Czech Cricket announce domestic T20 tournaments in Jun 2020

Czech Cricket have announced that they will be restarting cricket activities in the country in Jun 2020 with the domestic T20 tournaments in both Division 1 and Division 2 category club teams. Following the Czech Government decision to lift the restrictions post-COVID lock-down, Czech Cricket will be starting the T20 events from 20th Jun 2020 and will run until 13th Sep 2020.

Prior to the commencement of the T20 competitions, Czech Cricket will also be hosting a T10 event in collaboration with Dream11 and European Cricket Network, which will begin a week earlier from Jun 13th.

Both Division 1 and Division 2 tournaments will feature 8 domestic club sides, the names of which were announced by the cricket board along with the announcements. Prague CC Kings are the defending Champions from the 2019 edition of Division 1 T20 tournament. Prague CC Kings, Brno CC Rangers, Prague CC Rooks, Prague Barbarians Vandals, Vinohrady CC, Prague Spartans Vanguards, Bohemian Cricket Club and Brno CC Raiders are the 8 participating clubs in the Division1 competition.

2019 Czech Cricket Division1 T20 Player Stats – Batting

Player Innings Runs Highest Average Strike-Rate
Sudesh Wickremasinghe 10 368 57 40.89 143.19
Arun Ashokan 10 267 63 29.67 118.14
Sumit Pokhriyal 10 242 65 34.57 142.35
Vikram Padigala 8 199 57 24.88 121.23
Divyendra Singh 9 199 107 22.11 121.34
Sabawoon Davizi 12 189 58 17.18 104.42
Edward Knowles 7 179 64 44.75 131.62
Prakash Sadasivan 9 173 43 19.22 113.82
Shripal Gajjar 8 170 61 21.25 112.93
Hilal Ahmad 8 159 74 26.5 135.9
Somesekhar Banerjee 9 146 30 18.25 78.24
Kushal Mendon 8 141 63 28.2 105.41
Aakash Parmar 8 136 35 22.67 126.26
Mukesh Gupta 7 127 56 18.14 84.11
Sudhir Gladson 9 115 38 23 95.04
Ushan Gunathilake 8 108 35 15.43 69.52
Andrew Sim 6 102 47 25.5 98.08
Keyur Mehta 7 102 46 14.57 98.97
Prasannaa Ganesan 8 100 36 12.5 87.72
Rajh Gnanatheeswaran 9 92 37 15.33 133.33
Yash Salian 8 91 29 11.38 107.06
Kranthi Mv 8 89 36 11.13 92.71
Karthick Gopalakrishnan 7 86 39 14.33 107.5
Smit Patel 5 80 36 16 140.82
Suresh Kuramboyina 10 79 24 8.78 73.83
Dylan Steyn 4 78 33 26 92.86
Vojtech Ha-a 7 76 46 10.86 111.76
Siddarth Goud 7 74 44 12.33 85.06
Mikula- Star- 4 71 39 23.67 89.87
Surya Ren 8 66 22 8.25 103.77
Shaun Dalton 7 65 35 9.29 67.01
Amrit Singh Rai 5 62 25 12.4 72.09
Naveed Ahmed 5 59 19 14.75 88.89
Satyajit Sengupta 6 58 41 9.67 131.82
Tim Walmsley 7 56 23 9.33 88.89
Piyush Singh Baghel 6 56 32 9.33 73.68
Suditha Udugalage 5 53 33 10.6 88.33
Sharan Ramakrishnan 6 53 23 8.83 120.45
Harsha Chaganty 6 48 30 12 88.89
Anzer Khan 4 48 26 24 100
Tripurari Kanhya Lal 6 46 19 9.2 83.72
Neeraj Tyagi 6 44 24 11 110
Kyle Gilham 5 43 22 14.33 74.14
Murali Sai 6 43 20 7.17 81.13
Pramod Bagauly 7 42 17 6 54.79
Jan Hoffman 5 37 19 7.4 94.87
Sandeep Kumar 9 36 13 5.14 75
Siddarth Sharma 4 35 15 8.75 76.09
Frederyck Heydenrych 5 33 11 8.25 82.5
Arshad Yousafzai 5 33 12 6.6 100

