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2012 ICC European T20 Championship Division Two

Administrator(s)	International Cricket Council
Cricket format	Twenty20
Tournament format(s)	Round-robin
Host(s)	Greece
Champions	Isle of Man (1st title)
Participants	12
Matches	42
Player of the series	Muhammad Mohsin
Most runs	Tariq Ali (476)
Most wickets	Muhammad Mohsin (14)
Official website	ICC European Championship
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The 2012 ICC European Twenty20 Championship Division Two is a cricket tournament that took place between 3–8 September 2012. It forms part of the European Cricket Championship. Greece hosted the event.

Teams

Teams that qualified are as follows:

Group A

•  Israel
•  Portugal
•  Spain
•  Luxembourg
•  Malta
•  Estonia

Group B

•  Croatia
•  Isle of Man
•  Greece
•  Finland
•  Cyprus
•  Sweden

Squads

Croatia	Cyprus	Estonia	Finland
John Vujnovich (c) Jasen Butkovic Nikola Davidovic Istok Dordevic Jeffrey Grzinic Michael Grzinic Josip Jukic Pero Kastelan Peter Mackelworth (wk) Paul Musin Ivan Pazanin Craig Sinovich Vivek Sharma Damir Svilicic	Michalis Kyriacou (c) Dhanuka Agathocleous Dineja Agathocleous (wk) Ian Comina Nimal Durayalage Syed Hussain Stelios Michaelides Muhammad Mohsin Andrew Mulkern George Papaonisiforou Niroshan Pelawattha Gurbhej Singh Ravi Suhasaria Malik Tariq	Tim Heath (C) Sivalingam Arunachalam Timothy Filer Vineeth Govind Murali Obili Moshiur Rahman Remo Raud Nand Lal Riar Sasha Ruut Mart Tammoja Mario Tammoja Michael Tiffin Marko Vaik (wk) Peter van Buuren	Amrik Bhatia (c) Madhu Bhandari Shakil Islam Zahidullah Kamal Ekhpelwak Kuchey Bilal Khan Karimullah Malekzaei Obaidullah Sadiqui Roholah Sadiqui Tariq Sarfraz Jonathan Scamans Christopher Shaw Michael Shaw (wk) Tatu Vehvilainen (wk)

Greece	Isle of Man	Israel	Luxembourg
Nic Pothas (c) (wk) Mehmood Ahmed Stamatios Giourgas Spyridon Goustis Andreas Koutsoufis Anastasios Manousis Aslam Mohammad Christos Molinaris (wk) Othonas Nikitas Spyridon Nikokavouras Zois Ntemsias Alexis Souvlakis Dimitrios Triantafillidis Ioannis Vasilas	Gareth Dawson (c) Gregory Hawke Daniel Hawke Daniel Kniveton Richard Kniveton (wk) Philip Littlejohns Gareth Morris Russell Miller Garreth Roome Alex Stokoe Max Stokoe Arnie van den Berg Oliver Webster Mark Williams	Herschel Gutman (c) Raymond Aston Shailesh Bangera (wk) Josh Evans Gerrit Grundling Danny Hotz Daniel Hyman Yefet Nagavakar Kapila Perere Yaniv Razpurker Gabriel Schachat Steven Shein Eshkol Solomon Shifron Waskar	Tony Whiteman (c) James Barker Timothy Barker Wayne Codd Graham Cope (wk) William Cope Taral Desai Christopher Evans Nishith Gandhi Piran Merkl Joost Mees Richard Neale Anand Pattabiraman Madhu Ramachandran

Malta	Portugal	Spain	Sweden
Andrew Naudi (c) George Agius Derek Ali Samuel Aquilina Justin Brooke David Borg John Callus Michael Caruana Balakrishnan Dhandapani John Grima (wk) Nowell Khosla Mark Sacco Ronald Sacco Frankie Spiteri	Akbar Saiyad (c) Zafar Ali Tariq Aziz Paulo Buccimazza Syed Bukhari Nadeem Butt Khalid Izaz Rizwan Khaliq (wk) Lakhbir Kensrey Intesab Medhi Muhammad Mirza Nadeem Nazar Jose Pais Bilal Safdar	Mark Spencer (c) Nisar Ahmed Sajad Ali Tariq Ali Gary Crompton Mohib Hussein Tanveer Iqbal Armaghan Khan Farhat Mahmood James Morgan (wk) Christian Munoz-Mills Talat Nadeem Venus Valiente Mohammad Yasin	Yasir Ikram (c) Khalid Ahmad Naveed Anjum Serge Conein Ashik Imtiaz Manuj Jadvest Wakil Jalali Azam Khalil Aman Momand Shahid Mustafa Sandeep Sharma Sunny Sharma Sadat Sidiqi (wk) Christopher Tebbutt (wk)

