2021 Portugal Tri-Nation Series

The 2021 Portugal Tri-Nation Series was a Twenty20 International (T20I) cricket tournament that took place in Portugal between 19 and 22 August 2021.[1] The participating teams were the hosts Portugal, along with Gibraltar and Malta.[1] The matches were played at the Gucherre Cricket Ground, in Albergaria, near to the city of Santarém.[2] These were the first official T20I matches to be played in Portugal since the International Cricket Council (ICC) granted full T20I status to all competitive matches between its members from 1 January 2019.[3]

2021 Portugal Tri-Nation Series
Date19–22 August 2021
LocationPortugal
Result Portugal won the tournament
Teams
 Gibraltar  Malta  Portugal
Captains
Edmund Packard Bikram Arora Najjam Shahzad
Most runs
Chris Delany (151) Varun Thamotharam (162) Azhar Andani (276)
Most wickets
Edmund Packard (4)
Adam Orfila (4)
Bilal Muhammad (5)
Waseem Abbas (5)
Sirajullah Khadim (9)

Portugal won the tournament with a perfect record.[4] In the fourth match of the tournament, Maltese pair Bikram Arora and Varun Thamotharam set a new record fourth-wicket partnership in T20Is, when they added an unbeaten 166 runs against Gibraltar.[5]

Squads

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  Gibraltar[6]   Malta[1]   Portugal[7]
  • Edmund Packard (c)
  • Samarth Bodha
  • Louis Bruce
  • Richard Cunningham
  • Chris Delany
  • James Fitzgerald
  • Mark Garratt
  • Charles Harrison
  • Patrick Hatchman
  • Richard Hatchman
  • Joseph Marples (wk)
  • Kenroy Nestor
  • Adam Orfila
  • Avinash Pai
  • Dave Robeson
  • Bikram Arora (c)
  • Waseem Abbas
  • Samuel Aquilina
  • Ashok Bishnoi
  • Gopal Chaturvedi
  • Heinrich Gericke (wk)
  • Michael Goonetilleke
  • Zeeshan Khan
  • Niraj Khanna
  • Haroon Mughal
  • Bilal Muhammad
  • Indika Perera[8]
  • Justin Shaju
  • Amar Sharma
  • Ravinder Singh
  • Samuel Stanislaus
  • Varun Thamotharam
  • Najjam Shahzad (c)
  • Azhar Andani
  • Rahul Bhardwaj
  • Paolo Buccimazza (wk)
  • Anthony Chambers
  • Sirajullah Khadim
  • Imran Khan
  • Junaid Khan
  • Mien Mehmood
  • Arslan Naseem
  • Zulfiqar Ali Shah
  • Amandeep Singh
  • Miguel Stoman
  • Amir Zaib

Round-robin

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Points table

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Team[9] P W L T NR Pts NRR
  Portugal 4 4 0 0 0 8 +3.110
  Malta 4 2 2 0 0 4 –0.159
  Gibraltar 4 0 4 0 0 0 –2.952

Fixtures

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19 August 2021
11:00
Scorecard
Malta  
146/8 (20 overs)
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  Portugal
147/4 (18.1 overs)
Zeeshan Khan 39 (21)
Sirajullah Khadim 2/28 (4 overs)
Azhar Andani 46 (42)
Bilal Muhammad 1/14 (4 overs)
Portugal won by 6 wickets
Gucherre Cricket Ground, Albergaria
Umpires: Naeem Akhtar (Por) and Parth Jounjat (Por)
Player of the match: Amir Zaib (Por)
  • Portugal won the toss and elected to field.
  • Azhar Andani, Anthony Chambers, Sirajullah Khadim, Junaid Khan, Amandeep Singh, Miguel Stoman, Amir Zaib (Por) and Justin Shaju (Mlt) all made their T20I debuts.

20 August 2021
11:00
Scorecard
Gibraltar  
148/5 (20 overs)
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  Malta
149/2 (17.3 overs)
Louis Bruce 60 (53)
Waseem Abbas 3/29 (4 overs)
Bikram Arora 59* (49)
Adam Orfila 1/20 (3 overs)
Malta won by 8 wickets
Gucherre Cricket Ground, Albergaria
Umpires: Naeem Akhtar (Por) and Sunil Chandiramani (Gib)
Player of the match: Waseem Abbas (Mlt)
  • Malta won the toss and elected to field.
  • Louis Bruce, Charles Harrison, Patrick Hatchman and Joseph Marples (Gib) all made their T20I debuts.

