Italy Cricket to host 2026 ICC Men’s T20 World Cup Europe Sub-regional Qualifier ‘A’ in June 2024

Italy Cricket (Federazione Cricket Italiana) will be hosting the 2026 ICC Men’s T20 World Cup Europe Sub-regional Qualifier ‘A’ from June 09th – 16th, 2024. Men’s National teams from host’s Italy will be joined by Portugal, Isle of Man, Austria, France, Romania, Luxembourg, Hungary, Türkiye and Israel in the 10-nation event. Group A of the tournament will comprise of teams from France, Isle of Man, Italy, Luxembourg and Turkey, while Group B will comprise of teams from Austria, Hungary, Israel, Portugal and Romania. All the five (5) teams in both groups will face each other in a single round-robin group stage format, from which the top team from both the groups will compete in the FINAL, while there will be position play-off games also scheduled to determine final tournament standings till 7th/8th spots.

2026 ICC Men’s T20 World Cup Europe Sub-regional Qualifier A Schedule

09th June 2024: Italy vs Luxembourg (Scorecard) ; Portugal vs Hungary (Scorecard) ; Isle of Man vs France (Scorecard) ; Austria vs Romania (Scorecard)

10th June 2024: Israel vs Austria (Scorecard) ; Türkiye vs Isle of Man (Scorecard) ; Romania vs Portugal (Scorecard) ; France vs Italy (Scorecard)

12th June 2024: Italy vs Isle of Man (Scorecard) ; Portugal vs Austria (Scorecard) ; Luxembourg vs Türkiye (Scorecard) ; Hungary vs Israel (Scorecard)

13th June 2024: Hungary vs Romania (Scorecard) ; France vs Luxembourg (Scorecard) ; Israel vs Portugal (Scorecard) ; Türkiye vs Italy (Scorecard)

15th June 2024: Isle of Man vs Luxembourg (Scorecard) ; Austria vs Hungary (Scorecard) ; France vs Türkiye (Scorecard) ; Romania vs Israel (Scorecard)

16th June 2024: 3rd/4th Play-off (Scorecard) ; 7th/8th Play-off (Scorecard) ; 5th/6th Play-off (Scorecard) ; FINAL (Scorecard)

Europe Sub-regional Qualifier A Squads

Portugal: Najam Shazad (Captain), Amir Zaib, Francoise Stoman, Juan Henri, Junaid Khan, Mohammad Siraj Nipo, Maisam Ali, Adnan Gondal, Jalpesh Vijay, Miguel Machado, Suman Ghimire, Amandeep Singh, Anthony Chambers and Azhar Andani

Italy: Gareth Berg (Captain), Harry Manenti, Justin Mosca, Anthony Joseph Mosca, Marcus Campopiano, Gian Piero Sergio Meade, Stefano Di Bartolomeo, Jaspreet Singh, Joe Burns, Thomas Draca, Zain Ali, Aidan Wheeler, Syed Zain Abbas Naqvi and Damith Kosala Warnakulasuriya

Isle of Man: Ollie Webster (Captain), Harry McAleer, Spencer Clarke, Matt Ansell, Sam Barnett, Eddie Beard, George Burrows, Joe Burrows, Kieran Cawte, Carl Hartmann, Chris Langford, Adam McAuley, Luke Ward and Corbin Liebenberg

France: Gustav McKeon (Captain), Noman Amjad, Dawood Ahmadzai, Hevit Jackson, Usman Khan, Hamza Niaz, Ikbal Hossain, Zaheer Zahiri, Ali Ghulami, Linga Canessane, Sajad Stanikzay, Kamran Ahmadzai, Christian Roberts and Zain Ahmad

Israel: Eshkol Solomon (Captain), Josh Evans, Shailesh Bangera, Elan Talker, Yarden Divekar, Tomer Kahamker, Yair Nagavkar, Niv Nagavkar, Yogev Nagavkar, Aviel Warsulkar, Eyal Bhonkar, Virendra Kumar, Warna Narayana and Sithira Lekamwasam

Romania: Vasu Saini (Captain), Shantanu Vashisht, Taranjeet Singh, Satwik Nadigotla, Muhammad Moiz, Anand Rajshekara, Cosmin Zavoiu, Adrian Nicholas Lascu, Rameez Khan, Pratham Hingorani, Luca Petre, Ali Hussain, Ravindra Athapaththu and Manmeet Koli

Austria: Aqib Iqbal (Captain), Amir Naeem, Shadnan Khan, Abrar Bilal, Imran Asif, Waqar Zalmai, Armaan Randhawa, Itibarshah Deedar, Karanbir Singh, Abdullah Akbarjan, Zeeshan Arif, Baseer Khan, Adeel Tariq, and Bilal Zalmai

Luxembourg: Joost Mees (Captain), James Barker, Thomas Martin, Timothy Barker, Shiv Gill, Vikram Vijh, William Cope, Advyth Manepalli, Ankush Nanda, Marcus Cope, Milad Momand, Pankaj Malav, Saransh Kulshrestha and Anoop Orsu

Hungary: Vinoth Ravindran (Captain), Abhijeet Deepak Ahuja, Ali Farasat, Ali Hassan, Amal Jacob, Harsh Mandhyan, Sheikh Rasik, Abhishek Ahuja, Danyal Akbar, Abbas Ghani, Adam Gall, Kamran Wahid, Mark Des Fontaine, Muhammad Burhan and Sandeep Mohandas

Turkiye: Gokhan Alta (Captain), Ishak Elec, Mohammad Ilyas Ataullah, Serdar Burak Emir, Ali Turkmen, Muhammet Bicer, Shamsullah Ehsan, Zafer Durmaz, Abdullah Lodhi, Romeo Nath, Kursad Dalyan, Mecit Ozturk, Muhammed Turkmen and Tunahan Turan