2019 Valletta Cup
Dates | 17 – 20 October 2019 |
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Administrator(s) | Malta Cricket Association |
Cricket format | Twenty20 International, Twenty20 |
Host(s) | Malta |
Champions | Czech Republic |
Runners-up | Hungary XI |
Participants | 4 |
Matches | 9 |
Player of the series | Sabawoon Davizi |
Most runs | Sabawoon Davizi (253) |
Most wickets | Kushalkumar Mendon (11) |
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The 2019 Valletta Cup, the inaugural edition of the Valletta Cup, was a Twenty20 cricket tournament held in Malta between 17 and 20 October 2019.[1][2][3] The participating teams were the hosts Malta along with Czech Republic, Iceland and a Hungary XI. Matches played between Malta and the Czech Republic had official Twenty20 International (T20I) status, but because Iceland were not an Associate Member of the ICC and the selected Hungarian squad was not an official national side, matches involving either of these teams did not have T20I status. The matches were played at Marsa Sports Club in Marsa. The Hungarian XI won all of their round-robin matches and their semi-final, but were beaten by the Czech Republic in the final.[4]
Squads
Czech Republic[5] | Hungary XI[6] | Iceland[7] | Malta[8] |
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Round robin
Points table
Team[9] | P | W | L | T | NR | Pts | NRR |
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Hungary XI | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | +1.086 |
Czech Republic | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | +1.327 |
Malta | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | –0.295 |
Iceland | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | –2.186 |
Fixtures
17 October 2019 13:30 Scorecard |
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Lee Nelson 49 (40) Ravinder Singh 3/9 (3 overs) | Bikram Arora 30* (33) Prabhath Weerasooriya 2/20 (4 overs) |
- Iceland won the toss and elected to bat.
18 October 2019 08:00 Scorecard |
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Sabawoon Davizi 91 (65) Jurg Hirschi 2/18 (4 overs) | Haroon Mughal 31 (23) Kushalkumar Mendon 3/19 (2 overs) |
Czech Republic won by 12 runs Marsa Sports Club, Marsa Umpires: Les White (Mlt) and Ruben Sivanadian (Mlt) |
- Czech Republic won the toss and elected to bat.
- Waseem Abbas, Sean Byrne, Gopal Chaturvedi, Michael Goonetilleke, Ravinder Singh (Mlt), Arun Ashokan, Sabawoon Davizi and Siddarth Goud (Cze) all made their T20I debuts.
18 October 2019 11:30 Scorecard |
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Keenan Botha 27 (33) Habib Deldar 2/16 (4 overs) | Zahir Mohammed 56 (26) Prabhath Weerasooriya 4/22 (4 overs) |
Hungary XI won by 5 wickets Marsa Sports Club, Marsa Umpires: Les White (Mlt) and Ruben Sivanadian (Mlt) |
- Iceland won the toss and elected to bat.
18 October 2019 15:00 Scorecard |
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Hilal Ahmad 47* (29) Keenan Botha 4/19 (4 overs) | Lakmal Bandara 21 (28) Kushalkumar Mendon 3/3 (2 overs) |
Czech Republic won by 83 runs Marsa Sports Club, Marsa Umpires: Frankie Spiteri (Mlt) and Ruben Sivanadian (Mlt) |
- Czech Republic won the toss and elected to bat.
19 October 2019 10:00 Scorecard |
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Edward Knowles 30* (28) Abhishek Kheterpal 3/13 (4 overs) | Abhishek Ahuja 32* (34) Paul Taylor 2/24 (4 overs) |
Hungary XI won by 7 wickets Marsa Sports Club, Marsa Umpires: Subhas Roy (Mlt) and Ruben Sivanadian (Mlt) |
- Hungary XI won the toss and elected to field.
19 October 2019 13:30 Scorecard |
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Nowell Khosla 46 (36) Harshvardhan Mandhyan 4/11 (4 overs) | Ali Haider 25* (35) Jurg Hirschi 2/8 (2 overs) |
- Malta won the toss and elected to bat.
Knockouts
Semi-finals
20 October 2019 08:00 Scorecard |
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Sabawoon Davizi 101 (68) Sujesh Appu 1/26 (3 overs) | Gopal Chaturvedi 24 (11) Sabawoon Davizi 4/15 (3 overs) |
Czech Republic won by 82 runs Marsa Sports Club, Marsa Umpires: Ruben Sivanadian (Mlt) and Les White (Mlt) |
- Czech Republic won the toss and elected to bat.
- Suhrid Roy (Mlt) made his T20I debut.
- Sabawoon Davizi (Cze) scored his first century in T20Is.
20 October 2019 11:30 Scorecard |
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Yougeshwar Deonarain 61 (45) Abhishek Kheterpal 2/24 (4 overs) | Zeeshan Kukikhel 55 (25) Keenan Botha 1/8 (3 overs) |
Hungary XI won by 9 wickets Marsa Sports Club, Marsa Umpires: Ghose Roy (Mlt) and Ruben Sivanadian (Mlt) |
- Hungary XI won the toss and elected to field.
Final
20 October 2019 15:00 Scorecard |
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Zeeshan Kukikhel 28 (29) Naveed Ahmed 4/14 (4 overs) | Sabawoon Davizi 57* (40) Habib Deldar 1/14 (2 overs) |
Czech Republic won by 8 wickets Marsa Sports Club, Marsa Umpires: Subhas Roy (Mlt) and Ruben Sivanadian (Mlt) |
- Czech Republic won the toss and elected to field.
References
- ^ @MaltaCricket (26 September 2019). "The Malta Cricket Association is delighted to announce that we will be hosting a T20 Tournament between October 17th-20th" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
- ^ @MaltaCricket (4 October 2019). "The Malta Cricket Association is delighted to announce that the upcoming ICC T20 Tournament will be known as the 2019 Valletta Cup" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
- ^ "Valletta Cup 2019/20". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 28 September 2019.
- ^ @MaltaCricket (20 October 2019). "Czech Republic crowned champions of the 2019 Valletta Cup" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
- ^ "National team squad. Valletta Cup, Malta, October 17 – 20 2019". Czech Cricket (via Facebook). 4 October 2019. Retrieved 4 October 2019.
- ^ "Hungarian men's national team tour to Malta". Hungarian Cricket Association. Retrieved 14 October 2019.
- ^ "It is two weeks to go and we are pleased to announce our squad for the Valletta Cup in Malta". Iceland Cricket (via Facebook). Retrieved 1 October 2019.
- ^ @MaltaCricket (10 October 2019). "The Malta Cricket Association is delighted to announce its 15-man squad for the upcoming 2019 ICC T20 Valletta Cup" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
- ^ "Valletta Cup 2019/20". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 20 October 2019.
External links
- Series home at ESPN Cricinfo
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