2022 Desert Cup T20I Series

The 2022 Desert Cup T20I Series was a Twenty20 International (T20I) cricket tournament that took place in Oman in November 2022.[1] The participating teams were the hosts Oman along with Bahrain, Canada and Saudi Arabia.[2] The tournament was played as a double round-robin, with the top two sides advancing to the final.[3] The T20I tournament was followed by a three-match 50-over series between Oman and Canada, as the Canadians prepared for the final event of the 2019–2022 ICC Cricket World Cup Challenge League in Malaysia in December 2022.[1]

2022 Desert Cup T20I series
Dates14 – 21 November 2022
Administrator(s)Oman Cricket
Cricket formatTwenty20 International
Tournament format(s)Double round-robin and final
Host(s) Oman
Champions Canada
Runners-up Oman
Participants4
Matches14
Player of the seriesCanada Aaron Johnson
Most runsCanada Aaron Johnson (402)
Most wicketsCanada Ammar Khalid (12)

Canada finished top of the round-robin, with five wins from six games.[4] They were joined in the final by Oman after Bahrain lost to Saudi Arabia in the last match.[5] Canada comfortably defeated Oman in the final by 8 wickets, thanks to a century opening partnership in their run chase.[6] Saudi Arabia beat Bahrain in the third-place play-off.[7]

Squads

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  Bahrain[8]   Canada[3]   Oman[9]   Saudi Arabia[10]
  • Abdul Waheed (c)
  • Ishtiaq Ahmad
  • Atif-Ur-Rehman
  • Haseeb Ghafoor (wk)
  • Faisal Khan
  • Saad Khan
  • Irshad Mubbashar
  • Usman Najeeb
  • Muhammad Saqib
  • Irfan Sarfaraz
  • Hisham Sheikh
  • Kashif Siddique
  • Imran Yousaf
  • Zain Ul Abidin

T20I series

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Round-robin

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Points table

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Pos Team Pld W L NR Pts NRR
1   Canada 6 5 1 0 10 0.948
2   Oman 6 3 3 0 6 2.135
3   Bahrain 6 3 3 0 6 −1.044
4   Saudi Arabia 6 1 5 0 2 −2.125
Source: ESPNcricinfo[11]

  Advanced to the final
  Advanced to the 3rd place play-off

Fixtures

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14 November 2022
16:00 (D/N)
Scorecard
Saudi Arabia  
86/8 (20 overs)
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  Oman
90/1 (10.1 overs)
Haseeb Ghafoor 34* (28)
Bilal Khan 3/20 (4 overs)
Jatinder Singh 50* (28)
Muhammad Saqib 1/15 (3 overs)
Oman won by 9 wickets
Oman Cricket Academy Ground Turf 1, Muscat
Umpires: Azad KR (Oma) and Mujahid Surve (Oma)
Player of the match: Bilal Khan (Oma)
  • Saudi Arabia won the toss and elected to bat.
  • Rafiullah, Samay Shrivastava (Oma), Haseeb Ghafoor, Saad Khan, Muhammad Saqib, Kashif Siddique, Irfan Sarfaraz and Atif-Ur-Rehman (Sau) all made their T20I debuts.

14 November 2022
20:00 (N)
Scorecard
Bahrain  
195/7 (20 overs)
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  Canada
199/6 (19.2 overs)
Sohail Ahmed 80* (37)
Ammar Khalid 3/38 (4 overs)
Aaron Johnson 51 (28)
Rizwan Butt 3/29 (4 overs)
Canada won by 4 wickets
Oman Cricket Academy Ground Turf 1, Muscat
Umpires: Rahul Asher (Oma) and Vinod Babu (Oma)
Player of the match: Saad Bin Zafar (Can)
  • Canada won the toss and elected to field.
  • Sohail Ahmed, Ahmer Bin Nisar, Rizwan Butt (Bhr), Aaron Johnson, Ammar Khalid and Pargat Singh (Can) all made their T20I debuts.

15 November 2022
16:00 (D/N)
Scorecard
Canada  
194/5 (20 overs)
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  Saudi Arabia
128/8 (20 overs)
Aaron Johnson 84 (52)
Muhammad Saqib 2/37 (3 overs)
Haseeb Ghafoor 36 (33)
Ravinderpal Singh 2/10 (1 over)
Canada won by 66 runs
Oman Cricket Academy Ground Turf 1, Muscat
Umpires: Harikrishna Pillai (Oma) and Anantha Rajamani (Oma)
Player of the match: Aaron Johnson (Can)
  • Saudi Arabia won the toss and elected to field.
  • Armaan Kapoor (Can), Irshad Mubbashar and Usman Najeeb (Sau) all made their T20I debuts.

