2019 Malaysia Tri-Nation Series

2019 Malaysia Tri-Nation Series
Date	24–29 June 2019
Location	Malaysia
Result	Malaysia won the series
Player of the series	Nilantha Cooray
Teams   Malaysia   Maldives   Thailand Captains Ahmad Faiz Mohamed Mahfooz Vichanath Singh Most runs Syed Aziz (156) Nilantha Cooray (101) Naveed Pathan (134) Most wickets Anwar Rahman (7) Umar Adam (7) Mahsid Faheem (6)
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The 2019 Malaysia Tri-Nation Series was a Twenty20 International (T20I) cricket tournament held in Malaysia. ^{[1] [2]}

The series took place from 24 to 29 June 2019. ^{[1] [3]} The participating teams were Malaysia, Maldives and Thailand. Papua New Guinea were also included in the original schedule for a quadrangular tournament, but later withdrew. The matches were played at the Kinrara Oval in Kuala Lumpur. Malaysia and Thailand both played their first matches with T20I status during this tournament, following the decision of the ICC to grant full Twenty20 International status to all its members from 1 January 2019. ^[4] Maldives played three 20-over warm up matches against an MCA President XI side from 19 to 21 June 2019. ^[1] On the penultimate day, Malaysia secured the title after their last fixture against Maldives, a rain-affected match, finished in a no result. ^[5] The fixtures were part of Malaysia's preparation for the Regional Finals of the 2018–19 ICC T20 World Cup Asia Qualifier tournament in July 2019. ^[5] Maldives all-rounder Nilantha Cooray was named player of the series, after scoring 101 runs and taking six wickets in the four matches he played. ^{[6] [7] [8]}

Squads

Malaysia [1]	Maldives [1]	Thailand [1]
Ahmad Faiz (c) Anwar Arudin Syed Aziz Neville Liyanage Sharvin Muniandy Anwar Rahman Nazril Rahman Aminuddin Ramly Fitri Sham Shafiq Sharif Virandeep Singh Pasha Syafiq Ali Muhamad Syahadat	Mohamed Mahfooz (c) Umar Adam Chandana Liyanage Nilantha Cooray Muaviath Ganee Ahmed Hassan Ibrahim Hassan Shafraz Jaleel Wedage Malinda Ameel Mauroof Hassan Rasheed Mohamed Rishwan Shafee Saeed Ihala Kumara	Vichanath Singh (c) Mahsid Faheem Md Shafiqul Haque Sittipong Hongsi Ziaul Hoque Anowarul Islam Daniel Jacobs Nicholas Janes Henno Jordaan Naveed Pathan Chanchai Pengkumta Kamron Senamontree Kiatiwut Suttisan

Tour matches

1st T20 match

19 June 2019 Scorecard

MCA President XI   105/8 (20 overs)	v	Maldives 109/5 (18.2 overs)
Pasha Syafiq Ali 29 (33) Chandana Liyanage 3/15 (4 overs)		Mohamed Rishwan 37 (34) Amiruddin Azahar 1/9 (3 overs)

Maldives won by 5 wickets Selangor Turf Club, Selangor

• MCA President XI won the toss and elected to bat.

2nd T20 match

20 June 2019 Scorecard

Maldives   92 (19.2 overs)	v	MCA President XI 93/3 (13.3 overs)
Hassan Rasheed 17 (28) Muhamad Syahadat 3/10 (4 overs)		Aminuddin Ramly 28 (22) Nilantha Cooray 2/13 (2 overs)

MCA President XI won by 7 wickets Selangor Turf Club, Selangor

• Maldives won the toss and elected to bat.

3rd T20 match

21 June 2019 Scorecard

Maldives   177/2 (20 overs)	v	MCA President XI 41/6 (8.1 overs)
Mohamed Rishwan 102* (54) Muhammad Hafiz 1/16 (4 overs)		Ainool Hafizs 14 (16) Mohamed Mahfooz 2/4 (2 overs)

Maldives won by 59 runs (DLS method) Selangor Turf Club, Selangor Player of the match: Mohamed Rishwan (Mdv)

• Maldives won the toss and elected to bat.
• MCA President XI were set a revised target of 101 runs from 8 overs due to rain.

Points table

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	T	NR	Pts	NRR
1	Malaysia (H)	4	3	0	0	1	7	2.367
2	Maldives	4	1	2	0	1	3	−1.327
3	Thailand	4	1	3	0	0	2	−0.700

Source: ^[9]
(H) Host

Matches

24 June 2019 10:00 Scorecard

Thailand   113/8 (20 overs)	v	Malaysia 114/5 (17 overs)
Naveed Pathan 37 (28) Muhamad Syahadat 3/7 (4 overs)		Muhamad Syahadat 41* (32) Mahsid Faheem 2/26 (4 overs)

Malaysia won by 5 wickets Kinrara Oval, Kuala Lumpur Umpires: Viswanadan Kalidas (Mas) and Mathan Kumar (Mas) Player of the match: Muhamad Syahadat (Mas)

• Malaysia won the toss and elected to field.
• Anwar Arudin, Syed Aziz, Ahmad Faiz, Neville Liyanage, Sharvin Muniandy, Nazril Rahman, Aminuddin Ramly, Fitri Sham, Shafiq Sharif, Virandeep Singh, Muhamad Syahadat (Mas), Mahsid Faheem, Md Shafiqul Haque, Ziaul Hoque, Anowarul Islam, Daniel Jacobs, Henno Jordaan, Naveed Pathan, Chanchai Pengkumta, Kamron Senamontree, Vichanath Singh and Kiatiwut Suttisan (Tha) all made their T20I debuts.

