| 2021 Portugal Tri-Nation Series | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date | 19–22 August 2021 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Portugal | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Result | Portugal won the tournament | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 2021 Portugal Tri-Nation Series was a Twenty20 International (T20I) cricket tournament that took place in Portugal between 19 and 22 August 2021. The participating teams were the hosts Portugal, along with Gibraltar and Malta. The matches were played at the Gucherre Cricket Ground, in Albergaria, near to the city of Santarém. 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.
Portugal won the tournament with a perfect record. 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.
Squads
| Gibraltar | Malta | Portugal |
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Round-robin
Points table
| Team | P | W | L | T | NR | Pts | NRR |
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| 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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Zeeshan Khan 39 (21)
Sirajullah Khadim 2/28 (4 overs) |
Azhar Andani 46 (42)
Bilal Muhammad 1/14 (4 overs) |
- 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.
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Louis Bruce 60 (53)
Waseem Abbas 3/29 (4 overs) |
Bikram Arora 59* (49)
Adam Orfila 1/20 (3 overs) |
- Malta won the toss and elected to field.
- Louis Bruce, Charles Harrison, Patrick Hatchman and Joseph Marples (Gib) all made their T20I debuts.
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Azhar Andani 100 (51)
Edmund Packard 3/34 (4 overs) |
James Fitzgerald 27 (25)
Junaid Khan 3/24 (4 overs) |
- Gibraltar won the toss and elected to field.
- Azhar Andani became the first player for Portugal to score a century in T20Is.
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Varun Thamotharam 104* (52)
Kenroy Nestor 2/32 (4 overs) |
Chris Delany 69* (37)
Bilal Muhammad 1/29 (4 overs) |
- 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.
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Azhar Andani 81 (45)
James Fitzgerald 2/47 (4 overs) |
Patrick Hatchman 22 (25)
Sirajullah Khadim 3/16 (4 overs) |
- Gibraltar won the toss and elected to field.
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Varun Thamotharam 36 (27)
Sirajullah Khadim 3/24 (4 overs) |
Azhar Andani 49 (41)
Waseem Abbas 2/30 (3.5 overs) |
- 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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- ^ "Don't lose sight of this event! Our Home Playing Cricket Team Triangular BGA CUP 2021". Portuguese Cricket Federation. Retrieved 12 August 2021.
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- ^ "Portugal sweep tri-series". Cricket Europe. Archived from the original on 22 August 2021. Retrieved 22 August 2021.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Our first international squad announcement since 2019". Gibraltar Cricket (via Facebook). Retrieved 13 August 2021.
- ^ "Our team is ready for everything!!". Portuguese Cricket Federation (via Facebook). Retrieved 16 August 2021.
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