Cricket Scotland (CS) have been awarded the hosting rights by International Cricket Council (ICC) for the upcoming 2024 ICC Men’s T20 World Cup Europe Finals (qualifiers), and will be taking place in Edinburgh from July 20th – 28th, 2023. The Europe Finals will see Men’s teams from Scotland, Ireland, Jersey, Denmark, Germany, Italy and Austria compete for two (2) qualification spots into the draw of the 2024 event in West Indies and USA.
While Scotland and Ireland were pushed back into the regional finals due to their positioning in the 2022 ICC Men’s T20 World Cup (both were eliminated in the Super12 stage and did not finish in Top 8), while Jersey and Germany were pushed back into the event after they failed to advance to the 2022 main draw from the Global qualifiers held in Oman and Zimbabwe respectively in January 2022 and July 2022. Teams from Denmark, Italy and Austria won their respective sub-regional qualifiers held in Finland and Belgium in 2022 to advance to the regional Finals.
All teams in the Finals will play against each other in a single round-robin group stage format, with the top two (2) teams in the points table at the conclusion of the event securing their place in the 2024 T20 World Cup.
ICC Men’s T20 World Cup Europe Finals Schedule
20th July 2023: Jersey vs Austria (Scorecard) ; Italy vs Ireland (Scorecard) ; Scotland vs Germany (Scorecard)
21st July 2023: Denmark vs Ireland (Scorecard) ; Germany vs Austria (Scorecard) ; Jersey vs Scotland (Scorecard)
23rd July 2023: Austria vs Ireland (Scorecard) ; Italy vs Jersey (Scorecard) ; Denmark vs Germany (Scorecard)
24th July 2023: Scotland vs Italy (Scorecard) ; Denmark vs Austria (Scorecard) ; Ireland vs Jersey (Scorecard)
25th July 2023: Italy vs Denmark (Scorecard) ; Austria vs Scotland (Scorecard) ; Jersey vs Germany (Scorecard)
27th July 2023: Denmark vs Scotland (Scorecard) ; Germany vs Ireland ; Austria vs Italy
28th July 2023: Italy vs Germany (Scorecard) ; Jersey vs Denmark (Scorecard) ; Scotland vs Ireland (Scorecard)
Squads
Scotland Men: Richie Berrington (Captain), Matthew Cross, Bradley Currie, Chris Greaves, Oli Hairs, Jack Jarvis, Michael Leask, Tom Mackintosh, Gavin Main, Brandon McMullen, George Munsey, Safyaan Sharif, Adrian Neill, Hamza Tahir and Mark Watt
Jersey Men: Chuggy Perchard (Captain), Dominic Blampied, Charlie Brennan, Toby Britton, Harrison Carlyon, Nick Greenwood, Jonty Jenner, Josh Lawrenson, Elliot Miles, Rhys Palmer, Will Perchard, Julius Sumerauer, Asa Tribe, Zak Tribe and Ben Ward
Denmark Men: Taranjit Singh Bharaj (Captain), Shangeev Thanikaithasan, Saif Ali Ahmad, Lucky Malik, Saud Munir, Surya Anand, Abdullah Mahmood, Abdul Hashmi, Oliver Hald, Nicolaj Lægsgaard, Saran Aslam, Ehsan Karimi, Jonas Henriksen and Musa Mahmood
Ireland Men: Paul Stirling (Captain), Mark Adair, Ross Adair, Andrew Balbirnie, Curtis Campher, Theo van Woerkom, George Dockrell, Graham Hume, Josh Little, Barry McCarthy, Neil Rock, Harry Tector, Lorcan Tucker, Ben White and Craig Young
Germany Men: Venkat Ganesan (Captain), Rasul Ahmadi, Vishnu Bharathi, Dieter Klein, Sachin Mandy, Faisal bin Mubashir, Sahir Naqash, Dylan Blignaut, Matthew Montgomery, Vijay Shankar, Harmanjot Singh, Muslim Yar Ashraf, Michael Richardson, Zahid Zadran and Joshua van Heerden
Italy Men: Gareth Berg (Captain), Stefano Bartolomeo, Marcus Campopiano, Crishan Kalugamage, Harry Manenti, Gian-Piero Meade, Juston Mosca, Wayne Madsen, Ben Manenti, Anthony Mosca, Syed Naqvi, Manpreet Singh, Jaspreet Singh, Sukhwinder Singh, Grant Stewart and Kosala Warnakulasuriya
Austria Men: Razmal Shigiwal (Captain), Mehar Cheema, Aqib Iqbal, Hossain Iqbal, Ahsan Mirza, Shahil Mornin, Abdullah Akbarjan, Amit Nathwani, Armaan Randhawa, Jaweed Sadran, Navin Wijesekera, Adeel Tariq, Umair Tariq and Mark Simpson-Parker