Fixtures

Group stage

Group A

Team	P	W	L	T	NR	Points	NRR
Israel	5	5	0	0	0	10	+1.123
Spain	5	4	1	0	0	8	+3.520
Portugal	5	3	2	0	0	6	–0.553
Estonia	5	2	3	0	0	4	–0.321
Malta	5	1	4	0	0	2	–1.775
Luxembourg	5	0	5	0	0	0	–1.983

Spain  207/6 (20 overs)	v	Luxembourg 137/7 (20 overs)
James Morgan 100 (53) Richard Neale 3/24 (4 overs)		Joost Mees 40 (30) Farhat Mahmood 3/26 (4 overs)

• Luxembourg won the toss and elected to field.

Malta  124/7 (20 overs)	v	Portugal 128/2 (17.3 overs)
Nowell Khosla 48 (39) Jose Pais 4/15 (4 overs)		Tariq Aziz 55* (56) Justin Brooke 1/21 (4 overs)

• Malta won the toss and elected to bat.

Estonia  115/8 (20 overs)	v	Portugal 120/5 (19.3 overs)
Murali Obili 25 (26) Muhammad Mirza 4/21 (4 overs)		Jose Pais 35 (26) Moshiur Rahman 3/21 (4 overs)

• Estonia won the toss and elected to bat.

Luxembourg  88/9 (20 overs)	v	Israel 90/6 (16.5 overs)
Taral Desai 36 (37) Gerrit Grundling 2/3 (4 overs)		Yaniv Razpurker 19* (30) Madhu Ramachandran 2/18 (4 overs)

• Luxembourg won the toss and elected to bat.

Spain  218/6 (20 overs)	v	Estonia 93/9 (20 overs)
Tariq Ali 150* (66) Sivalingam Arunachalam 3/31 (4 overs)		Tim Heath 40 (22) Sajad Ali 3/17 (4 overs)

• Estonia won the toss and elected to field.

Israel  133/8 (20 overs)	v	Malta 92/9 (20 overs)
Gabriel Schachat 28 (34) Nowell Khosla 2/14 (4 overs)		Frankie Spiteri 43 (45) Steven Shein 3/21 (4 overs)

• Malta won the toss and elected to field.

Luxembourg  151/8 (20 overs)	v	Malta 151/3 (17.5 overs)
Timothy Barker 55 (45) Derek Ali 2/23 (2 overs)		Andrew Naudi 66* (27) Taral Desai 1/35 (4 overs)

• Luxembourg won the toss and elected to bat.

Spain  151/8 (20 overs)	v	Portugal 151/3 (17.5 overs)
Tariq Ali 148 (55) Intesab Medhi 2/23 (2 overs)		Bilal Safdar 82 (37) Talat Nadeem 3/24 (4 overs)

• Spain won the toss and elected to bat.

Estonia  167/5 (20 overs)	v	Luxembourg 108/9 (20 overs)
Tim Heath 52* (33) Taral Desai 3/20 (4 overs)		Richard Neale 37 (34) Tim Heath 3/12 (3 overs)

• Estonia won the toss and elected to bat.

Israel  118/5 (20 overs)	v	Portugal 101/5 (20 overs)
Eshkol Solomon 40 (29) Zafar Ali 2/22 (3 overs)		Tariq Aziz 45 (30) Josh Evans 3/24 (3 overs)

• Portugal won the toss and elected to field.

Estonia  184/3 (20 overs)	v	Malta 128 (18.4 overs)
Nand Lal Riar 71 (46) Michael Caruana 1/9 (2 overs)		Frankie Spiteri 22 (16) Sivalingam Arunachalam 2/12 (3 overs)

• Estonia won the toss and elected to bat.

