2019 Valletta Cup

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
Matches9
Player of the seriesCzech Republic Sabawoon Davizi
Most runsCzech Republic Sabawoon Davizi (253)
Most wicketsCzech Republic 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]
  • Edward Knowles (c)
  • Hilal Ahmad (wk)
  • Naveed Ahmed
  • Arun Ashokan
  • Shaun Dalton
  • Sabawoon Davizi
  • Kyle Gilham
  • Honey Gori
  • Siddarth Goud
  • Vojtech Hasa
  • Arshad Hayat
  • Kushalkumar Mendon
  • Shoumyadeep Rakshit
  • Paul Taylor
  • Sudesh Wickramasekara
  • Abhijeet Ahuja (c)
  • Abhishek Ahuja
  • Shehroz Ali
  • Satyadeep Ashwathnarayana
  • Maaz Bhaiji
  • Habib Deldar
  • Khaibar Deldar
  • Steffan Gooch
  • Ali Haider
  • Abhishek Kheterpal
  • Zeeshan Kukikhel
  • Nishanta Liyanage
  • Harshvardhan Mandhyan
  • Akramullah Malikzada
  • Sufiyan Mohammed
  • Zahir Mohammed
  • 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)
  • Waseem 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[9] P W L T NR Pts NRR
 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
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.
  • 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
Iceland 
108/8 (20 overs)
v
 Hungary XI
109/5 (15.4 overs)
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
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: Ghose Roy (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: Ghose Roy (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

  1. ^ @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.
  2. ^ @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.
  3. ^ "Valletta Cup 2019/20". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 28 September 2019.
  4. ^ @MaltaCricket (20 October 2019). "Czech Republic crowned champions of the 2019 Valletta Cup" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  5. ^ "National team squad. Valletta Cup, Malta, October 17 – 20 2019". Czech Cricket (via Facebook). 4 October 2019. Retrieved 4 October 2019.
  6. ^ "Hungarian men's national team tour to Malta". Hungarian Cricket Association. Archived from the original on 19 February 2020. Retrieved 14 October 2019.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  7. ^ "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.
  8. ^ @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.
  9. ^ "Valletta Cup 2019/20". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 20 October 2019.