Portugal to host Malta and Gibraltar in T20I Tri-series in August 2021

Portuguese Cricket Federation will be hosting men’s national squads from Austria and Gibraltar in a 3-nation T20I Tri-series from August 19th – 23rd, 2021. The matches will be the first ones for both Portugal and Gibraltar after the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak began, with their previous assignment involving both of them during the 2019 Iberia Cup in Spain.

The Tri-series tournament is being sponsored by Brave Generation Academy, a Lisbon-based learning academy for teenagers. Malta have played T20Is in 2021, when the hosted Luxembourg and Austria for the 2021 Central Europe Cup in June.

Squads

Gibraltar: Edmund Packard (Captain), Samarth Bodha, Louis Bruce, Richard Cunningham, Chris Delaney, James Fitzgerald, Mark Garratt, Charles Harrison, Patrick Hatchman, Richard Hatchman, Joseph Marples, Kenroy Nestor, Adam Orfila, Balaji Avinash Pai and Dave Robeson

Portugal: Najjam Shahzad (Captain), Arslan Ahmed, Azhar Andani, Rahul Bhardwaj, Paolo Buccimazza, Anthony Chambers, Md Siraj Ullah Khadeem, Imran Khan, Junaid Khan, Mian Mehmood, Zulfiqar Ali Shah, Amandeep Singh, Miguel Stoman and Amir Zaib

Malta: Amar Sharma, Ashok Bishnoi, Bikram Arora, Gopal Chaturvedi, Haroon Majeed Mughal, Heinrick Gericke, Justn Shaju, Michael Goonetilleke, Muhammad Bilal, Niraj Khanna, Ravinder Singh, Sam Aquilina, Samuel Sanish Mangat Stanislaus, Varun Prasath, Zeeshan Khan and Waseem Abbas