Dates | 10 – 15 May 2022 |
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Administrator(s) | Malta Cricket Association |
Cricket format | Twenty20 International |
Tournament format(s) | Round-robin and final |
Host(s) | Malta |
Champions | Romania |
Runners-up | Malta |
Participants | 6 |
Matches | 18 |
Player of the series | Taranjeet Singh |
Most runs | Taranjeet Singh (357) |
Most wickets | Ijaz Hussain (11) |
The 2022 Valletta Cup was a Twenty20 International (T20I) cricket tournament held in Malta between 10 and 15 May 2022. [1] It was the third edition of the Valletta Cup. The venue for the series was the Marsa Sports Club in Marsa. [2] The participating teams were the hosts Malta along with Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Gibraltar, Hungary and Romania. [3] Malta were the defending champions having defeated Switzerland in the final of the 2021 edition. [4] Bulgaria and Gibraltar returned after finishing the 2021 tournament in third and fourth places, respectively. [2] The Czech Republic and Hungary last featured in the 2019 Valletta Cup, in which the Czechs beat a Hungary XI in the final. [5]
In a round-robin game against Bulgaria, Gibraltar put on an unbeaten 213 runs for the first wicket, the fourth highest opening partnerships in men's T20Is. [6] Malta secured a place in the final on day three with a game to spare, after winning their first four matches. [7] Romania reached the final after a rapid run-chase against Gibraltar, and they went on to defeat the hosts by 9 runs in the final. [8] [9]
Bulgaria | Czech Republic [10] | Gibraltar [11] | Hungary | Malta | Romania |
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The Czech Republic also named Kranthi Venkataswamy and Neeraj Tyagi as reserves. [10]
Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | NR | Pts | NRR |
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1 | Malta | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 1.014 |
2 | Romania | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 1.498 |
3 | Czech Republic | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 1.237 |
4 | Hungary | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 6 | −0.251 |
5 | Gibraltar | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 2 | −1.439 |
6 | Bulgaria | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | −2.115 |
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Avinash Pai 42 (39) Amar Sharma 2/24 (4 overs) | Basil George 36 (30) Zachary Simpson 2/32 (2.5 overs) |
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Basil George 60 (36) Asanka Weligamage 3/45 (4 overs) | Harshvardhan Mandhyan 41 (25) Waseem Abbas 2/25 (4 overs) |
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Kieron Ferrary 24 (22) Sandeep Mohandas 2/31 (4 overs) | Harshvardhan Mandhyan 29 (27) Samarth Bodha 3/26 (3.4 overs) |
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Taranjeet Singh 63 (44) Amar Sharma 1/33 (4 overs) | Basil George 37 (22) Ijaz Hussain 2/25 (3 overs) |
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Sabawoon Davizi 98* (61) Kieron Ferrary 1/9 (3 overs) | Andrew Reyes 44 (41) Sazib Bhuiyan 2/20 (3 overs) |
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Abishek Kheterpal 42 (35) Hristo Lakov 2/15 (4 overs) | Saim Hussain 54 (43) Bhavani Adapaka 3/29 (4 overs) |
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Basil George 51 (41) Satyajit Sengupta 3/35 (4 overs) | Arun Ashokan 30 (17) Amar Sharma 3/24 (3 overs) |
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Sabawoon Davizi 115* (59) Hristo Lakov 2/49 (4 overs) | Hristo Lakov 61 (51) Naveed Ahmed 3/29 (4 overs) |
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Vasu Saini 47 (32) Harshvardhan Mandhyan 3/30 (4 overs) | Zahir Mohammed 78 (42) Ijaz Hussain 2/16 (3 overs) |
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Louis Bruce 99* (63) | Saim Hussain 64 (31) Samarth Bodha 2/18 (3 overs) |
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Taranjeet Singh 110 (61) Naveed Ahmed 2/34 (4 overs) | Arun Ashokan 49 (40) Ijaz Hussain 4/28 (4 overs) |
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Kevin D'Souza 43 (33) Ijaz Hussain 2/22 (4 overs) | Ramesh Satheesan 86* (43) Delrick Varghese 1/7 (0.4 overs) |
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Abhishek Ahuja 61 (48) Smit Patel 4/34 (4 overs) | Sudesh Wickramasekara 63 (41) Bhavani Adapaka 1/38 (3.1 overs) |
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Avinash Pai 49 (40) Ramesh Satheesan 3/37 (3 overs) | Taranjeet Singh 84* (35) Richard Cunningham 1/28 (2.2 overs) |
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Dylan Steyn 65 (41) Bhavani Adapaka 1/26 (3 overs) | Abhijeet Ahuja 75 (52) Sazib Bhuiyan 2/29 (4 overs) |
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