2022 European Cricket League

The 2022 European Cricket League is a T10 cricket competition. It will be the second edition of the European Cricket League and held at the Cartama Oval in Málaga, Spain. It was postponed from 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Spain.^[1]

2022 European Cricket League

Dates	7 February 2022 (2022-02-07) – 19 March 2022 (2022-03-19)
Administrator(s)	European Cricket League
Cricket format	T10
Tournament format(s)	Round robin and knockout
Host(s)	Spain
Champions	Pak I Care Badalona (1st title)
Runners-up	Tunbridge Wells
Participants	30
Player of the series	Muhammad Babar
Most runs	Chris Williams (477)
Most wickets	Muhammad Babar (23)
← 2019 2023 →

Background

The European Cricket League was founded in 2019 by German cricketer Daniel Weston intended as a way to develop cricket in emerging nations in Europe as a cricket equivalent to football's UEFA Champions League.^[2][3] In 2020, it was announced the European Cricket League expanded from 8 teams to include the national club champions of 30 European countries.^[2] This came after Weston signed agreements with several European cricket boards to ensure their domestic champions would be invited.^[4]

The host for the 2021 and 2022 editions was announced as Spain.^[5] The Cartama Oval in Málaga was chosen as the host city ahead of La Manga, Murcia, who were due to host in 2021.^[3] It was announced the 2022 edition would run from 7 February 2022 to 25 March.^[6]

Participants

The following teams were invited to take part as champions of their domestic leagues.^[7] The draw was made according to International Cricket Council seedings with England's ECB National Club Twenty20 champions Tunbridge Wells entering as top seeds.^[3] Jersey's Farmers expressed concern about the scheduling of the tournament due to the Jersey national cricket team's participation in the 2019–2022 ICC Cricket World Cup Challenge League and qualifiers for the 2022 ICC Men's T20 World Cup, as well as their players needing to use leave from their jobs to play.^[8] The reigning European Cricket League champions VOC Rotterdam were also invited back to participate.^[9]

It was announced that, due to issues with getting visas, that Petersburg Sporting would not be taking part in their group. They would be replaced by the Calpe Giants of Gibraltar.^[10]

Tunbridge Wells	Svanholm	Austrian Tigers	Star CC	Helsinki Titans	Dreux
Brigade	Griffins	Bjørvika	Royal Tigers	Indo Bulgarian	Zagreb Sokol
Carlton	Brescia	Cluj	Prague CC Kings	Olten	Zeytinburnnu Zafir
V.O.C Rotterdam	MSC Frankfurt	Alby Zalmi	Ostend Exiles	Malta Super Kings	Petersburg Sporting   Calpe Giants
HBS Craeyenhout	Farmers	Pak I Care Badalona	Malo	GEK Corfu	Punjab Lions Nicosia

Group stage

The Group Stage is to be played across the first 5 weeks of the tournament, with each Group lasting a week. Each week starts with a 3-day round-robin tournament, from which the top 3 progress to a Super 3 playoff. The bottom two teams face off in an eliminator, with the winner going on to play the team who finished 4th. The winner of that game then plays the 3rd place team from the Super 3 playoff, while the Top 2 from that playoff play each other in the first Qualifier. The loser of that game and the winner of the third eliminator then play in the second qualifier. The winners of the Qualifiers then play in the group final to decide the overall Group Winner.

Group A

Round robin

Team	Pld	W	L	NR	Pts	NRR	Status
Austrian Cricket Tigers	5	4	1	0	8	+2.699	Advance to Super 3
Tunbridge Wells	5	4	1	0	8	+1.656
Dreux	5	3	2	0	6	+3.473
Svanholm	5	3	2	0	6	-0.418	Advance to Eliminator 2
Helsinki Titans	5	1	4	0	2	-0.615	Advance to Eliminator 1
Star CC	5	0	5	0	0	-5.000
Source: European Cricket Network

Super Three

Team	Pld	W	L	NR	Pts	NRR	Status
Tunbridge Wells	2	2	0	0	4	+2.550	Advance to Qualifier 1
Austrian Cricket Tigers	2	1	1	0	2	+0.292
Dreux	2	0	2	0	0	-2.891	Advance to Eliminator 3
Source: European Cricket Network

