The 2019 Iberia Cup was a Twenty20 International (T20I) cricket tournament held in Spain between 25 and 27 October 2019.[1] The participating teams were the hosts Spain,[2] along with Gibraltar and Portugal.[3][4] The teams competed for the Iberian Cup, which was contested in the 1990s,[4] and was last played in 2008 as a double match series between Spain and Gibraltar.[5] Gibraltar and Portugal played their first matches with T20I status during the tournament, following the decision of the International Cricket Council (ICC) to grant full Twenty20 International status to all its members from 1 January 2019.[6] Spain won the series with a 100% record.[7]
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| Date | 25–27 October 2019 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Location |  Spain | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Result | Spain won the series | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Squads
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Spain[9]
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Points table
edit| Team | P | W | L | T | NR | Pts | NRR |
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4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | +1.627 |
| Portugal
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4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | –0.595 |
| Gibraltar
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4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | –0.969 |
Fixtures
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Najjam Shahzad 27* (31)
Faran Afzal 2/14 (4 overs) |
Paul Hennessy 38 (30)
Tariq Aziz 2/26 (4 overs) |
- Spain won the toss and elected to field.
- Raja Adeel (Esp), Arslan Ahmed, Tariq Aziz, Paolo Buccimazza, Aamer Ikram, Imran Khan, Mien Mehmood, Fakhrul Mohon, Ali Naqi, Zohaib Sarwar, Najjam Shahzad and Francoise Stoman (Por) all made their T20I debuts.
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Avinash Pai 52 (52)
Paolo Buccimazza 2/18 (4 overs) |
Zohaib Sarwar 33* (21)
Avinash Pai 2/18 (4 overs) |
- Gibraltar won the toss and elected to bat.
- Mark Bacarese, Luke Collado, Chris Delany, James Fitzgerald, Julian Freyone, Mark Garratt, Richard Hatchman, Matthew Hunter, Kenroy Nestor, Edmund Packard and Avinash Pai (Gib) all made their T20I debuts.
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Edmund Packard 26 (33)
Yasir Ali 2/16 (3 overs) |
Faran Afzal 59* (43)
Edmund Packard 1/8 (2 overs) |
- Spain won the toss and elected to field.
- Jack Perman (Esp) and Tim Caruana (Gib) both made their T20I debuts.
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Faran Afzal 41 (38)
Tariq Aziz 3/20 (4 overs) |
Najjam Shahzad 46 (31)
Paul Hennessy 2/12 (2 overs) |
- Portugal won the toss and elected to field.
- Nadim Hussain Naureen (Esp) and Sukhwinder Singh (Por) both made their T20I debuts.
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Avinash Pai 35 (45)
Najjam Shahzad 2/16 (4 overs) |
Najjam Shahzad 53* (35)
Avinash Pai 3/14 (4 overs) |
- Portugal won the toss and elected to field.
References
edit- ^ "2019 Iberia Cup - Fixtures and Results". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 23 September 2019.
- ^ Segura, Cristian (3 August 2019). "La Roja del críquet habla panyabí". El País (in Spanish). ISSN 1134-6582. Retrieved 28 October 2019.
- ^ "Cricket - Gibraltar prepares for big weekend". Gibraltar Chronicle. Retrieved 3 September 2020.
- ^ a b "Iberia Cup Revived". Cricket España. Retrieved 26 September 2019.[permanent dead link]
- ^ Admin, Czarsportzauto (19 October 2019). "Spain to host 3-nation (T20I) Iberia Cup in Oct 2019 - Czarsportz". Archived from the original on 2 May 2021. Retrieved 2 May 2021.
- ^ "All T20 matches between ICC members to get international status". International Cricket Council. 26 April 2018. Retrieved 2 August 2019.
- ^ "Congratulations to España for their tournament victory". Gibraltar Cricket (via Facebook). Retrieved 27 October 2019.
- ^ "Gibraltar Cricket squad announcement for the Iberian Cup". Gibraltar Cricket (via Facebook). Retrieved 18 October 2019.
- ^ a b c "Iberia Cup to be live-streamed in 2019". Emerging Cricket. Retrieved 23 October 2019.
External links
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