Luxembourg Cricket Federation (LCF) have announced a 14-member men’s national squad, that will compete in the 6-nation Continental T20I Cup in Romania from September 01st – 06th, 2021. Romania will be hosting teams from Bulgaria, Malta, Czech Republic, Hungary and Luxembourg in the tournament, which will carry official T20I ranking points towards ICC Men’s T20I Team rankings table.
With travel restrictions getting a bit relaxed between some of the European Union countries, many countries are now trying to arrange matches/series to make up for the disappointment of losing out on playing in the European sub-regional qualifiers for 2022 ICC Men’s T20 World Cup. Czech Republic hosted the 3-nation Central Europe Cup in May 2021 that involved Luxembourg and Austria, while Bulgaria hosted the 4-nation Sofia T20I tournament in June 2021 and Malta hosted Belgium for bi-lateral T20I series in July 2021.
The Final travelling squad of 14 were chosen from the Training camp sessions held twice every week in the past couple of weeks, which included 20 players in all. Two reserve players (Reinhardt Heyns and Vishwajeet Deshpande) have also been named along with the squad, who will replace any last minute withdrawals due to injury or any other reasons.
Luxembourg Squad
Joost Mees (Captain), Vikram Vijh, Advyth Manepalli, Amit Dhingra, Amit Halbhavi, Ankush Nanda, Atif Kamal Khan, James Barker, Marcus Cope, Mohit Dixit, Pankaj Malav, Timothy Barker, Tony Whiteman and William Cope
