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2019 Valletta Cup

Dates	17 – 20 October 2019
Administrator(s)	Malta Cricket Association
Cricket format	Twenty20 International, Twenty20
Host(s)	Malta
Champions	Czech Republic
Runners-up	Hungary XI
Participants	4
Matches	9
Player of the series	Sabawoon Davizi
Most runs	Sabawoon Davizi (253)
Most wickets	Kushalkumar Mendon (11)
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The 2019 Valletta Cup, the inaugural edition of the Valletta Cup, was a Twenty20 cricket tournament held in Malta between 17 and 20 October 2019. The participating teams were the hosts Malta along with Czech Republic, Iceland and a Hungary XI. Matches played between Malta and the Czech Republic had official Twenty20 International (T20I) status, but because Iceland were not an Associate Member of the ICC and the selected Hungarian squad was not an official national side, matches involving either of these teams did not have T20I status. The matches were played at Marsa Sports Club in Marsa. The Hungarian XI won all of their round-robin matches and their semi-final, but were beaten by the Czech Republic in the final.

Squads

Czech Republic	Hungary XI	Iceland	Malta
Edward Knowles (c) Hilal Ahmad (wk) Naveed Ahmed Arun Ashokan Shaun Dalton Sabawoon Davizi Kyle Gilham Honey Gori Siddarth Goud Vojtech Hasa Arshad Hayat Kushalkumar Mendon Shoumyadeep Rakshit Paul Taylor Sudesh Wickramasekara	Abhijeet Ahuja (c) Abhishek Ahuja Shehroz Ali Satyadeep Ashwathnarayana Maaz Bhaiji Habib Deldar Khaibar Deldar Steffan Gooch Ali Haider Abhishek Kheterpal Zeeshan Kukikhel Nishanta Liyanage Harshvardhan Mandhyan Akramullah Malikzada Sufiyan Mohammed Zahir Mohammed	Nolan Williams (c) Dushan Bandara Lakmal Bandara Keenan Botha Abhi Chauhan Leslie D'Cunha Yougeshwar Deonarain Brendon Fernando Sammy Gill Kit Harris Sadun Lankathilaka Lee Nelson (wk) Jakob Robertson Prabhath Weerasooriya	Bikram Arora (c) Waseem Abbas Sujesh Appu Samuel Aquilina (wk) Sean Byrne Gopal Chaturvedi Michael Goonetilleke Jurg Hirschi Sumair Khan Nowell Khosla Alex Meears Haroon Mughal Suhrid Roy Ravinder Singh Aneesh Tomy

Round robin

Points table

Team	P	W	L	T	NR	Pts	NRR
Hungary XI	3	3	0	0	0	6	+1.086
Czech Republic	3	2	1	0	0	4	+1.327
Malta	3	1	2	0	0	2	–0.295
Iceland	3	0	3	0	0	0	–2.186

Fixtures

Iceland  107/5 (20 overs)	v	Malta 110/3 (18 overs)
Lee Nelson 49 (40) Ravinder Singh 3/9 (3 overs)		Bikram Arora 30* (33) Prabhath Weerasooriya 2/20 (4 overs)

• Iceland won the toss and elected to bat.

Czech Republic  148/5 (20 overs)	v	Malta 136 (18.2 overs)
Sabawoon Davizi 91 (65) Jurg Hirschi 2/18 (4 overs)		Haroon Mughal 31 (23) Kushalkumar Mendon 3/19 (2 overs)

• Czech Republic won the toss and elected to bat.
• Waseem Abbas, Sean Byrne, Gopal Chaturvedi, Michael Goonetilleke, Ravinder Singh (Mlt), Arun Ashokan, Sabawoon Davizi and Siddarth Goud (Cze) all made their T20I debuts.

Iceland  108/8 (20 overs)	v	Hungary XI 109/5 (15.4 overs)
Keenan Botha 27 (33) Habib Deldar 2/16 (4 overs)		Zahir Mohammed 56 (26) Prabhath Weerasooriya 4/22 (4 overs)

• Iceland won the toss and elected to bat.

Czech Republic  155/7 (20 overs)	v	Iceland 72/7 (20 overs)
Hilal Ahmad 47* (29) Keenan Botha 4/19 (4 overs)		Lakmal Bandara 21 (28) Kushalkumar Mendon 3/3 (2 overs)

• Czech Republic won the toss and elected to bat.

Czech Republic  100/8 (20 overs)	v	Hungary XI 101/3 (17.2 overs)
Edward Knowles 30* (28) Abhishek Kheterpal 3/13 (4 overs)		Abhishek Ahuja 32* (34) Paul Taylor 2/24 (4 overs)

• Hungary XI won the toss and elected to field.

Malta  94 (16.1 overs)	v	Hungary XI 98/5 (17.2 overs)
Nowell Khosla 46 (36) Harshvardhan Mandhyan 4/11 (4 overs)		Ali Haider 25* (35) Jurg Hirschi 2/8 (2 overs)

• Malta won the toss and elected to bat.

Knockouts

Semi-finals

Czech Republic  204/4 (20 overs)	v	Malta 122 (15.5 overs)
Sabawoon Davizi 101 (68) Sujesh Appu 1/26 (3 overs)		Gopal Chaturvedi 24 (11) Sabawoon Davizi 4/15 (3 overs)

• Czech Republic won the toss and elected to bat.
• Suhrid Roy (Mlt) made his T20I debut.
• Sabawoon Davizi (Cze) scored his first century in T20Is.

Iceland  125/8 (20 overs)	v	Hungary XI 126/1 (15.3 overs)
Yougeshwar Deonarain 61 (45) Abhishek Kheterpal 2/24 (4 overs)		Zeeshan Kukikhel 55 (25) Keenan Botha 1/8 (3 overs)

• Hungary XI won the toss and elected to field.

Final

Hungary XI  91 (17.2 overs)	v	Czech Republic 97/2 (11.4 overs)
Zeeshan Kukikhel 28 (29) Naveed Ahmed 4/14 (4 overs)		Sabawoon Davizi 57* (40) Habib Deldar 1/14 (2 overs)

• Czech Republic won the toss and elected to field.

References

1. @MaltaCricket (26 September 2019). "The Malta Cricket Association is delighted to announce that we will be hosting a T20 Tournament between October 17th-20th" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
2. @MaltaCricket (4 October 2019). "The Malta Cricket Association is delighted to announce that the upcoming ICC T20 Tournament will be known as the 2019 Valletta Cup" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
3. "Valletta Cup 2019/20". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 28 September 2019.
4. @MaltaCricket (20 October 2019). "Czech Republic crowned champions of the 2019 Valletta Cup" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
5. "National team squad. Valletta Cup, Malta, October 17 – 20 2019". Czech Cricket (via Facebook). 4 October 2019. Retrieved 4 October 2019.
6. "Hungarian men's national team tour to Malta". Hungarian Cricket Association. Archived from the original on 19 February 2020. Retrieved 14 October 2019.
7. "It is two weeks to go and we are pleased to announce our squad for the Valletta Cup in Malta". Iceland Cricket (via Facebook). Retrieved 1 October 2019.
8. @MaltaCricket (10 October 2019). "The Malta Cricket Association is delighted to announce its 15-man squad for the upcoming 2019 ICC T20 Valletta Cup" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
9. "Valletta Cup 2019/20". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 20 October 2019.

External links

• Series home at ESPN Cricinfo

• Associate international cricket competitions in 2019–20
• Valletta Cup