Dates | 20 – 24 January 2019 |
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Cricket format | Twenty20 International |
Tournament format(s) | Round Robin, Final |
Host(s) | Oman |
Champions | Saudi Arabia |
Runners-up | Qatar |
Participants | 5 |
Matches | 11 |
Player of the series | Tamoor Sajjad |
Most runs | Ravija Sandaruwan (177) |
Most wickets | Tamoor Sajjad (10) |
The 2019 ACC Western Region T20 was a Twenty20 International (T20I) cricket tournament held in Oman from 20 to 24 January 2019. The five participating teams were Bahrain, Kuwait, Maldives, Qatar and Saudi Arabia. The matches were all played at the Al Amerat Cricket Stadium in Muscat. [1] All participating nations made their T20I debuts during the tournament, following the decision of the ICC to grant full Twenty20 International status to all its members from 1 January 2019. [2] Saudi Arabia defeated Qatar – who had been unbeaten in the round-robin stage – in the final by 7 wickets. [3] Qatar's Tamoor Sajjad was named the player of the tournament. [4]
Team | P | W | L | T | NR | Pts | NRR |
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Qatar | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | +1.694 |
Saudi Arabia | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | +0.489 |
Bahrain | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | –0.035 |
Kuwait | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | –0.060 |
Maldives | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | –2.075 |
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Imran Ali 58 (53) Usman Ali 1/24 (4 overs) | Muhammad Naeem 42 (36) Babar Ali 2/18 (3 overs) |
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Mohamed Rishwan 25 (23) Imran Ali 3/16 (3 overs) |
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Mohamed Rishwan 54 (52) Imran Anwar 2/24 (4 overs) | Sarfaraz Ali 59 (35) Ibrahim Hassan 5/24 (3.4 overs) |
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Sajid Cheema 47 (41) Tamoor Sajjad 3/11 (4 overs) | Faisal Javed 43 (26) Muhammad Nadeem 3/16 (3 overs) |
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Mohamed Rishwan 67 (54) Ibrarul Haq 3/28 (4 overs) | Ibrarul Haq 49 (26) Ibrahim Hassan 2/26 (4 overs) |
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Ahmed Hassan 53 (45) Awais Malik 3/19 (4 overs) |
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Ravija Sandaruwan 103 (59) Muhammad Rafique 1/32 (3 overs) |
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Arjun Makesh 57 (39) Ibrarul Haq 2/18 (4 overs) |
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Faisal Javed 60 (29) Babar Ali 2/33 (4 overs) | Fiaz Ahmed 39 (26) Iqbal Hussain 3/23 (3 overs) |
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Tamoor Sajjad 68 (38) Muhammad Nadeem 2/33 (2 overs) |
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