2022 European Cricket League – Wikipedia

2022 European Cricket League
Dates	7 February 2022 – 19 March 2022
Administrator(s)	European Cricket League
Cricket format	T10
Tournament format(s)	Round robin and knockout
Host(s)	Spain
Champions	Pak I Care Badalona (1st title)
Runners-up	Tunbridge Wells
Participants	30
Player of the series	Muhammad Babar
Most runs	Chris Williams (477)
Most wickets	Muhammad Babar (23)

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Cricket tournament

The 2022 European Cricket League is a T10 cricket competition. It will be the second edition of the European Cricket League and held at the Cartama Oval in Málaga, Spain. It was postponed from 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Spain.^[1]

Background[edit]

The European Cricket League was founded in 2019 by German cricketer Daniel Weston intended as a way to develop cricket in emerging nations in Europe as a cricket equivalent to football’s UEFA Champions League.^[2]^[3] In 2020, it was announced the European Cricket League expanded from 8 teams to include the national club champions of 30 European countries.^[2] This came after Weston signed agreements with several European cricket boards to ensure their domestic champions would be invited.^[4]

The host for the 2021 and 2022 editions was announced as Spain.^[5] The Cartama Oval in Málaga was chosen as the host city ahead of La Manga, Murcia, who were due to host in 2021.^[3] It was announced the 2022 edition would run from 7 February 2022 to 25 March.^[6]

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Participants[edit]

The following teams were invited to take part as champions of their domestic leagues.^[7] The draw was made according to International Cricket Council seedings with England’s ECB National Club Twenty20 champions Tunbridge Wells entering as top seeds.^[3] Jersey’s Farmers expressed concern about the scheduling of the tournament due to the Jersey national cricket team’s participation in the 2019–2022 ICC Cricket World Cup Challenge League and qualifiers for the 2022 ICC Men’s T20 World Cup, as well as their players needing to use leave from their jobs to play.^[8] The reigning European Cricket League champions VOC Rotterdam were also invited back to participate.^[9]

It was announced that, due to issues with getting visas, that Petersburg Sporting would not be taking part in their group. They would be replaced by the Calpe Giants of Gibraltar.^[10]

Group stage[edit]

The Group Stage is to be played across the first 5 weeks of the tournament, with each Group lasting a week. Each week starts with a 3-day round-robin tournament, from which the top 3 progress to a Super 3 playoff. The bottom two teams face off in an eliminator, with the winner going on to play the team who finished 4th. The winner of that game then plays the 3rd place team from the Super 3 playoff, while the Top 2 from that playoff play each other in the first Qualifier. The loser of that game and the winner of the third eliminator then play in the second qualifier. The winners of the Qualifiers then play in the group final to decide the overall Group Winner.

Group A[edit]

Round robin[edit]

Super Three[edit]

Team							Status
Tunbridge Wells	2	2	0	0	4	+2.550	Advance to Qualifier 1
Austrian Cricket Tigers	2	1	1	0	2	+0.292	Advance to Qualifier 1
Dreux	2	0	2	0	0	-2.891	Advance to Eliminator 3
Source: European Cricket Network

Eliminators[edit]

Eliminator 1
10 February 2022
10:00
Scorecard

Helsinki Titans 118/8 (10 overs)	v	Star CC 118/6 (10 overs)
Ahad Qureshi 50 (18) Jatin Madan 3/20 (2 overs)		Jatin Madan 49 (20) Wahid Qureshi 3/12 (2 overs)

Match Tied (Star CC wins the Golden Ball)
Cartama Oval, Cartama
Umpires: Harrison Ward and Suleman Saeed
Player of the match: Jatin Madan

Star CC won the toss and elected to Bat

Eliminator 2
10 February 2022
14:00
Scorecard

Svanholm 43/0 (4.2 overs)	v	Star CC 44 (8.3 overs)
Wahab Hashimi 23* (12) Jatin Madan 0/15 (2 overs)		Shiv Karan Gill 23 (16) Zeeshan Khan 3/3 (2 overs)

Svanholm beat Star CC by 10 wickets
Cartama Oval, Cartama
Umpires: Harrison Ward and Suleman Saeed
Player of the match: Zeeshan Khan

Star CC won the toss and elected to Bat

Eliminator 3
11 February 2022
10:00
Scorecard

Dreux 101/8 (10 overs)	v	Svanholm 80/8 (10 overs)
Kamran Ahmadzai 26 (9) Toqeer Ahmad 2/15 (2 overs)		Hamid Shah 21 (14) Kamran Ahmadzai 3/18 (2 overs)

Dreux beat Svanholm by 21 runs
Cartama Oval, Cartama
Umpires: Harrison Ward and Charles Croucher
Player of the match: Kamran Ahmadzai

Svanholm won the toss and elected to Bowl

Qualifiers and Final[edit]

Tunbridge Wells 141/4 (10 overs)	v	Austrian Cricket Tigers 113/8 (10 overs)
Alex Williams 58 (25) Imran Asif 2/19 (2 overs)		Imran Asif 33 (19) Dave Smith 3/15 (2 overs)

Tunbridge Wells beat Austrian Cricket Tigers by 28 runs
Cartama Oval, Cartama
Umpires: Nilkesh Patel and Suleman Saeed
Player of the match: Alex Williams

Austrian Cricket Tigers won the toss and elected to Bowl

Austrian Cricket Tigers 83/9 (10 overs)	v	Dreux 86/3 (6.4 overs)
Ahsan Yousuf 21 (8) Shahzeb Mohammad 3/14 (2 overs)		Hamza Niaz 28 (11) Adal Afzal 2/24 (1.4 overs)

Dreux beat Austrian Cricket Tigers by 7 wickets
Cartama Oval, Cartama
Umpires: Suleman Saeed and Subh Navjot Anand
Player of the match: Shahzeb Mohammad

Austrian Cricket Tigers won the toss and elected to Bat

Tunbridge Wells 128/5 (10 overs)	v	Dreux 101/8 (10 overs)
Dave Smith 28 (12) Tabush Bhatti 2/20 (2 overs)

Tunbridge Wells beat Dreux by 27 runs
Cartama Oval, Cartama
Umpires: Charles Croucher and Nilkesh Patel
Player of the match: Marcus O’Riordan

Tunbridge Wells won the toss and elected to Bat