Dates | 17 – 20 October 2019 |
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Administrator(s) | Malta Cricket Association |
Cricket format | Twenty20 International, Twenty20 |
Host(s) | Malta |
Champions | Czech Republic |
Runners-up | Hungary XI |
Participants | 4 |
Matches | 9 |
Player of the series | Sabawoon Davizi |
Most runs | Sabawoon Davizi (253) |
Most wickets | Kushalkumar Mendon (11) |
The 2019 Valletta Cup, the inaugural edition of the Valletta Cup, was a Twenty20 cricket tournament held in Malta between 17 and 20 October 2019. [1] [2] [3] The participating teams were the hosts Malta along with Czech Republic, Iceland and a Hungary XI. Matches played between Malta and the Czech Republic had official Twenty20 International (T20I) status, but because Iceland were not an Associate Member of the ICC and the selected Hungarian squad was not an official national side, matches involving either of these teams did not have T20I status. The matches were played at Marsa Sports Club in Marsa. The Hungarian XI won all of their round-robin matches and their semi-final, but were beaten by the Czech Republic in the final. [4]
Czech Republic [5] | Hungary XI [6] | Iceland [7] | Malta [8] |
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Team [9] | P | W | L | T | NR | Pts | NRR |
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Hungary XI | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | +1.086 |
Czech Republic | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | +1.327 |
Malta | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | –0.295 |
Iceland | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | –2.186 |
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Lee Nelson 49 (40) Ravinder Singh 3/9 (3 overs) | Bikram Arora 30* (33) Prabhath Weerasooriya 2/20 (4 overs) |
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Sabawoon Davizi 91 (65) Jurg Hirschi 2/18 (4 overs) | Haroon Mughal 31 (23) Kushalkumar Mendon 3/19 (2 overs) |
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Keenan Botha 27 (33) Habib Deldar 2/16 (4 overs) | Zahir Mohammed 56 (26) Prabhath Weerasooriya 4/22 (4 overs) |
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Hilal Ahmad 47* (29) Keenan Botha 4/19 (4 overs) | Lakmal Bandara 21 (28) Kushalkumar Mendon 3/3 (2 overs) |
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Edward Knowles 30* (28) Abhishek Kheterpal 3/13 (4 overs) | Abhishek Ahuja 32* (34) Paul Taylor 2/24 (4 overs) |
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Nowell Khosla 46 (36) Harshvardhan Mandhyan 4/11 (4 overs) | Ali Haider 25* (35) Jurg Hirschi 2/8 (2 overs) |
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Sabawoon Davizi 101 (68) Sujesh Appu 1/26 (3 overs) | Gopal Chaturvedi 24 (11) Sabawoon Davizi 4/15 (3 overs) |
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Yougeshwar Deonarain 61 (45) Abhishek Kheterpal 2/24 (4 overs) | Zeeshan Kukikhel 55 (25) Keenan Botha 1/8 (3 overs) |
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Zeeshan Kukikhel 28 (29) Naveed Ahmed 4/14 (4 overs) | Sabawoon Davizi 57* (40) Habib Deldar 1/14 (2 overs) |
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