2019 Spain Triangular T20I Series

The 2019 Spain Triangular T20I Series was a cricket tournament held in Spain from 29 to 31 March 2019.^[3] The tournament featured the national teams of Spain and Malta, as well as an Estonia XI.^[3] All matches were played at La Manga Club, near to the city of Cartagena in the Region of Murcia.

2019 Spain Triangular T20I Series
Date	29–31 March 2019
Location	Spain
Result	Spain won the series
Teams  Estonia XI  Malta  Spain Captains Tim Heath Nowell Khosla Christian Munoz-Mills Most runs Timothy Filer (55)[1] Bikram Arora (101)[1] Awais Ahmed (102)[1] Most wickets Kalle Vislapuu (4)[2] Niraj Khanna (4)[2] Faran Afzal (7)[2]
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The matches played between Spain and Malta had Twenty20 International (T20I) status, with both teams making their debuts in the format after the International Cricket Council announced that all matches played between Associate Members from 1 January 2019 would have T20I status.^[4] The Estonian XI was not an official national side. Spain won the series after all three games on the final day were abandoned with no play possible due to rain.^[5]

Squads

Estonia XI[6]	Malta[7]	Spain[8]
Tim Heath (c) Travis Beswick Akash Chandrashekaran Tim Cross Timothy Filer Sachin HM Stuart Hook Ashish Rana Malcolm Sedgwick Ashraful Shuvo Mart Tammoja Marko Vaik Kalle Vislapuu Moshiur Rahman	Nowell Khosla (c) George Aguis Sujesh Appu Samuel Aquilina Bikram Arora Luke Bradley Jurg Hirschi Sumair Khan Niraj Khanna David Marks Haroon Mughal Michael Nazir Hasheem Shahzad	Christian Munoz-Mills (c) Faran Afzal Adam Algar Awais Ahmed Yasir Ali Muhammad Asjed Hamza Dar Zulqarnain Haider Paul Hennessy Tauqeer Hussain Kuldeep Lal Vinod Kumar Atif Mehmood Ravi Panchal Mukhtiar Singh Tom Vine

Points table

	P	W	L	T	NR	Pts	NRR
Spain	6	4	0	0	2	10	+4.880
Malta	6	2	2	0	2	6	–0.689
Estonia XI	6	0	4	0	2	2	–3.721

Fixtures

29 March 2019 09:30 Scorecard

Malta  125/6 (20 overs)	v	Estonia XI 112/9 (20 overs)
Niraj Khanna 51 (42) Kalle Vislapuu 2/14 (4 overs)		Stuart Hook 25 (22) Niraj Khanna 3/8 (2 overs)

Malta won by 13 runs La Manga Club, Cartagena Umpires: Harmit Dhull (Esp) and John Howden (Esp)

• Malta won the toss and elected to bat.

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29 March 2019 12:30 Scorecard

Estonia XI  86/7 (20 overs)	v	Spain 88/0 (8.5 overs)
Tim Heath 15 (20) Faran Afzal 2/5 (4 overs)		Faran Afzal 58* (33)

Spain won by 10 wickets La Manga Club, Cartagena Umpires: John Howden (Esp) and Adnan Khan (Esp)

• Spain won the toss and elected to field.

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29 March 2019 15:30 Scorecard

Malta  98/9 (20 overs)	v	Spain 99/3 (12.1 overs)
Bikram Arora 28 (25) Tom Vine 4/28 (4 overs)		Yasir Ali 57 (40) Jurg Hirschi 1/15 (2 overs)

Spain won by 7 wickets La Manga Club, Cartagena Umpires: Harmit Dhull (Esp) and Adnan Khan (Esp)

• Malta won the toss and elected to bat.
• Faran Afzal, Awais Ahmed, Yasir Ali, Zulqarnain Haider, Tauqeer Hussain, Kuldeep Lal, Atif Mehmood, Christian Munoz-Mills, Ravi Panchal, Mukhtiar Singh, Tom Vine (Esp), George Aguis, Sujesh Appu, Samuel Aquilina, Bikram Arora, Jurg Hirschi, Sumair Khan, Niraj Khanna, Nowell Khosla, David Marks, Haroon Mughal and Hasheem Shahzad (Mlt) all made their T20I debuts.

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30 March 2019 09:30 Scorecard

Spain  183/4 (20 overs)	v	Estonia XI 84/8 (20 overs)
Vinod Kumar 40* (27) Travis Beswick 2/39 (4 overs)		Stuart Hook 17 (24) Christian Munoz-Mills 2/7 (3 overs)

Spain won by 99 runs La Manga Club, Cartagena Umpires: John Howden (Esp) and Adnan Khan (Esp)

• Spain won the toss and elected to bat.

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30 March 2019 12:30 Scorecard

Spain  206/2 (20 overs)	v	Malta 97 (19.5 overs)
Awais Ahmed 102* (64) Sujesh Appu 1/21 (2 overs)		Nowell Khosla 27 (23) Faran Afzal 3/11 (4 overs)

Spain won by 109 runs La Manga Club, Cartagena Umpires: Harmit Dhull (Esp) and Adnan Khan (Esp)

• Spain won the toss and elected to bat.
• Muhammad Asjed, Paul Hennessy (Esp) and Michael Nazir (Mlt) all made their T20I debuts.
• Awais Ahmed became the first batsman for Spain to score a century in T20Is.^[9]

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30 March 2019 15:30 Scorecard

Malta  157/4 (20 overs)	v	Estonia XI 63 (16.4 overs)
Bikram Arora 42* (31) Tim Heath 1/18 (4 overs)		Tim Heath 17 (20) George Aguis 2/6 (3 overs)

Malta won by 94 runs La Manga Club, Cartagena Umpires: Harmit Dhull (Esp) and John Howden (Esp)

• Malta won the toss and elected to bat.

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31 March 2019 10:00 Scorecard

Spain	v	Malta

Match abandoned La Manga Club, Cartagena Umpires: Harmit Dhull (Esp) and Adnan Khan (Esp)

• No toss.
• No play was possible due to rain.

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31 March 2019 13:00 Scorecard

Estonia XI	v	Malta

Match abandoned La Manga Club, Cartagena Umpires: Harmit Dhull (Esp) and John Howden (Esp)

• No toss.
• No play was possible due to rain.

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31 March 2019 16:00 Scorecard

Spain	v	Estonia XI

Match abandoned La Manga Club, Cartagena Umpires: John Howden (Esp) and Adnan Khan (Esp)

• No toss.
• No play was possible due to rain.