2022 Germany Tri-Nation Series

International cricket tournament

Cricket series

Date

9–12 June 2022

Location

Germany

Result

Germany won the tournament

Teams
Austria	Germany	Sweden
Captains
Razmal Shigiwal	Venkatraman Ganesan	Abhijit Venkatesh
Most runs
Iqbal Hossain (132)	Talha Khan (103)	Umar Nawaz (103)
Most wickets
Abdullah Akbarjan (9)	Walter Behr (9)	Zaker Taqawi (9)

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The 2022 Germany Tri-Nation Series was a Twenty20 International (T20I) cricket tournament that was held in Germany from 9 to 12 June 2022. The participating teams were the hosts Germany, along with Austria and Sweden, and all matches were played at the Bayer Uerdingen Cricket Ground in Krefeld.^[1]

Germany and Austria each won three of their four round-robin matches to progress to the final, where the Germans won by three wickets with two balls to spare.^[2]

Squads

Austria	Germany^[3]	Sweden^[4]
Razmal Shigiwal (c) Mirza Ahsan Abdullah Akbarjan Arsalan Arif (wk) Abrar Bilal (wk) Mehar Cheema (wk) Itibarshah Deedar Iqbal Hossain Aqib Iqbal Shahil Momin Amit Nathwani Quinton Norris Armaan Randhawa Jaweed Sadran Mark Simpson-Parker Ahsan Yousuf Sahel Zadran Bilal Zalmai	Venkatraman Ganesan (c) Ghulam Ahmadi Vaseekaran Aritharan Walter Behr Elam Bharathi Dylan Blignaut Rajesh Chinnasamy Shoaib Khan Talha Khan Sajid Liaqat Sachin Mandy (wk) Nooruddin Mujadady Nilay Patel Abdul Shakoor Harish Srinivasan (wk) Abdul Stanikzai Ahmed Wardak Muslim Yar	Abhijit Venkatesh (c) Umar Nawaz (vc) Baz Ayubi Abdul Naser Baluch Wynand Boshoff (wk) Faseeh Choudary Tasaduq Hussain Liam Karlsson Azam Khalil Sami Khalil Hamid Mahmood Lemar Momand Zaker Taqawi Khalid Zahid Ismaeel Zia (wk)

Round-robin

Points Table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	Pts	NRR
1	Germany	4	3	1	6	0.781
2	Austria	4	3	1	6	−0.152
3	Sweden	4	0	4	0	−0.626

Source: ESPN Cricinfo^[5]

Advanced to the final

Fixtures

9 June 2022
11:30
Scorecard

Germany 135/7 (19 overs)	v	Austria 81 (15.4 overs)
Dylan Blignaut 43 (32) Jaweed Sadran 3/28 (3 overs)		Iqbal Hossain 33 (19) Walter Behr 3/12 (4 overs)

Germany won by 54 runs
Bayer Uerdingen Cricket Ground, Krefeld
Umpires: Sunil Gowda (Ger) and Mark Jameson (Ger)
Player of the match: Dylan Blignaut (Ger)

Austria won the toss and elected to field.
The match was reduced to 19 overs per side due to rain.
Walter Behr, Sachin Mandy and Abdul Stanikzai (Ger) all made their T20I debuts.

9 June 2022
16:00
Scorecard

Sweden 93 (20 overs)	v	Germany 95/6 (17.4 overs)
Umar Nawaz 56 (49) Venkatraman Ganesan 3/11 (4 overs)		Sachin Mandy 29 (34) Hamid Mahmood 3/10 (3 overs)

Germany won by 4 wickets
Bayer Uerdingen Cricket Ground, Krefeld
Umpires: Mark Jameson (Ger) and Vinay Malhotra (Ger)
Player of the match: Venkatraman Ganesan (Ger)

Germany won the toss and elected to field.
Tasaduq Hussain, Azam Khalil, Sami Khalil, Hamid Mahmood, Umar Nawaz and Zaker Taqawi (Swe) all made their T20I debuts.

