The 2022 Spain Tri-Nation Series was a Twenty20 International (T20I) cricket tournament that was held in Spain from 29 April to 1 May 2022.[1] The event was the first international series of the 2022 European summer season.[2] The participating teams were the hosts Spain, along with Guernsey and Norway.[3] The series was played at the Desert Springs Cricket Ground in Almería.[4] All competing nations used the event as preparation for the 2022–23 ICC Men's T20 World Cup Europe Qualifier subregional tournaments.[5]
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Date | 29 April – 1 May 2022 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Location | Spain | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Norway recovered from a slow start to beat Guernsey by 37 runs in the opening game.[6] Day two saw both Spain and Guernsey defeat Norway, before the hosts beat Guernsey to end the day on top of the table.[7] Spain were well beaten by Guernsey on the final morning,[8] but followed this with a comfortable victory over Norway to claim the series.[9]
Squads
editGuernsey[10] | Norway[11] | Spain[12] |
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Points Table
editPos | Team | Pld | W | L | NR | Pts | NRR |
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1 | Spain | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 1.597 |
2 | Guernsey | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 | −0.678 |
3 | Norway | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 2 | −0.916 |
Fixtures
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Sher Sahak 70* (29)
Luke Bichard 2/14 (4 overs) |
- Norway won the toss and elected to bat.
- Declan Martel, Oliver Nightingale (Gue) and Ali Saleem (Nor) all made their T20I debuts.
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Yasir Ali 44 (39)
Vinay Ravi 2/10 (4 overs) |
Walid Ghauri 23 (28)
Yasir Ali 2/12 (3 overs) |
- Spain won the toss and elected to bat.
- Lorne Burns, Daniel Doyle-Calle, Mohammad Kamran and Josh Trembeath-Moro (Esp) all made their T20I debuts.
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Khizer Ahmed 37 (36)
Luke Bichard 3/28 (4 overs) |
- Norway won the toss and elected to bat.
- Aminullah Tanha (Nor) made his T20I debut.
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Josh Butler 16 (19)
Lorne Burns 5/11 (4 overs) |
Awais Ahmed 42 (29)
Matthew Stokes 1/9 (2 overs) |
- Guernsey won the toss and elected to bat.
- Ben Wentzel (Gue) made his T20I debut.
- Lorne Burns became the first bowler for Spain to take a five-wicket haul in T20Is.[14]
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Josh Trembeath-Moro 28 (29)
Luke Bichard 2/14 (3 overs) |
- Spain won the toss and elected to bat.
Notes
edit- ^ Lorne Burns captained Spain in their remaining matches after Christian Munoz-Mills retired hurt during the second T20I of the series.
References
edit- ^ "Guernsey to play T20 ranking tournament in Spain". BBC Sport. Retrieved 14 March 2022.
- ^ "European international summer underway in Spain". Cricket Europe. Retrieved 29 April 2022.
- ^ "Spain trip opens busy international summer". Guernsey Press. Retrieved 14 March 2022.
- ^ "Cricket Espana to host triangular series At Desert Springs". Cricket España. Retrieved 14 March 2022.
- ^ "Cricket Espana to host men's T20I tri-series with Norway and Guernsey in April/May 2022". Czarsportz. Retrieved 14 March 2022.
- ^ "Guernsey lose to Norway by 37 runs in T20 series opener". BBC Sport. Retrieved 29 April 2022.
- ^ "Guernsey beat Norway but suffer Spain loss in Twenty20 international series". BBC Sport. Retrieved 30 April 2022.
- ^ "Two successful revenge missions for Guernsey at Desert Springs". Guernsey Press. Retrieved 2 May 2022.
- ^ "Spain lift tri-series title on final day". Cricket Europe. Archived from the original on 1 May 2022. Retrieved 1 May 2022.
- ^ "Guernsey's men set for international return in Spain". Guernsey Press. Retrieved 28 April 2022.
- ^ "Team Norge Spain tri series". Norwegian Cricket Board (in Norwegian). Retrieved 16 April 2022.
- ^ "Spanish squad named for the tri-series with Guernsey and Norway". Cricket España. Retrieved 6 April 2022.
- ^ "Spain Triangular T20I Series 2022". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 10 April 2022.
- ^ "Spain out in front after day two". Cricket Europe. Archived from the original on 30 April 2022. Retrieved 1 May 2022.