Eliminators

Eliminator 1 10 February 2022 10:00 Scorecard

Helsinki Titans   118/8 (10 overs)	v	Star CC 118/6 (10 overs)
Ahad Qureshi 50 (18) Jatin Madan 3/20 (2 overs)		Jatin Madan 49 (20) Wahid Qureshi 3/12 (2 overs)

Match Tied (Star CC wins the Golden Ball) Cartama Oval, Cartama Umpires: Harrison Ward and Suleman Saeed Player of the match: Jatin Madan

• Star CC won the toss and elected to Bat

Eliminator 2 10 February 2022 14:00 Scorecard

Svanholm   43/0 (4.2 overs)	v	Star CC 44 (8.3 overs)
Wahab Hashimi 23* (12) Jatin Madan 0/15 (2 overs)		Shiv Karan Gill 23 (16) Zeeshan Khan 3/3 (2 overs)

Svanholm beat Star CC by 10 wickets Cartama Oval, Cartama Umpires: Harrison Ward and Suleman Saeed Player of the match: Zeeshan Khan

• Star CC won the toss and elected to Bat

Eliminator 3 11 February 2022 10:00 Scorecard

Dreux   101/8 (10 overs)	v	Svanholm 80/8 (10 overs)
Kamran Ahmadzai 26 (9) Toqeer Ahmad 2/15 (2 overs)		Hamid Shah 21 (14) Kamran Ahmadzai 3/18 (2 overs)

Dreux beat Svanholm by 21 runs Cartama Oval, Cartama Umpires: Harrison Ward and Charles Croucher Player of the match: Kamran Ahmadzai

• Svanholm won the toss and elected to Bowl

Qualifiers and Final

Qualifier 1 11 February 2022 08:00 Scorecard

Tunbridge Wells   141/4 (10 overs)	v	Austrian Cricket Tigers 113/8 (10 overs)
Alex Williams 58 (25) Imran Asif 2/19 (2 overs)		Imran Asif 33 (19) Dave Smith 3/15 (2 overs)

Tunbridge Wells beat Austrian Cricket Tigers by 28 runs Cartama Oval, Cartama Umpires: Nilkesh Patel and Suleman Saeed Player of the match: Alex Williams

• Austrian Cricket Tigers won the toss and elected to Bowl

Qualifier 2 11 February 2022 13:00 Scorecard

Austrian Cricket Tigers   83/9 (10 overs)	v	Dreux 86/3 (6.4 overs)
Ahsan Yousuf 21 (8) Shahzeb Mohammad 3/14 (2 overs)		Hamza Niaz 28 (11) Adal Afzal 2/24 (1.4 overs)

Dreux beat Austrian Cricket Tigers by 7 wickets Cartama Oval, Cartama Umpires: Suleman Saeed and Subh Navjot Anand Player of the match: Shahzeb Mohammad

• Austrian Cricket Tigers won the toss and elected to Bat

Final 11 February 2022 16:00 Scorecard

Tunbridge Wells   128/5 (10 overs)	v	Dreux 101/8 (10 overs)
Dave Smith 28 (12) Tabush Bhatti 2/20 (2 overs)		Mohammad Nisar 48 (19) Marcus O'Riordan 4/17 (2 overs)

Tunbridge Wells beat Dreux by 27 runs Cartama Oval, Cartama Umpires: Charles Croucher and Nilkesh Patel Player of the match: Marcus O'Riordan

• Tunbridge Wells won the toss and elected to Bat

Group B

Round robin

Team	Pld	W	L	NR	Pts	NRR	Status
Royal Tigers	5	4	1	0	8	+1.923	Advance to Super 3
Brigade	5	4	1	0	8	+0.297
Griffins	5	3	2	0	6	+2.103
Bjørvika	5	3	2	0	6	+0.255	Advance to Eliminator 2
Indo-Bulgarian	5	1	4	0	2	+0.648	Advance to Eliminator 1
Zagreb Sokol	5	0	5	0	0	-5.236
Source: European Cricket Network

Super Three

Team	Pld	W	L	NR	Pts	NRR	Status
Brigade	2	2	0	0	4	+0.644	Advance to Qualifier 1
Royal Tigers	2	1	1	0	2	+0.623
Griffins	2	0	2	0	0	-1.381	Advance to Eliminator 3
Source: European Cricket Network

