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The 2019 European Cricket League (abbreviated as ECL19) was the inaugural edition of the European Cricket League. It was held in July 2019 with eight European champion club teams.[1][2] At ECL19, the domestic club champions of Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Romania, Russia and Spain all competed for the chance to become club cricket's European champions. Players from 18 European nations as well as from more traditional cricket-playing nations took part. The league has adopted the T10 format and was played over three days. The La Manga Club in Cartagena, Murcia, Spain hosted the tournament, which was staged between July 29 and July 31, 2019.[3]
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Tournament Play / Broadcast at ECL19
Packing 17 matches into a T10 format over three days, every match was televised live in Europe, Asia, North America and Australasia across a combination of broadcast, digital and social channels, including the newly-launched European Cricket Network.[4] Over 100 countries worldwide broadcast coverage including the UK, Australia, India, Middle East, UAE, France, Germany, Turkey, Spain, United States, Canada and the Caribbean. Teams were split into two groups of four with matches being played on a round-robin basis in La Manga with the top two from each progressing to contest the semi-finals and final.
The current ECL title holders are V.O.C Rotterdam of the Netherlands, who won the inaugural 2019 season, beating SG Findorff (Bremen) from Germany in the final.[5][6]
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Participating teams
Location of 2019 ECL teams
Eight clubs from across Europe participated in the inaugural edition.[7]
Svanholm Cricket Club, Brøndby
Dreux Cricket Club, Dreux
Sportgemeinschaft Findorff, Bremen
Janjua Cricket Club, Brescia
Volharding Olympia Combinatie, Rotterdam
Cluj Cricket Club, Cluj-Napoca
St. Petersburg Lions, Saint Petersburg
Catalunya Cricket Club, Girona
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Group stage
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Group A
Source: European Cricket Network
Fixtures
Dreux Cricket Club  98/7 (10 overs) |
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 V.O.C. Rotterdam99/2 (7.4 overs) |
Muhammad Bhatti 37* (23) Pierce Fletcher 2/19 (2 overs) |
Max O'Dowd 53 (22) Mohammad Shahzeb 1/8 (0.4 overs) |
- V.O.C. Rotterdam won the toss and elected to bowl.
Dreux Cricket Club 60/9 (10 overs) |
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 Svanholm Cricket Club63/1 (6.3 overs) |
Mohammad Shahzeb 14* (13) Zeeshan Khan 3/10 (2 overs) |
Zishan Shah 35* (23) Yaseen Afridi 1/21 (2 overs) |
- Dreux CC won the toss and elected to bat.
Cluj Cricket Club  87/5 (10 overs) |
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V.O.C. Rotterdam 88/2 (5.3 overs) |
Taranjeet Singh 42 (26) Max O'Dowd 1/4 (1 over) |
- V.O.C. Rotterdam won the toss and elected to bowl.
Dreux Cricket Club 164/6 (10 overs) |
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Cluj Cricket Club 69/5 (10 overs) |
Ahmad Nabi 105 (30) Muhammad Ahmed 2/11 (1 over) |
Satwik Nadigotla 27* (25) Wahid Abdul 3/9 (2 overs) |
- Cluj CC won the toss and elected to bowl.
Cluj Cricket Club 75/7 (10 overs) |
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Svanholm Cricket Club 76/0 (8.2 overs) |
Taranjeet Singh 35 (18) Zeeshan Khan 2/10 (2 overs) |
Zishan Shah 53* (34) |
- Svanholm CC won the toss and elected to bowl.
V.O.C. Rotterdam 133/7 (10 overs) |
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Svanholm Cricket Club 126/8 (10 overs) |
Corey Rutgers 29* (7) Zeeshan Khan 2/36 (2 overs) |
- Svanholm CC won the toss and elected to bowl.
Group B
Source: European Cricket Network
† Lost all points due to player eligibility infringement.[8]
Catalunya Cricket Club  128/5 (10 overs) |
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 St. Petersburg Lions62/7 (10 overs) |
Muhammad Mughal 76 (27) Vijay Gautam 3/12 (2 overs) |
Rinku Singh 24 (20) Syed Sherazi 3/5 (2 overs) |
- Catalunya CC won the toss and elected to bat.
Catalunya Cricket Club 118/2 (10 overs) |
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 JCC Brescia120/4 (8.3 overs) |
Muhammad Khan 63* (32) Muhammad Iqbal 1/21 (2 overs) |
Muhammad Jafri 38 (15) Muhammad Mughal 2/19 (2 overs) |
- Catalunya CC won the toss and elected to bat.
