Buoyed by the success of their domestic T20 league and the growing viewership numbers via European Cricket Network’s / Fancode coverage, Cricket Finland have announced the launch of Finnish T10 competition, with the first round of matches to be played on 07th Jun 2020.
12 domestic clubs will be taking part in the T10 competition, unlike the T20 structure, where the clubs are segregated in the premier league division and division 1 competition. Bengal Tigers Cricket Club, Empire Cricket Club (Empire Odds and Empire Evens), Greater Helsinki Cricket Club, GYM Helsinki Gymkhana, Helsinki Cricket Club, SKK Stadin ja Keravan Kriketti (SKK Strikers T10) and Vantaa Cricket Club will be joined by Otaniemi Cricket Club (Otaniemi United T10), Turku United, Club ’71 Kriketti and FinCricket Club in the tournament.
SKK Stadin ja Keravan Kriketti are the defending Champions from the 2019 edition of the national T10 championship, where they defeated Helsinki Cricket Club in the final. Bengal Tigers and Vantaa made it through to the semi-final stages from the group-stage format, where teams were divided into two groups of four teams each and the matches were played in the 12-overs-a-side format. Even in the 2019 edition, 12 teams took part in the qualifying event before the top eight teams advanced to the main championship.
2019 Finnish T10 Championship Semifinals Scores
SKK Stadin ja Keravan Kriketti 95/4 in 12 overs (Atif Rasheed 27, Nathan Collins 27, Peter Gallagher 11, Tonmoy Kumar Saha 1/12, Mohiuddin-Al Belal 1/16, Md Nurul Huda 1/26) beat Bengal Tigers 79/6 in 12 overs (Tonmoy Kumar Saha 24, Habib Al Arman 16 n.o, Md Nurul Huda 12, Kari Turunen 3/17, Henry Sewell 2/24, Waqas Raja 1/9) by 16 runs
Vantaa Cricket Club 57/9 in 12 overs (Sanjeeva Peththahandi 12 n.o, Aniketh Pusthay 3/6, Zakiullah Kamal 3/8, Venkat Ram Yellapragada 1/13) lost to Helsinki Cricket Club 62/3 in 9.3 overs (Ghulam Abbas Butt 28, Aniketh Pusthay 17 n.o, Zakiullah Kamal 14 n.o, Priyan Karunamuny 2/18, Ranuka Koruwage 1/18) by 7 wickets
2019 Finnish T10 Championship – Top Batting Stats
| Player | Club | Innings | Highest | Runs | Average | Strike-Rate |
| Ghulam Abbas Butt | Helsinki CC | 5 | 52 | 141 | 28.2 | 204.35 |
| Nathan Collins | SKK Rapids T10 | 4 | 35 n.o | 96 | 32 | 184.62 |
| Khalid Rahman Mangal | Helsinki CC | 5 | 35 | 94 | 23.5 | 177.36 |
| Ursan Kim Tavernier | Vantaa CC | 4 | 46 n.o | 74 | 24.67 | 211.43 |
| Gulfam Nazir | GHCC Markhors | 3 | 29 | 73 | 36.5 | 182.5 |
| Peter Gallagher | SKK Rapids T10 | 4 | 25 | 70 | 17.5 | 166.67 |
| Muhammad Ziaur Rehman | GHCC Markhors | 3 | 43 n.o | 65 | 32.5 | 144.44 |
| Abdullah Attiqe | GHCC Markhors | 3 | 35 | 59 | 29.5 | 190.32 |
| Md Saiful Islam | SKK Rapids T10 | 4 | 21 | 49 | 16.33 | 148.48 |
| Nipuna Patabendi Nidelage | Vantaa CC | 4 | 17 | 42 | 10.5 | 131.25 |
| Aniketh Pusthay | Helsinki CC | 4 | 17 n.o | 37 | 18.5 | 119.35 |
| Atif Rasheed | SKK Rapids T10 | 3 | 27 | 36 | 12 | 171.43 |
| Muhammad Imrul Abedin | Bengal Tigers | 3 | 27 | 35 | 11.67 | 145.83 |
| Tonmoy Kumar Saha | Bengal Tigers | 2 | 24 | 35 | 35 | 152.17 |
| Madura Milan Hettiarachilage | Vantaa CC | 4 | 18 | 34 | 8.5 | 147.83 |
| Shahed Alam | Bengal Tigers | 2 | 30 | 33 | 16.5 | 165 |
| Abdul Rehman | GYM Helsinki Gymkhana | 3 | 21 | 30 | 10 | 125 |
| Adnan Ali | Otaniemi KK | 1 | 25 n.o | 25 | – | 147.06 |
| Ravi Sanjeewa Kahingala | Vantaa CC | 4 | 12 n.o | 25 | 12.5 | 78.13 |
| Mohiuddin-Al Belal | Bengal Tigers | 3 | 13 n.o | 24 | 24 | 150 |
| Manoj Mahamada Achchige | Vantaa CC | 3 | 12 | 23 | 7.67 | 115 |
Club ’71 Kriketti was one of the clubs, which did not qualify from the qualifying stage into the main draw of the championship and with the 2020 edition giving them direct entry into the draw, will look forward to put aside their disappointing campaign in 2019 and try to push the domestic heavyweights in the bid to challenge for the spots in the knock-out stages of the competition. The 2019 Qualifying competition was played in the 12-over format, where Club ’71 Kriketti were clubbed with Bengal Tigers and SKK Stadin ja Keravan Kriketti in the group stage.
