2022 Central Europe Cup
Dates8 – 10 July 2022
Administrator(s)Czech Cricket Union
Cricket formatTwenty20 International
Host(s) Czech Republic
Champions Czech Republic (3rd title)
Participants3
Matches6
Player of the seriesCzech Republic Naveed Ahmed
Most runsCzech Republic Sabawoon Davizi (210)
Most wicketsCzech Republic Naveed Ahmed (6)
Luxembourg Pankaj Malav (6)
Austria Aqib Iqbal (6)

The 2022 Central Europe Cup was a Twenty20 International (T20I) cricket tournament that was played in Prague between 8 and 10 July 2022.[1] The participating teams were the hosts Czech Republic, along with Austria and Luxembourg – the same sides that competed in the previous edition of the tournament.[2] The tournament was being played in a double round-robin format.[3] This was the eighth edition of the Central Europe Cup, with Austria the defending champions after having won on their debut at the Central Europe Cup in 2021.[4][5]

Squads

 Austria  Czech Republic[6]  Luxembourg[7]
  • Razmal Shigiwal (c)
  • Habib Ahmadzai
  • Mirza Ahsan
  • Abdullah Akbarjan
  • Mehar Cheema (wk)
  • Itibarshah Deedar
  • Aqib Iqbal
  • Osman Khan
  • Shahil Momin
  • Jaweed Sadran
  • Umair Tariq
  • Mark Simpson-Parker
  • Navin Wijesekera
  • Sahel Zadran
  • Arun Ashokan (c)
  • Naveed Ahmed
  • Sazib Bhuiyan
  • Sonny Clephane
  • Sabawoon Davizi
  • Tripurari Lal
  • Smit Patel
  • Divyendra Singh (wk)
  • Dylan Steyn
  • Ushan Thenannahelage (wk)
  • Ritik Tomar
  • Kranthi Venkataswamy
  • Sameera Waththage
  • Sudesh Wickramasekara
  • Joost Mees (c, wk)
  • Vikram Vijh (vc)
  • James Barker
  • Timothy Barker (wk)
  • William Cope
  • Amit Dhingra
  • Mohit Dixit
  • Shiv Gill
  • Pankaj Malav
  • Ankush Nanda
  • Anoop Orsu
  • Anshuman Bhadauria
  • Ansh Trivedi
  • Girish Venkateswaran

Czech Republic named Vyshakh Jagannivasan and Sharan Ramakrishnan as reserves.[6]

Points Table

Pos Team Pld W L NR Pts NRR
1  Czech Republic 4 3 1 0 12 1.020
2  Austria 4 3 1 0 12 0.860
3  Luxembourg 4 0 4 0 0 −2.037
Source: ESPN Cricinfo[8]

