2021 Cyprus T20I Cup

The 2021 Cyprus T20I Cup was a Twenty20 International (T20I) cricket tournament that took place in Cyprus in October 2021.^[1] The participating teams were the hosts Cyprus along with Estonia and Isle of Man.^[2] On 5 October, Cyprus and Estonia played a two-match bilateral series, which were the first official T20I matches for both sides,^[3] before the tri-nation Cyprus T20I Cup began on 6 October.^[4] The venue for the matches was the Happy Valley Ground in Episkopi, within the Cypriot district of Limassol.^[5]

Estonian cricket team in Cyprus in 2021–22
	Cyprus	Estonia
Date	5 October 2021
Captains	Michalis Kyriacou	Marko Vaik
Twenty20 International series
Results	Cyprus won the 2-match series 2–0
Most runs	Gurpratap Singh (54)	Habib Khan (62)
Most wickets	Yasir Mehmood (4)	Ali Masood (4)

Cyprus defeated Estonia 2–0 in their bilateral series, before the Isle of Man won the tri-nation tournament with a 100% record.^[6] Individual awards were won by Adam McAuley (Isle of Man, batting), Waqar Ali (Cyprus, bowling), Carl Hartmann (Isle of Man, fielding), Ali Masood (Estonia, most valuable player).^[6]

Squads

Cyprus[7]	Estonia[8]	Isle of Man[9]
Michalis Kyriacou (c) Waqar Ali Qasim Anwar Scott Austin (wk) Rajwinder Brar Iftekar Jaman BLCS Kumara Roman Mazumder Yasir Mehmood Sachithra Pathirana (wk) Chamal Sadun Zeeshan Sarwar (wk) Gurpratap Singh Tejwinder Singh Neeraj Tiwari Murtaza Yamin	Marko Vaik (c, wk) Tim Cross Timothy Filer Stuart Hook (wk) Maidul Islam Habib Khan Ali Masood Saqib Naveed Murali Obili Moshiur Rahman Ashish Rana Ali Raza Malcolm Sedgwick Ashraful Shuvo Ayush Ummat Kalle Vislapuu	Matthew Ansell (c) Edward Beard George Burrows Joseph Burrows Jacob Butler Fraser Clarke Josh Clough Carl Hartmann (wk) Dollin Jansen Nathan Knights Chris Langford Adam McAuley Conor Smith Alex Stokoe Edward Walker

Cyprus named Michalis Kyriacou as captain of an initial squad of 22 players, which was reduced to 16 ahead of the matches.^[10]

Bilateral series

1st T20I

5 October 2021 10:00 Scorecard

Estonia  102/8 (20 overs)	v	Cyprus 105/6 (18.1 overs)
Maidul Islam 49 (37) Tejwinder Singh 3/11 (4 overs)		Michalis Kyriacou 44* (47) Habib Khan 3/18 (4 overs)

Cyprus won by 4 wickets Happy Valley Ground, Episkopi Umpires: Steve Ross (Eng) and Suleman Saeed (Pak) Player of the match: Tejwinder Singh (Cyp)

• Cyprus won the toss and elected to field.
• Waqar Ali, Qasim Anwar, BLCS Kumara, Michalis Kyriacou, Roman Mazumder, Yasir Mehmood, Sachithra Pathirana, Chamal Sadun, Gurpratap Singh, Tejwinder Singh, Neeraj Tiwari (Cyp), Tim Cross, Timothy Filer, Stuart Hook, Maidul Islam, Habib Khan, Ali Masood, Murali Obili, Moshiur Rahman, Ashish Rana, Marko Vaik and Kalle Vislapuu (Est) all made their T20I debuts.

2nd T20I

5 October 2021 14:00 Scorecard

Estonia  130/6 (20 overs)	v	Cyprus 131/2 (14.1 overs)
Habib Khan 60 (53) Yasir Mehmood 3/32 (4 overs)		Gurpratap Singh 54 (25) Ali Masood 2/19 (3 overs)

Cyprus won by 8 wickets Happy Valley Ground, Episkopi Umpires: Tim Heath (Est) and Steve Ross (Eng) Player of the match: Gurpratap Singh (Cyp)

• Estonia won the toss and elected to bat.
• Scott Austin, Iftekar Jaman (Cyp), Saqib Naveed, Ali Raza, Malcolm Sedgwick, Ashraful Shuvo and Ayush Ummat (Est) all made their T20I debuts.

