German cricket team in Spain in 2019–20

German cricket team in Spain in 2019–20

	Spain	Germany
Date	8 March 2020
Captains	Christian Munoz-Mills	Venkatraman Ganesan
Twenty20 International series
Results	2-match series drawn 1–1
Most runs	Yasir Ali (129)	Michael Richardson (67)
Most wickets	Kuldeep Lal (2) Raja Adeel (2)	Elam Bharathi (3)

The Germany cricket team toured Spain in March 2020 to play two Twenty20 International (T20I) matches.^[1] The matches were played on Sunday 8 March 2020 at the Desert Springs Cricket Ground in southern Spain.^[2]^[3] The series was drawn 1–1.^[4]

Squads

Spain^[5]	Germany^[6]
Christian Munoz-Mills (c) Raja Adeel ~~Faran Afzal~~ Awais Ahmed (wk) Adam Algar (wk) Yasir Ali Paul Hennessy Tauqeer Hussain Kuldeep Lal Ravi Panchal Jack Perman Mukhtiar Singh Tom Vine	Venkatraman Ganesan (c) Elam Bharathi Vijayshankar Chikkannaiah Izatullah Dawlatzai Dieter Klein Amir Mangal Asad Mohammad Sahir Naqash Michael Richardson (wk) Amith Sarma Abdul Shakoor Harmanjot Singh Ahmed Wardak Muslim Yar

Faran Afzal withdrew from the Spain squad before the start of the series.^[7]

T20I series

1st T20I

8 March 2020
10:00
Scorecard

Germany 139/7 (20 overs)	v	Spain 142/1 (18.1 overs)
Michael Richardson 42 (45) Raja Adeel 2/18 (4 overs)		Yasir Ali 80* (66) Dieter Klein 1/29 (4 overs)

Spain won by 9 wickets
Desert Springs Cricket Ground, Almería
Umpires: Harmit Dhull (Esp) and Adnan Khan (Esp)
Player of the match: Yasir Ali (Esp)

Spain won the toss and elected to field.
Adam Algar (Esp), Elam Bharathi and Dieter Klein (Ger) all made their T20I debuts.
Dieter Klein took a wicket with his first delivery in T20Is.^[8]

2nd T20I

8 March 2020
14:00
Scorecard

Germany 180/3 (20 overs)	v	Spain 122/6 (20 overs)
Abdul Shakoor 59 (46) Kuldeep Lal 1/19 (2 overs)		Yasir Ali 49 (31) Elam Bharathi 3/21 (4 overs)

Germany won by 58 runs
Desert Springs Cricket Ground, Almería
Umpires: Harmit Dhull (Esp) and Adnan Khan (Esp)
Player of the match: Elam Bharathi (Ger)

Spain won the toss and elected to field.

References

^ "Spain to play Germany in series double header in March next year". Cricket España. 3 September 2019. Retrieved 8 October 2019.
^ "Men's National Team training camp in Desert Springs". German Cricket Association. Retrieved 5 January 2020.
^ "Germany to compete against Spain in T20 Matches at Desert Springs". Desert Springs Resorts. Retrieved 4 March 2020.
^ @DSCricketSpain (8 March 2020). "Cricket Germany and Cricket Espana win one game each in their T20 ODI games today" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
^ "Cricket Spain squad for T20 Internationals against Germany". Catalunya Cricket Updates. Retrieved 26 January 2020.
^ "Men's national team squad nominated for Spain". German Cricket Association. Retrieved 4 February 2020.
^ "Former Spanish international to play professional cricket in England". Cricket Espana. Retrieved 7 January 2023.
^ "Records: Twenty20 Internationals: Bowling records: Wicket with first ball in career". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 8 March 2020.