2022 Desert Cup T20I Series

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2022 Desert Cup T20I series
Dates14 – 21 November 2022
Administrator(s) Oman Cricket
Cricket format Twenty20 International
Tournament format(s) Double round-robin and final
Host(s)Flag of Oman.svg  Oman
ChampionsFlag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada
Runners-upFlag of Oman.svg  Oman
Participants4
Matches14
Player of the series Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Aaron Johnson
Most runs Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Aaron Johnson (402)
Most wickets Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Ammar Khalid (12)

The 2022 Desert Cup T20I Series was a Twenty20 International (T20I) cricket tournament that took place in Oman in November 2022. [1] The participating teams were the hosts Oman along with Bahrain, Canada and Saudi Arabia. [2] The tournament was played as a double round-robin, with the top two sides advancing to the final. [3] The T20I tournament was followed by a three-match 50-over series between Oman and Canada, as the Canadians prepared for the final event of the 2019–2022 ICC Cricket World Cup Challenge League in Malaysia in December 2022. [1]

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Canada finished top of the round-robin, with five wins from six games. [4] They were joined in the final by Oman after Bahrain lost to Saudi Arabia in the last match. [5] Canada comfortably defeated Oman in the final by 8 wickets, thanks to a century opening partnership in their run chase. [6] Saudi Arabia beat Bahrain in the third-place play-off. [7]

Squads

Flag of Bahrain.svg  Bahrain [8] Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada [3] Flag of Oman.svg  Oman [9] Flag of Saudi Arabia.svg  Saudi Arabia [10]
  • Abdul Waheed (c)
  • Ishtiaq Ahmad
  • Atif-Ur-Rehman
  • Haseeb Ghafoor (wk)
  • Faisal Khan
  • Saad Khan
  • Irshad Mubbashar
  • Usman Najeeb
  • Muhammad Saqib
  • Irfan Sarfaraz
  • Hisham Sheikh
  • Kashif Siddique
  • Imran Yousaf
  • Zain Ul Abidin

T20I series

Round-robin

Points table

PosTeamPldWLNRPts NRR
1Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 6510100.948
2Flag of Oman.svg  Oman 633062.135
3Flag of Bahrain.svg  Bahrain 63306−1.044
4Flag of Saudi Arabia.svg  Saudi Arabia 61502−2.125
Source: ESPNcricinfo [11]

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  Advanced to the 3rd place play-off

