2019 Spain Triangular T20I Series | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Date | 29–31 March 2019 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Location | Spain | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Result | Spain won the series | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 2019 Spain Triangular T20I Series was a cricket tournament held in Spain from 29 to 31 March 2019. [3] The tournament featured the national teams of Spain and Malta, as well as an Estonia XI. [3] All matches were played at La Manga Club, near to the city of Cartagena in the Region of Murcia.
The matches played between Spain and Malta had Twenty20 International (T20I) status, with both teams making their debuts in the format after the International Cricket Council announced that all matches played between Associate Members from 1 January 2019 would have T20I status. [4] The Estonian XI was not an official national side. Spain won the series after all three games on the final day were abandoned with no play possible due to rain. [5]
Estonia XI [6] | Malta [7] | Spain [8] |
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P | W | L | T | NR | Pts | NRR | |
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Spain | 6 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 10 | +4.880 |
Malta | 6 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 6 | –0.689 |
Estonia XI | 6 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | –3.721 |
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Niraj Khanna 51 (42) Kalle Vislapuu 2/14 (4 overs) | Stuart Hook 25 (22) Niraj Khanna 3/8 (2 overs) |
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Tim Heath 15 (20) Faran Afzal 2/5 (4 overs) | Faran Afzal 58* (33) |
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Bikram Arora 28 (25) Tom Vine 4/28 (4 overs) | Yasir Ali 57 (40) Jurg Hirschi 1/15 (2 overs) |
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Vinod Kumar 40* (27) Travis Beswick 2/39 (4 overs) | Stuart Hook 17 (24) Christian Munoz-Mills 2/7 (3 overs) |
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Awais Ahmed 102* (64) Sujesh Appu 1/21 (2 overs) | Nowell Khosla 27 (23) Faran Afzal 3/11 (4 overs) |
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Bikram Arora 42* (31) Tim Heath 1/18 (4 overs) | Tim Heath 17 (20) George Aguis 2/6 (3 overs) |
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