German cricket team in Belgium in 2019

The Germany cricket team toured Belgium in May 2019 to play three Twenty20 International (T20I) matches.^[1] These were the first T20I fixtures to be played by either team, after the International Cricket Council announced that all matches played between Associate Members after 1 January 2019 would have the full T20I status.^[2] The series took place on 11 and 12 May 2019 at the Royal Brussels Cricket Club in Waterloo, just south of Brussels, with Germany using the fixtures as part of their preparation for the European Regional Qualifying tournament for the 2019 ICC T20 World Cup Qualifier.^[3] Germany won the series 3-0.

German cricket team in Belgium in 2019
	Belgium	Germany
Dates	11 – 12 May 2019
Captains	Shaheryar Butt	Venkatraman Ganesan
Twenty20 International series
Results	Germany won the 3-match series 3–0
Most runs	Shaheryar Butt (58)	Vijayshankar Chikkannaiah (101)
Most wickets	Ashiqullah Said (4)	Ahmed Wardak (4)

Squads

Belgium[4]	Germany[4]
Shaheryar Butt (c) Saqlain Ali Waqas Ali Murid Ekrami Soheel Hussain Syed Jamil Noman Kamawi Mamoon Latif Aziz Mohammad Noor Momand (wk) Abdul Rashid Ashiqullah Said Zaki Shah Saber Zakhil	Venkatraman Ganesan (c) Vijayshankar Chikkannaiah Izatullah Dawlatzai Talha Khan Sajid Liaqat Amir Mangal Asad Mohammad Mudassar Muhammad Sahir Naqash Amith Sarma Abdul Shakoor Harmanjot Singh Harish Srinivasan Ahmed Wardak Daniel Weston (wk) Muslim Yar

T20I series

1st T20I

11 May 2019 11:00 Scorecard

Germany  128/7 (20 overs)	v	Belgium 119/6 (20 overs)
Harmanjot Singh 39* (27) Murid Ekrami 1/10 (1 over)		Shaheryar Butt 30* (27) Ahmed Wardak 3/31 (4 overs)

Germany won by 9 runs Royal Brussels Cricket Club, Waterloo Umpires: Mark Jameson (Ger) and Andrew Scott (Bel) Player of the match: Ahmed Wardak (Ger)

• Belgium won the toss and elected to field.
• Shaheryar Butt, Murid Ekrami, Syed Jamil, Noman Kamawi, Mamoon Latif, Aziz Mohammad, Noor Momand, Abdul Rashid, Ashiqullah Said, Zaki Shah, Saber Zakhil (Bel), Vijayshankar Chikkannaiah, Venkatraman Ganesan, Sajid Liaqat, Mudassar Muhammad, Amith Sarma, Abdul Shakoor, Harmanjot Singh, Ahmed Wardak, Daniel Weston and Muslim Yar (Ger) all made their T20I debuts.
• Izatullah Dawlatzai also made his T20I debut for Germany after previously playing four T20Is for Afghanistan, becoming the eighth cricketer to represent two international teams in T20Is.^[5]

2nd T20I

11 May 2019 15:00 Scorecard

Germany  149/6 (20 overs)	v	Belgium 87 (14.4 overs)
Amir Mangal 40 (20) Ashiqullah Said 2/34 (4 overs)		Saber Zakhil 18 (11) Sahir Naqash 2/3 (1 over)

Germany won by 62 runs Royal Brussels Cricket Club, Waterloo Umpires: Mark Jameson (Ger) and Andrew Scott (Bel) Player of the match: Talha Khan (Ger)

• Germany won the toss and elected to bat.
• Saqlain Ali, Waqas Ali (Bel), Amir Mangal, Talha Khan, Sahir Naqash and Asad Mohammad (Ger) all made their T20I debuts.

3rd T20I

12 May 2019 10:30 Scorecard

Belgium  133/6 (20 overs)	v	Germany 135/4 (18 overs)
Murid Ekrami 28 (31) Abdul Shakoor 2/23 (4 overs)		Vijayshankar Chikkannaiah 70* (65) Zaki Shah 1/18 (3 overs)

Germany won by 6 wickets Royal Brussels Cricket Club, Waterloo Umpires: Mark Jameson (Ger) and Andrew Scott (Bel) Player of the match: Vijayshankar Chikkannaiah (Ger)

• Germany won the toss and elected to field.
• Soheel Hussain (Bel) and Harish Srinivasan (Ger) both made their T20I debuts.