† JCC Brescia initially won all their matches, but were later found breaching the player eligibility criteria and thus their opponents were declared winners.
SG Findorff  97/5 (10 overs) |
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JCC Brescia 99/2 (5.5 overs) |
Ahmed Wardak 37 (25) Zahid Cheema 1/17 (2 overs) |
Muhammad Jafri 59 (17) Israr Khan 2/15 (2 overs) |
- JCC Brescia won the toss and elected to bowl.
† JCC Brescia initially won all their matches, but were later found breaching the player eligibility criteria and thus their opponents were declared winners.
St. Petersburg Lions 53/8 (10 overs) |
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SG Findorff 59/2 (6 overs) |
Vijay Gautam 18 (23) Iftikhar Khan 2/12 (2 overs) |
Israr Khan 25* (17) Lalit Lalit 1/14 (2 overs) |
- St. Petersburg Lions won the toss and elected to bat.
JCC Brescia 116/7 (10 overs) |
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St. Petersburg Lions 91/6 (10 overs) |
Muhammad Jafri 40 (15) Lalit Lalit 3/10 (2 overs) |
Anil Singh 35 (13) Muhammad Iqbal 2/30 (2 overs) |
- St. Petersburg Lions won the toss and elected to bowl.
† JCC Brescia initially won all their matches, but were later found breaching the player eligibility criteria and thus their opponents were declared winners.
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Minor play-offs
7th place playoff
Cluj Cricket Club 84/7 (10 overs) |
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JCC Brescia 86/4 (9.1 overs) |
Vasu Saini 25 (14) Zain ul Abdeen 2/15 (2 overs) |
Shahrukh Nawaz 25* (15) Gaurav Mishra 2/10 (2 overs) |
- Cluj CC won the toss and elected to bat.
5th place playoff
Dreux Cricket Club 82/7 (10 overs) |
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St. Petersburg Lions 70/7 (10 overs) |
Niaz Hamza 22 (16) Rinku Singh 2/18 (2 overs) |
Anil Singh 34 (22) Muhammad Bhatti 3/4 (2 overs) |
- Dreux CC won the toss and elected to bat.
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Playoffs
Semi-finals
Semi-final 1
Catalunya Cricket Club 129/5 (10 overs) |
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V.O.C. Rotterdam 133/1 (7.4 overs) |
Yasir Ali 45 (15) Jelte Schoonheim 2/12 (1 over) |
Scott Edwards 55 (15) Syed Sherazi 1/21 (2 overs) |
- Catalunya CC won the toss and elected to bat.
2nd Semi-final
Svanholm Cricket Club 88/4 (10 overs) |
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SG Findorff 94/3 (8.5 overs) |
Mads Henriksen 27 (11) Israr Khan 2/10 (2 overs) |
Aziz Dawodzy 25 (13) Zeeshan Khan 1/10 (2 overs) |
- SG Findorff won the toss and elected to bowl.
Final
V.O.C. Rotterdam 222/0 (10 overs) |
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SG Findorff 121/9 (10 overs) |
Scott Edwards 137* (39) |
Farooq Amirie 45 (17) Dirk van Baren 3/8 (1 over) |
- SG Findorff won the toss and elected to bowl.
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Player of the Tournament
Max O'Dowd of V.O.C. Rotterdam was awarded “Player of the Tournament” at the 2019 European Cricket League. O’Dowd scored 219 runs in five innings (2 not outs) at an average of 73 and strike rate of 263.86, including an undefeated 74 in the final against SG Findorff. He also took four wickets in the tournament with his leg-break bowling with a best of 2-25 against Catalunya Cricket Club in the semi-final. O’Dowd is a current Netherlands international.[9][10][11]
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Pavel Florin at ECL19
The inaugural tournament gained significant worldwide prominence after the remarkable performances of Cluj all-rounder Pavel Florin during the group stages.[12] Florin, a 40-year-old professional bodyguard and president of Cluj Cricket Club in Romania, caused a stir after his bowling performance went viral on social media. Many of the sport's most famous figures, including Australian legend Shane Warne, expressed their support and admiration of Florin because of his pure unaffected love for the game.[13][14][15][16][17][18][19] Florin has since gone on to play in Australia where he again hit the headlines over the winter. Florin will take part in the second-staging of the European Cricket League - ECL20 - with Cluj Cricket Club, Romania.
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References
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