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2014 ICC World Cricket League Division Three

Dates	23 October – 30 October 2014
Administrator(s)	International Cricket Council
Cricket format	Limited overs cricket
Tournament format(s)	Round-robin and playoffs
Host(s)	Malaysia
Champions	Nepal (2nd title)
Participants	6
Matches	20
Player of the series	Roger Mukasa
Most runs	Arjun Mutreja (282)
Most wickets	Basanta Regmi (14)
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The 2014 ICC World Cricket League Division Three was a cricket divisional tournament organised by International Cricket Council. It formed part of the ICC World Cricket League (WCL) and qualification for the 2019 World Cup. The top two teams in the tournament Nepal and Uganda qualified for the 2015 WCL Division Two tournament, to be held in Namibia, while the bottom two teams United States and Bermuda were relegated to the 2016 WCL Division Four tournament,.

Malaysia hosted the event, from 23 to 30 October 2014.^[1] It was originally to be held in Uganda, but in September 2014 the ICC shifted the tournament to Malaysia due to security concerns, at the suggestion of the Malaysian Cricket Association.^[2] Players from Bermuda and the United States had indicated they would not take part in the tournament if it were held in Uganda.^[3]^[4]

The teams that took part in the tournament were decided according to the results of the 2014 World Cup Qualifier, the 2013 WCL Division Three, and the 2014 WCL Division Four.

Key

†	Denotes relegated teams
†	Denotes unmoved teams
†	Denotes promoted teams

Team	Last outcome
Nepal	9th in 2014 World Cup Qualifier, New Zealand
Uganda	10th in 2014 World Cup Qualifier, New Zealand
United States	3rd in 2013 ICC World Cricket League Division Three, Bermuda
Bermuda	4th in 2013 ICC World Cricket League Division Three, Bermuda
Malaysia	1st in 2014 ICC World Cricket League Division Four, Singapore
Singapore	2nd in 2014 ICC World Cricket League Division Four, Singapore

Following three venues were used for the tournament.

Bermuda^[5]	Malaysia^[6]	Nepal^[7]	Singapore^[8]	Uganda^[9]	United States^[10]
Janeiro Tucker (c) Onais Bascome Kamal Bashir Christian Burgess Lionel Cann Jordan DeSilva Allan Douglas Terryn Fray Malachi Jones Kamau Leverock Tre Manders Delray Rawlins Dion Stovell Delano Talbot	Ahmed Faiz (c) Anwar Arudin Derek Duraisingam Hassan Ghulam Khizar Hayat Nasir Shafiq Suresh Navaratnam Pavandeep Singh Aminuddin Ramly Shafiq Sharif (wk) Shahrulnizam Yusof Shukri Rahim Suhan Alagaratnam Suharril Fetri	Paras Khadka (c) Gyanendra Malla (vc) Mehboob Alam Binod Bhandari (wk) Amrit Bhattarai Naresh Budhayer Shakti Gauchan Sompal Kami Bhuwan Karki Subash Khakurel (wk) Sagar Pun Basanta Regmi Aarif Sheikh Sharad Vesawkar	Saad Janjua (c) Abhiraj Singh Amjad Mahboob Suresh Appusamy Mulewa Dharmichand Rezza Gaznavi Christopher Janik Chaminda Ruwan Mohamed Shoib Arjun Mutreja Anish Paraam Kshitij Shinde Chetan Suryawanshi Selladore Vijayakumar	Frank Nsubuga (c) Davis Arinaitwe Hamu Bagenda Arthur Kyobe Brian Masaba Deusdedit Muhumuza Roger Mukasa Naeem Bardai Danniel Ruyange Lawrence Sematimba Jonathan Ssebanja Henry Ssenyondo Irishard Suleiman Phillimon Selowa	Steve Massiah (c) Adil Bhatti Danial Ahmed Fahad Babar Karan Ganesh Elmore Hutchinson Jermaine Lawson Muhammad Ghous Sushil Nadkarni Timil Patel Srini Santhanam Steven Taylor (wk) Aditya Thyagarajan Usman Shuja

All times are Malaysia Standard Time (UTC+08:00)

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	Pts	NRR	Promotion or relegation
1	Nepal	5	4	1	8	1.985	Met in the final and promoted to Division Two for 2015
2	Uganda	5	4	1	8	0.152
3	Singapore	5	3	2	6	−0.351	Met in the 3rd place playoff and remained in Division Three for 2017
4	Malaysia	5	2	3	4	0.204
5	United States	5	1	4	2	0.165	Met in the 5th place playoff and relegated to Division Four for 2016
6	Bermuda	5	1	4	2	−2.134

Nepal won the toss and chose to bat

United States won the toss and chose to field

Singapore won the toss and chose to field

Uganda won the toss and chose to bat

Malaysia won the toss and chose to field

Nepal won the toss and chose to field

Malaysiya won the toss and chose to field
Rain interrupted the match in the 2nd innings.

Singapore won the toss and chose to field

Uganda won the toss and chose to bat
Rain interrupted the match in the 2nd innings.

United States won the toss and chose to bat
Rain interrupted the match after 1st innings and target was revised for Nepal to 162 runs from 30 overs. With further rain, match was called off and rescheduled for 28 October.

Uganda won the toss and chose to bat

Singapore won the toss and chose to bat
Match called off, new game scheduled for 28 October

United States won the toss and chose to bat
Rain stopped the Nepal's innings after 22 overs. D/L method was used to decide the result.
Replay of match scheduled 27 October

Bermuda won the toss and chose to bat
Replay of match scheduled 27 October

Singapore won the toss and chose to bat
Rain Delay - Target revised to 200 from 42 overs (D/L method)

Bermuda won the toss and chose to bat

Nepal won the toss and chose to field
Rain stopped the Nepal's innings after 25 overs. D/L method was used to decide the result.

Bermuda won the toss and chose to bat

Malaysia won the toss and chose to field

Nepal won the toss and chose to bat

Player	Team	Runs	Inns	Avg	S/R	HS	100s	50s
Arjun Mutreja	Singapore	282	7	40.28	64.09	108	1	1
Roger Mukasa	Uganda	265	6	44.16	89.52	86	0	3
Ahmed Faiz	Malaysia	261	6	52.20	70.92	87	0	2
Fahad Babar	United States	247	6	49.40	65.51	63*	0	2
Gyanendra Malla	Nepal	241	6	48.20	72.59	114	1	1

Source: Cricinfo

Player	Team	Wkts	Mts	Ave	S/R	Econ	BBI
Basanta Regmi	Nepal	14	7	14.85	26.9	3.31	4/6
Roger Mukasa	Uganda	13	6	9.61	12.8	4.49	6/27
Davis Arinaitwe	Uganda	13	6	16.00	25.3	3.79	5/32
Frank Nsubuga	Uganda	11	6	16.81	27.6	3.65	4/23
Dion Stovell	Bermuda	11	7	17.00	21.7	4.69	4/53

Source: Cricinfo

After the conclusion of the tournament the teams were distributed as follows:

Pos	Team	Status
1st	Nepal	Promoted to Division Two for 2015
2nd	Uganda
3rd	Malaysia	Remained in Division Three for 2017
4th	Singapore
5th	United States	Relegated to Division Four for 2016
6th	Bermuda

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