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He can bowl left-arm fingerspin, fast googlies, and loopy legbreaks, and is now ready to make the next step up in his career

A team of delivery drivers, businessmen, a student, and fathers who haven't met their newborn children prepare to play mighty India

The heat of the UAE has mirrored the intensity of the teams, who all have one eye on Australia in October-November

How the eight teams stack up ahead of the T20 World Cup qualifying event to be held in Bulawayo

Also: what's the lowest individual score never made in each format of international cricket?

The former Hong Kong captain relocates to India where he hopes to qualify as a local and "one day play Test cricket"

Zeeshan Maqsood to lead the team, which has Davy Jacobs and Ali Khan among its biggest stars

A bruising timer of the ball, one of the best death bowlers in Associate cricket, an offspinner, a legspinner are among our six picks

With the death of the World Cricket League after this event, the tournament gives teams a chance to resurrect, with ODI status also up for grabs for four teams

Slow surfaces, large boundaries, sapping heat and low totals were a deviation from the quotidian ODI run-fest

Simon Cook, the Hong Kong coach, chats with ESPNcricinfo about the challenges of motivating a team that has lost its ODI status, and of retaining talent in a system without too much money

As a team that plays four club fixtures in three months back home, Hong Kong's meek submission to Pakistan was hardly a surprise

UK visa policy and the ECB's restrictions on Associate players forced him to give up an economics degree and forego a place in Middlesex's first XI, but Anshuman Rath, Hong Kong captain at just 20, has still done pretty well for himself

The tournament will be a high point of a bizarre year in which the team has lost its ODI status while also securing famous wins against Afghanistan, UAE and Nepal in the 50-overs format

In any other major subcontinental sport, the Asian championships are a significant event. But is it really so in cricket?

Peter Della Penna picks out eight of the best and worst aspects of the ICC World Cup Qualifier

Nepal has gained ODI status for the first time winning absolute nail-biters, but the teams that lost by such small margins also deserve a shot at more funding and better recognition

The Hong Kong captain was always a hard hitter of the ball, but now he has extended that aggression to the rest of his game, and infected his team-mates

Rohit Paudel and Shane Snater are among the promising players to watch out for at the World Cup Qualifier

The tournament begins in Zimbabwe on Sunday and will continue across Harare, Bulawayo and Kwekwe until March 25. Here is everything you need to know about it