wickets Bayuemas Oval, Kuala Lumpur Umpires: Sameer Bandekar (USA) and Viswanadan Kalidas (Mas) Player of the match: Paras Khadka (Nep)
* Tanzania won the toss and elected to bat
* 6 September 10:30 Scorecard
| Tanzania 92 (29.3 overs) | v | United States 93/3 (9 overs) |
| Kassim Nassoro 28 (29) Usman Shuja 3/14 (6 overs) | | Steven Taylor 46 (22) Abhik Patwa 1/4 (1 over) |
* United States of America won by 7 wickets Kinrara Academy Oval, Kuala Lumpur Umpires: Sri Ganesh (Sin) and Durga Subedi (Nep) Player of the match: Usman Shuja (USA)
* United States of America won the toss and elected to field
* 6 September 10:30 Scorecard
| Malaysia 69 (32.1 overs) | v | Nepal 71/0 (12.2 overs) |
| Shafiq Sharif 22 (26) Shakti Gauchan 3/2 (10 overs) | | Anil Mandal 41* (40) Khizar Hayat 0/10 (2.2 overs) |
* Nepal won by 10 wickets Selangor Turf Club, Kuala Lumpur Umpires: Wynand Louw (Nam) and Ranmore Martinesz (Sri) Player of the match: Shakti Gauchan (Nep)
* Malaysia won the toss and elected to bat
* 6 September 10:30 Scorecard
| Denmark 173 (46.3 overs) | v | Singapore 174/6 (46.4 overs) |
| Shehzad Ahmed 50 (100) Saad Janjua 2/13 (5 overs) | | Munish Arora 39* (41) Michael Pedersen 2/24 (10 overs) |
* Singapore won by 4 wickets Bayuemas Oval, Kuala Lumpur Umpires: Viswanadan Kalidas (Mas) and Ashwani Rana (Tha) Player of the match: Munish Arora (Sin)
* Denmark won the toss and elected to bat
* 7 September 10:30 Scorecard
| Nepal 258/8 (50 overs) | v | United States 226 (48.2 overs) |
| Subash Khakurel 115 (142) Timroy Allen 2/69 (10 overs) | | Sushil Nadkarni 84 (106) Basanta Regmi 5/35 (10 overs) |
* Nepal won by 32 runs Kinrara Academy Oval, Kuala Lumpur Umpires: Viswanadan Kalidas (Mas) and Ashwani Rana (Tha) Player of the match: Subash Khakurel (Nep)
* Nepal won the toss and elected to bat
* 7 September 10:30 Scorecard
| Tanzania 94 (27.1 overs) | v | Singapore 97/2 (11.2 overs) |
| Abhik Patwa 47 (58) Abhiraj Singh 5/12 (8.1 overs) | | Chetan Suryawanshi 62* (38) Khalil Rehemtulla 1/8 (1 over) |
* Singapore won by 8 wickets Selangor Turf Club, Kuala Lumpur Umpires: Ranmore Martinesz (Sri) and Durga Subedi (Nep) Player of the match: Abhiraj Singh (Sin)
* Singapore won the toss and elected to bowl
* 7 September 10:30 Scorecard
| Malaysia 252 (49.5 overs) | v | Denmark 254/7 (48.1 overs) |
| Suhan Alagaratnam 48 (70) Bashir Shah 3/41 (4.5 overs) | | Carsten Pedersen 83 (104) Hassan Ghulam 2/36 (9 overs) |
* Denmark won by 3 wickets Bayuemas Oval, Kuala Lumpur Umpires: Sameer Bandekar (USA) and Wynand Louw (Nam) Player of the match: Carsten Pedersen (Den)
* Malaysia won the toss and elected to bat
* 9 September 10:30 Scorecard
| Nepal 240 (50 overs) | v | Denmark 130/9 (31 overs) |
| Anil Mandal 113 (134) Bashir Shah 2/35 (6 overs) | | Andreas Lambert 47 (79) Paras Khadka 4/34 (6 overs) |
* Nepal win by 25 runs (D/L) Kinrara Academy Oval, Kuala Lumpur Umpires: Sameer Bandekar (USA) and Ranmore Martinesz (Sri) Player of the match: Anil Mandal (Nep)
* Nepal won the toss and elected to bat
* Rain stopped the Denmark innings after 25 overs, thus setting them a target of 156 in 31 overs
* 9 September 10:30 Scorecard
| Tanzania 187 (49.2 overs) | v | Malaysia 191/5 (37.1 overs) |
| Kassim Nassoro 47 (51) Shahrulnizam Yusof 3/30 (10 overs) | | Rakesh Madhavan 102* (104) Khalil Rehemtulla 3/46 (10 overs) |
* Malaysia win by 5 wickets Selangor Turf Club, Kuala Lumpur Umpires: Ashwani Rana (Tha) and Sri Ganesh (Sin) Player of the match: Rakesh Madhavan (Mas)
* Tanzania won the toss and elected to bat
* 9 September 10:30 Scorecard
| United States 263 (49 overs) | v | Singapore 129/8 (24 overs) |
| Steven Taylor 50 (46) Saad Janjua 4/40 (8 overs) | | Munish Arora 26 (29) Muhammad Ghous 2/20 (6 overs) |
* United States of America won by 37 runs (D/L) Bayuemas Oval, Kuala Lumpur Umpires: Wynand Louw (Nam) and Durga Subedi (Nep) Player of the match: Timroy Allen (USA)
* United States of America won the toss and elected to bat
* Rain interrupted the Singapore innings after 2 overs, thus setting them a target of 186 in 27 overs, however the rain again returned after 24 overs, thus adjusting their target to 167

