Kuwait National cricket team under the astute captaincy of Hisham Mirza will be leaving to Singapore to participate in the ACC Elite League – 2014 on June 4, 2014. The event organized by Singapore cricket Association under the auspicious of Asian Cricket Council is of great significance to Kuwait Cricket as they have to win the six-nation event in order to be promoted to the Premier League and to also advance a claim to a place in the WCL- Division 6 (World Cricket League).

The 14 member squad consists of some experienced players featured in many previous overseas tours and a few youngsters who had been knocking the door to be in the national side since a couple of years. The selected squad had a fruitful domestic season with a consistent outing in various local cricket tournaments.

Apart from Kuwait, the teams vying for the top honors will be host Singapore, Maldives, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain & Bhutan and grueling event has 50 overs back to back matches played at Indian Association Ground, Kallang Cricket Ground and Singapore Cricket Club.

The young Kuwait squad is beaming with confidence and with its increasingly adept aggression, proven spinners and with its tremendous fighting spirit is fancied and with a title Perennial dark horses has to come back home victorious. The team has been undergoing vigorous training since the past couple of months under the watchful eyes of Head Coach Arjuna Amaratunga & Sheikh Ayub and the young outfit has game sense, flair and undoubted skill and as a team has to crave that step up to the top.