Eliminators

Eliminator 1 17 February 2022 10:00 Scorecard

Indo-Bulgarian   149/1 (10 overs)	v	Zagreb Sokol 111/1 (10 overs)
Jamie Batten 54* (28) Sam Houghton 1/37 (2 overs)		Dan Lazarides 47* (29) Chris Lakov 1/26 (2 overs)

Indo-Bulgarin beat Zagreb Sokol by 38 runs Cartama Oval, Cartama Umpires: Shubh Navjot Anand and Suleman Saeed Player of the match: Jamie Batten

• Zagreb Sokol won the toss and elected to Bowl

Eliminator 2 17 February 2022 14:00 Scorecard

Bjørvika   71/0 (6.3 overs)	v	Indo-Bulgarian 70/8 (10 overs)
Chris Lakov 28* (21) Waseem Abbas 2/10 (2 overs)		Qamar Ejaz 33* (19) Jamie Batten 0/11 (2 overs)

Bjørvika beat Indo-Bulgarian by 10 wickets Cartama Oval, Cartama Umpires: Nilkesh Patel and Shubh Navjot Anand Player of the match: Waseem Abbas

• Indo-Bulgarian won the toss and elected to Bat

Eliminator 3 18 February 2022 10:00 Scorecard

Griffins   63/8 (10 overs)	v	Bjørvika 69/3 (7.5 overs)
Adam Martel 18 (10) Muhammad Afzaal 4/6 (2 overs)		Khurram Shahzad 27* (12) Jordan Martel 2/12 (2 overs)

Bjørvika beat Griffins by 7 wickets Cartama Oval, Cartama Umpires: Suleman Saeed and Shubh Navjot Anand Player of the match: Muhammad Afzaal

• Bjørvika won the toss and elected to Bowl

Qualifiers and Final

Group C

Round robin

Team	Pld	W	L	NR	Pts	NRR	Status
Carlton	5	5	0	0	10	+2.301	Advance to Super 3
Olten	5	3	2	0	6	+2.153
Cluj	5	3	2	0	6	+0.760
Brescia	5	3	2	0	4	+3.296	Advance to Eliminator 2
Prague CC Kings	5	2	3	0	4	+1.173	Advance to Eliminator 1
Zeytinburnu Zafer	5	0	5	0	0	-11.41
Source: European Cricket Network

Super Three

Team	Pld	W	L	NR	Pts	NRR	Status
Carlton	2	2	0	0	4	+3.076	Advance to Qualifier 1
Cluj	2	0	1	1	1	-2.634
Olten	2	0	0	1	1	-3.331	Advance to Eliminator 3
Source: European Cricket Network

Eliminators

Qualifiers and Final

Group D

Round robin

Team	Pld	W	L	NR	Pts	NRR	Status
MSC Frankfurt	5	5	0	0	10	+2.402	Advance to Super 3
Ostend Exiles	5	4	1	0	8	+1.636
V.O.C Rotterdam	5	3	2	0	6	+1.118
Alby Zalmi	5	2	3	0	4	-0.754	Advance to Eliminator 2
Malta Super Kings	5	1	4	0	2	-0.504	Advance to Eliminator 1
Calpe Giants	5	0	5	0	0	-4.177
Source: European Cricket Network

Super Three

Team	Pld	W	L	NR	Pts	NRR	Status
MSC Frankfurt	2	1	1	0	2	+0.957	Advance to Qualifier 1
Ostend Exiles	2	0	1	1	1	+0.645
V.O.C Rotterdam	2	0	0	1	1	-1.813	Advance to Eliminator 3
Source: European Cricket Network

Eliminators

Qualifiers and Final

Group E

Round robin

Team	Pld	W	L	NR	Pts	NRR	Status
Pak I Care Badalona	5	5	0	0	10	+3.906	Advance to Super 3
HBS Craeyenhout	5	3	2	0	6	+0.300
Punjab Lions Nicosia	5	3	2	0	6	+0.022
Malo	5	2	3	0	4	-0.599	Advance to Eliminator 2
Farmers	5	1	4	0	2	-1.382	Advance to Eliminator 1
GEK Corfu	5	0	5	0	0	-1.836
Source: European Cricket Network

Super Three

Team	Pld	W	L	NR	Pts	NRR	Status
Pak I Care Badalona	2	2	0	0	4	+1.984	Advance to Qualifier 1
Punjab Lions Nicosia	2	1	1	0	2	-0.067
HBS Craeyenhout	2	0	2	0	0	-1.960	Advance to Eliminator 3
Source: European Cricket Network

