2022 Spain Tri-Nation Series

Not to be confused with 2022–23 Spain Tri-Nation Series.

2022 Spain Tri-Nation Series
Date	29 April – 1 May 2022
Location	Spain
Result	Spain won the tournament
Player of the series	Lorne Burns
Teams   Guernsey   Norway   Spain Captains Josh Butler Khizer Ahmed Christian Munoz-Mills [n 1] Most runs Josh Butler (93) Sher Sahak (99) Josh Trembeath-Moro (93) Most wickets Luke Bichard (7) Wahidullah Sahak (4) Lorne Burns (9)
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The 2022 Spain Tri-Nation Series was a Twenty20 International (T20I) cricket tournament that was held in Spain from 29 April to 1 May 2022. ^[1] The event was the first international series of the 2022 European summer season. ^[2] The participating teams were the hosts Spain, along with Guernsey and Norway. ^[3] The series was played at the Desert Springs Cricket Ground in Almería. ^[4] All competing nations used the event as preparation for the 2022–23 ICC Men's T20 World Cup Europe Qualifier subregional tournaments. ^[5]

Norway recovered from a slow start to beat Guernsey by 37 runs in the opening game. ^[6] Day two saw both Spain and Guernsey defeat Norway, before the hosts beat Guernsey to end the day on top of the table. ^[7] Spain were well beaten by Guernsey on the final morning, ^[8] but followed this with a comfortable victory over Norway to claim the series. ^[9]

Squads

Guernsey [10]	Norway [11]	Spain [12]
Josh Butler (c) Luke Bichard Isaac Damarell (wk) Ben Ferbrache David Hooper Nathan Le Tissier Declan Martel Oliver Newey (wk) Oliver Nightingale Tom Nightingale William Peatfield Matthew Stokes Ben Wentzel	Khizer Ahmed (c, wk) Kuruge Abeyrathna Tafseer Ali Walid Ghauri Raza Iqbal Alijan Younas Malik Vinay Ravi Bilal Safdar Sher Sahak Wahidullah Sahak Ali Saleem Abdullah Sheikh Ahmadullah Shinwari Aminullah Tanha	Christian Munoz-Mills (c) Lorne Burns (vc) Raja Adeel Awais Ahmed (wk) Yasir Ali Mohammad Atif Hamza Dar Daniel Doyle-Calle Zulqarnain Haider Mohammad Kamran Guarang Mayhavhenshi Ravi Panchal Charlie Rumistrzewicz Josh Trembeath-Moro Tom Vine

Points Table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	NR	Pts	NRR
1	Spain	4	3	1	0	6	1.597
2	Guernsey	4	2	2	0	4	−0.678
3	Norway	4	1	3	0	2	−0.916

Source: ESPN Cricinfo ^[13]

Fixtures

29 April 2022 15:00 Scorecard

Norway   137/7 (20 overs)	v	Guernsey 100/7 (20 overs)
Sher Sahak 70* (29) Luke Bichard 2/14 (4 overs)		Josh Butler 17 (28) Raza Iqbal 2/18 (4 overs)

Norway won by 37 runs Desert Springs Cricket Ground, Almería Umpires: Gordon Ashford (Esp) and Andrew Elliott (Eng) Player of the match: Sher Sahak (Nor)

• Norway won the toss and elected to bat.
• Declan Martel, Oliver Nightingale (Gue) and Ali Saleem (Nor) all made their T20I debuts.

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30 April 2022 09:00 Scorecard

Spain   129/5 (20 overs)	v	Norway 78/9 (20 overs)
Yasir Ali 44 (39) Vinay Ravi 2/10 (4 overs)		Walid Ghauri 23 (28) Yasir Ali 2/12 (3 overs)

Spain won by 51 runs Desert Springs Cricket Ground, Almería Umpires: Gordon Ashford (Esp) and Andrew Elliott (Eng) Player of the match: Yasir Ali (Esp)

• Spain won the toss and elected to bat.
• Lorne Burns, Daniel Doyle-Calle, Mohammad Kamran and Josh Trembeath-Moro (Esp) all made their T20I debuts.