Fixtures

8 July 2022
10:00
Scorecard
Luxembourg 
119/5 (20 overs)
v
 Austria
123/5 (16.2 overs)
Shiv Gill 28* (30)
Jaweed Sadran 3/17 (4 overs)
Razmal Shigiwal 65 (45)
Shiv Gill 2/14 (2 overs)
Austria won by 5 wickets
Scott Page Field, Vinoř Cricket Ground, Prague
Umpires: Richard Eames (Lux) and Chris Tebb (Cze)
Player of the match: Razmal Shigiwal (Aut)
  • Austria won the toss and elected to field.
8 July 2022
15:00
Scorecard
Luxembourg 
112/7 (20 overs)
v
 Czech Republic
115/5 (16.3 overs)
Shiv Gill 27 (32)
Sazib Bhuiyan 3/24 (4 overs)
Sabawoon Davizi 40 (27)
Pankaj Malav 2/25 (4 overs)
Czech Republic won by 5 wickets
Scott Page Field, Vinoř Cricket Ground, Prague
Umpires: Richard Eames (Lux) and Sunil Gowda (Ger)
Player of the match: Sazib Bhuiyan (Cze)
  • Luxembourg won the toss and elected to bat.
  • Sonny Clephane, Ushan Thenannahelage (Cze) and Anshuman Bhadauria (Lux) all made their T20I debuts.
9 July 2022
10:00
Scorecard
Czech Republic 
182/6 (20 overs)
v
 Austria
183/6 (19.4 overs)
Sabawoon Davizi 111* (71)
Abdullah Akbarjan 2/28 (4 overs)
Aqib Iqbal 2/28 (4 overs)
Mirza Ahsan 57 (28)
Naveed Ahmed 2/22 (4 overs)
Austria won by 4 wickets
Scott Page Field, Vinoř Cricket Ground, Prague
Umpires: Richard Eames (Lux) and Chris Tebb (Cze)
Player of the match: Shahil Momin (Aut)
  • Austria won the toss and elected to field.
  • Tripurari Lal (Cze) made his T20I debut.
9 July 2022
15:00
Scorecard
Austria 
115/3 (12.1 overs)
v
 Luxembourg
84/4 (10 overs)
Razmal Shigiwal 48* (23)
Pankaj Malav 2/19 (3 overs)
Joost Mees 23* (16)
Aqib Iqbal 2/7 (2 overs)
Austria won by 35 runs (DLS method)
Scott Page Field, Vinoř Cricket Ground, Prague
Umpires: Sunil Gowda (Ger) and Chris Tebb (Cze)
Player of the match: Razmal Shigiwal (Aut)
  • Luxembourg won the toss and elected to field.
  • Luxembourg were set a revised target of 120 runs from 10 overs due to rain.
10 July 2022
10:00
Scorecard
Czech Republic 
209/6 (20 overs)
v
 Luxembourg
173/9 (20 overs)
Dylan Steyn 64 (44)
Pankaj Malav 2/31 (4 overs)
James Barker 44 (36)
Arun Ashokan 3/32 (4 overs)
Czech Republic won by 36 runs
Scott Page Field, Vinoř Cricket Ground, Prague
Umpires: Sunil Gowda (Ger) and Chris Tebb (Cze)
Player of the match: Sudesh Wickramasekara (Cze)
  • Czech Republic won the toss and elected to bat.
  • Kranthi Venkataswamy (Cze) and Ansh Trivedi (Lux) both made their T20I debuts.
10 July 2022
15:00
Scorecard
Austria 
146/8 (20 overs)
v
 Czech Republic
150/4 (18.4 overs)
Aqib Iqbal 40 (42)
Naveed Ahmed 1/12 (4 overs)
Sabawoon Davizi 56 (43)
Aqib Iqbal 1/23 (4 overs)
Czech Republic won by 6 wickets
Scott Page Field, Vinoř Cricket Ground, Prague
Umpires: Richard Eames (Lux) and Sunil Gowda (Ger)
Player of the match: Arun Ashokan (Cze)
  • Czech Republic won the toss and elected to field.
  • Osman Khan (Aut) made his T20I debut.

References

  1. ↑ "The Central Europe Cup 2022 is nearly upon us". Czech Cricket (via Facebook). Retrieved 1 July 2022.
  2. ↑ "Czech Republic to host 3-nation Central Europe Cup in July 2022". Czarsportz. Retrieved 4 July 2022.
  3. ↑ "Central Europe Cup 2022". Czech Cricket (via Facebook). Retrieved 2 July 2022.
  4. ↑ "Austria lift cup on final day". Cricket Europe. Archived from the original on 15 May 2022. Retrieved 23 May 2021.
  5. ↑ "Global Game: Scotland, Ireland women return to international arena". International Cricket Council. Retrieved 24 May 2021.
  6. 1 2 "Announcing the Czech Men's National Team Squad for the Central Europe Cup, Prague". Czech Cricket (via Facebook). Retrieved 4 July 2022.
  7. ↑ "Luxembourg men's national squad for Central European Cup to be organized in Czech Republic from 8-10 July 2022". Luxembourg Cricket Federation (via Facebook). Retrieved 26 June 2022.
  8. ↑ "Central Europe Cup 2022". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 9 July 2022.
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