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25 June 2019 10:00 Scorecard

Malaysia   186/5 (20 overs)	v	Maldives 113 (16.3 overs)
Syed Aziz 53* (24) Nilantha Cooray 3/26 (4 overs)		Ahmed Hassan 40 (23) Anwar Rahman 3/7 (1.3 overs)

Malaysia won by 73 runs Kinrara Oval, Kuala Lumpur Umpires: Viswanadan Kalidas (Mas) and Shafizan Shahriman (Mas) Player of the match: Syed Aziz (Mas)

• Maldives won the toss and elected to field.
• Anwar Rahman (Mas), Nilantha Cooray, Shafraz Jaleel and Chandana Liyanage (Mdv) all made their T20I debuts.

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26 June 2019 10:00 Scorecard

Thailand   130/7 (20 overs)	v	Maldives 131/8 (20 overs)
Naveed Pathan 34 (31) Umar Adam 3/17 (3 overs)		Nilantha Cooray 40 (34) Mahsid Faheem 2/20 (4 overs)

Maldives won by 2 wickets Kinrara Oval, Kuala Lumpur Umpires: Viswanadan Kalidas (Mas) and Loganathan Poobalan (Mas) Player of the match: Nilantha Cooray (Mdv)

• Thailand won the toss and elected to bat.
• Wedage Malinda (Mdv), Sittipong Hongsi and Nicholas Janes (Tha) all made their T20I debuts.

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27 June 2019 10:00 Scorecard

Thailand   127/7 (20 overs)	v	Malaysia 129/2 (15 overs)
Henno Jordaan 37* (44) Anwar Rahman 4/16 (4 overs)		Syed Aziz 57* (38) Mahsid Faheem 1/19 (2 overs)

Malaysia won by 8 wickets Kinrara Oval, Kuala Lumpur Umpires: Viswanadan Kalidas (Mas) and Zaidan Taha (Mas) Player of the match: Anwar Rahman (Mas)

• Thailand won the toss and elected to bat.
• Pasha Syafiq Ali (Mas) made his T20I debut.

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28 June 2019 10:00 Scorecard

Malaysia   123/5 (17 overs)	v	Maldives
Shafiq Sharif 43 (31) Umar Adam 2/18 (4 overs)

No result Kinrara Oval, Kuala Lumpur Umpires: Izmir Azraf (Mas) and Viswanadan Kalidas (Mas)

• Malaysia won the toss and elected to bat.
• No further play was possible due to rain.

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29 June 2019 10:00 Scorecard

Maldives   153/6 (20 overs)	v	Thailand 154/5 (19.1 overs)
Nilantha Cooray 56* (35) Daniel Jacobs 4/13 (4 overs)		Naveed Pathan 54* (39) Nilantha Cooray 2/23 (4 overs)

Thailand won by 5 wickets Kinrara Oval, Kuala Lumpur Umpires: Viswanadan Kalidas (Mas) and Narayanan Sivan (Mas) Player of the match: Naveed Pathan (Tha)

• Thailand won the toss and elected to field.

References

1. "Malaysia aiming for T20I series and ranking boost". Cricket Malaysia. Archived from the original on 23 June 2019. Retrieved 23 June 2019.
2. "Malaysia T20 tri-series 2019". Cricket Association of Thailand. 25 June 2019. Retrieved 25 June 2019.
3. "Malaysia Tri-Nation T20I Series 2019". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 4 June 2019.
4. "All T20 matches between ICC members to get international status". International Cricket Council. 26 April 2018. Retrieved 28 May 2019.
5. "Malaysia Wins T20I Tri-Series after Washout". Cricket Malaysia. Archived from the original on 30 June 2019. Retrieved 28 June 2019.
6. "Maldives Men's Celebrate taking home the Silver Medal – Malaysia T20i Tri-Series". Maldives Cricket. Archived from the original on 27 July 2019. Retrieved 3 October 2025.
7. "Malaysia Tri-Nation T20I Series, 2019 - Maldives: Batting and bowling averages". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 3 October 2025.
8. "Maldives Men's celebrate taking home the silver medal – Malaysia T20I Tri-Series". Maldives Cricket. July 2019. Retrieved 3 October 2025.
9. "Malaysia Tri-Nation Series Points Table" . Retrieved 24 June 2019.

External links

• Series home at ESPN Cricinfo