Bulgarian Cricket Federation (BCF) in collaboration with European Cricket Network (ECN), will be hosting Men’s National squads from Croatia, Serbia and Turkey in a T20 International (with ranking points) quadrangular series from June 23rd – 25th, 2023 at National Sports Academy ground in Vasil Levski, Sofia. The Serbian Men’s team have visited Bulgaria back in 2021 and 2022 for both multi-nation and bi-lateral tours, while the Croatian and Turkish Men’s team will be visiting Sofia for the first time for an International T20 series (Turkey team did visit Bulgaria in 2023 and were part of the T10 series hosted by BCF in early June).
This will be the first T20 International matches (with ranking points) for all the participating teams since taking part in the European sub-regional qualifiers towards 2024 ICC Men’s T20 World Cup last year in July in Finland.
Sofia T20 Quadrangular Schedule
23rd June 2023: Serbia vs Turkey (Scorecard) ; Bulgaria vs Croatia (Scorecard) ; Serbia vs Bulgaria (Scorecard)
24th June 2023: Turkey vs Croatia (Scorecard) ; Croatia vs Serbia (Scorecard) ; Bulgaria vs Turkey (Scorecard)
25th June 2023: 3rd/4th play-off (Scorecard) ; FINAL (Scorecard)
Squads
Bulgaria Men: Dimo Nikolov (Captain), Prakash Mishra, Delrick Vinu, Isa Zaroo, Zeerak Chughtai, Zain Asif, Vasil Hristov, Huzaif Yousuf, Danyal Raja, Syed Zaid Soulat, Hristo Lakov, Baktiar Tahiri, Saim Hussain, Gagandeep Singh, Rohit Dhiman and Agagyul Ahmadel
Turkey Men: Ahmet Dursak, Ali Turkmen, Cihan Altun, Gokhan Alta, Ishak Elec, Mecit Ozturk, Muhammed Turkmen, Muhammet Bicer, Murad Ozbek, Murat Ipek, Romeo Nath, Batuhan Cem Sahin, Ilyas Ataullah, Muhammad Fahad, Muhammet Kursat Canbaz and Murat Yilmaz
Croatia Men: Vedran Zanko (Captain), Sohail Ahmad, Wasal Kamal, Naseem Khan, Pero Bosnjak, Akshay Daxini, Antonio Faletar, Dominik Faletar, Hrvoje Hainic, Alen Magdalenic and Luka Stubbs
Serbia Men: Adrian Dubar, Alexander Dizija, Bogdan Dugic, Mark Pavlovic, Mene-Ejegi Ayo, Nemanja Zimonic, Rahman Ademi, Robin Vitas, Vukasin Zimonjic, Wintley Burton, Alister Gajic, Matija Sarenac, Nicholas Johns-Wickberg and Slobodan Tosic