Tri-nation series

2021 Cyprus T20I Cup
Date	6–8 October 2021
Location	Cyprus
Result	Isle of Man won the tournament
Player of the series	Ali Masood
Teams  Cyprus  Estonia  Isle of Man Captains Michalis Kyriacou Marko Vaik Matthew Ansell Most runs Zeeshan Sarwar (116) Maidul Islam (87) Adam McAuley (119) Most wickets Waqar Ali (9) Ali Masood (7) Jacob Butler (8)
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Points table

Team[11]	P	W	L	T	NR	Pts	NRR
Isle of Man	4	4	0	0	0	8	+2.541
Cyprus	4	2	2	0	0	4	+0.719
Estonia	4	0	4	0	0	0	−3.228

Fixtures

6 October 2021 10:00 Scorecard

Cyprus  92 (19.2 overs)	v	Isle of Man 93/2 (11.5 overs)
Neeraj Tiwari 33 (37) Joseph Burrows 4/10 (4 overs)		George Burrows 33 (27) Tejwinder Singh 1/21 (2.5 overs)

Isle of Man won by 8 wickets Happy Valley Ground, Episkopi Umpires: Tim Heath (Est) and Tom Smith (Eng) Player of the match: Joseph Burrows (IoM)

• Cyprus won the toss and elected to bat.
• Zeeshan Sarwar (Cyp), Edward Beard, Conor Smith and Alex Stokoe (IoM) all made their T20I debuts.

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6 October 2021 14:00 Scorecard

Estonia  118/7 (20 overs)	v	Isle of Man 122/4 (15.4 overs)
Maidul Islam 43 (47) Conor Smith 3/15 (4 overs)		Carl Hartmann 34* (28) Ashish Rana 3/14 (3 overs)

Isle of Man won by 6 wickets Happy Valley Ground, Episkopi Umpires: Suleman Saeed (Pak) and Tom Smith (Eng) Player of the match: Conor Smith (IoM)

• Estonia won the toss and elected to bat.
• Dollin Jansen (IoM) made his T20I debut.

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7 October 2021 10:00 Scorecard

Cyprus  149/7 (20 overs)	v	Isle of Man 151/7 (19.3 overs)
Zeeshan Sarwar 46 (25) Matthew Ansell 2/16 (4 overs)		Adam McAuley 45 (32) Waqar Ali 3/22 (4 overs)

Isle of Man won by 3 wickets Happy Valley Ground, Episkopi Umpires: Tim Heath (Est) and Steve Ross (Eng) Player of the match: Gurpratap Singh (Cyp)

• Isle of Man won the toss and elected to field.

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7 October 2021 14:00 Scorecard

Cyprus  187/8 (20 overs)	v	Estonia 108 (18.5 overs)
Roman Mazumder 53 (38) Ali Masood 3/19 (4 overs)		Timothy Filer 38 (38) Waqar Ali 4/14 (3.5 overs)

Cyprus won by 79 runs Happy Valley Ground, Episkopi Umpires: Steve Ross (Eng) and Suleman Saeed (Pak) Player of the match: Waqar Ali (Cyp)

• Cyprus won the toss and elected to bat.

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8 October 2021 10:00 Scorecard

Cyprus  160/9 (20 overs)	v	Estonia 121/6 (20 overs)
Zeeshan Sarwar 61 (39) Timothy Filer 3/18 (4 overs)		Habib Khan 50 (40) Tejwinder Singh 2/16 (4 overs)

Cyprus won by 39 runs Happy Valley Ground, Episkopi Umpires: Steve Ross (Eng) and Tom Smith (Eng) Player of the match: Zeeshan Sarwar (Cyp)

• Cyprus won the toss and elected to bat.
• Rajwinder Brar and Murtaza Yamin (Cyp) both made their T20I debuts.

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8 October 2021 14:00 Scorecard

Estonia  71 (17.1 overs)	v	Isle of Man 72/2 (8.2 overs)
Stuart Hook 23 (21) Jacob Butler 4/12 (4 overs)		George Burrows 19* (15) Ali Masood 1/25 (3 overs)

Isle of Man won by 8 wickets Happy Valley Ground, Episkopi Umpires: Steve Ross (Eng) and Tom Smith (Eng) Player of the match: Jacob Butler (IoM)

• Isle of Man won the toss and elected to field.