Dates | 21 – 24 October 2021 |
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Administrator(s) | Malta Cricket Association |
Cricket format | Twenty20 International |
Host(s) | Malta |
Champions | Malta |
Runners-up | Switzerland |
Participants | 4 |
Matches | 8 |
Player of the series | Avinash Pai |
Most runs | Louis Bruce (222) |
Most wickets | Ashwin Vinod (9) |
The 2021 Valletta Cup was a Twenty20 International (T20I) cricket tournament held in Malta between 21 and 24 October 2021. [1] It was the second edition of the Valletta Cup. The matches were played at the Marsa Sports Club in Marsa. [2] The participating teams were the hosts Malta along with Bulgaria, Gibraltar and Switzerland. [1]
This was the first international tournament for Switzerland since the introduction of global T20I status in January 2019, [3] and their re-admittance to the International Cricket Council (ICC) in July 2021. [1] Cricket Switzerland (previously known as the Swiss Cricket Association), had been suspended by the ICC in 2012 due to non-compliance following the formation of a second organization also claiming to oversee cricket in the country. [4] They were one of three nations to gain Associate membership after the ICC's annual general meeting in July 2021. [5] [6]
Switzerland finished on top of the round-robin stage with three wins. [7] Malta defeated Switzerland in the final, [8] after Bulgaria defeated Gibraltar in the third-place playoff. [9] After the tournament, Malta and Gibraltar played a rain-affected two-match bilateral T20I series that was shared after one game was lost to the weather and the other finished as a DLS method tie. [10]
Bulgaria | Gibraltar [11] | Malta | Switzerland [1] |
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Team [12] | P | W | L | T | NR | Pts | NRR |
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Switzerland | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | +3.067 |
Malta | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | +1.379 |
Gibraltar | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | –1.274 |
Bulgaria | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | –3.662 |
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Heinrich Gericke 64 (25)
Avinash Pai 2/28 (4 overs) |
Louis Bruce 57
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Bilal Muhammad 1/24 (4 overs) |
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Louis Bruce 31 (27)
Aidan Andrews 3/21 (4 overs) |
Osama Mahmood 58
* (46)
Charles Harrison 1/19 (2 overs) |
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Jacob Albin 19
* (30)
Aneesh Kumar 3/3 (2.3 overs) |
Arjun Vinod 43
* (20)
Delrick Varghese 1/21 (1 over) |
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Avinash Pai 107
* (52)
Sulaiman Ali 2/38 (4 overs) |
Hristo Lakov 80 (63)
James Fitzgerald 2/37 (4 overs) |
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Asad Mahmood 33 (25)
Bikram Arora 3/20 (4 overs) |
Bilal Muhammad 35
* (17)
Ashwin Vinod 3/30 (4 overs) |
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Omar Rassol 63
* (36)
Varun Thamotharam 2/30 (4 overs) |
Basil George 41 (27)
Sulaiman Ali 2/26 (3 overs) |
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Avinash Pai 71 (37)
Prakash Mishra 3/22 (4 overs) |
Aravinda De Silva 62 (40)
Charles Harrison 2/31 (4 overs) |
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Bikram Arora 42 (39)
Aneesh Kumar 2/26 (4 overs) |
Idrees Ul Haque 42 (23)
Varun Thamotharam 3/25 (4 overs) |
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Varun Thamotharam 50 (27)
Louis Bruce 4/13 (3 overs) |
Kieron Ferrary 35
* (25)
Waseem Abbas 1/15 (2 overs) |
Dates | 21 – 24 October 2021 |
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Administrator(s) | Malta Cricket Association |
Cricket format | Twenty20 International |
Host(s) | Malta |
Champions | Malta |
Runners-up | Switzerland |
Participants | 4 |
Matches | 8 |
Player of the series | Avinash Pai |
Most runs | Louis Bruce (222) |
Most wickets | Ashwin Vinod (9) |
The 2021 Valletta Cup was a Twenty20 International (T20I) cricket tournament held in Malta between 21 and 24 October 2021. [1] It was the second edition of the Valletta Cup. The matches were played at the Marsa Sports Club in Marsa. [2] The participating teams were the hosts Malta along with Bulgaria, Gibraltar and Switzerland. [1]
This was the first international tournament for Switzerland since the introduction of global T20I status in January 2019, [3] and their re-admittance to the International Cricket Council (ICC) in July 2021. [1] Cricket Switzerland (previously known as the Swiss Cricket Association), had been suspended by the ICC in 2012 due to non-compliance following the formation of a second organization also claiming to oversee cricket in the country. [4] They were one of three nations to gain Associate membership after the ICC's annual general meeting in July 2021. [5] [6]
Switzerland finished on top of the round-robin stage with three wins. [7] Malta defeated Switzerland in the final, [8] after Bulgaria defeated Gibraltar in the third-place playoff. [9] After the tournament, Malta and Gibraltar played a rain-affected two-match bilateral T20I series that was shared after one game was lost to the weather and the other finished as a DLS method tie. [10]
Bulgaria | Gibraltar [11] | Malta | Switzerland [1] |
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Team [12] | P | W | L | T | NR | Pts | NRR |
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Switzerland | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | +3.067 |
Malta | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | +1.379 |
Gibraltar | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | –1.274 |
Bulgaria | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | –3.662 |
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Heinrich Gericke 64 (25)
Avinash Pai 2/28 (4 overs) |
Louis Bruce 57
* (55)
Bilal Muhammad 1/24 (4 overs) |
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Louis Bruce 31 (27)
Aidan Andrews 3/21 (4 overs) |
Osama Mahmood 58
* (46)
Charles Harrison 1/19 (2 overs) |
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Jacob Albin 19
* (30)
Aneesh Kumar 3/3 (2.3 overs) |
Arjun Vinod 43
* (20)
Delrick Varghese 1/21 (1 over) |
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Avinash Pai 107
* (52)
Sulaiman Ali 2/38 (4 overs) |
Hristo Lakov 80 (63)
James Fitzgerald 2/37 (4 overs) |
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Asad Mahmood 33 (25)
Bikram Arora 3/20 (4 overs) |
Bilal Muhammad 35
* (17)
Ashwin Vinod 3/30 (4 overs) |
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Omar Rassol 63
* (36)
Varun Thamotharam 2/30 (4 overs) |
Basil George 41 (27)
Sulaiman Ali 2/26 (3 overs) |
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Avinash Pai 71 (37)
Prakash Mishra 3/22 (4 overs) |
Aravinda De Silva 62 (40)
Charles Harrison 2/31 (4 overs) |
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Bikram Arora 42 (39)
Aneesh Kumar 2/26 (4 overs) |
Idrees Ul Haque 42 (23)
Varun Thamotharam 3/25 (4 overs) |
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Varun Thamotharam 50 (27)
Louis Bruce 4/13 (3 overs) |
Kieron Ferrary 35
* (25)
Waseem Abbas 1/15 (2 overs) |