Fixtures

14 November 2022
16:00 (D/N)
Scorecard
Saudi Arabia  Flag of Saudi Arabia.svg
86/8 (20 overs)
v
Flag of Oman.svg  Oman
90/1 (10.1 overs)
Haseeb Ghafoor 34* (28)
Bilal Khan 3/20 (4 overs)
Jatinder Singh 50* (28)
Muhammad Saqib 1/15 (3 overs)
Oman won by 9 wickets
Oman Cricket Academy Ground Turf 1, Muscat
Umpires: Azad KR (Oma) and Mujahid Surve (Oma)
Player of the match: Bilal Khan (Oma)
  • Saudi Arabia won the toss and elected to bat.
  • Rafiullah, Samay Shrivastava (Oma), Haseeb Ghafoor, Saad Khan, Muhammad Saqib, Kashif Siddique, Irfan Sarfaraz and Atif-Ur-Rehman (Sau) all made their T20I debuts.
14 November 2022
20:00 (N)
Scorecard
Bahrain  Flag of Bahrain.svg
195/7 (20 overs)
v
Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada
199/6 (19.2 overs)
Sohail Ahmed 80* (37)
Ammar Khalid 3/38 (4 overs)
Aaron Johnson 51 (28)
Rizwan Butt 3/29 (4 overs)
Canada won by 4 wickets
Oman Cricket Academy Ground Turf 1, Muscat
Umpires: Rahul Asher (Oma) and Vinod Babu (Oma)
Player of the match: Saad Bin Zafar (Can)
  • Canada won the toss and elected to field.
  • Sohail Ahmed, Ahmer Bin Nisar, Rizwan Butt (Bhr), Aaron Johnson, Ammar Khalid and Pargat Singh (Can) all made their T20I debuts.
15 November 2022
16:00 (D/N)
Scorecard
Canada  Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg
194/5 (20 overs)
v
Flag of Saudi Arabia.svg  Saudi Arabia
128/8 (20 overs)
Aaron Johnson 84 (52)
Muhammad Saqib 2/37 (3 overs)
Haseeb Ghafoor 36 (33)
Ravinderpal Singh 2/10 (1 over)
Canada won by 66 runs
Oman Cricket Academy Ground Turf 1, Muscat
Umpires: Harikrishna Pillai (Oma) and Anantha Rajamani (Oma)
Player of the match: Aaron Johnson (Can)
  • Saudi Arabia won the toss and elected to field.
  • Armaan Kapoor (Can), Irshad Mubbashar and Usman Najeeb (Sau) all made their T20I debuts.
15 November 2022
20:00 (N)
Scorecard
Oman  Flag of Oman.svg
134/8 (20 overs)
v
Flag of Bahrain.svg  Bahrain
139/4 (19.3 overs)
Rafiullah 27 (14)
Imran Khan 4/16 (4 overs)
Sohail Ahmed 55* (39)
Rafiullah 4/25 (4 overs)
Bahrain won by 6 wickets
Oman Cricket Academy Ground Turf 1, Muscat
Umpires: Rahul Asher (Oma) and Mujahid Surve (Oma)
Player of the match: Sohail Ahmed (Bhr)
  • Bahrain won the toss and elected to field.
  • Danish Jasnaik (Bhr) made his T20I debut.
16 November 2022
16:00 (D/N)
Scorecard
Bahrain  Flag of Bahrain.svg
170/4 (20 overs)
v
Flag of Saudi Arabia.svg  Saudi Arabia
117/8 (20 overs)
Sohail Ahmed 78* (57)
Imran Yousaf 2/41 (4 overs)
Kashif Siddique 27 (30)
Rizwan Butt 2/13 (4 overs)
Bahrain won by 53 runs
Oman Cricket Academy Ground Turf 1, Muscat
Umpires: Anantha Rajamani (Oma) and Mujahid Surve (Oma)
Player of the match: Sohail Ahmed (Bhr)
  • Saudi Arabia won the toss and elected to field.
16 November 2022
20:00 (N)
Scorecard
Canada  Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg
191/2 (20 overs)
v
Flag of Oman.svg  Oman
190/6 (20 overs)
Aaron Johnson 109* (69)
Zeeshan Maqsood 1/10 (4 overs)
Mohammad Nadeem 77* (41)
Ammar Khalid 2/22 (4 overs)
Canada won by 1 run
