Dates | 24 – 27 June 2021 |
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Administrator(s) | Bulgarian Cricket Federation |
Cricket format | Twenty20 International |
Host(s) | Bulgaria |
Champions | Romania |
Runners-up | Bulgaria |
Participants | 4 |
Matches | 9 |
Player of the series | Taranjeet Singh |
Most runs | Ramesh Satheesan (197) |
Most wickets | Sami Ullah (7) Pavel Florin (7) |
The 2021 Sofia Twenty20 tournament was a Twenty20 International (T20I) cricket tournament held in Bulgaria in June 2021. [1] The tournament was played at the National Sports Academy in Sofia and was arranged to mark 20 years since the founding of the Bulgarian Cricket Federation. [2] In addition to the hosts Bulgaria, the competing nations were Greece, Romania and Serbia. [3] The tournament consisted of a round-robin stage, followed by semi-finals and a final. [4]
Romania topped the round-robin stage to set up a semi-final match against Serbia, with Bulgaria and Greece playing in the second semi-final. [5] After winning their semi-final against Serbia, Romania defeated Bulgaria by 7 wickets in the final. [6]
Bulgaria [2] | Greece [2] | Romania [2] | Serbia [2] |
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Team [7] | P | W | L | T | NR | Pts | NRR |
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Romania | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | +4.011 |
Bulgaria | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | +1.200 |
Greece | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | –1.445 |
Serbia | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | –3.502 |
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Aravinda De Silva 100* (60) Vukasin Zimonjic 1/31 (4 overs) | Slobodan Tosic 38* (57) Hristo Lakov 2/8 (4 overs) |
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Aslam Mohammad 61 (42) Shantanu Vashisht 4/22 (4 overs) | Ramesh Satheesan 70 (32) Spiridon Gasteratos 2/4 (1 over) |
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Nicholas Johns-Wickberg 24 (17) Spiridon Gasteratos 2/12 (4 overs) | Aslam Mohammad 54 (25) Vukasin Zimonjic 2/27 (4 overs) |
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Sulaiman Ali 32 (16) Taranjeet Singh 3/27 (4 overs) | Taranjeet Singh 60 (22) Prakash Mishra 1/16 (3 overs) |
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Sudeep Thakur 55 (31) Nicholas Johns-Wickberg 3/19 (4 overs) | Wintley Burton 22 (12) Pavel Florin 3/14 (3.5 overs) |
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