International cricket tournament
Cricket tournament
The 2023 Men's Gulf T20I Championship was a Twenty20 International (T20I) cricket tournament that took place in Qatar in September 2023.[ 1] The participating teams in the inaugural edition of the Gulf Championship were the hosts Qatar along with Bahrain , Kuwait , Oman , Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates .[ 2] All of the matches were played at the West End Park International Cricket Stadium in Doha . The top two sides in the round-robin advanced to the final.[ 3]
Oman defeated United Arab Emirates in the final by 5 wickets to win the championship.[ 4] [ 5]
A few days after the final, the same venue will host the T20 World Cup Asia Qualifier A tournament, which will feature Kuwait, Qatar and Saudi Arabia as well as Maldives .[ 6]
Squads
Round-robin
Points table
Fixtures
Saudi Arabia won the toss and elected to bat.
Parvindar Kumar, Ahsan ul Haq (Kuw), Manan Ali and Mohsin Shabbir (Sau) all made their T20I debuts.
Bahrain won the toss and elected to field.
Bahrain were set a revised target of 124 runs in 17 overs due to a floodlight failure.
Uzair Amir, Mirza Mohammed Baig, Bukhar Illikkal, Muhammad Jabir, Bipin Kumar, Adnan Mirza, Himanshu Rathod (Qat) and Mohsin Zaki (Bhr) all made their T20I debuts.
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Oman 169/7 (20 overs)
Oman won the toss and elected to field.
Shakeel Ahmed (Oma) made his T20I debut.
Kuwait won the toss and elected to field.
Oman won the toss and elected to bat.
Jassim Khan (Qat) made his T20I debut.
Saudi Arabia won the toss and elected to bat.
Kashif Abbas (Sau) made his T20I debut.
Kuwait won the toss and elected to field.
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Manan Ali 49 (37) Rizwan Butt 4/24 (4 overs)
Saudi Arabia won the toss and elected to bat.
Ahmed Baladraf (Sau) made his T20I debut.
United Arab Emirates won the toss and elected to bat.
Clinto Anto (Kuw) made his T20I debut.
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Oman 122/9 (20 overs)
Oman won the toss and elected to field.
United Arab Emirates won the toss and elected to bat.
Mohammed Irshad (Qat) made his T20I debut.
Oman 175/6 (20 overs)
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Saudi Arabia won the toss and elected to field.
Khalander Mustafa and Umair Sharif (Sau) both made their T20I debuts.
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Abdul Waheed 46 (42) Adnan Mirza 3/13 (3 overs)
Qatar won the toss and elected to field.
Bahrain won the toss and elected to bat.
Nilansh Keswani (UAE) made his T20I debut.
Oman 171/6 (20 overs)
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Oman won the toss and elected to bat.
Final
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Oman 164/5 (19.2 overs)
United Arab Emirates won the toss and elected to bat.
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