### Playoffs
#### 5th place playoff

* 10 September Scorecard
| Tanzania 187 (49.4 overs) | v | Malaysia 188/5 (45.5 overs) |
| Abhik Patwa 67 (105) Rashid Ahad 3/33 (10 overs) | | Shafiq Sharif 57* (80) Abhik Patwa 2/35 (8 overs) |
* Malaysia won by 5 wickets Bayuemas Oval, Kuala Lumpur Umpires: Sameer Bandekar (USA) and Ashwani Rana (Tha) Player of the match: Abhik Patwa (Tan)
* Malaysia won the toss and elected to field

#### 3rd place playoff

* 10 September Scorecard
| Denmark 83 (26 overs) | v | Singapore 87/5 (16.2 overs) |
| Rizwan Mahmood 19 (41) Chetan Suryawanshi 3/23 (7 overs) | | Chetan Suryawanshi 45 (29) Bashir Shah 5/11 (8 overs) |
* Singapore won by 5 wickets Selangor Turf Club, Kuala Lumpur Umpires: Viswanadan Kalidas (Mas) and Durga Subedi (Nep) Player of the match: Chetan Suryawanshi (Sin)
* Denmark won the toss and elected to bat

#### Final

* 10 September Scorecard
| United States 145 (48.1 ov) | v | Nepal 147/2 (28.0 ov) |
| Sushil Nadkarni 39 (69) Basanta Regmi 5/20 (9.1 overs) | | Gyanendra Malla 66 (65) Elmore Hutchinson 1/16 (3 overs) |
* Nepal won by 8 wickets Kinrara Academy Oval, Kuala Lumpur Umpires: Wynand Louw (Nam) and Sri Ganesh (Sin) Player of the match: Basanta Regmi (Nep)
* United States of America won the toss and elected to bat

## Statistics
### Most Runs

The top five run scorers (total runs) are included in this table.
| Player | Team | Runs | Inns | Avg | S/R | HS | 100s | 50s |
| Sushil Nadkarni | United States | 238 | 5 | 47.60 | 69.38 | 84 | 0 | 2 |
| Steven Taylor | United States | 216 | 6 | 36.00 | 104.85 | 62 | 0 | 2 |
| Subash Khakurel | Nepal | 208 | 6 | 52.00 | 64.59 | 115 | 1 | 0 |
| Anil Mandal | Nepal | 186 | 6 | 37.20 | 76.54 | 113 | 1 | 0 |
| Gyanendra Malla | Nepal | 178 | 6 | 44.50 | 83.17 | 66 | 0 | 1 |

### Most Wickets

The top five wicket takers (total wickets) are listed in this table.
| Player | Team | Wkts | Mts | Ave | S/R | Econ | BBI |
| Basanta Regmi | Nepal | 21 | 6 | 6.66 | 14.2 | 2.80 | 5/20 |
| Bashir Shah | Denmark | 13 | 6 | 11.92 | 22.6 | 3.16 | 5/11 |
| Mulewa Dharmichand | Singapore | 11 | 6 | 14.90 | 22.3 | 4.00 | 4/34 |
| Shakti Gauchan | Nepal | 10 | 6 | 9.80 | 28.4 | 2.07 | 3/2 |
| Abhiraj Singh | Singapore | 10 | 5 | 12.00 | 20.4 | 3.52 | 5/12 |

## Final placings

After the conclusion of the tournament the teams were distributed as follows:
| Pos. | Team | Status |
| 1st | Nepal | Promoted to Division Three for 2013 |
| 2nd | United States | Promoted to Division Three for 2013 |
| 3rd | Singapore | Remained in Division Four for 2014 |
| 4th | Denmark | Remained in Division Four for 2014 |
| 5th | Malaysia | Relegated to Division Five for 2014 |
| 6th | Tanzania | Relegated to Division Five for 2014 |