Eliminators

Eliminator 1 10 March 2022 10:00 Scorecard

Farmers   88/2 (7.5 overs)	v	GEK Corfu 85/9 (10 overs)
Asa Tribe 44* (22) Ilias Bardis 2/24 (2 overs)		Tasos Manousis 27 (12) Charles Perchard 2/12 (2 overs)

Farmers beat GEK Corfu by 8 wickets Cartama Oval, Cartama Umpires: Steffan Gooch and Joe Foster Player of the match: Asa Tribe

• Farmers won the toss and elected to Bowl

Eliminator 2 10 March 2022 14:00 Scorecard

Malo   95 (10 overs)	v	Farmers 97/4 (9.3 overs)
Najam Shahzad 49 (22) Ben Kynman 4/12 (1 over)		Zak Tribe 26 (11) Adnan Gondal 1/19 (2 overs)

Farmers beat Malo by 6 wickets Cartama Oval, Cartama Umpires: Tyrone Peters and Asad Ali Player of the match: Ben Kynman

• Farmers won the toss and elected to Bowl

Eliminator 3 11 March 2022 10:00 Scorecard

HBS Craeyenhout   95/3 (10 overs)	v	Farmers 96/4 (10 overs)
Tayo Walbrugh 47* (28) Joel Richardson 2/5 (2 overs)		Asa Tribe 46 (22) Ferdi Vink 2/17 (2 overs)

Farmers beat HBS Craeyenhout by 6 wickets Cartama Oval, Cartama Umpires: Steffan Gooch and Joe Foster Player of the match: Asa Tribe

• Farmers won the toss and elected to bowl

Qualifiers and Final

Qualifier 1 11 March 2022 8:00 Scorecard

Pak I Care Badalona   88/8 (10 overs)	v	Punjab Lions Nicosia 94/9 (10 overs)
Sikandar Ali 28 (13) Gurpartap Singh 2/13 (2 overs)		Qasim Anwar 27* (11) Muhammad Babar 2/7 (2 overs)

Punjab Lions Nicosia beat Pak I Care Badalona by 6 runs Cartama Oval, Cartama Umpires: Tyrone Peters and Asad Ali Player of the match: Taranjit Singh

• Pak I Care Badalona won the toss and elected to bowl

Qualifier 2 11 March 2022 13:00 Scorecard

Pak I Care Badalona   112/5 (10 overs)	v	Farmers 71/8 (10 overs)
Muhammad Babar 75 (35) Charles Perchard 2/7 (2 overs)		James Smith 12 (9) Sheroz Ahmed 3/15 (2 overs)

Pak I Care Badalona beat Farmers by 41 runs Cartama Oval, Cartama Umpires: Asad Ali and Tyrone Peters Player of the match: Muhammad Babar

• Farmers won the toss and elected to bowl

Final 11 March 2022 16:00 Scorecard

Punjab Lions Nicosia   18/5 (3 overs)	v	Pak I Care Badalona 93/9 (10 overs)
Gurpartap Singh 6 (5) Muhammad Babar 3/5 (1 over)		Muhammad Kamran 35 (15) Sushil Kumar 2/7 (2 overs)

Pak I Care Badalona beat Punjab Lions Nicosia by 14 runs (D/L Method) Cartama Oval, Cartama Umpires: Steffan Gooch and Joe Foster Player of the match: Muhammad Babar

• Pak I Care Badalona won the toss and elected to bat
• Rain reduced Punjab Lions Nicosia's innings to 3 overs. According to the Duckworth–Lewis method, their target was 33 runs.

Championship Week

The Champions Week features a slightly modified version of the Group Stage model. The 5 group winners play in a double round-robin format from the Monday to Thursday. The top 2 teams after this progress to the 1st Qualifier, while 3rd and 4th go to the Eliminator. The loser of the Qualifier and the Winner of the Eliminator then face off for the right to play the Qualifier winner in the Championship Final. The teams moving on to the Finals week are:

Team
Tunbridge Wells
Brigade
Brescia
Alby Zalmi
Pak I Care Badalona

Due to adverse weather conditions in Malaga, the first 3 days of competition were suspended. The games were shortened to 5 overs a side, with 10 games on Day 1 (Thursday), and 10 games on Day 2 (Friday), with the Saturday now acting as the Final Day of the tournament

