Cricket Germany to host Men’s T20I Tri-series in June 2022

Cricket Germany have announced that they will be hosting Men’s teams from Austria and Sweden for a T20I Tri-series at their high performance center at Krefeld from June 09th – 12th, 2022. These will be the first games for the German national squad after their tour of Oman in February 2022 for Men’s T20 World Cup Global Qualifier A event.

All the teams will play each other in a double round-robin group stage format, following which the top two teams will contest the final of the tournament. With 2024 ICC Men’s T20 World Cup Europe sub-regional qualifiers slated to take place in June/July 2022 in Finland and Belgium, the tournament will provide much needed game-time for Austria and Sweden.

Austrian team is coming off a fresh home series win over Hungary, while Sweden team will be playing under the new Head Coach Qasim Ali for the first time and will be eager to impress in the series ahead of the qualifiers. Germany team players were part of the National Elite League series held recently, and the likes of Talha Khan, Sajid Liaqat, Rasul Ahmadi, Hamid Wardak, Abdul Samad and Sri Vishnu Bharathi were among the top performers and will look to continue the same at the same venue for the Tri-series.

Squads

Germany: Venkat Ganesan (Captain), Vaseekaran Aritharan, Walter Behr, Muslim Yar Ashraf, Nooruddin Mujadady, Rajesh Kumar, Sajid Liaqat, Shoaib Azam Khan, Harish Srinivasan, Hamid Wardak, Talha Khan, Sachin Mandy, Nilay Patel, Dylan Blignaut, Sri Vishnu Elam Bharathi, Rasul Ahmadi and Abdul Samad

Sweden: Abhijit Venkatesh (Captain), Umar Nawaz, Hamid Mahmood, Azam Khalil, Samiallah Kalil, Tasaduq Hussain, Ismaeel Zia, Faseeh Choudhary, Zaker Taqawi, Baz Ayubi, Abdul Naser Baluch, Wynand Boshoff, Lemar Momand and Liam Karlsson

Austria: Razmal Shigiwal (Captain), Sahel Zadran, Amit Nathwani, Arsalan Arif, Aqib Iqbal, Bilal Zalmai, Itibarshah Deedar, Jaweed Zadran, Mehar Cheema, Mirza Ahsan, Armaan Randhawa, Iqbal Hossain, Mark Simpson-Parket, Quinton Norris, Shahil Momin, Abrar Bilal, Abdullah Akbarjan and Ahsan Yousuf

Germany Tri-Series Schedule

09th June 2022: Germany vs Austria (Scorecard) ; Sweden vs Germany (Scorecard)

10th June 2022: Austria vs Germany (Scorecard) ; Sweden vs Austria (Scorecard)

11th June 2022: Germany vs Sweden (Scorecard) ; Austria vs Sweden (Scorecard)

12th June 2022: Final (Scorecard)