2019 Valletta Cup

The 2019 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]

2019 Valletta Cup
Dates17 – 20 October 2019
Administrator(s)Malta Cricket Association
Cricket formatTwenty20 International, Twenty20
Host(s) Malta
Champions Czech Republic
Runners-up Hungary XI
Participants4
Matches played9
Player of the series Sabawoon Davizi
Most runs Sabawoon Davizi (253)
Most wickets Kushalkumar Mendon (11)

Squads

 Czech Republic[5]  Hungary XI[6]  Iceland[7]  Malta[8]
  • Edward Knowles (c)
  • Hilal Ahmad (wk)
  • Naveed Ahmed
  • Arun Ashokan
  • Shaun Dalton
  • Sabawoon Davizi
  • Kyle Gilham
  • Honey Gori
  • Siddarth Goud
  • Arshad Hayat
  • Kushalkumar Mendon
  • Shoumyadeep Rakshit
  • Paul Taylor
  • Sudesh Wickramasekara
  • Marc Ahuja (c)
  • Abhishek Ahuja
  • Shehroz Ali
  • Maaz Bhaiji
  • Habib Deldar
  • Khaibar Deldar
  • Steffan Gooch
  • Ali Haider
  • Abhishek Kheterpal
  • Zeeshan Kukikhel
  • Nishanta Liyange
  • Harshvardhan Madhyan
  • Akramullah Malikzada
  • Sufiyan Mohammed
  • Satyadeep Narayan
  • Safi Zahir
  • Nolan Williams (c)
  • Dushan Bandara
  • Lakmal Bandara
  • Keenan Botha
  • Abhi Chauhan
  • Leslie D'Cunha
  • Yougeshwar Deonarain
  • Brendon Fernando
  • Sammy Gill
  • Kit Harris
  • Sadun Lankathilaka
  • Lee Nelson (wk)
  • Jakob Robertson
  • Prabhath Weerasooriya
  • Bikram Arora (c)
  • Washeem Abbas
  • Sujesh Appu
  • Samuel Aquilina (wk)
  • Sean Byrne
  • Gopal Chaturvedi
  • Michael Goonetilleke
  • Jurg Hirschi
  • Sumair Khan
  • Nowell Khosla
  • Alex Meears
  • Haroon Mughal
  • Suhrid Roy
  • Ravinder Singh
  • Aneesh Tomy

Round robin

Points table

Team P W L T NR Pts NRR
 Hungary XI 330006+1.086
 Czech Republic 321004+1.327
 Malta 312002–0.295
 Iceland 303000–2.186

Fixtures

17 October 2019
13:30
Scorecard
Iceland 
107/5 (20 overs)
v
 Malta
110/3 (18 overs)
Lee Nelson 49 (40)
Ravinder Singh 3/9 (3 overs)
Bikram Arora 30* (33)
Prabhath Weerasooriya 2/20 (4 overs)
Malta won by 7 wickets
Marsa Sports Club, Marsa
Umpires: Frankie Spiteri (Mlt) and Les White (Mlt)
  • Iceland won the toss and elected to bat.

18 October 2019
08:00
Scorecard
Czech Republic 
148/5 (20 overs)
v
 Malta
136 (18.2 overs)
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.
  • Washeem 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
Iceland 
108/8 (20 overs)
v
 Hungary XI
109/5 (15.4 overs)
Keenan Botha 27 (33)
Habib Deldar 2/16 (4 overs)
Safi Zahir 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
Czech Republic 
155/7 (20 overs)
v
 Iceland
72/7 (20 overs)
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
Czech Republic 
100/8 (20 overs)
v
 Hungary XI
101/3 (17.2 overs)
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
Malta 
94 (16.1 overs)
v
 Hungary XI
98/5 (17.2 overs)
Nowell Khosla 46 (36)
Harshvardhan Mandhyan 4/11 (4 overs)
Ali Haider 25* (35)
Jurg Hirschi 2/8 (2 overs)
Hungary XI won by 5 wickets
Marsa Sports Club, Marsa
Umpires: Joy Ghoseroy (Mlt) and Les White (Mlt)
  • Malta won the toss and elected to bat.

Knockouts

Semi-finals

20 October 2019
08:00
Scorecard
Czech Republic 
204/4 (20 overs)
v
 Malta
122 (15.5 overs)
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
Iceland 
125/8 (20 overs)
v
 Hungary XI
126/1 (15.3 overs)
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: Joy Ghoseroy (Mlt) and Ruben Sivanadian (Mlt)
  • Hungary XI won the toss and elected to field.

Final

20 October 2019
15:00
Scorecard
Hungary XI 
91 (17.2 overs)
v
 Czech Republic
97/2 (11.4 overs)
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

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