2021 Valletta Cup
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The 2021 Valletta Cup was a Twenty20 International (T20I) cricket tournament held in Malta between 21 and 24 October 2021.[1] It was the second edition of the Valletta Cup. The matches were played at the Marsa Sports Club in Marsa.[2] The participating teams were the hosts Malta along with Bulgaria, Gibraltar and Switzerland.[1]
Dates | 21 – 24 October 2021 |
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Administrator(s) | Malta Cricket Association |
Cricket format | Twenty20 International |
Host(s) | Malta |
Champions | Malta |
Runners-up | Switzerland |
Participants | 4 |
Matches | 8 |
Player of the series | Avinash Pai |
Most runs | Louis Bruce (222) |
Most wickets | Ashwin Vinod (9) |
← 2019 2022 → |
This was the first international tournament for Switzerland since the introduction of global T20I status in January 2019,[3] and their re-admittance to the International Cricket Council (ICC) in July 2021.[1] Cricket Switzerland (previously known as the Swiss Cricket Association), had been suspended by the ICC in 2012 due to non-compliance following the formation of a second organization also claiming to oversee cricket in the country.[4] They were one of three nations to gain Associate membership after the ICC's annual general meeting in July 2021.[5][6]
Switzerland finished on top of the round-robin stage with three wins.[7] Malta defeated Switzerland in the final,[8] after Bulgaria defeated Gibraltar in the third-place playoff.[9] After the tournament, Malta and Gibraltar played a rain-affected two-match bilateral T20I series that was shared after one game was lost to the weather and the other finished as a DLS method tie.[10]