Spain  142/6 (20 overs)	v	Israel 143/4 (18.5 overs)
James Morgan 37 (43) Kapila Perere 2/24 (4 overs)		Herschel Gutman 43 (43) Armaghan Khan 2/21 (4 overs)

• Israel won the toss and elected to field.

Portugal  165/5 (20 overs)	v	Luxembourg 119/4 (15 overs)
Tariq Aziz 85* (65) Christopher Evans 2/21 (4 overs)		Joost Mees 40 (33) Nadeem Nazar 2/27 (3 overs)

• Luxembourg won the toss and elected to field.
• Rain stopped play after 1.4 overs in Luxembourg's innings, revising the target to 131 runs from 15 overs via the Duckworth–Lewis method.

Malta  119 (19.2 overs)	v	Spain 121/0 (11.2 overs)
Andrew Naudi 29 (23) Mark Spencer 3/10 (3.2 overs)		Tariq Ali 58* (34)

• Malta won the toss and elected to bat.

Estonia  154/3 (20 overs)	v	Israel 155/5 (18.2 overs)
Nand Lal Riar 59 (34) Eshkol Solomon 1/7 (3 overs)		Eshkol Solomon 85* (52) Nand Lal Riar 2/20 (3 overs)

• Estonia won the toss and elected to bat.

Group B

Team	P	W	L	T	NR	Points	NRR
Sweden	5	4	1	0	0	8	+0.762
Isle of Man	5	3	2	0	0	6	+1.132
Greece	5	3	2	0	0	6	–0.045
Finland	5	3	2	0	0	6	–0.245
Cyprus	5	2	3	0	0	4	+0.038
Croatia	5	0	5	0	0	0	–1.411

Isle of Man  166/3 (20 overs)	v	Cyprus 147/8 (18.2 overs)
Gareth Morris 43 (37) Gurbhej Singh 1/15 (4 overs)		Syed Hussain 51 (27) Alex Stokoe 3/33 (3 overs)

• Isle of Man won the toss and elected to bat.

Croatia  95/6 (20 overs)	v	Finland 96/3 (17.3 overs)
Craig Sinovich 36* (45) Amrik Bhatia 3/13 (3 overs)		Zahidullah Kamal 55* (54) Michael Grzinic 2/11 (4 overs)

• Croatia won the toss and elected to bat.

Isle of Man  136/6 (20 overs)	v	Sweden 137/5 (18.1 overs)
Max Stokoe 27 (43) Azam Khalil 3/21 (4 overs)		Christopher Tebbutt 57 (45) Garreth Roome 2/25 (4 overs)

• Isle of Man won the toss and elected to bat.

Croatia  100/5 (20 overs)	v	Cyprus 101/2 (15 overs)
Craig Sinovich 43 (48) Muhammad Mohsin 3/25 (4 overs)		Syed Hussain 32 (22) Paul Musin 1/21 (4 overs)

• Croatia won the toss and elected to bat.

Greece  114/4 (20 overs)	v	Sweden 115/9 (19.2 overs)
Nic Pothas 42* (41) Aman Momand 2/15 (4 overs)		Sadat Sidiqi 41 (39) Dimitrios Triantafillidis 3/23 (4 overs)

• Sweden won the toss and elected to field.

Finland  128/9 (20 overs)	v	Cyprus 120/2 (20 overs)
Michael Shaw 39 (47) Dineja Agathocleous 4/23 (4 overs)		Muhammad Mohsin 65* (55) Tariq Sarfraz 1/11 (4 overs)

• Cyprus won the toss and elected to field.

Isle of Man  185/3 (20 overs)	v	Greece 83 (17.2 overs)
Gareth Morris 66 (44) Spyridon Goustis 2/34 (4 overs)		Mehmood Ahmed 20 (20) Arnie van den Berg 3/18 (4 overs)

• Isle of Man won the toss and elected to bat.