Oman Cricket Academy Ground Turf 1, Muscat
Umpires: Rahul Asher (Oma) and Vinod Babu (Oma)
Player of the match: Aaron Johnson (Can)
  • Oman won the toss and elected to field.
  • Aaron Johnson (Can) scored his first century in T20Is. [12]
17 November 2022
16:00 (D/N)
Scorecard
Saudi Arabia  Flag of Saudi Arabia.svg
114/8 (20 overs)
v
Flag of Oman.svg  Oman
118/3 (12.4 overs)
Kashif Siddique 28 (26)
Zeeshan Maqsood 2/10 (4 overs)
Shoaib Khan 36* (27)
Muhammad Saqib 2/17 (2.4 overs)
Oman won by 7 wickets
Oman Cricket Academy Ground Turf 1, Muscat
Umpires: Vinod Babu (Oma) and Azad KR (Oma)
Player of the match: Zeeshan Maqsood (Oma)
  • Oman won the toss and elected to field.
17 November 2022
20:00 (N)
Scorecard
Canada  Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg
160/6 (20 overs)
v
Flag of Bahrain.svg  Bahrain
164/2 (19.1 overs)
Pargat Singh 61* (51)
Rizwan Butt 3/25 (4 overs)
David Mathias 59* (57)
Nikhil Dutta 1/25 (4 overs)
Bahrain won by 8 wickets
Oman Cricket Academy Ground Turf 1, Muscat
Umpires: Harikrishna Pillai (Oma) and Mujahid Surve (Oma)
Player of the match: Sarfaraz Ali (Bhr)
  • Bahrain won the toss and elected to field.
19 November 2022
16:00 (D/N)
Scorecard
Canada  Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg
171/6 (20 overs)
v
Flag of Saudi Arabia.svg  Saudi Arabia
126/8 (20 overs)
Matthew Spoors 44 (44)
Usman Najeeb 3/22 (4 overs)
Saad Khan 29 (21)
Ammar Khalid 4/17 (3 overs)
Canada won by 45 runs
Oman Cricket Academy Ground Turf 1, Muscat
Umpires: Azad KR (Oma) and Anantha Rajamani (Oma)
Player of the match: Ammar Khalid (Can)
  • Saudi Arabia won the toss and elected to field.
19 November 2022
20:00 (N)
Scorecard
Oman  Flag of Oman.svg
220/5 (20 overs)
v
Flag of Bahrain.svg  Bahrain
114 (16 overs)
Zeeshan Maqsood 102* (44)
Sathaiya Veerapathiran 3/43 (4 overs)
David Mathias 39 (32)
Samay Shrivastava 5/18 (4 overs)
Oman won by 106 runs
Oman Cricket Academy Ground Turf 1, Muscat
Umpires: Rahul Asher (Oma) and Harikrishna Pillai (Oma)
Player of the match: Zeeshan Maqsood (Oma)
  • Bahrain won the toss and elected to field.
20 November 2022
16:00 (D/N)
Scorecard
Oman  Flag of Oman.svg
169/7 (20 overs)
v
Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada
170/7 (19.5 overs)
Zeeshan Maqsood 54 (35)
Ammar Khalid 3/22 (4 overs)
Aaron Johnson 89 (41)
Kaleemullah 3/23 (3.5 overs)
Canada won by 3 wickets
Oman Cricket Academy Ground Turf 1, Muscat
Umpires: Azad KR (Oma) and Vinod Babu (Oma)
Player of the match: Aaron Johnson (Can)
  • Canada won the toss and elected to field.
20 November 2022
20:00 (N)
Scorecard
Bahrain  Flag of Bahrain.svg
112/9 (20 overs)
v
Flag of Saudi Arabia.svg  Saudi Arabia
115/1 (10.5 overs)
Haider Butt 41 (43)
Atif-Ur-Rehman 3/19 (4 overs)
Faisal Khan 81* (32)
Sathaiya Veerapathiran 1/31 (3.5 overs)
Saudi Arabia won by 9 wickets
Oman Cricket Academy Ground Turf 1, Muscat
Umpires: Harikrishna Pillai (Oma) and Anantha Rajamani (Oma)
Player of the match: Faisal Khan (Sau)
  • Bahrain won the toss and elected to bat.

