Dates | 5 – 12 July 2025 |
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Administrator(s) | Cricket Malawi |
Cricket format | Twenty20 International |
Tournament format(s) | Double round-robin and playoffs |
Host(s) | Malawi |
Champions | ![]() |
Runners-up | ![]() |
Participants | 4 |
Matches | 14 |
Most runs | ![]() |
Most wickets | ![]() |
The 2025 Malawi Quad Nations Cup (Arjun Menon Memorial) was a men's Twenty20 International (T20I) cricket tournament played in Blantyre, Malawi from 5 to 14 July 2025. [1] Organised by Cricket Malawi, all the matches were played at the TCA Oval and was the format was a double round-robin format followed by a 3rd place play-off and final. [2] The event honoured the late Arjun Menon, former head of cricket operations for Cricket Malawi. [1] According to the Malawi National Council of Sports, this tournament was "one of the most prestigious cricket events ever hosted in Malawi". [3] This was the first ever multi-team T20I tournament to be played in Malawi. [4]
Four teams competed: hosts Malawi along with the national teams of Bahrain, Germany and Tanzania. [5] This was the first international assignment for Tanzania under their new head coach Salieg Nackerdien, whose son Imran Nackerdien had earlier coached the Tanzanian men's under-19 team to their first-ever Under-19 World Cup and the senior women's team to a title win at the 2025 Kwibuka T20 competition. [6]
On 4 July, a day before the tournament began, the schedule saw slight changes (including the game between Bahrain and Tanzania getting shifted from 5 July to 8 July) due to an equipment delay. [7]
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Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | NR | Pts | NRR |
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1 | ![]() | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 2.607 |
2 | ![]() | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 0.667 |
3 | ![]() | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 5 | −0.413 |
4 | ![]() | 6 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 3 | −2.615 |
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Sami Sohail 68 (43) Shahid Afridi 3/26 (4 overs) | Kyle Klesse 38 (31) Bright Balala 1/6 (1 over) |
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Arun Yadav 86 (64) Daniel Jakiel 2/29 (4 overs) |
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Fayaz Khan 31 (16) Rizwan Butt 3/25 (4 overs) |
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Musaddiq Ahmed 63 (39) Arun Yadav 3/12 (2 overs) |
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Asif Ali 33 (22) Sami Sohail 1/16 (4 overs) |
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Arun Yadav 84 (32) Asif Ali 1/10 (1 over) |
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Aaftab Limdawala 68 (49) Sajid Liaqat 3/29 (3 overs) | Sachin Mandy 50* (35) Aaftab Limdawala 4/23 (3.5 overs) |
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Aaftab Limdawala 27 (21) Rizwan Butt 6/9 (3.5 overs) | Ahmer Bin Nasir 52* (28) |
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Sachin Mandy 50 (40) Salum Jumbe 2/7 (2 overs) | Ajith Augustin 56 (40) Sajid Liaqat 2/20 (3 overs) |
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Musaddiq Ahmed 107 (53) Chisomo Tchale 2/36 (4 overs) | Salim Nihute 56 (33) Shahid Afridi 3/15 (2 overs) |