Peter Della Penna

USA correspondent, ESPNcricinfo

Namibia relegate Kenya, set up semi-final against UAE

Spinners Bernard Scholtz and Petrus Burger took seven wickets between them to send Kenya crashing to 110, 90 minutes before lunch

13-Feb-2018•The Report by Peter Della Penna in Windhoek

The agony and ecstasy of World Cricket League

Two moments in the field - a run out in the match between UAE and Oman, and a fumble in the game between Kenya and Nepal - summed up the contrasting emotions in the tournament

13-Feb-2018•Peter Della Penna in Windhoek

Williams, Erasmus fifties hand Canada first loss

Gerhard Erasmus followed up his final-over heroics from a day earlier to partner Craig Williams for a 95-run sixth-wicket stand that set up Namibia's 17-run win

13-Feb-2018•The Report by Peter Della Penna

Lamichhane's five-for takes Nepal closer to World Cup Qualifier

After limiting Kenya to 177 for 8, Nepal's lower order clinched a thrilling three-wicket win over Kenya, helping them recover from 82 for 5 in a chase of 178

13-Feb-2018•The Report by Peter Della Penna

Naveed, Haider end Oman's World Cup dreams

Defending a middling total of 159, UAE bowlers Mohammad Naveed and Imran Haider took three wickets each to complete a 46-run victory

12-Feb-2018•The Report by Peter Della Penna in Windhoek

Coach Brown wants UAE's focus on '600 events' a game

The UAE coach also thinks the Associates have a chance of tripping up the Full Members at the upcoming World Cup Qualifier, given "we know what pressure is on the back of qualification or non-qualification"

12-Feb-2018•Peter Della Penna

A tournament that could decide Gerhard Erasmus' career

The 22-year-old Namibia batsman is facing the pressure Associate players go through almost every time they take the field - it's either win, or lose your cricketing career

12-Feb-2018•Peter Della Penna in Windhoek

Erasmus' resilient fifty hauls Namibia to thrilling win

Nepal scrape to four-wicket win after felling UAE for 114; Canada pick up third straight win after Gunasekera's gritty half-century

11-Feb-2018•The Report by Peter Della Penna

Namibia roll Kenya for 83, denied win by rain

Left-arm medium-pacer Tangeni Lungameni's List A career-best 3 for 6 helped dismiss Kenya for 83, but heavy rain just five overs into the host's chase, forced an end to play with no result

10-Feb-2018•The report by Peter Della Penna in Windhoek

Former India U-19 duo finding their feet with USA

Saurabh Netravalkar was India's leading wicket-taker in the 2010 Under-19 World Cup. Sunny Sohal once outscored Virat Kohli at the junior level. Their cricketing journeys since then have taken them to an adopted home halfway around the globe

10-Feb-2018•Peter Della Penna

Oman trounce Nepal after Kaleemullah's four-for, Canada thwart UAE to go to 2-0

Tall medium-pacer Kaleemullah set up a six-wicket win for Oman over Nepal and Canada's Nitish Kumar prevailed in a showdown of offspinning-allrounder captains against UAE

09-Feb-2018•The Report by Peter Della Penna in Windhoek

Lamichhane, Basant help Nepal pull off one-wicket heist

Canada's seamers skittled Oman for 106 in 27.4 overs and set up a thumping eight-wicket win while a trio of fifties helped UAE vault past Kenya by 218 runs

08-Feb-2018•Peter Della Penna in Windhoek

WCL Division Two: a step closer to the 2019 World Cup

Following Division Five in Jersey, teams have had to navigate through Division Four in Los Angeles and Division Three in Uganda. Now, another hurdle in Namibia in their bid for a World-Cup spot

07-Feb-2018•Peter Della Penna in Windhoek

Marshall's redemption song in home away from home?

The former West Indies batsman has an opportunity to return to international cricket in his adopted home, and also a chance to show that he should never have felt like he had to leave his true home

06-Feb-2018•Peter Della Penna

Jamaica Tallawahs likely to play three home games in Florida

The news follows an ESPNcricinfo report from August 2017 which indicated that the Tallawahs' Florida-based owners planned to make more effort to establish roots in their home state and away from Jamaica

01-Feb-2018•Peter Della Penna

Sandeep Lamichhane makes history as Nepal's first IPL player

The 17-year old rose to prominence in 2016, taking 14 wickets in six matches at the Under-19 World Cup, and later playing alongside Michael Clarke in the Hong Kong T20 Blitz.

28-Jan-2018•Peter Della Penna

Why is the USA unable to develop homegrown talent?

The selection of Xavier Marshall, Saurabh Netravalkar and Sunny Sohal in the USA squad is only the latest instance of the selectors falling back on imports from the Caribbean and the subcontinent in the pursuit of the holy grail of ODI status

23-Jan-2018•Peter Della Penna

Door not closed on locally developed talent - Dassanayake

The USA coach says players and fans need to embrace the reality that in the promotion and relegation atmosphere of Associate cricket, coaches and administrators are under strong pressure to pick their best eligible XI

20-Jan-2018•Peter Della Penna

Two former India U-19s, ex-WI batsman Marshall named in USA squad

Xavier Marshall, who played seven Tests for the West Indies from 2005 to 2009, is in line to make his USA debut after being named in a 14-man squad for the West Indies Regional Super50

12-Jan-2018•Peter Della Penna

'Playing in Super50 will speed up USA player development' - Dassanayake

USA's head coach is optimistic as they prepare to take part in West Indies' regional limited-overs tournament ahead of theT20 qualifiers and ICC WCL campaigns later this year

12-Jan-2018•Peter Della Penna

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