3rd place play-off

21 November 2022
16:00 (D/N)
Scorecard
Saudi Arabia  Flag of Saudi Arabia.svg
155/8 (20 overs)
v
Flag of Bahrain.svg  Bahrain
123/5 (20 overs)
Saad Khan 69 (54)
Imran Anwar 4/24 (4 overs)
Ahmer Bin Nisar 55* (39)
Hisham Sheikh 2/26 (4 overs)
Saudi Arabia won by 32 runs
Oman Cricket Academy Ground Turf 1, Muscat
Umpires: Azad KR (Oma) and Vinod Babu (Oma)
Player of the match: Saad Khan (Sau)
  • Bahrain won the toss and elected to field.

Final

21 November 2022
20:00 (N)
Scorecard
Oman  Flag of Oman.svg
137 (20 overs)
v
Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada
139/2 (14 overs)
Naseem Khushi 47* (23)
Jeremy Gordon 3/36 (4 overs)
Aaron Johnson 68 (41)
Bilal Khan 1/21 (3 overs)
Canada won by 8 wickets
Oman Cricket Academy Ground Turf 1, Muscat
Umpires: Rahul Asher (Oma) and Harikrishna Pillai (Oma)
Player of the match: Jeremy Gordon (Can)
  • Canada won the toss and elected to field.

50-over series

1st 50-over match

23 November 2022
09:30
Scorecard
Canada  Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg
229/9 (50 overs)
v
Flag of Oman.svg  Oman
145 (40.2 overs)
Harsh Thaker 75 (94)
Bilal Khan 3/46 (10 overs)
Sandeep Goud 31 (49)
Nikhil Dutta 4/12 (5.2 overs)
Canada won by 84 runs
Oman Cricket Academy Ground Turf 1, Muscat
Umpires: Anantha Rajamani (Oma) and Mujahid Surve (Oma)
Player of the match: Nikhil Dutta (Can)
  • Oman won the toss and elected to field.

2nd 50-over match

25 November 2022
09:30
Scorecard
Canada  Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg
97 (37 overs)
v
Flag of Oman.svg  Oman
101/2 (23.4 overs)
Harsh Thaker 22 (31)
Ayaan Khan 2/4 (2 overs)
Jatinder Singh 46 (68)
Ravinderpal Singh 1/12 (3 overs)
Oman won by 8 wickets
Oman Cricket Academy Ground Turf 1, Muscat
Umpires: Rahul Asher (Oma) and Vinod Babu (Oma)
Player of the match: Nestor Dhamba (Oma)
  • Oman won the toss and elected to field.

3rd 50-over match

26 November 2022
09:30
Scorecard
Oman  Flag of Oman.svg
166 (49 overs)
v
Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada
167/1 (23 overs)
Ayaan Khan 28 (53)
Saad Bin Zafar 4/28 (10 overs)
Pargat Singh 87* (69)
Wasim Ali 1/44 (7 overs)
Canada won by 9 wickets
Oman Cricket Academy Ground Turf 1, Muscat
Umpires: Azad KR (Oma) and Harikrishna Pillai (Oma)
Player of the match: Pargat Singh (Can)
  • Canada won the toss and elected to field.

References

  1. 1 2 "Oman to host four-nation T20I series from Nov 14". Times of Oman. Retrieved 6 November 2022.
  2. ↑ @TheOmanCricket (7 November 2022). "Desert Cup T20I Series Oman 2022" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  3. 1 2 "Oman Cricket to host men's T20I quadrangular series in November 2022". Czarsportz. Retrieved 7 November 2022.
  4. ↑ "Saudi Arabia upset Bahrain to help Oman set up clash with Canada". Times of Oman. Retrieved 21 November 2022.
  5. ↑ "Khan blasts unbeaten 81 to star in Saudi victory". Gulf Daily News. Retrieved 21 November 2022.
  6. ↑ "Canada are Desert Cup T20I champions". Times of Oman. Retrieved 22 November 2022.
  7. ↑ "Saudi Arabia claim third place". Gulf Daily News. Retrieved 22 November 2022.
  8. ↑ "The squad has been announced for the upcoming Desert Cup T20I Series". Cricket Bahrain (via Instagram). Retrieved 11 November 2022.
  9. ↑ "Oman eyes Desert Cup!". Oman Cricket. Retrieved 14 November 2022.
  10. ↑ "The lineup of the SaudiCricketTeam participating in the Desert Cup Championship". Saudi Arabian Cricket Federation (via Facebook). Retrieved 14 November 2022.
  11. ↑ "Desert Cup T20I Series 2022/23". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 20 November 2022.
  12. ↑ "Johnson's ton in Canada's one-run win over Oman". Oman Cricket. Retrieved 17 November 2022.


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