Belgian cricket team in Malta in 2021 | |||
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Malta | Belgium | ||
Dates | 8 – 10 July 2021 | ||
Captains | Bikram Arora | Shaheryar Butt [n 1] | |
Twenty20 International series | |||
Results | Belgium won the 5-match series 3–2 | ||
Most runs | Heinrich Gericke (89) | Hadisullah Tarakhel (154) | |
Most wickets | Waseem Abbas (11) | Burman Niaz (8) | |
Player of the series | Burman Niaz (Bel) |
The Belgium cricket team toured Malta in July 2021 to play five Twenty20 International (T20I) matches at the Marsa Sports Club in Marsa. [1] [2] The Maltese team had been due to play a four-match series in Belgium in 2021, [3] but this was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [4] As preparation for the series, the Belgium team were scheduled to play four T20 exhibition games against the Netherlands A cricket team in June 2021, [5] but these matches were later cancelled. [6] Malta were declared winners of the fourth T20I after five penalty runs were retrospectively added to their total. [7] [8] Belgium won the series 3–2. [9]
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Muhammad Muneeb 30 (44) Waseem Abbas 3/22 (4 overs) | Niraj Khanna 35* (24) Ashiqullah Said 2/27 (4 overs) |
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Samuel Stanislaus 35 (42) Sheraz Sheikh 3/22 (3 overs) | Saber Zakhil 32 (19) Bilal Muhammad 2/21 (4 overs) |
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Sherul Mehta 40 (56) Waseem Abbas 4/23 (4 overs) | Samuel Stanislaus 34 (35) Ashiqullah Said 3/21 (4 overs) |
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