Croatia  86/7 (20 overs)	v	Isle of Man 87/4 (16.5 overs)
Michael Grzinic 34 (46) Arnie van den Berg 3/13 (4 overs)		Philip Littlejohns 43* (44) Michael Grzinic 2/16 (4 overs)

• Croatia won the toss and elected to bat.

Finland  136 (19.5 overs)	v	Sweden 137/4 (17.3 overs)
Ekhpelwak Kuchey 73 (46) Khalid Ahmad 5/21 (3.5 overs)		Shahid Mustafa 66* (57) Tariq Sarfraz 3/19 (4 overs)

• Sweden won the toss and elected to field.

Sweden  125 (18.2 overs)	v	Cyprus 137/4 (17.3 overs)
Christopher Tebbutt 31 (33) Niroshan Pelawattha 3/22 (2.2 overs)		Muhammad Mohsin 49 (39) Khalid Ahmad 2/20 (2.4 overs)

• Sweden won the toss and elected to bat.

Croatia  129/5 (19.5 overs)	v	Greece 130/0 (17.4 overs)
John Vujnovich 50 (59) Mehmood Ahmed 2/28 (4 overs)		Anastasios Manousis 71* (55)

• Croatia won the toss and elected to bat.

Isle of Man  82 (19.2 overs)	v	Finland 84/4 (17 overs)
Garreth Roome 21 (10) Madhu Bhandari 4/12 (4 overs)		Bilal Khan 35* (20) Arnie van den Berg 2/14 (4 overs)

• Finland won the toss and elected to field.

Cyprus  138/7 (20 overs)	v	Greece 139/3 (15.4 overs)
Muhammad Mohsin 55 (40) Mehmood Ahmed 3/39 (4 overs)		Aslam Mohammad 60 (24) Gurbhej Singh 2/26 (4 overs)

• Greece won the toss and elected to field.

Greece  211/8 (20 overs)	v	Finland 158/9 (20 overs)
Aslam Mohammad 80 (40) Bilal Khan 2/24 (4 overs)		Ekhpelwak Kuchey 54 (49) Dimitrios Triantafillidis 4/29 (4 overs)

• Finland won the toss and elected to field.

Croatia  63 (17.2 overs)	v	Sweden 66/2 (11.1 overs)
John Vujnovich 12 (22) Khalid Ahmad 2/12 (4 overs)		Sadat Sidiqi 40* (28) Josip Jukic 1/11 (2 overs)

• Croatia won the toss and elected to bat.

Play-offs

Semi-final

Spain  190/6 (20 overs)	v	Sweden 191/9 (20 overs)
Tariq Ali 35 (23) Aman Momand 2/24 (4 overs)		Christopher Tebbutt 59 (35) Mark Spencer 4/30 (3 overs)

• Spain won the toss and elected to bat.

Semi-final

Isle of Man  136/7 (20 overs)	v	Israel 97 (18.3 overs)
Gareth Morris 53 (48) Josh Evans 3/9 (4 overs)		Josh Evans 34 (35) Mark Williams 3/13 (4 overs)

• Isle of Man won the toss and elected to bat.

9th-place play-off semi-final

Malta  127/8 (20 overs)	v	Croatia 128/6 (19.2 overs)
Nowell Khosla 43 (39) Michael Grzinic 3/18 (4 overs)		Michael Grzinic 42 (36) Michael Caruana 2/17 (4 overs)

• Croatia won the toss and elected to field.

9th-place play-off semi-final

Luxembourg  142/8 (20 overs)	v	Cyprus 115/9 (20 overs)
Timothy Barker 39 (31) Muhammad Mohsin 3/31 (4 overs)		Nimal Durayalage 29 (17) Christopher Evans 2/15 (4 overs)

• Cyprus won the toss and elected to field.

5th-place play-off semi-final

Estonia  113/7 (20 overs)	v	Greece 114/3 (18.2 overs)
Timothy Filer 45 (44) Dimitrios Triantafillidis 2/12 (4 overs)		Andreas Koutsoufis 27* (32) Moshiur Rahman 1/10 (3 overs)

• Greece won the toss and elected to field.

5th-place play-off semi-final

Portugal  120 (19.4 overs)	v	Finland 121/6 (19.3 overs)
Rizwan Khaliq 30 (31) Tariq Sarfraz 3/9 (4 overs)		Jonathan Scamans 39 (44) Intesab Medhi 2/22 (4 overs)

• Portugal won the toss and elected to bat.

