Dates | 29 – 31 July 2019 |
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Administrator(s) | European Cricket Network |
Cricket format | T10 |
Tournament format(s) | Group stage and knock-out |
Host(s) | Spain |
Champions | VOC Rotterdam (1st title) |
Runners-up | SG Findorff |
Participants | 8 |
Matches | 17 |
Player of the series | Max O'Dowd |
Most runs | Scott Edwards (233) |
Most wickets | Syed Sherazi (9) |
Official website | European Cricket Network |
The 2019 European Cricket League (abbreviated as ECL19) was the inaugural edition of the European Cricket League. It was held in July 2019 with eight European champion club teams. [1] [2] At ECL19, the domestic club champions of Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Romania, Russia and Spain all competed for the chance to become club cricket's European champions. Players from 18 European nations as well as from more traditional cricket-playing nations took part. The league has adopted the T10 format and was played over three days. The La Manga Club in Cartagena, Murcia, Spain hosted the tournament, which was staged between July 29 and July 31, 2019. [3]
Packing 17 matches into a T10 format over three days, every match was televised live in Europe, Asia, North America and Australasia across a combination of broadcast, digital and social channels, including the newly-launched European Cricket Network. [4] Over 100 countries worldwide broadcast coverage including the UK, Australia, India, Middle East, UAE, France, Germany, Turkey, Spain, United States, Canada and the Caribbean. Teams were split into two groups of four with matches being played on a round-robin basis in La Manga with the top two from each progressing to contest the semi-finals and final.
The current ECL title holders are V.O.C Rotterdam of the Netherlands, who won the inaugural 2019 season, beating SG Findorff (Bremen) from Germany in the final. [5] [6]
Eight clubs from across Europe participated in the inaugural edition. [7]
Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | Pts | NRR | Qualification |
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1 | V.O.C. Rotterdam | 3 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 3.450 | Advanced to semi-finals |
2 | Svanholm Cricket Club | 3 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 1.740 | |
3 | Dreux Cricket Club | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1.170 | Advanced to 5th place playoff |
4 | Cluj Cricket Club | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | −6.060 | Advanced to 7th place playoff |
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Muhammad Bhatti 37* (23) Pierce Fletcher 2/19 (2 overs) | Max O'Dowd 53 (22) Mohammad Shahzeb 1/8 (0.4 overs) |
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Mohammad Shahzeb 14* (13) Zeeshan Khan 3/10 (2 overs) | Zishan Shah 35* (23) Yaseen Afridi 1/21 (2 overs) |
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Taranjeet Singh 42 (26) Max O'Dowd 1/4 (1 over) |
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Ahmad Nabi 105 (30) Muhammad Ahmed 2/11 (1 over) | Satwik Nadigotla 27* (25) Wahid Abdul 3/9 (2 overs) |
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Taranjeet Singh 35 (18) Zeeshan Khan 2/10 (2 overs) | Zishan Shah 53* (34) |
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Corey Rutgers 29* (7) Zeeshan Khan 2/36 (2 overs) |
Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | Pts | NRR | Qualification |
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1 | SG Findorff | 3 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 0.690 | Advanced to semi-finals |
2 | Catalunya Cricket Club | 3 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 1.060 | |
3 | St. Petersburg Lions | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | −4.790 | Advanced to 5th place playoff |
4 | JCC Brescia† | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3.570 | Advanced to 7th place playoff |
† Lost all points due to player eligibility infringement. [8]
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Muhammad Mughal 76 (27) Vijay Gautam 3/12 (2 overs) | Rinku Singh 24 (20) Syed Sherazi 3/5 (2 overs) |
|toss=Catalunya CC won the toss and elected to bat.
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Muhammad Khan 63* (32) Muhammad Iqbal 1/21 (2 overs) | Muhammad Jafri 38 (15) Muhammad Mughal 2/19 (2 overs) |
|toss=Catalunya CC won the toss and elected to bat.
†JCC Brescia initially won all their matches, but were later found breaching the player eligibility criteria and thus their opponents were declared winners.
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Ahmed Wardak 37 (25) Zahid Cheema 1/17 (2 overs) | Muhammad Jafri 59 (17) Israr Khan 2/15 (2 overs) |
|toss=JCC Brescia won the toss and elected to bowl.
†JCC Brescia initially won all their matches, but were later found breaching the player eligibility criteria and thus their opponents were declared winners.
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Vijay Gautam 18 (23) Iftikhar Khan 2/12 (2 overs) | Israr Khan 25* (17) Lalit Lalit 1/14 (2 overs) |
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Muhammad Jafri 40 (15) Lalit Lalit 3/10 (2 overs) | Anil Singh 35 (13) Muhammad Iqbal 2/30 (2 overs) |
†JCC Brescia initially won all their matches, but were later found breaching the player eligibility criteria and thus their opponents were declared winners.
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Vasu Saini 25 (14) Zain ul Abdeen 2/15 (2 overs) | Shahrukh Nawaz 25* (15) Gaurav Mishra 2/10 (2 overs) |
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Niaz Hamza 22 (16) Rinku Singh 2/18 (2 overs) | Anil Singh 34 (22) Muhammad Bhatti 3/4 (2 overs) |
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Yasir Ali 45 (15) Jelte Schoonheim 2/12 (1 over) | Scott Edwards 55 (15) Syed Sherazi 1/21 (2 overs) |
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Mads Henriksen 27 (11) Israr Khan 2/10 (2 overs) | Aziz Dawodzy 25 (13) Zeeshan Khan 1/10 (2 overs) |
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Scott Edwards 137* (39) | Farooq Amirie 45 (17) Dirk van Baren 3/8 (1 over) |
Max O'Dowd of V.O.C. Rotterdam was awarded “Player of the Tournament” at the 2019 European Cricket League. O’Dowd scored 219 runs in five innings (2 not outs) at an average of 73 and strike rate of 263.86, including an undefeated 74 in the final against SG Findorff. He also took four wickets in the tournament with his leg-break bowling with a best of 2-25 against Catalunya Cricket Club in the semi-final. O’Dowd is a current Netherlands international. [9] [10] [11]
The inaugural tournament gained significant worldwide prominence after the remarkable performances of Cluj all-rounder Pavel Florin during the group stages. [12] Florin, a 40-year-old professional bodyguard and president of Cluj Cricket Club in Romania, caused a stir after his bowling performance went viral on social media. Many of the sport's most famous figures, including Australian legend Shane Warne, expressed their support and admiration of Florin because of his pure unaffected love for the game. [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] Florin has since gone on to play in Australia where he again hit the headlines over the winter. Florin will take part in the second-staging of the European Cricket League - ECL20 - with Cluj Cricket Club, Romania.
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