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30 April 2022 13:00 Scorecard

Norway   120/7 (20 overs)	v	Guernsey 126/2 (18 overs)
Khizer Ahmed 37 (36) Luke Bichard 3/28 (4 overs)		Tom Nightingale 46* (48) Abdullah Sheikh 1/19 (4 overs)

Guernsey won by 8 wickets Desert Springs Cricket Ground, Almería Umpires: Gordon Ashford (Esp) and Andrew Elliott (Eng) Player of the match: Tom Nightingale (Gue)

• Norway won the toss and elected to bat.
• Aminullah Tanha (Nor) made his T20I debut.

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30 April 2022 17:00 Scorecard

Guernsey   78 (18 overs)	v	Spain 80/2 (12.2 overs)
Josh Butler 16 (19) Lorne Burns 5/11 (4 overs)		Awais Ahmed 42 (29) Matthew Stokes 1/9 (2 overs)

Spain won by 8 wickets Desert Springs Cricket Ground, Almería Umpires: Darrin Clark (Esp) and Andrew Elliott (Eng) Player of the match: Lorne Burns (Esp)

• Guernsey won the toss and elected to bat.
• Ben Wentzel (Gue) made his T20I debut.
• Lorne Burns became the first bowler for Spain to take a five-wicket haul in T20Is. ^[14]

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1 May 2022 10:30 Scorecard

Spain   107 (20 overs)	v	Guernsey 111/2 (18 overs)
Josh Trembeath-Moro 28 (29) Luke Bichard 2/14 (3 overs)		Isaac Damarell 38* (45) Raja Adeel 1/12 (3 overs)

Guernsey won by 8 wickets Desert Springs Cricket Ground, Almería Umpires: Darrin Clark (Esp) and Andrew Elliott (Eng) Player of the match: Matthew Stokes (Gue)

• Spain won the toss and elected to bat.

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1 May 2022 14:30 Scorecard

Spain   125/8 (20 overs)	v	Norway 84 (18.5 overs)
Daniel Doyle-Calle 38 (34) Bilal Safdar 3/17 (4 overs)		Ali Saleem 19 (22) Yasir Ali 3/18 (2.5 overs)

Spain won by 41 runs Desert Springs Cricket Ground, Almería Umpires: Darrin Clark (Esp) and Andrew Elliott (Eng) Player of the match: Daniel Doyle-Calle (Esp)

• Spain won the toss and elected to bat.

Notes

1. Lorne Burns captained Spain in their remaining matches after Christian Munoz-Mills retired hurt during the second T20I of the series.

References

1. "Guernsey to play T20 ranking tournament in Spain". BBC Sport. Retrieved 14 March 2022.
2. "European international summer underway in Spain". Cricket Europe. Retrieved 29 April 2022.
3. "Spain trip opens busy international summer". Guernsey Press. Retrieved 14 March 2022.
4. "Cricket Espana to host triangular series At Desert Springs". Cricket España. Retrieved 14 March 2022.
5. "Cricket Espana to host men's T20I tri-series with Norway and Guernsey in April/May 2022". Czarsportz. Retrieved 14 March 2022.
6. "Guernsey lose to Norway by 37 runs in T20 series opener". BBC Sport. Retrieved 29 April 2022.
7. "Guernsey beat Norway but suffer Spain loss in Twenty20 international series". BBC Sport. Retrieved 30 April 2022.
8. "Two successful revenge missions for Guernsey at Desert Springs". Guernsey Press. Retrieved 2 May 2022.
9. "Spain lift tri-series title on final day". Cricket Europe. Archived from the original on 1 May 2022. Retrieved 1 May 2022.
10. "Guernsey's men set for international return in Spain". Guernsey Press. Retrieved 28 April 2022.
11. "Team Norge Spain tri series". Norwegian Cricket Board (in Norwegian). Retrieved 16 April 2022.
12. "Spanish squad named for the tri-series with Guernsey and Norway". Cricket España. Retrieved 6 April 2022.
13. "Spain Triangular T20I Series 2022". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 10 April 2022.
14. "Spain out in front after day two". Cricket Europe. Archived from the original on 30 April 2022. Retrieved 1 May 2022.

External links

• Series home at ESPNCricinfo