Bulgaria Cricket Association will be hosting the Men’s national squad of Serbia for a four (4)-match T20I series at National sports academy ground from June 24th – 26th, 2022. These fixtures will be the first T20Is in 2022 for the Serbian Men’s team, who recently hosted a select team from Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) and played a T20 game on 29th May 2022.
The Bi-lateral series between Bulgaria and Serbia is part of the preparations for both the camps ahead of the 2024 ICC Men’s T20 World Cup Europe sub-regional qualifiers in June/July 2022. Bulgaria will travel to Finland for their sub-regional qualifier from 24th July, while Serbia will travel to Finland to take part in their sub-regional qualifier from 12th July.
Bulgaria have already played T20Is this year, when they travelled to Malta for the 6-nation Valletta Cup tournament, where they failed to register a win during the group stages, but won their position play-off game with Gibraltar to finish 5th in the tournament. This bi-lateral series will be the 2nd edition of Sofia T20 tournament, with the inaugural edition held last year between teams from Bulgaria, Serbia, Greece and Romania.
Squads
Bulgaria: Prakash Mishra (Captain), Ahsan Khan, Albin Jacob, Asad-Ali Rehemtulla, Bakhtiar Tahiri, Delrick Varghese, Hristo Lakov, Ishan de Silva, Ivaylo Katzarski, Karthik Pillai, Kevin Dsouza, Omar Rasool, Suliman Ali, Mohammad Fayyaz, Mukul Kadyan, Vasil Hristov, Saim Hussain and Sandeep Nair
Serbia: Robin Vitas (Captain), Wintley Burton, Alex Dizija, Aleksa Djorivic, Bogdan Dugic, Adrian Dunbar, Ayo Mene Ejegi, Ali Gajic, Simo Ivetic, Nicholas Johns-Wickberg, Matthew Kostic, Mark Pavlovic, Matija Sarenac and Slobodan Tosic
Serbia Men’s tour of Bulgaria Schedule
24th June 2022: 1st T20I (Scorecard) @5pm
25th June 2022: 2nd T20I @1:30pm (Scorecard) and 3rd T20I (Scorecard) @5pm
26th June 2022: 4th T20I (Scorecard) @10am
