Luxembourg Cricket Federation (LCF) have announced the 14-member men’s national squad, that will take part in the 3-nation 2021 Central Europe Cup in Prague from May 21st – 23rd, 2021. Luxembourg’s previous appearance in the Central Europe Cup was in 2018, when the tournament was played in the 50-overs format.
Luxembourg will compete against the host’s and Austria in the 3-nation series, which will see all the teams play each other in a double round-robin group stage matches at the Vinor cricket ground (banks oval and Scott Page oval). Luxembourg and Czech Republic previously met each other in 2020, when Luxembourg hosted them and Belgium in a Tri-nation T20I series.
Luxembourg Squad (2021 Central Europe Cup)
Joost Mees (Captain), Tony Whiteman, James Barker, Timothy Barker, Girish Venkateswaran, Vikram Vijh, William Cope, Aanand Pandey, Mohit Dixit, Atif Kamal Khan, Pankaj Malav, Shameek Vats, Ankush Nanda and Roshan Paul Vishwakarma
Reinhardt Heyns (Reserve) and Anshuman Singh (Reserve)
Luxembourg Cricket Federation has also approached a number of European countries with a view to arrange matches or tournaments to replace the cancelled ICC T20 European sub-regional qualifying tournament, that was scheduled to take place in Finland in July 2021.
Brief Scores (Luxembourg matches vs Czech Republic select squads in 2018 Central Europe Cup)
Luxembourg 277/7 in 50 overs (James Barker 95, Girish Venkateswaran 50, Sameera Waththage 2/45, Paul Taylor 1/30) beat Czech Republic Lions 221 all out in 46.1 overs (Arun Ashokan 56, Edward Knowles 43, Hilal Ahmad 29, Vikram Vijh 2/25, Atif Kamal 2/38, Girish Venkateswaran 1/8) by 56 runs
Luxembourg 276/7 in 50 overs (Girish Venkateswaran 47, Vikram Vijh 38, Roshan Vishwakarma 30, Kushalkumar Mendon 1/28, Sagar Madhireddy 1/42) lost to Czech Republic Eagles 277/7 in 49.1 overs (Sabawoon Davizi 90, Kushalkumar Mendon 37, Vikram Vijh 3/40, Girish Venkateswaran 2/30, Mohit Dixit 1/49) by 3 wickets