Club ’71 Kriketti 77/4 in 12 overs (Muhammad Shofiullah 21, Shahadat Hossain 16, Hyat Ullah Shimo 10 n.o, Qaiser Siddique 1/3) lost to SKK Stadin ja Keravan Kriketti 78/1 in 7.1 overs (Atif Rasheed 36 n.o, Peter Gallagher 18, Ponniah Vijendran 15 n.o, Hyat Ullah Shimo 1/25) by 9 wickets
Club ’71 Kriketti 70/3 in 12 overs (Bayzid Islam 31 n.o, Shahadat Hossain 11, Shahed Alam 1/3, Belayet Khan 1/12) lost to Bengal Tigers 71/2 in 12 overs (Shahed Alam 31, Muhammad Imrul Abedin 21, Hyat Ullah Shimo 1/12) by 8 wickets
FinCricket Club, who advanced from Finnish T20 Division 2 to Division 1 in 2020, will be taking part in the T10 competition for the first time. The club has already started their campaign in the 2020 Division 2 T20 competition, with their first match being against Club ’71 Kriketti. Otaniemi Cricket Club, which qualified into the main draw of the 2019 Championship, played against the likes of Greater Helsinki, Bengal Tigers and Vantaa, have to improve upon their bowling stocks in order to create some major upsets in the competition.
FinCricket Club 118/7 in 20 overs (Prasanna Pandian 33, Praniesh Ramachandran 21, Nishith Singh 16, Mannan Sorhabbali Arshed 2/27, Nafis Chowdhury 1/16, Foiz Rahman 1/22, Atik Rahman 1/10) beat Club ’71 Kriketti 102/9 in 19.3 overs (Nafis Chowdhury 33, Udoy Hossen Khan 12, Arun Balakrishnan 3/14, Ram Kumar Sathiavageeswaran 2/10, Rajeevan Selvaskantharajah 2/26, Kalidass Rathinam 1/19) by 16 runs
Greater Helsinki 85/2 in 10 overs (Ziaur Rehman 48 n.o, Ghulfam Nazir 18, Ammar Arshad 1/10, Hassan Bhatti 1/18) beat Otaniemi Cricket Club 74/6 in 10 overs (Ammar Arshad 17, Waleed Iftikhar 15, Waqar Ahmad 14, Ziaur Rehman 2/9, Asad Sabir 2/12, Kashif Muhammad 1/6) by 11 runs
2019 Finnish T10 Championship – Top Bowling Stats
| Player | Club | Innings | Runs | Wickets | Strike-Rate | Economy |
| Zakiullah Kamal | HCC T10 | 5 | 46 | 8 | 4.38 | 6.57 |
| Qaiser Siddique | SKK Rapids | 5 | 44 | 7 | 6.43 | 4.89 |
| Kari Turunen | SKK Rapids | 5 | 50 | 7 | 6.43 | 5.56 |
| Aniketh Pusthay | HCC T10 | 5 | 22 | 5 | 5 | 4.4 |
| Madura Milan Hettiarachilage | Vantaa CC | 4 | 30 | 5 | 5 | 6 |
| Tonmoy Kumar Saha | Bengal Tigers | 3 | 34 | 5 | 5.8 | 5.86 |
| Priyan Suranjan De Silva Karunamuny | Vantaa CC | 4 | 51 | 5 | 7 | 7.29 |
| Ranuka Shiran Fernando Koruwage | Vantaa CC | 4 | 50 | 4 | 8.75 | 7.14 |
| Naveed Shahid | GHCC Markhors | 3 | 50 | 4 | 7.5 | 8.33 |
| Henry Sewell | SKK Rapids | 4 | 56 | 4 | 7.5 | 9.33 |
| Adnan Syed | HCC T10 | 5 | 59 | 4 | 10 | 7.38 |
| Gaurav Pensia | Vantaa CC | 1 | 4 | 3 | 3.33 | 2 |
| Mohiuddin-Al Belal | Bengal Tigers | 3 | 30 | 3 | 10 | 5 |
| Sohail Amin | GHCC Markhors | 3 | 46 | 3 | 10 | 7.67 |
| Rony Sardar | Bengal Tigers | 2 | 21 | 2 | 7.5 | 7 |
| Maneesh Chauhan | HCC T10 | 3 | 23 | 2 | 10 | 5.75 |
| Abdul Rehman | Gymkhana Strikers | 3 | 32 | 2 | 7.5 | 10.67 |
| Javed Jan Abdul Latif | Gymkhana Strikers | 3 | 39 | 2 | 10 | 9.75 |
| Md Nurul Huda | Bengal Tigers | 3 | 41 | 2 | 12.5 | 8.2 |
| Iatazaz Hussain | GHCC Markhors | 3 | 49 | 2 | 12.5 | 9.8 |
| Ghulam Abbas Butt | HCC T10 | 5 | 76 | 2 | 25 | 7.6 |
