Czech Cricket have announced that they will be hosting the Men’s Central Europe Cup tournament at the Vinor cricket ground in Prague from July 08th – 10th, 2022. National Men’s teams from Luxembourg and Austria (Defending Champions from the previous edition in 2021) will compete with their host’s in a double round-robin group stage format. All matches will be played at VinoĊ cricket ground, on both the Scott Page field and the Banks field and teams will play each other twice over the three days.
The tournament will provide much needed competitive match exposure for the countries, as they prepare themselves for the ICC European sub-regional qualifiers for 2024 T20 World Cup in July 2022. The last edition of the Central Europe Cup played in 2021 also involved the same countries, but the tournament has been taking place annually in Prague since 2014, and while the tournament was being played in the 50-overs format until 2018, the 2019 edition was the first time it was played in the T20 format with T20I team ranking points on offer.
Central Europe Cup Squads
Luxembourg: Joost Mees (Captain), Amit Dhingra, Ankush Nanda, Anshuman Bhadauria, Anoop Orsu, Ansh Trivedi, Girish Venkateswaran, James Barker, Mohit Dixit, Pankaj Malav, Shiv Karan Gill, Timothy Barker, Vikram Vijh and William Cope
Czech Republic: Arun Ashokan (Captain), Naveed Ahmed, Sazib Bhuiyan, Sonny Clephane, Sabawoon Davizi, Ushan Gunathilake, Tripurari Kanhya Lal, Sameera Maduranga, Smit Patel, Divyendra Singh, Dylan Steyn, Ritik Tomar, Kranthi Venkataswamy and Sudesh Wickramasekara
2022 Central Europe Cup Schedule
08th July 2022: Luxembourg vs Austria (Scorecard) @10am ; Czech Republic vs Luxembourg (Scorecard) @3pm
09th July 2022: Austria vs Czech Republic (Scorecard) @10am ; Luxembourg vs Austria (Scorecard) @3pm
10th July 2022: Czech Republic vs Luxembourg (Scorecard) @10am ; Austria vs Czech Republic @3pm
