Spanish cricket team in Finland in 2019
| Spanish cricket team in Finland in 2019 | |||
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| Finland | Spain | ||
| Dates | 16 – 18 August 2019 | ||
| Captains | Nathan Collins | Christian Munoz-Mills | |
| Twenty20 International series | |||
| Results | Spain won the 3-match series 2–1 | ||
| Most runs | Nathan Collins (86) | Ravi Panchal (126) | |
| Most wickets |
Md Nurul Huda (5) Shoaib Qureshi (5) |
Paul Hennessy (6) Ravi Panchal (6) | |
The Spain cricket team toured Finland in August 2019 to play a three-match Twenty20 International (T20I) series.[1] These matches had T20I status after the International Cricket Council announced that all matches played between Associate Members after 1 January 2019 would have full T20I status.[2] These were the first T20I matches to be played in Finland.[1] In February 2019, Cricket Finland and Cricket España announced that the series would be hosted at the Kerava National Cricket Ground in August 2019, with Spain agreeing to host a return series against Finland in spring 2020.[3]
After the first day of the T20I series, the teams were tied at one win apiece. Finland recorded their first T20I victory in the opening match by a comfortable 82-run margin, before Spain levelled the series with a 6-wicket win in the second match.[4] On the second day, Spain won the final match by successfully chasing down the Finnish total of 158 with two balls to spare, sealing a 4-wicket victory to take the series 2–1.[5]
Squads
[edit] Finland[6]
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 Spain[7]
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Tour match
[edit]20-over match: Finland Development XI vs Spain XI
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Maneesh Chauhan 26 (31)
Paul Hennessy 2/10 (2 overs) |
Christian Munoz-Mills 33 (20)
Khalid Mangal 1/1 (0.2 overs) |
- Spain XI won the toss and elected to field.
T20I series
[edit]1st T20I
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Aravind Mohan 41 (27)
Paul Hennessy 2/23 (3 overs) |
Kuldeep Lal 23 (14)
Hariharan Dandapani 2/6 (1 over) |
- Finland won the toss and elected to bat.
- Maneesh Chauhan, Peter Gallagher, Jonathan Scamans (Fin), Hamza Dar and Vinod Kumar (Esp) all made their T20I debuts.
2nd T20I
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Md Nurul Huda 30* (14)
Ravi Panchal 3/22 (4 overs) |
Yasir Ali 37* (36)
Md Nurul Huda 2/26 (4 overs) |
- Finland won the toss and elected to bat.
3rd T20I
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Nathan Collins 56 (50)
Paul Hennessy 3/27 (4 overs) |
Ravi Panchal 71* (54)
Amjad Sher 2/22 (4 overs) |
- Finland won the toss and elected to bat.
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Historical T20 Internationals fast approaching..." Cricket Finland. 9 August 2019. Retrieved 13 August 2019.
- ^ "All T20 matches between ICC members to get international status". International Cricket Council. 26 April 2018. Retrieved 7 March 2019.
- ^ "Finland to host Spain in a T20I series; Spain will reciprocate in 2020". Cricket Finland. 3 February 2019. Retrieved 8 April 2019.
- ^ "Cricket España v Cricket Finland - day three". Cricket España. 17 August 2019. Retrieved 17 August 2019.
- ^ "Cricket España v Cricket Finland - day four". Cricket España. 18 August 2019. Retrieved 18 August 2019.
- ^ "Finnish Bears squad selected for Spain T20I's this weekend". Cricket Finland. Retrieved 17 August 2019.
- ^ "Cricket España name the squad for Finland series". Cricket España. Retrieved 6 August 2019.