11th-place play-off

Malta  96 (18.1 overs)	v	Cyprus 97/0 (11.2 overs)
Nowell Khosla 26 (28) Dineja Agathocleous 5/12 (4 overs)		Muhammad Mohsin 58* (35)

• Malta won the toss and elected to bat.

9th-place play-off

Luxembourg  136 (20 overs)	v	Croatia 116/6 (20 overs)
Taral Desai 52 (25) Paul Musin 3/31 (3 overs)		Michael Grzinic 49 (43) Richard Neale 2/21 (4 overs)

• Croatia won the toss and elected to field.

7th-place play-off

Portugal  164/8 (20 overs)	v	Estonia 133/8 (20 overs)
Khalil Izaz 49 (26) Vineeth Govind 3/17 (4 overs)		Moshiur Rahman 47 (28) Khalil Izaz 2/20 (4 overs)

• Portugal won the toss and elected to bat.

5th-place play-off

Greece  169/6 (20 overs)	v	Finland 123/3 (20 overs)
Nic Pothas 68 (40) Madhu Bhandari 2/21 (3 overs)		Jonathan Scamans 37* (30) Mehmood Ahmed 1/12 (4 overs)

• Greece won the toss and elected to bat.

3rd-place play-off

Spain  258/8 (20 overs)	v	Israel 168/4 (20 overs)
Tariq Ali 58 (18) Shailesh Bangera 3/32 (3 overs)		Shailesh Bangera 64* (43) Talat Nadeem 2/27 (4 overs)

• Spain won the toss and elected to bat.

Final

Sweden  122/7 (20 overs)	v	Isle of Man 124/2 (14.5 overs)
Sunny Sharma 24 (23) Mark Williams 3/23 (4 overs)		Gareth Morris 71 (41) Azam Khalil 2/21 (3.5 overs)

• Isle of Man won the toss and elected to field.
• Isle of Man won the 2012 ICC European T20 Championship Division Two and qualified for 2013 Europe Division One as a result of this match.

Statistics

Most Runs

The top five run scorers (total runs) are included in this table.

Player	Team	Runs	Inns	Avg	S/R	HS	100s	50s
Tariq Ali	Spain	476	7	95.20	214.41	150*	2	2
Muhammad Mohsin	Cyprus	305	7	76.25	129.23	65*	0	3
Gareth Morris	Isle of Man	275	7	39.28	127.90	71	0	3
Tariq Aziz	Portugal	242	7	48.40	113.08	85*	0	2
Aslam Mohammad	Greece	237	6	47.40	146.29	80	0	2

Most Wickets

The top five wicket takers (total wickets) are listed in this table.

Player	Team	Wkts	Mts	Ave	S/R	Econ	BBI
Muhammad Mohsin	Cyprus	14	7	11.42	9.9	6.90	4/16
Dimitrios Triantafillidis	Greece	12	7	12.25	13.5	5.44	4/29
Azam Khalil	Sweden	12	7	14.50	11.9	7.30	3/21
Arnie van den Berg	Isle of Man	11	6	9.00	12.5	4.30	3/13
Tariq Sarfraz	Finland	11	5	11.90	14.7	4.85	3/9

Final Placings

After the conclusion of the tournament the teams were distributed as follows:

Pos	Team	Promotion/relegation
1st	Isle of Man	Promoted to 2013 Europe Division One
2nd	Sweden
3rd	Spain	Remain in 2014 Europe Division Two
4th	Israel
5th	Greece
6th	Finland
7th	Portugal
8th	Estonia
9th	Luxembourg
10th	Croatia
11th	Cyprus
12th	Malta	Relegated to 2014 Europe Division Three

See also

• 2012 ICC World Twenty20 Qualifier
• European Cricket Championship

References

1. "ICC European Division 2 Championship 2012". Archived from the original on 2013-01-12. Retrieved 2012-12-29.

• 2014 World Twenty20
• International cricket competitions in 2012
• European Cricket Championship
• 2012 in Greek sport
• International cricket competitions in Greece