10 June 2022
11:30
Scorecard

Austria 141/9 (20 overs)	v	Germany 103 (18.4 overs)
Razmal Shigiwal 39 (35) Dylan Blignaut 2/22 (4 overs)		Talha Khan 31 (34) Aqib Iqbal 3/18 (4 overs)

Austria won by 38 runs
Bayer Uerdingen Cricket Ground, Krefeld
Umpires: Sunil Gowda (Ger) and Vinay Malhotra (Ger)
Player of the match: Aqib Iqbal (Aut)

Austria won the toss and elected to bat.

10 June 2022
16:00
Scorecard

Austria 124/9 (20 overs)	v	Sweden 121 (19.2 overs)
Shahil Momin 43 (43) Liam Karlsson 3/25 (4 overs)		Umar Nawaz 22 (18) Abdullah Akbarjan 3/16 (3.2 overs)

Austria won by 3 runs
Bayer Uerdingen Cricket Ground, Krefeld
Umpires: Mark Jameson (Ger) and Vinay Malhotra (Ger)
Player of the match: Abdullah Akbarjan (Aut)

Sweden won the toss and elected to field.
Armaan Randhawa (Aut) and Ismaeel Zia (Swe) both made their T20I debuts.

11 June 2022
11:30
Scorecard

Austria 133/7 (20 overs)	v	Sweden 132/6 (20 overs)
Iqbal Hossain 57 (45) Liam Karlsson 1/7 (2 overs)		Wynand Boshoff 40 (36) Iqbal Hossain 3/22 (4 overs)

Austria won by 1 run
Bayer Uerdingen Cricket Ground, Krefeld
Umpires: Sunil Gowda (Ger) and Arun Kumar (Ger)
Player of the match: Iqbal Hossain (Aut)

Sweden won the toss and elected to field.
Faseeh Choudary (Swe) made his T20I debut.

11 June 2022
16:00
Scorecard

Germany 151/8 (20 overs)	v	Sweden 122/8 (20 overs)
Talha Khan 58 (45) Zaker Taqawi 5/25 (4 overs)		Hamid Mahmood 41 (41) Ghulam Ahmadi 3/21 (4 overs)

Germany won by 29 runs
Bayer Uerdingen Cricket Ground, Krefeld
Umpires: Jason Flannery (Ger) and Vinay Malhotra (Ger)
Player of the match: Talha Khan (Ger)

Germany won the toss and elected to bat.
Vaseekaran Aritharan (Ger) made his T20I debut.
Zaker Taqawi (Swe) took his first five-wicket haul in T20Is.^[6]

Final

12 June 2022
10:00
Scorecard

Austria 122/7 (20 overs)	v	Germany 125/7 (19.4 overs)
Aqib Iqbal 42* (30) Walter Behr 3/17 (4 overs)		Sachin Mandy 34 (32) Amit Nathwani 3/21 (4 overs)

Germany won by 3 wickets
Bayer Uerdingen Cricket Ground, Krefeld
Umpires: Arun Kumar (Ger) and Vinay Malhotra (Ger)
Player of the match: Walter Behr (Ger)

Austria won the toss and elected to bat.

References

^ "Cricket Germany to host Men's T20I Tri-series in June 2022". Czarsportz. Retrieved 1 June 2022.
^ "Germany beat Austria in tri-series final". Cricket Europe. Archived from the original on 12 June 2022. Retrieved 12 June 2022.
^ @Cricket_Germany (31 May 2022). "Here's our team for next week's Tri-Series v Austria & Sweden" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
^ "Herrlandslagets spelartrupp för i sommar" [The men's national team player squad for this summer.]. Cricket Sweden (via Facebook) (in Swedish). Retrieved 6 June 2022.
^ "Germany T20 Tri-Series 2022". ESPNCricinfo. Retrieved 11 June 2022.
^ "Five-wicket hauls in T20I matches – Innings by innings". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 11 June 2022.