Guernsey Cricket will be hosting the 2026 ICC Men’s T20 World Cup Europe Sub-regional Qualifier ‘C’ from August 21st – 28th, 2024. Men’s National teams from host’s Guernsey will be joined by Spain, Denmark, Finland, Czech Republic, Malta, Cyprus, Bulgaria, Greece and Estonia in the 10-nation event. The tournament will have two (2) groups of five (5) teams each, competing in a single round-robin group stage format, from which the top team from both the groups will compete in the FINAL, while there will be position play-off games also scheduled till 7th/8th spots in the final standings from the tournament.
Men’s teams from host’s Guernsey, Bulgaria, Malta, Finland and Estonia are placed in one group, while the other group comprises of teams from Spain, Cyprus, Denmark, Czech Republic and Greece. The winner of the tournament will join Netherlands, Scotland, Italy (winner of sub-regional qualifier A) and Jersey (winner of sub-regional qualifier B) in the Europe Qualifier in 2025.
2026 ICC Men’s T20 World Cup Europe Sub-regional Qualifier C Schedule
21st August 2024: Spain vs Cyprus (Scorecard) ; Guernsey vs Bulgaria (Scorecard) ; Denmark vs Czechia (Scorecard) ; Finland vs Malta (Scorecard)
22nd August 2024: Estonia vs Finland (Scorecard) ; Greece vs Denmark (Scorecard) ; Malta vs Guernsey (Scorecard) ; Czechia vs Spain (Scorecard)
24th August 2024: Spain vs Denmark ; Guernsey vs Finland (Scorecard) ; Cyprus vs Greece (Scorecard) ; Bulgaria vs Estonia (Scorecard)
25th August 2024: Malta vs Bulgaria (Scorecard) ; Cyprus vs Czechia (Scorecard) ; Estonia vs Guernsey (Scorecard) ; Greece vs Spain (Scorecard)
27th August 2024: Denmark vs Cyprus (Scorecard) ; Finland vs Bulgaria (Scorecard) ; Czechia vs Greece (Scorecard) ; Malta vs Estonia (Scorecard)
28th August 2024: 3rd/4th Play-off (Scorecard) ; 7th/8th Play-off (Scorecard) ; 5th/6th Play-off (Scorecard) ; FINAL (Scorecard)
2026 ICC Men’s T20 World Cup Europe Sub-regional Qualifier C Squads
Guernsey: Ollie Nightingale (Captain), Luke Bichard, Charlie Forshaw, Martin-Dale Bradley, Harry Johnson, Josh Butler, Tom Nightingale, Adam Martel, Ollie Clapham, Ben Ferbrache, Dane Mullen, Zak Damarell, Ben Fitchet and Matt Stokes
Finland: Amjad Sher (Captain), Mahesh Tambe, Abbas Butt, Vanraj Padhaal, Jordan O’Brien, Faheem Nellancheri, Atif Rasheed, Akhil Arjunan, Jonathan Scamans, Raaz Mohamamd, Ziaur Rehman, Parveen Kumar, Nicholas Salonen and Hariharan Dandapani
Spain: Christian Munoz Mills (Captain), Adeel Raja, Charlie Rumistrezewich, Hassan Ali, Alec Davidson-Soler, Hamza Dar, Daniel Doyle-Calle, Muhammad Atif, Lorne Burns, Mohammad Ihsan, Muhammad Yasin, Sebastian Hughes-Pinan, Shafat Ali Syed and Yasir Ali
Estonia: Arslan Amjad (Captain), Sahil Chauhan, Pranay Gheewala, Steffan Gooch, Stuart Hook, Habib Khan, Shayan Khan, Ali Masood, Bilal Masud, David Robson, Aditya Savio, Rudesh Sekaran, Marko Vaik and Kalle Vislapuu
Greece: Aslam Mohammad (Captain), Ali Muaaz, Amarpreet Singh, Andreas Gasteratos, Muhammad Tahir, Nick Katechis, Georgios Galanis, Samander Shadab, Sajid Khan, Sinah Khan, Christodoulos Bogdanos, Spyridon Vasilakis and Zubair Ashraf
Cyprus: Scott Burdekin (Captain), Sadun Mahamalage, Roshan Siriwardanage, Buddhika Manikkalage, Scott Austin, Roman Mazumder, Jimi Chialoufas, Sachithra Pathirana, Preetaj Deol, Kamal Raiz, Mangala Gunasekara, Arjun Shahi, Vimal Khanduri and Taranjit Singh
Czechia: Dylan Steyn (Captain), Abdul Farhad, Divyendra Singh, Muralidhara Vandrasi, Naveed Ahmed, Neeraj Tyagi, Rahat Ali, Riaz Mohammad, Ritik Tomar, Sabawoon Davizi, Sahil Grover, Sazib Bhuiyan, Martin Worndl and Shubhranshu Choudhary
Malta: Zeeshan Khan (Captain), Basil George, Bikram Arora, Chanjal Sudarsanan, Darshit Patankar, Gopal Thakur, Fanyan Mughal, Eldhose Mathew, David Marks, Justin Shaju, Jaspal Singh, Jaswinder Singh, Rockey Dianish and Waseem Abbas
Denmark: Hamid Mazhar Shah (Captain), Shangeev Thanikaithasan, Saif Ali Ahmad, Shakeel Zeb, Torr Turner, Surya Anand, Saran Aslam, Abdullah Shaheen Mahmood, Delawar Khan, Toqeer Ahmad, Oliver Damgaard Hald, Nicolaj Damgaard Lægsgaard, Taranjit Singh Bharaj and Eshan Karimi
Bulgaria: Prakash Mishra (Captain), Agagyul Ahmadhel, Ali Rasool, Anthony Dowling, Danyal Ali, Huzaif Yousuf, Firas Hussain, Gagandeep Singh, Dimo Nikolov, Omar Rassol, Isa Zaroo, Milen Gogev, Oscar Duff and Zeerak Chughtai
