Malta Cricket Association (MCA) have announced that they are going to host the Men’s Valletta Cup T20I tournament from May 10th – 15th, 2022 at Marsa Sports Club ground. The 2022 edition of the tournament will be held at a bigger scale, with MCA set to host Men’s teams from five (5) European Associate member countries.
The tournament will see teams from Bulgaria and Gibraltar returning again to compete, following their participation in the 2021 edition of the event. Czech Republic and Hungary (who did not send the National squad and matches involving them were not played with T20I status), who took part in the 2019 edition, have also confirmed their participation this year, while Romania are set to make their debut in the competition.
Czech Republic won the 2019 edition, while host’s Malta won the 2021 edition (which saw Switzerland Men’s team make their T20I debut following their re-admittance with Associate membership status during the 2021 ICC Annual General Meeting in July).
Squads
Czech Republic: Arun Ashokan (Captain), Naveed Ahmed, Sazib Bhuiyan, Shubhranshu Chaudhary, Sabawoon Davizi, Vyshakh Jagannivasan, Smit Patel, Sharan Ramakrishnan, Satyajit Sengupta, Divyendra Singh, Dylan Steyn, Ritik Tomar and Sudesh Wickramasekara
Gibraltar: Balaji Avinash Pai (Captain), Kieron Ferrary, Mark Garratt, Kenroy Nestor, Nikhil Advani, Louis Bruce, Joseph Marples, Richard Cunningham, Andrew Reyes, Samarth Bodha, Marc Gouws, Robin Petrie, Matt Wheelan and Zach Simpson
Bulgaria: Ahsan Khan, Albin Jacob, Asad Ali Rehemtulla, Delrick Vinu, Dimo Nikolov, Hristo Lakov, Ishan De Silva, Ivaylo Katzarski, Karthik Pillai, Kevin D’Souza, Omar Rasool, Prakash Mishra, Saim Hussain, Sandeep Nair and Vasil Hristov
Malta: Aaftab Khan, Amar Sharma, Basil George, Bikram Arora, Bilal Khan, Divyesh Kumar, Gopal Chaturvedi, Heinrich Gericke, Imran Ameer, Jaison Jerome, Jit Patel, Justin Shaju, Kalki Kumar, Niraj Khanna, Samuel Stanislaus, Zeeshan Khan, Waseem Abbas and Varun Prasath
Hungary: Abhishek Kheterpal, Akramullah Malikzada, Ali Farasat, Asanka Weligamage, Bhavani Prasad Adapaka, Gabor Torok, Harsh Mandhyan, Khaibar Deldar, Marc Ahuja, Mark des Fontaine, Sandeep Mohandas, Satyadeep Ashwathnarayana, Stan Ahuja and Zahir Safi
Romania: Abdul Shakoor, Aftab Kayani, Arun Kumar, Cosmin Zavoiu, Gaurav Mishra, Ijaz Hussain, Marian Gherasim, Mihai Achim, Muhammad Moiz, Rajendra Pisal, Rajesh Kumar, Ramesh Satheesan, Satwik Nadigotla, Senthivel Karthikeyan, Sivakumar Periyalwar, Sukhkaran Sahi, Taranjeet Singh and Vasu Saini
2022 Valletta Cup Schedule
10th May 2022: Gibraltar vs Malta (Scorecard) ; Hungary vs Malta (Scorecard) ; Gibraltar vs Hungary (Scorecard)
11th May 2022: Malta vs Romania (Scorecard) ; Czech Republic vs Gibraltar (Scorecard) ; Hungary vs Bulgaria (Scorecard)
12th May 2022: Czech Republic vs Malta (Scorecard) ; Bulgaria vs Czech Republic (Scorecard) ; Romania vs Bulgaria (Scorecard)
13th May 2022: Bulgaria vs Gibraltar (Scorecard) ; Czech Republic vs Romania (Scorecard) ; Romania vs Bulgaria (Scorecard)
14th May 2022: Hungary vs Czech Republic (Scorecard) ; Gibraltar vs Romania (Scorecard) ; Malta vs Bulgaria (Scorecard)
15th May 2022: Gibraltar vs Bulgaria (5th/6th) (Scorecard) ; Hungary vs Czech Republic (3rd/4th) (Scorecard) ; Malta vs Romania (Final) (Scorecard)
