The second edition of the European Cricket Championships tournament, due to take place from September 12th – October 14th, 2022 will be held at Cartama Oval in Spain. The event is an ICC sanctioned T10 tournament, which will be organized by European Cricket Network (ECN) and Dream11 being the Title sponsor. A total of twenty (20) European countries are scheduled to take part in the tournament, with four (4) groups of five (5) teams each, and is an increase from the 15 teams that competed in the inaugural edition in 2021.
Ireland, Scotland and Netherlands have been playing International cricket in their respective home summers in 2022, while the remaining countries (except Germany) have recently taken part in the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup European sub-regional qualifiers in Finland and Belgium, and will be much better prepared for the event than last year. Winner of each of the four groups will advance to the Finals week from October 10th – 14th, where the Defending Champions from last year (England XI) will join them.
Squads
Czech Republic: Dylan Steyn (Captain), Sabawoon Davizi, Aakash Parmar, Kranthi Muneppa, Satyajit Sengupta, Sudesh Wickramasekara, Ritik Tomar, Sazib Bhuiyan, Abul Farhad, Naveed Ahmed, Divyendra Singh, Smit Patel and Sharan Sundareswaran
Luxembourg: Vikram Vijh (Captain), Amit Dhingra, Thomas Martin, Anoop Orsu, Eliyas Jabar Khel, Ansh Triwedi, Oscar Whiteman, Mohit Dixit, Pankaj Malav, Roshan Vishwanath, Shiv Karan Singh Gill, Timothy Barker, Tony Whiteman and William Cope
Spain: Chris Munoz Mills (Captain), Hamza Dar, Tom Vine, Asjad Butt, Muhammad Kamran, Gurvinder Bajwa, Muhammad Ihsan, Prince Dhiman, Muhammad Babar, Daniel Doyle, Gaurang Mahyavanshi, Atif Mohammad, Adam Alger and Lorne Burns
Germany A: Walter Behr (Captain), Rohit Singh, Husnain Kabeer, Nilay Patel, Asad Mohammad, Sreekesh Srinivas, Vaseekaran Aritharan, Nooruddin Mujadady, Shoaib Azam Khan, Ashed Safi, Vijay Shankar, Vedant Shetye and Ahmadschah Ahmadzai
Norway: Usman Arif, Muhammad Shahbaz Butt, Raza Iqbal, Ansar Iqbal, Yes Khan, Darshana Abeyrathna Kuruge, Qamar Mushtaq, Mohammad Ibrahim Rahimi, Faisal Raza, Muhammad Sher Sahak, Ali Sufyan Saleem, Ahmadullah Shinwari, Pratheesh Kumar Thangavadivel and Mohammad Saif-Ul Islam
Hungary: Khaibar Deldar (Captain), Harsh Mandhyan, Zeeshan Kukikhel, Abhishek Stan Ahuja, Mark des Fontaine, Zahir Safi, Abhishek Kheterpal, Asanka Weligamage, Satya Ashwathnarayana, Ximus du Plooy, Sandeep Mohandas, Maaz Bhaiji, Vinoth Ravindran, Abhitesh Prashar and Kalum Nandika
Ireland Academy: John Matchett, Scott Macbeth, Cameron Melly, John McNally, Séamus Lynch, Jared Wilson, Michael O’Reilly, Max Burton, Finn Catherwood, Matthew Humphreys, Muzamil Sherzad, Carson McCullough and Jamie Forbes
Portugal: Conrad Greenshields (Captain), Parth Jounjat, Mubeen Tariq, Fakrul Hussain, Anthony Chambers, Junaid Khan, Rao Imran, Madhukar Thapa, Rana Zohaib, Md. Siraj Khadem, Imran Khan, Francouse Stoman and Miguel Stoman
Italy: Baljit Singh (Captain), Sikander Abbas, Sujith Rillagodage, Crishan Kalugamage, Fernando Pidusha, Bashar Khan, Zain Naqvi, Anik Ahmed, Sharif Amir, Jagmeet Singh, Umar Awais, Rajmani Singh and Ali Hasan
Groups/Schedule
Group A (September 12th – 16th): Ireland, Spain, Austria, Czech Republic and Portugal
Group B (September 19th – 23rd): Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, Hungary and Finland
Group C (September 26th – 30th): Scotland, Belgium, France, Malta and Luxembourg
Group D (October 03rd – 07th): Italy, Germany, Norway, Romania and Switzerland
