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The 2019 European Cricket League (abbreviated as ECL19) was the inaugural edition of the European Cricket League. It was held in July 2019 with eight European champion club teams.[1][2] At ECL19, the domestic club champions of Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Romania, Russia and Spain all competed for the chance to become club cricket’s European champions. Players from 18 European nations as well as from more traditional cricket-playing nations took part. The league has adopted the T10 format and was played over three days. The La Manga Club in Cartagena, Murcia, Spain hosted the tournament, which was staged between July 29 and July 31, 2019.[3]
Tournament Play / Broadcast at ECL19[edit]
Packing 17 matches into a T10 format over three days, every match was televised live in Europe, Asia, North America and Australasia across a combination of broadcast, digital and social channels, including the newly-launched European Cricket Network.[4] Over 100 countries worldwide broadcast coverage including the UK, Australia, India, Middle East, UAE, France, Germany, Turkey, Spain, United States, Canada and the Caribbean. Teams were split into two groups of four with matches being played on a round-robin basis in La Manga with the top two from each progressing to contest the semi-finals and final.
The current ECL title holders are V.O.C Rotterdam of the Netherlands, who won the inaugural 2019 season, beating SG Findorff (Bremen) from Germany in the final.[5][6]
Participating teams[edit]
Eight clubs from across Europe participated in the inaugural edition.[7]
- Svanholm Cricket Club, Brøndby
- Dreux Cricket Club, Dreux
- Sportgemeinschaft Findorff, Bremen
- Janjua Cricket Club, Brescia
- Volharding Olympia Combinatie, Rotterdam
- Cluj Cricket Club, Cluj-Napoca
- St. Petersburg Lions, Saint Petersburg
- Catalunya Cricket Club, Girona
Group stage[edit]
Group A[edit]
Dreux Cricket Club
98/7 (10 overs) |
v |
|
Muhammad Bhatti 37* (23)
Pierce Fletcher 2/19 (2 overs) |
Max O’Dowd 53 (22)
Mohammad Shahzeb 1/8 (0.4 overs) |
- V.O.C. Rotterdam won the toss and elected to bowl.
Dreux Cricket Club
60/9 (10 overs) |
v |
Svanholm Cricket Club
63/1 (6.3 overs) |
Mohammad Shahzeb 14* (13)
Zeeshan Khan 3/10 (2 overs) |
Zishan Shah 35* (23)
Yaseen Afridi 1/21 (2 overs) |
- Dreux CC won the toss and elected to bat.
- V.O.C. Rotterdam won the toss and elected to bowl.
Dreux Cricket Club
164/6 (10 overs) |
v |
Cluj Cricket Club
69/5 (10 overs) |
Ahmad Nabi 105 (30) |
Satwik Nadigotla 27* (25)
Wahid Abdul 3/9 (2 overs) |
- Cluj CC won the toss and elected to bowl.
Cluj Cricket Club
75/7 (10 overs) |
v |
Svanholm Cricket Club
76/0 (8.2 overs) |
Taranjeet Singh 35 (18) |
- Svanholm CC won the toss and elected to bowl.
v |
Svanholm Cricket Club
126/8 (10 overs) |
|
Corey Rutgers 29* (7)
Zeeshan Khan 2/36 (2 overs) |
- Svanholm CC won the toss and elected to bowl.
Group B[edit]
Lost all points due to player eligibility infringement.[8]
Catalunya Cricket Club
128/5 (10 overs) |
v |
St. Petersburg Lions
62/7 (10 overs) |
Muhammad Mughal 76 (27) |
Rinku Singh 24 (20) |
- Catalunya CC won the toss and elected to bat.
Catalunya Cricket Club
118/2 (10 overs) |
v |
JCC Brescia
120/4 (8.3 overs) |
Muhammad Khan 63* (32)
Muhammad Iqbal 1/21 (2 overs) |
Muhammad Jafri 38 (15) |
- Catalunya CC won the toss and elected to bat.
JCC Brescia initially won all their matches, but were later found breaching the player eligibility criteria and thus their opponents were declared winners.
SG Findorff
97/5 (10 overs) |
v |
JCC Brescia
99/2 (5.5 overs) |
Muhammad Jafri 59 (17) |
- JCC Brescia won the toss and elected to bowl.
JCC Brescia initially won all their matches, but were later found breaching the player eligibility criteria and thus their opponents were declared winners.
St. Petersburg Lions
53/8 (10 overs) |
v |
SG Findorff
59/2 (6 overs) |
Vijay Gautam 18 (23) |
Israr Khan 25* (17)
Lalit Lalit 1/14 (2 overs) |
- St. Petersburg Lions won the toss and elected to bat.
JCC Brescia
116/7 (10 overs) |
v |
St. Petersburg Lions
91/6 (10 overs) |
Muhammad Jafri 40 (15) |
Anil Singh 35 (13) |
- St. Petersburg Lions won the toss and elected to bowl.
JCC Brescia initially won all their matches, but were later found breaching the player eligibility criteria and thus their opponents were declared winners.
Catalunya Cricket Club
115/7 (10 overs) |
v |
SG Findorff
116/4 (8.4 overs) |
Rauf Zaman 41* (16)
Iftikhar Khan 2/11 (2 overs) |
Ammar Khalid 45* (15)
Syed Sherazi 3/24 (2 overs) |
- SG Findorff won the toss and elected to bowl.
Minor play-offs[edit]
7th place playoff[edit]
Cluj Cricket Club
84/7 (10 overs) |
v |
JCC Brescia
86/4 (9.1 overs) |
Vasu Saini 25 (14) |
Shahrukh Nawaz 25* (15)
Gaurav Mishra 2/10 (2 overs) |
- Cluj CC won the toss and elected to bat.
5th place playoff[edit]
Dreux Cricket Club
82/7 (10 overs) |
v |
St. Petersburg Lions
70/7 (10 overs) |
Niaz Hamza 22 (16) |
Anil Singh 34 (22) |
- Dreux CC won the toss and elected to bat.
Semi-finals[edit]
1st Semi-final[edit]
- Catalunya CC won the toss and elected to bat.
2nd Semi-final[edit]
Svanholm Cricket Club
88/4 (10 overs) |
v |
SG Findorff
94/3 (8.5 overs) |
Aziz Dawodzy 25 (13) |
- SG Findorff won the toss and elected to bowl.
- SG Findorff won the toss and elected to bowl.
Player of the Tournament[edit]
Max O’Dowd of V.O.C. Rotterdam was awarded “Player of the Tournament” at the 2019 European Cricket League. O’Dowd scored 219 runs in five innings (2 not outs) at an average of 73 and strike rate of 263.86, including an undefeated 74 in the final against SG Findorff. He also took four wickets in the tournament with his leg-break bowling with a best of 2-25 against Catalunya Cricket Club in the semi-final. O’Dowd is a current Netherlands international.[9][10][11]
Pavel Florin at ECL19[edit]
The inaugural tournament gained significant worldwide prominence after the remarkable performances of Cluj all-rounder Pavel Florin during the group stages.[12] Florin, a 40-year-old professional bodyguard and president of Cluj Cricket Club in Romania, caused a stir after his bowling performance went viral on social media. Many of the sport’s most famous figures, including Australian legend Shane Warne, expressed their support and admiration of Florin because of his pure unaffected love for the game.[13][14][15][16][17][18][19] Florin has since gone on to play in Australia where he again hit the headlines over the winter. Florin will take part in the second-staging of the European Cricket League – ECL20 – with Cluj Cricket Club, Romania.
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