German cricket team in Belgium in 2019
 
  Belgium Germany
Dates 11 – 12 May 2019
Captains Shaheryar Butt Venkatraman Ganesan
Twenty20 International series
Results Germany won the 3-match series 3–0
Most runs Shaheryar Butt (58) Vijayshankar Chikkannaiah (101)
Most wickets Ashiqullah Said (4) Ahmed Wardak (4)

The Germany cricket team toured Belgium in May 2019 to play three Twenty20 International (T20I) matches.[1] These were the first T20I fixtures to be played by either team, after the International Cricket Council announced that all matches played between Associate Members after 1 January 2019 would have the full T20I status.[2] The series took place at the Royal Brussels Cricket Club in Waterloo, just south of Brussels, with Germany using the fixtures as part of their preparation for the European Regional Qualifying tournament for the 2019 ICC T20 World Cup Qualifier.[3] Germany won te series 3-0.

Squads

 Belgium[4]  Germany[4]
  • Shaheryar Butt (c)
  • Saqlain Ali
  • Waqas Ali
  • Murid Ekrami
  • Soheel Hussain
  • Syed Jamil
  • Noman Kamawi
  • Mamoon Latif
  • Aziz Mohammad
  • Noor Momand (wk)
  • Abdul Rashid
  • Ashiqullah Said
  • Zaki Ul Hassan
  • Saber Zakhil

T20I series

1st T20I

11 May 2019
11:00
Scorecard
Germany 
128/7 (20 overs)
v
 Belgium
119/6 (20 overs)
Harmanjot Singh 39* (27)
Murid Ekrami 1/10 (1 over)
Shaheryar Butt 30* (27)
Ahmed Wardak 3/31 (4 overs)
Germany won by 9 runs
Royal Brussels Cricket Club, Waterloo
Umpires: Mark Jameson (Ger) and Andrew Scott (Bel)
Player of the match: Ahmed Wardak (Ger)

2nd T20I

11 May 2019
15:00
Scorecard
Germany 
149/6 (20 overs)
v
 Belgium
87 (14.4 overs)
Amir Mangal 40 (20)
Ashiqullah Said 2/34 (4 overs)
Saber Zakhil 18 (11)
Sahir Naqash 2/3 (1 over)
Germany won by 62 runs
Royal Brussels Cricket Club, Waterloo
Umpires: Mark Jameson (Ger) and Andrew Scott (Bel)
Player of the match: Talha Khan (Ger)

3rd T20I

12 May 2019
10:30
Scorecard
Belgium 
133/6 (20 overs)
v
 Germany
135/4 (18 overs)
Murid Ekrami 28 (31)
Abdul Shakoor 2/23 (4 overs)
Vijayshankar Chikkannaiah 70* (65)
Zaki Ul Hassan 1/18 (3 overs)
Germany won by 6 wickets
Royal Brussels Cricket Club, Waterloo
Umpires: Mark Jameson (Ger) and Andrew Scott (Bel)
Player of the match: Vijayshankar Chikkannaiah (Ger)
  • Germany won the toss and elected to field.
  • Soheel Hussain (Bel) and Harish Srinivasan (Ger) both made their T20I debuts.

References

  1. ^ @CricketBelgium (29 March 2019). "We are excited and delighted to host the first ICC approved bilateral T20i series in Belgium" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  2. ^ "All T20 matches between ICC members to get international status". International Cricket Council. 26 April 2018. Retrieved 20 March 2019.
  3. ^ "Germany announce dates for first T20Is". CricketEurope. 30 January 2019. Archived from the original on 20 March 2019. Retrieved 20 March 2019.
  4. ^ a b "All squads announced for Germany, Belgium and Italy for T20I series in May 2019". CzarSportz. 30 January 2019. Retrieved 30 January 2019.
  5. ^ "Records: Combined Test, ODI and T20I records. Individual records (captains, players, umpires), Representing two countries". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 11 May 2019.

External links

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