21 August 2021
09:00
Scorecard
Portugal  
217/8 (20 overs)
v
  Gibraltar
121/8 (20 overs)
Azhar Andani 100 (51)
Edmund Packard 3/34 (4 overs)
James Fitzgerald 27 (25)
Junaid Khan 3/24 (4 overs)
Portugal won by 96 runs
Gucherre Cricket Ground, Albergaria
Umpires: Naeem Akhtar (Por) and Sunil Chandiramani (Gib)
Player of the match: Azhar Andani (Por)
  • Gibraltar won the toss and elected to field.
  • Azhar Andani became the first player for Portugal to score a century in T20Is.[10]

21 August 2021
15:00
Scorecard
Malta  
197/3 (20 overs)
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  Gibraltar
193/2 (20 overs)
Varun Thamotharam 104* (52)
Kenroy Nestor 2/32 (4 overs)
Chris Delany 69* (37)
Bilal Muhammad 1/29 (4 overs)
Malta won by 4 runs
Gucherre Cricket Ground, Albergaria
Umpires: Sunil Chandiramani (Gib) and Parth Jounjat (Por)
Player of the match: Varun Thamotharam (Mlt)
  • Gibraltar won the toss and elected to field.
  • Richard Cunningham (Gib) made his T20I debut.
  • Varun Thamotharam became the first player for Malta to score a century in T20Is.[citation needed]
  • Bikram Arora and Varun Thamotharam (Mlt) set a new record for the highest fourth-wicket partnership (166*) in T20Is.[5]

22 August 2021
09:00
Scorecard
Portugal  
218/6 (20 overs)
v
  Gibraltar
108 (18.3 overs)
Azhar Andani 81 (45)
James Fitzgerald 2/47 (4 overs)
Patrick Hatchman 22 (25)
Sirajullah Khadim 3/16 (4 overs)
Portugal won by 110 runs
Gucherre Cricket Ground, Albergaria
Umpires: Naeem Akhtar (Por) and Parth Jounjat (Por)
Player of the match: Azhar Andani (Por)
  • Gibraltar won the toss and elected to field.

22 August 2021
15:00
Scorecard
Malta  
132/8 (20 overs)
v
  Portugal
136/7 (17.5 overs)
Varun Thamotharam 36 (27)
Sirajullah Khadim 3/24 (4 overs)
Azhar Andani 49 (41)
Waseem Abbas 2/30 (3.5 overs)
Portugal won by 3 wickets
Gucherre Cricket Ground, Albergaria
Umpires: Naeem Akhtar (Por) and Parth Jounjat (Por)
Player of the match: Amir Zaib (Por)
  • Malta won the toss and elected to bat.
  • Rahul Bhardwaj, Arslan Naseem and Zulfiqar Ali Shah (Por) all made their T20I debuts.

References

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  1. ^ a b c "Portugal to host Austria and Gibraltar in T20I Tri-series in August 2021". Czarsportz. Retrieved 6 August 2021.
  2. ^ "Don't lose sight of this event! Our Home Playing Cricket Team Triangular BGA CUP 2021". Portuguese Cricket Federation. Retrieved 12 August 2021.
  3. ^ "All T20 matches between ICC members to get international status". International Cricket Council. Retrieved 15 January 2021.
  4. ^ "Portugal sweep tri-series". Cricket Europe. Archived from the original on 22 August 2021. Retrieved 22 August 2021.
  5. ^ a b "Arora, Prasath compile 166 for fourth wicket to upstage previous mark set by Australia". Times of Malta Sports Desk. Retrieved 23 August 2021.
  6. ^ "Our first international squad announcement since 2019". Gibraltar Cricket (via Facebook). Retrieved 13 August 2021.
  7. ^ "Our team is ready for everything!!". Portuguese Cricket Federation (via Facebook). Retrieved 16 August 2021.
  8. ^ "Malta vs Portugal at Lisbon, Lisbon". Cricheroes. Retrieved 25 August 2021.
  9. ^ "Portugal T20 Tri-Series 2021 Table". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 20 August 2021.
  10. ^ "Global Game: A busy week for the Associates". International Cricket Council. Retrieved 23 August 2021.
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