Vanuatuan cricket team in Malaysia in 2019–20

Vanuatuan cricket team in Malaysia in 2019–20
	Malaysia	Vanuatu
Dates	28 September – 4 October 2019
Captains	Virandeep Singh	Andrew Mansale
Twenty20 International series
Results	Vanuatu won the 5-match series 3–2
Most runs	Mohamed Arief (159)	Patrick Matautaava (197)
Most wickets	Pavandeep Singh (10)	Nalin Nipiko (9)
Player of the series	Nalin Nipiko (Van)

The Vanuatu cricket team toured Malaysia in September and October 2019 to play a five-match Twenty20 International (T20I) series. ^[1] All the matches were played at the Kinrara Oval in Kuala Lumpur. ^[1]

Squads

Malaysia [2]	Vanuatu [3]
Virandeep Singh (c) Nazril Rahman (vc) Muhammad Amir Mohamed Arief Anwar Arudin Syed Aziz Ainool Hafizs Ainool Haqqiem Syazrul Idrus Sharvin Muniandy Nazril Rahman Fitri Sham Pavandeep Singh Vijay Unni Muhammad Wafiq Zubaidi Zulkifle	Andrew Mansale (c) Callum Blake Jelany Chilia Shane Deitz Junior Kaltapau Worford Kalworai Trevor Langa Patrick Matautaava Williamsing Nalisa Nalin Nipiko Simpson Obed Joshua Rasu Zechariah Shem Apolinaire Stephen Ronald Tari Clement Tommy Jamal Vira Wesley Viraliliu

Tour match

Twenty-over match: Malaysia A vs Vanuatu

28 September 2019 10:00 Scorecard

Vanuatu   159/7 (20 overs)	v	Malaysia A 161/3 (16.5 overs)
Joshua Rasu 66 (49) Sharvin Muniandy 3/33 (4 overs)		Anwar Arudin 57 (29) Jelany Chilia 1/21 (4 overs)

Malaysia A won by 7 wickets Kinrara Oval, Kuala Lumpur

• Vanuatu won the toss and elected to bat.

T20I series

1st T20I

29 September 2019 10:00 Scorecard

Vanuatu   151/5 (20 overs)	v	Malaysia 134/9 (20 overs)
Joshua Rasu 74 (54) Nazril Rahman 2/28 (4 overs)		Mohamed Arief 33 (25) Nalin Nipiko 4/21 (4 overs)

Vanuatu won by 17 runs Kinrara Oval, Kuala Lumpur Umpires: Izmir Azraf (Mas) and Denish Sevakumaran (Mas) Player of the match: Joshua Rasu (Van)

• Vanuatu won the toss and elected to bat.
• Mohamed Arief, Ainool Haqqiem, Muhammad Wafiq and Zubaidi Zulkifle (Mas) all made their T20I debuts.
• At the age of 20 years and 190 days, Virandeep Singh (Mas) became the youngest male cricketer to captain a side in a T20I match. ^[4]

2nd T20I

1–2 October 2019 10:00 Scorecard

Vanuatu   188/6 (20 overs)	v	Malaysia 137/7 (20 overs)
Patrick Matautaava 103 (52) Sharvin Muniandy 2/26 (4 overs)		Virandeep Singh 34 (36) Simpson Obed 3/23 (4 overs)

Vanuatu won by 51 runs Kinrara Oval, Kuala Lumpur Umpires: Rudy Ismandy (Mas) and Viswanadan Kalidas (Mas) Player of the match: Patrick Matautaava (Van)

• Vanuatu won the toss and elected to bat.
• No play was possible on 1 October due to rain. Reserve day used.
• Ainool Hafizs and Syazrul Idrus (Mas) both made their T20I debuts.
• Patrick Matautaava became the first batsman for Vanuatu to score a century in T20Is.

3rd T20I

2 October 2019 19:00 (D/N) Scorecard

Malaysia   134/8 (20 overs)	v	Vanuatu 108 (17.1 overs)
Sharvin Muniandy 27 (21) Nalin Nipiko 3/22 (4 overs)		Nalin Nipiko 42 (30) Muhammad Wafiq 3/10 (4 overs)

Malaysia won by 26 runs Kinrara Oval, Kuala Lumpur Umpires: Mathan Kumar (Mas) and Zaidan Taha (Mas) Player of the match: Nalin Nipiko (Van)

• Malaysia won the toss and elected to bat.
• Apolinaire Stephen (Van) made his T20I debut.

4th T20I

3 October 2019 14:45 Scorecard

Malaysia   144/7 (20 overs)	v	Vanuatu 145/4 (19.1 overs)
Mohamed Arief 52* (31) Apolinaire Stephen 2/15 (4 overs)		Joshua Rasu 50 (40) Sharvin Muniandy 2/18 (3 overs)

Vanuatu won by 6 wickets Kinrara Oval, Kuala Lumpur Umpires: Rudy Ismandy (Mas) and Viswanadan Kalidas (Mas) Player of the match: Joshua Rasu (Van)

• Malaysia won the toss and elected to bat.

5th T20I

4 October 2019 19:00 (D/N) Scorecard

Malaysia   206/4 (20 overs)	v	Vanuatu 184/9 (20 overs)
Syed Aziz 87 (50) Nalin Nipiko 1/31 (3 overs)		Patrick Matautaava 66 (29) Pavandeep Singh 3/32 (4 overs)

Malaysia won by 22 runs Kinrara Oval, Kuala Lumpur Umpires: Rudy Ismandy (Mas) and Narayanan Sivan (Mas) Player of the match: Syed Aziz (Mas)

• Malaysia won the toss and elected to bat.
• Muhammad Amir (Mas) and Trevor Langa (Van) made his T20I debut.

References

1. "Vanuatu Tour of Malaysia 2019/20". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 28 September 2019.
2. "Malaysia Squad". Malaysian Cricket Association. Archived from the original on 31 October 2023. Retrieved 28 September 2019.
3. "Vanuatu Squad". Malaysian Cricket Association. Archived from the original on 14 January 2025. Retrieved 28 September 2019.
4. "Wonder Women – Ten T20I records women own". Women's CricZone. Archived from the original on 10 February 2023. Retrieved 21 April 2020.

External links

• Series home at ESPN Cricinfo