2022 Valletta Cup

The 2022 Valletta Cup is a Twenty20 International (T20I) cricket tournament scheduled to be held in Malta between 10 and 15 May 2022.[1] The matches will be played at the Marsa Sports Club in Marsa.[1] The participating teams will be the hosts Malta along with Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Gibraltar, Hungary and Romania.[2] Malta are the defending champions having defeated Switzerland in the final of the 2021 edition.[3] Bulgaria and Gibraltar return after finishing the 2021 tournament in third and fourth places, respectively.[3] The Czech Republic and Hungary last featured in the 2019 Valletta Cup, in which the Czech beat a Hungary XI in the final.[4]

2022 Valletta Cup
Dates10 – 15 May 2022
Administrator(s)Malta Cricket Association
Cricket formatTwenty20 International
Host(s) Malta
Participants6
Matches18

Squads
 Bulgaria  Czech Republic[5]  Gibraltar[6]  Hungary  Malta  Romania
  • Prakash Mishra (c)
  • Jacob Albin
  • Kevin D'Souza
  • Aravinda De Silva
  • Vasil Hristov
  • Saim Hussain
  • Ivaylo Katzarski
  • Ahsan Khan
  • Hristo Lakov
  • Sandeep Nair
  • Dimo Nikolov
  • Karthik Pillai
  • Omar Rassol (wk)
  • Asad Ali Rehemtulla
  • Delrick Varghese
  • Arun Ashokan (c)
  • Naveed Ahmed
  • Sazib Bhuiyan
  • Shubhranshu Chaudhary
  • Sabawoon Davizi
  • Vyshakh Jagannivasan
  • Smit Patel
  • Sharan Ramakrishnan
  • Satyajit Sengupta
  • Divyendra Singh (wk)
  • Dylan Steyn
  • Ritik Tomar
  • Sudesh Wickramasekara
  • Balaji Pai (c)
  • Kieron Ferrary (vc, wk)
  • Nikhil Advani
  • Samarth Bodha
  • Louis Bruce
  • Richard Cunningham
  • Mark Garratt
  • Marc Gouws
  • Joseph Marples (wk)
  • Kenroy Nestor
  • Robin Petrie
  • Andrew Reyes
  • Zach Simpson
  • Matt Wheelan
  • Abhijeet Ahuja (c)
  • Bhavani Adapaka
  • Abhishek Ahuja
  • Satyadeep Ashwathnarayana (wk)
  • Khaibar Deldar
  • Ali Farasat
  • Mark Fontaine
  • Abishek Kheterpal
  • Akramullah Malikzada
  • Harshvardhan Mandhyan
  • Sandeep Mohandas
  • Zahir Safi
  • Gabor Torok
  • Asanka Weligamage
  • Bikram Arora (c)
  • Waseem Abbas
  • Imran Ameer
  • Gopal Chaturvedi
  • Basil George
  • Henrich Gericke (wk)
  • Jaison Jerome
  • Aaftab Alam Khan
  • Zeeshan Khan
  • Niraj Khanna
  • Divyesh Kumar
  • Kalki Kumar
  • Jitesh Patel
  • Justin Shaju
  • Amar Sharma
  • Samuel Stanislaus
  • Varun Thamotharam
  • Ramesh Satheesan (c)
  • Mihai Achim
  • Marian Gherasim
  • Ijaz Hussain
  • Senthilvel Karthikeyan
  • Aftab Kayani
  • Arun Kumar
  • Rajesh Kumar
  • Gaurav Mishra
  • Muhammad Moiz
  • Satvik Nadigotla (wk)
  • Sivakumar Periyalwar
  • Rajendra Pisal
  • Sukhkaran Sahi
  • Vasu Saini
  • Abdul Shakoor (wk)
  • Taranjeet Singh
  • Cosmin Zavoiu

The Czech Republic also named Kranthi Venkataswamy and Neeraj Tyagi as reserves.[5]

Round-robin

Points table
Pos Team Pld W L NR Pts NRR
1  Bulgaria 0 0 0 0 0 —
2  Czech Republic 0 0 0 0 0 —
3  Gibraltar 0 0 0 0 0 —
4  Hungary 0 0 0 0 0 —
5  Malta 0 0 0 0 0 —
6  Romania 0 0 0 0 0 —
First match(es) will be played on 10 May 2022. Source: ESPN Cricinfo[7]

Fixtures
10 May 2022
09:00
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10 May 2022
12:30
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10 May 2022
16:00 (D/N)
Scorecard
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11 May 2022
09:00
Scorecard
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11 May 2022
16:00 (D/N)
Scorecard
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12 May 2022
16:00 (D/N)
Scorecard
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13 May 2022
16:00 (D/N)
Scorecard
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14 May 2022
16:00 (D/N)
Scorecard
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Fifth-place play-off
15 May 2022
09:00
Scorecard
TBC
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TBC

Third-place play-off
15 May 2022
12:30
Scorecard
TBC
v
TBC

Final
15 May 2022
16:00 (D/N)
Scorecard
TBC
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TBC

References
  1. "Malta Cricket to host 6-Nation Men's Valetta Cup in May 2022". Czarsportz. Retrieved 14 March 2022.
  2. @Gibraltar_Crick (6 April 2022). "Our Mens National Team are returning to compete in the 2022 Valletta Cup" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  3. "Malta crowned 2021 Valletta Cup champions". Emerging Cricket. Retrieved 31 October 2021.
  4. @MaltaCricket (20 October 2019). "Czech Republic crowned champions of the 2019 Valletta Cup" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  5. @CzechCricket (7 April 2022). "Announcing the Czech men's national team squad for the Valetta Cup, Malta May 10 - 15th" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  6. "Gibraltar Cricket announces squad for Valletta Cup". Gibraltar Chronicle. Retrieved 22 April 2022.
  7. "Valletta Cup 2022". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 10 April 2022.
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