15 November 2022
20:00 (N)
Scorecard
Oman  
134/8 (20 overs)
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  Bahrain
139/4 (19.3 overs)
Rafiullah 27 (14)
Imran Khan 4/16 (4 overs)
Sohail Ahmed 55* (39)
Rafiullah 4/25 (4 overs)
Bahrain won by 6 wickets
Oman Cricket Academy Ground Turf 1, Muscat
Umpires: Rahul Asher (Oma) and Mujahid Surve (Oma)
Player of the match: Sohail Ahmed (Bhr)
  • Bahrain won the toss and elected to field.
  • Danish Jasnaik (Bhr) made his T20I debut.

16 November 2022
16:00 (D/N)
Scorecard
Bahrain  
170/4 (20 overs)
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  Saudi Arabia
117/8 (20 overs)
Sohail Ahmed 78* (57)
Imran Yousaf 2/41 (4 overs)
Kashif Siddique 27 (30)
Rizwan Butt 2/13 (4 overs)
Bahrain won by 53 runs
Oman Cricket Academy Ground Turf 1, Muscat
Umpires: Anantha Rajamani (Oma) and Mujahid Surve (Oma)
Player of the match: Sohail Ahmed (Bhr)
  • Saudi Arabia won the toss and elected to field.

16 November 2022
20:00 (N)
Scorecard
Canada  
191/2 (20 overs)
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  Oman
190/6 (20 overs)
Aaron Johnson 109* (69)
Zeeshan Maqsood 1/10 (4 overs)
Mohammad Nadeem 77* (41)
Ammar Khalid 2/22 (4 overs)
Canada won by 1 run
Oman Cricket Academy Ground Turf 1, Muscat
Umpires: Rahul Asher (Oma) and Vinod Babu (Oma)
Player of the match: Aaron Johnson (Can)
  • Oman won the toss and elected to field.
  • Aaron Johnson (Can) scored his first century in T20Is.[12]

17 November 2022
16:00 (D/N)
Scorecard
Saudi Arabia  
114/8 (20 overs)
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  Oman
118/3 (12.4 overs)
Kashif Siddique 28 (26)
Zeeshan Maqsood 2/10 (4 overs)
Shoaib Khan 36* (27)
Muhammad Saqib 2/17 (2.4 overs)
Oman won by 7 wickets
Oman Cricket Academy Ground Turf 1, Muscat
Umpires: Vinod Babu (Oma) and Azad KR (Oma)
Player of the match: Zeeshan Maqsood (Oma)
  • Oman won the toss and elected to field.

17 November 2022
20:00 (N)
Scorecard
Canada  
160/6 (20 overs)
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  Bahrain
164/2 (19.1 overs)
Pargat Singh 61* (51)
Rizwan Butt 3/25 (4 overs)
David Mathias 59* (57)
Nikhil Dutta 1/25 (4 overs)
Bahrain won by 8 wickets
Oman Cricket Academy Ground Turf 1, Muscat
Umpires: Harikrishna Pillai (Oma) and Mujahid Surve (Oma)
Player of the match: Sarfaraz Ali (Bhr)
  • Bahrain won the toss and elected to field.

19 November 2022
16:00 (D/N)
Scorecard
Canada  
171/6 (20 overs)
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  Saudi Arabia
126/8 (20 overs)
Matthew Spoors 44 (44)
Usman Najeeb 3/22 (4 overs)
Saad Khan 29 (21)
Ammar Khalid 4/17 (3 overs)
Canada won by 45 runs
Oman Cricket Academy Ground Turf 1, Muscat
Umpires: Azad KR (Oma) and Anantha Rajamani (Oma)
Player of the match: Ammar Khalid (Can)
  • Saudi Arabia won the toss and elected to field.

19 November 2022
20:00 (N)
Scorecard
Oman  
220/5 (20 overs)
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  Bahrain
114 (16 overs)
David Mathias 39 (32)
Samay Shrivastava 5/18 (4 overs)
Oman won by 106 runs
Oman Cricket Academy Ground Turf 1, Muscat
Umpires: Rahul Asher (Oma) and Harikrishna Pillai (Oma)
Player of the match: Zeeshan Maqsood (Oma)
  • Bahrain won the toss and elected to field.

20 November 2022
16:00 (D/N)
Scorecard
Oman  
169/7 (20 overs)
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  Canada
170/7 (19.5 overs)
Zeeshan Maqsood 54 (35)
Ammar Khalid 3/22 (4 overs)
Aaron Johnson 89 (41)
Kaleemullah 3/23 (3.5 overs)
Canada won by 3 wickets
Oman Cricket Academy Ground Turf 1, Muscat
Umpires: Azad KR (Oma) and Vinod Babu (Oma)
Player of the match: Aaron Johnson (Can)
  • Canada won the toss and elected to field.

