Dates | 14 – 21 November 2022 |
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Administrator(s) | Oman Cricket |
Cricket format | Twenty20 International |
Tournament format(s) | Double round-robin and final |
Host(s) | Oman |
Champions | Canada |
Runners-up | Oman |
Participants | 4 |
Matches | 14 |
Player of the series | Aaron Johnson |
Most runs | Aaron Johnson (402) |
Most wickets | 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]
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]
Bahrain [8] | Canada [3] | Oman [9] | Saudi Arabia [10] |
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Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | NR | Pts | NRR |
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1 | Canada | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 0.948 |
2 | Oman | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 2.135 |
3 | Bahrain | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 6 | −1.044 |
4 | Saudi Arabia | 6 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 2 | −2.125 |
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Sohail Ahmed 80* (37) Ammar Khalid 3/38 (4 overs) | Aaron Johnson 51 (28) Rizwan Butt 3/29 (4 overs) |
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Aaron Johnson 84 (52) Muhammad Saqib 2/37 (3 overs) | Haseeb Ghafoor 36 (33) Ravinderpal Singh 2/10 (1 over) |
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Rafiullah 27 (14) Imran Khan 4/16 (4 overs) | Sohail Ahmed 55* (39) Rafiullah 4/25 (4 overs) |
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Sohail Ahmed 78* (57) Imran Yousaf 2/41 (4 overs) | Kashif Siddique 27 (30) Rizwan Butt 2/13 (4 overs) |
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Matthew Spoors 44 (44) Usman Najeeb 3/22 (4 overs) | Saad Khan 29 (21) Ammar Khalid 4/17 (3 overs) |
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Saad Khan 69 (54) Imran Anwar 4/24 (4 overs) | Ahmer Bin Nisar 55* (39) Hisham Sheikh 2/26 (4 overs) |
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