Taiwan Cricket is all set to organize the Taipei T10 Cricket League tournament from Apr 25th – May 17th, 2020 and will be the second cricket board after Vanuatu cricket to be starting domestic cricket after the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic situation.
Total 8 cricket teams from Taiwan will be participating in the tournament, namely Hsinchu Titans, Taiwan Daredevils, Taiwan Dragons, TCA Indians, who are part of Group A of the event. Group B comprises of Chiayi Swingers, FCC Formosans, ICC Smashers and PCCT United. All the matches from the tournament will be live-streamed on Sports Tiger App and will be played at YingFeng ground.
Taipei T10 Squads
2020 Practice matches brief scores
Hsinchu Titans 138/8 in 20 overs (Vijay Kumar 35, Joyal Francis 22, Venky Rebel 15 n.o, Vijay Ganisetti 13 n.o, Thomas Rayen 12, Dirvesh Jain 2/21, Devang Shah 1/12, Nirav Doshi 1/15, Shrey Doshi 1/18) Lost to ICC Smashers 140/7 in 18.3 overs (Rajesh Mehta 45, Senil Varaiya 13, Sandeep Patel 13 n.o, Sandeep Roonwal 13, Ragu Ram 3/21, Manikandam A 1/16, Jami Hema Ganesh 1/17) by 3 wickets
FCC Formosans 91/9 in 15 overs (Arun Parappagoudar 28, Vishwajit S Tawar 15, Aryadeep Mrinal 14, Ragu Ram 5/12, Pramod Kumar Mandal 2/17, Joyal Francis 1/16) lost to Hsinchu Titans 92/6 in 14.2 overs (Rachit Agarwal 32, Vijay Kumar 21, Venkatesh Goudar 14, Aryadeep Mrinal 2/14, Arun Parappagoudar 2/26, Mohammed Sadique Anwar 1/18) by 4 wickets
PCCT United 93/6 in 15 overs (Asif Tanoli 26, Muhammad Mujahid 22, Shahzad Khan Muhammandzai 19, Muhammad Amjad Zafar 12, Ragu Ram 2/15, Jami Hema Ganesh 1/21, Joyal Francis 1/21) beat Hsinchu Titans 85/5 in 15 overs (Thomas Rayen 22 n.o, Eknath Sarkar 18, Rachit Agarwal 11, Shahzad Khan Muhammandzai 3/9, Qazi Mazhar Ul Haq 1/9, Danish Mehmood 1/20) by 8 runs
Taiwan Daredevils 137/7 in 20 overs (George Klopper 84 n.o, Mikhail Weekes 13, Ad Aryadeep 2/21, Joyal Francis 2/20, Shoaib Meer 1/15, Muhammad Mushtaq 1/24) lost to Taiwan XI 138/3 in 14.2 overs (Nitesh Gupta 40 n.o, Arun Parappagoudar 33 n.o, Marlan Samarasinghe 20, Vijay Kumar 12, Dwyane Mcglinchey 2/26, George Klopper 1/37) by 7 wickets
All matches in the Taipei T10 tournament are being live streamed on the YouTube channel of Tiger Sports as well. In the league stage, all the teams will play three matches each and will be ranked from 1 to 8 based on their performances. The table-toppers from both the groups will face-off in a semi-qualifier before which the other lower-ranked six teams will be divided into further two groups namely Qualifier Pool 1 and Qualifier Pool 2. From these two groups, two teams will qualify for the semis. The bottom four teams will fight for the 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th place respectively.