20 November 2022
20:00 (N)
Scorecard
Bahrain  
112/9 (20 overs)
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  Saudi Arabia
115/1 (10.5 overs)
Haider Butt 41 (43)
Atif-Ur-Rehman 3/19 (4 overs)
Faisal Khan 81* (32)
Sathaiya Veerapathiran 1/31 (3.5 overs)
Saudi Arabia won by 9 wickets
Oman Cricket Academy Ground Turf 1, Muscat
Umpires: Harikrishna Pillai (Oma) and Anantha Rajamani (Oma)
Player of the match: Faisal Khan (Sau)
  • Bahrain won the toss and elected to bat.

3rd place play-off

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21 November 2022
16:00 (D/N)
Scorecard
Saudi Arabia  
155/8 (20 overs)
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  Bahrain
123/5 (20 overs)
Saad Khan 69 (54)
Imran Anwar 4/24 (4 overs)
Ahmer Bin Nisar 55* (39)
Hisham Sheikh 2/26 (4 overs)
Saudi Arabia won by 32 runs
Oman Cricket Academy Ground Turf 1, Muscat
Umpires: Azad KR (Oma) and Vinod Babu (Oma)
Player of the match: Saad Khan (Sau)
  • Bahrain won the toss and elected to field.

Final

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21 November 2022
20:00 (N)
Scorecard
Oman  
137 (20 overs)
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  Canada
139/2 (14 overs)
Naseem Khushi 47* (23)
Jeremy Gordon 3/36 (4 overs)
Aaron Johnson 68 (41)
Bilal Khan 1/21 (3 overs)
Canada won by 8 wickets
Oman Cricket Academy Ground Turf 1, Muscat
Umpires: Rahul Asher (Oma) and Harikrishna Pillai (Oma)
Player of the match: Jeremy Gordon (Can)
  • Canada won the toss and elected to field.

50-over series

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1st 50-over match

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23 November 2022
09:30
Scorecard
Canada  
229/9 (50 overs)
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  Oman
145 (40.2 overs)
Harsh Thaker 75 (94)
Bilal Khan 3/46 (10 overs)
Sandeep Goud 31 (49)
Nikhil Dutta 4/12 (5.2 overs)
Canada won by 84 runs
Oman Cricket Academy Ground Turf 1, Muscat
Umpires: Anantha Rajamani (Oma) and Mujahid Surve (Oma)
Player of the match: Nikhil Dutta (Can)
  • Oman won the toss and elected to field.

2nd 50-over match

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25 November 2022
09:30
Scorecard
Canada  
97 (37 overs)
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  Oman
101/2 (23.4 overs)
Harsh Thaker 22 (31)
Ayaan Khan 2/4 (2 overs)
Jatinder Singh 46 (68)
Ravinderpal Singh 1/12 (3 overs)
Oman won by 8 wickets
Oman Cricket Academy Ground Turf 1, Muscat
Umpires: Rahul Asher (Oma) and Vinod Babu (Oma)
Player of the match: Nestor Dhamba (Oma)
  • Oman won the toss and elected to field.

3rd 50-over match

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26 November 2022
09:30
Scorecard
Oman  
166 (49 overs)
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  Canada
167/1 (23 overs)
Ayaan Khan 28 (53)
Saad Bin Zafar 4/28 (10 overs)
Pargat Singh 87* (69)
Wasim Ali 1/44 (7 overs)
Canada won by 9 wickets
Oman Cricket Academy Ground Turf 1, Muscat
Umpires: Azad KR (Oma) and Harikrishna Pillai (Oma)
Player of the match: Pargat Singh (Can)
  • Canada won the toss and elected to field.

References

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  1. ^ a b "Oman to host four-nation T20I series from Nov 14". Times of Oman. Retrieved 6 November 2022.
  2. ^ @TheOmanCricket (7 November 2022). "Desert Cup T20I Series Oman 2022" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  3. ^ a b "Oman Cricket to host men's T20I quadrangular series in November 2022". Czarsportz. Retrieved 7 November 2022.
  4. ^ "Saudi Arabia upset Bahrain to help Oman set up clash with Canada". Times of Oman. Retrieved 21 November 2022.
  5. ^ "Khan blasts unbeaten 81 to star in Saudi victory". Gulf Daily News. Retrieved 21 November 2022.
  6. ^ "Canada are Desert Cup T20I champions". Times of Oman. Retrieved 22 November 2022.
  7. ^ "Saudi Arabia claim third place". Gulf Daily News. Retrieved 22 November 2022.
  8. ^ "The squad has been announced for the upcoming Desert Cup T20I Series". Cricket Bahrain (via Instagram). Retrieved 11 November 2022.
  9. ^ "Oman eyes Desert Cup!". Oman Cricket. Retrieved 14 November 2022.
  10. ^ "The lineup of the SaudiCricketTeam participating in the Desert Cup Championship". Saudi Arabian Cricket Federation (via Facebook). Retrieved 14 November 2022.
  11. ^ "Desert Cup T20I Series 2022/23". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 20 November 2022.
  12. ^ "Johnson's ton in Canada's one-run win over Oman". Oman Cricket. Retrieved 17 November 2022.
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