WINDHOEK Calvin Ridley Jersey , May 6 (Xinhua) -- Namibia's national cricket team will put the bat to the test when they clash with Hong Kong during the first round of the Intercontinental Cup and World Cricket League (WCL) Championships respectively.
Namibia will commence its Intercontinental Cup campaign on May 10, with a four-day match against their Asian counterparts, at the Wanderers Sports Club fields in Windhoek.
The Intercontinental Cup is the International Cricket Council' s (ICC) four-day, first-class competition for the leading Associate and Affiliate Members (AMs). The event was first played in 2004, however, it now takes on much greater significance with the winner in 2017 challenging the 10th-ranked Full Member for the opportunity to play Test cricket.
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On May 15, the Namibian On Day International (ODI) team will take on Hong Kong in their first ICC World Cricket League Championships match. The team qualified by virtue of being placed second in the 2015 ICC World Cricket League Division Two on home soil at the beginning of the year.
Ireland and Afghanistan will not compete in the tournament as both of them have been made eligible to qualify for the 2019 World Cup directly via rankings. Instead Vic Beasley Jersey , Kenya and Nepal have been included in the tournament.
The WCL Championship is the ICC's premier 50-over competition for the leading Associate Members. The top countries at the end of 2017 will earn direct passage into the ICC Cricket World Cup Qualifiers 2018, while the winner will also have the opportunity to challenge for a place on the ICC's ODI Rankings from 2018 onwards.
Fernando Alonso and Jenson Button will continue to race for McLaren next season, team boss Ron Dennis said at the Japanese Grand Prix on Sunday after both drivers had raised doubts about their Formula One futures.
Asked in the Suzuka paddock whether the frustrated world champions would be staying, Dennis replied, "Yes, what more do you want?"
"Jenson has a two-year contract Wholesale Falcons Jerseys ," he told reporters, adding that it would remain unchanged and Button, who has hinted he could retire at the end of the season, was happy with the arrangement.
"I should have taken away any doubt about our commitment to him earlier than I did."
Alonso, who assured re-porters on Saturday he would be at the Honda-powered team next year, said after the race that he did not know.
Dennis told reporters he too did not know what the Spaniard was talking about.
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In a very public humiliation for Honda at their home -circuit, and with the car giant's top bosses attending, Alonso had vented all his frustration with the underperforming -engine as he labored to 11th place - an impressive result under the -circumstances.
"I'm being passed down the straights like a GP2 [car]. This is embarrassing, very embarrassing," the double champion said over the team radio, referring to Formula One's less powerful feeder series.
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ATHENS, Sept. 21 (Xinhua) -- Greece's Radical Left SYRIZA party leader Alexis Tsipras was sworn in on Monday as Prime Minister as the winner of Sunday's general elections.
The 41-year-old Leftist leader took a civil oath instead of a religious oath to "serve the laws, the Constitution and the interests of Greek people" in a ceremony held at the Presidential Mansion in Athens.
A few hours earlier on Monday Tsipras had formally received from the President of the Hellenic Republic Prokopis Pavlopoulos the mandate to form a government for a second time in eight months.
SYRIZA won 35.5 percent of votes and 145 seats in the next 300-member strong assembly, according to the final official results released by the Interior Ministry.
On Sunday night a few hours after the closing of the ballots Tsipras and Panos Kammenos Logan Paulsen Falcons Jersey , the leader of the Right-wing Independent Greeks party (ANEL), the junior partner in Tsipras' first government from January to August, announced their intention to renew the coalition partnership.
With the 10 seats ANEL secured by garnering 3.7 of the votes, the new government will control 155 seats in the next chamber.
The announcement of its composition and swearing in ceremony were expected to be made by Wednesday noon so that Tsipras can travel later on Wednesday to Brussels to participate in the forthcoming EU summit on the migrant and refugee crisis, representing Anastasiades as well.
"I think that today Europe can realize its responsibilities in a European problem," Tsipras noted during his meeting with Pavlopoulos.
"We were given unfortunately an opportunity under this crisis to realize Brandon Fusco Falcons Jersey , in particular our partners, that at the core of the EU, including the euro zone, is the human being. The currency and the economy should serve the human being," Pavlopoulos said.
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