 

Prague Barbarians Visigoths 161/8 in 20 overs (Kranthi Mv 36, Sahil Grover 26, Neeraj Tyagi 24 n.o, Yash Salian 19, Sandeep Kumar 4/35, Hygi Namburi 2/14, Andrew Sim 1/14) beat Prague Barbarians Vandals 140 all out in 18.1 overs (Andrew Sim 47, Suresh Kuramboyina 24, Prasannaa Ganesan 21, Divyendra Singh 19, Saurabh Kakaria 4/29, Sahil Grover 3/19, Amrit Singh Rai 1/21) by 21 runs

Prague CC Kings 159 all out in 19.4 overs (Sudesh Wickremasinghe 40, Arun Ashokan 38, Suditha Udugalage 33, Prakash Sadasivan 22, Vojtech Ha-a 2/25, Paul Taylor 2/33, Paul Taylor 2/35, Frederyck Heydenrych 1/19) beat Vinohrady CC 153/7 in 20 overs (Edward Knowles 64 n.o, Vojtech Ha-a 13, Sudesh Wickremasinghe 1/9, Arun Ashokan 1/12, Laxmi Narayanan 1/23, Suditha Udugalage 1/18) by 6 runs

Prague CC Rooks 151/9 in 20 overs (Keyur Mehta 46, Kushal Mendon 33, Shripal Gajjar 21, Tim Walmsley 3/21, Dylan Steyn 3/25, Tripurari Kanhya Lal 1/18) beat Brno CC 118 all out in 18.3 overs (Dylan Steyn 33, Somesekhar Banerjee 25, Pramod Bagauly 4/8, Aakash Parmar 4/15, Kushal Mendon 1/14) by 33 runs

Prague CC Kings 144/9 in 20 overs (Hilal Ahmad 53, Sudesh Wickremasinghe 21, Sudhir Gladson 19 n.o, Arun Ashokan 17, Keyur Mehta 2/19, Kushal Mendon 2/26, Ali Hassan Sittar 1/16) beat Prague CC Rooks 122 all out in 18.5 overs (Aakash Parmar 35, Shripal Gajjar 23, Surya Ren 22, Suditha Udugalage 2/12, Hilal Ahmad 2/14, Sharan Ramakrishnan 2/22, Sudesh Wickremasinghe 1/11) by 22 runs

Vinohrady CC 106 all out in 18.5 overs (Brigham Smith 26, Kyle Gilham 22 n.o, Siddarth Goud 11, Satyajit Sengupta 3/17, Sumit Pokhriyal 2/20, Nikhil Mithole 1/8, Hygi Namburi 1/24) lost to Prague Barbarians Vandals 109/6 in 18.2 overs (Sumit Pokhriyal 58 n.o, Sabawoon Davizi 21, Paul Taylor 2/21, Siddarth Goud 2/24, Arshad Yousafzai 1/12) by 4 wickets

Brno CC 111 all out in 19.4 overs (Tripurari Kanhya Lal 19, Vikram Padigala 19, Somsuvro Basu 16, Narayanan Achuthan 2/9, Kranthi Mv 2/14, Yash Salian 2/15, Sandeep Kumar 2/29, Harsha Chaganty 2/29) lost to Prague Barbarians Visigoths 112/7 in 20 overs (Harsha Chaganty 30 n.o, Murali Sai 20, Yash Salian 20, Naveed Ahmed 2/18, Aamir Husain 2/25, Tripurari Kanhya Lal 1/7) by 3 wickets

Kings and Czech national squad member Sudesh Wickremasinghe was adjudged both player of the season and best batsmen in the T20 tournament, while Keyur Mehta of Prague CC Rooks was adjudged the best bowler for the season. Sudesh and Sabawoon have had a successful International season with Czech Republic in T20I matches in 2019.

Brno CC will be looking forward to challenging the Prague CC Kings for the top place in 2020 after finishing runners-up in the previous editions in 2018 and 2019.

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