Malta Cricket Association (MCA) will be hosting a Men’s 4-nation Valletta Cup T20I quadrangular tournament at Marsa Sports Club ground from October 22nd – 24th, which will be Cricket Switzerland’s first International tournament since its readmission to the International Cricket Council (ICC) as an associate member nation in July 2021.
Switzerland Men’s team will be competing against teams from Gibraltar and Bulgaria, along with the host’s. All matches will take place at the Marsa Sports Club Cricket Ground, which has already hosted T20I matches this year, when the national squad played a bi-lateral series with Belgium. Bulgaria and Malta were involved in the 6-nation Continental Cup tournament in Romania this year and have also played other T20I matches at home this season, while Gibraltar and Malta Men’s team travelled to Portugal to take part in a Tri-nation T20I series.
After the conclusion of the tournament, Gibraltar team will further play two (2) additional T20I matches with Malta (bi-lateral series) at the same venue on the 25th of October. Switzerland players have been selected based on their domestic T20 competition performances in the 2021 season.
2021 Valletta Cup Schedule (Timings in IST)
21st October 2021: Gibraltar vs Malta @5:30pm (Scorecard)
22nd October 2021: Switzerland vs Gibraltar @1:30pm (Scorecard) ; Bulgaria vs Switzerland @5:30pm (Scorecard)
23rd October 2021: Gibraltar vs Bulgaria @11:30am (Scorecard) ; Malta vs Switzerland @3:00pm (Scorecard) ; Bulgaria vs Malta @6:30pm (Scorecard)
24th October 2021: 3rd/4th play-off @10:00am (Scorecard) ; Final @2:00pm (Scorecard)
Gibraltar Men’s tour of Malta Schedule (Local Timings)
25th October 2021: Gibraltar vs Malta – T20I (Scorecard)
Squads
Gibraltar: Louis Bruce, Richard Cunningham, Kieron Ferrary, Morgan Peters, Phil Raikes, Andrew Reyes, Joe Wilson, Nikhil Advani, Chris Delaney, James Fitzgerald, Luke Collado, Charles Harrison, Patrick Hatchman, Joseph Marples, Kenroy Nestor, Balaji Avinash Pai and Dave Robeson
Bulgaria: Prakash Mishra (Captain), Hristo Lakov, Atagul Ahmadhel, Jacob Albin, Sulaiman Ali, Rohan Bhavesh Patel, Kevin D’Souza, Ishan De Silva, Akshay Harikumar, Saim Hussain, Ivaylo Katzarski, Ahsan Khan, Omar Rassol and Bakhtiar Tahiri
Switzerland: Noorkhan Ahmadi, Aidan Andrews, Aneesh Kumar, Asad Mahmood, Nicolas Henderson, Osama Mahmood, Anser Mehmood, Ali Nayyer, Stefan Franklin, Faheem Nazir, Idrees Ul Haque, Arjun Vinod and Ashwin Vinod
Malta: Aaftab Khan, Amar Sharma, Bikram Arora, Deon Vosloo, Gopal Chaturvedi, Heinrick Gericke, Kalki Kumar, Muhammad Bilal, Sam Aquilina, Samuel Sanish, Waseem Abbas, Zeeshan Khan, Basil George, Fazil Rahman, Jojo Thomas, Niraj Khanna, Varun Prasath and Zoheb Malik
