Cricket Espana will be hosting the Men’s teams from Germany and Italy in a T20 International Tri-series tournament from November 04th – 06th, 2022 at Desert Springs cricket ground. All the matches in the double round-robin group stage tournament will be live streamed on the European Cricket Network website and digital channels. This will be the first International T20 tournament for the teams after the European sub-regional qualifiers and the European T10 Cricket Championships in Spain.
Spain squad will be playing their 2nd home series of 2022 during this tournament, after they previously hosted Guernsey and Norway for a Tri-series back in April/May 2022. Eastern Cape Linyathi (South Africa provincial team) player Joshua van Heerden is set to debut for Germany Men’s national side (if chosen in the XI) during the Spain T20I Tri-series, while one of the most exiting Spanish prospect will be 17-year old Charlie Rumistrzewicz. He has had a good start to his T20I career, picking up 13 wickets so far in 9 games for Spain. Italy team will have the services of Grant Stewart from England’s county club Kent, who had previously represented the country in the last European Finals event in 2021 towards qualification for 2022 Men’s T20 World Cup.
Squads
Italy: Achintha Denuwan, Anik Ahmed, Damith Kosala, Dinuk Samarawickrama, Gurpreet Singh, Pathirage Sadev, Crishan Kalugamage, Hasan Ali, Pidusha Fernando, Waleed Rana, Marcus Campopiano, Grant Stewart and Gian-Piero Meade
Germany: Venkat Ganesan (Captain), Dieter Klein, Dylan Blignaut, Fayaz Khan Nasseri, Michael Richardson, Abdul Shakoor, Joshua van Heerden, Talha Khan, Faisal Bin Mubashir, Justin Broad, Walter Behr, Sri Vishnu Elam Bharathi, Muslim Yar Ashraf, Sachin Mandy and Rasul Ahmadi
Spain: Christian Munoz-Mills (Captain), Yasir Ali, Daniel Doyle Calle, Lorne Burns, Hamza Saleem Dar, Ravi Panchal, Muhammad Kamran, Charlie Rumistrzewicz, Atif Mehmood, Raja Adeel, Muhammad Atif, Adam Alger, Muhammad Yasin, Muhammad Ihsan and Prince Dhiman
Spain T20I Tri-series Schedule
04th November 2022: Italy vs Germany (Scorecard) ; Germany vs Italy (Scorecard)
05th November 2022: Italy vs Spain (Scorecard) ; Spain vs Germany (Scorecard)
06th November 2022: Germany vs Spain (Scorecard) ; Spain vs Italy (Scorecard)