Round robin

Team	Pld	W	L	NR	Pts	NRR	Status
Pak I Care Badalona	8	7	1	0	14	+1.492	Advance to Qualifier 1
Tunbridge Wells	8	6	2	0	12	+3.781
Brescia	8	4	4	0	8	-0.414	Advance to Eliminator
Brigade	8	3	5	0	6	-3.119
Alby Zalmi	8	0	8	0	0	-1.752
Source: European Cricket Network

Eliminator, Qualifiers and Final

Eliminator 19 March 2022 8:00 Scorecard

Bresica   96/4 (9.3 overs)	v	Brigade 95/3 (10 overs)
Ali Raza Islam 41 (21) Ryan MacBeth 3/10 (2 overs)		David Murdock 48 (26) Ali Raza Islam 3/3 (2 overs)

Brescia beat Brigade by 6 wickets Cartama Oval, Cartama Umpires: Charles Croucher and Steffan Gooch Player of the match: Ali Raza Islam

• Brigade won the toss and elected to bat

Qualifier 1 19 March 2022 10.00 Scorecard

Pak I Care Badalona   122/7 (10 overs)	v	Tunbridge Wells 95/6 (10 overs)
Muhammad Babar 30 (10) Bailey Wrightman 2/11 (2 overs)		Ian McLean 35* (15) Atif Muhammad 3/13 (2 overs)

Pak I Care Badalona beat Tunbridge Wells by 27 runs Cartama Oval, Cartama Umpires: Asad Ali and Tyrone Peters Player of the match: Atif Muhammad

• Tunbridge Wells won the toss and elected to bowl

Qualifier 2 19 March 2022 13.00 Scorecard

Tunbridge Wells   150/5 (10 overs)	v	Brescia 120/6 (10 overs)
Alex Williams 49 (18) Bashar Khan 1/16 (2 overs)		Ali Raza Islam 54 (23) Matt Barker 2/6 (2 overs)

Tunbridge Wells beat Brescia by 30 runs Cartama Oval, Cartama Umpires: Steffan Gooch and Charles Croucher Player of the match: Matt Barker

• Brescia won the toss and elected to bowl

Final 19 March 2022 16.00 Scorecard

Pak I Care Badalona   84/3 (9 overs)	v	Tunbridge Wells 81/7 (10 overs)
Mohammad Yasin 24 (20) Michael Waller 1/8 (1 over)		Christian Davis 23 (18) Muhammad Babar 3/14 (2 overs)

Pak I Care Badalona beat Tunbridge Wells by 7 wickets Cartama Oval, Cartama Umpires: Asad Ali and Tyrone Peters Player of the match: Muhammad Babar

• Pak I Care Badalona won the toss and elected to bowl

Statistics

Most Runs

Runs	Player	Team	Inns	HS	Ave	SR	50	30	4s	6s
477	Chris Williams	Tunbridge Wells	19	61	29.81	248.43	2	6	24	54
445	Alex Williams	Tunbridge Wells	19	58*	40.45	223.61	2	5	34	37
433	Muhammad Babar	Pak I Care Badalona	20	75	25.47	220.91	2	4	17	53
384	Babar Hussain	Brescia	19	102*	25.60	193.93	1	2	34	27
361	Graeme McCarter	Brigade	18	56*	25.78	184.18	2	4	28	28
356	Ali Raza Islam	Brescia	16	54	25.42	215.75	2	4	16	37
310	Yasir Dullu	Brescia	19	66*	20.66	174.15	1	3	31	21
282	Azam Khalil	Alby Zalmi	17	53*	20.14	157.54	1	0	25	18
262	Sudesh Wickramasekara	Prague CC Kings	6	76*	52.40	231.85	2	2	14	28
261	Zeeshan Kukikhel	Royal Tigers	10	54	32.62	193.33	2	2	25	22
Source: European Cricket Network

Most Wickets

Wkts	Player	Team	Mat	Ave	Econ	BBI	SR
23	Muhammad Babar	Pak I Care Badalona	20	10.43	8.00	3/4	7.82
21	Dave Smith	Tunbridge Wells	18	9.38	8.20	3/6	6.85
	Ryan MacBeth	Brigade	18	11.66	9.07	3/10	7.71
19	Ali Raza Islam	Brescia	17	7.57	7.51	3/0	6.05
18	Iftikhar Hussain	Brigade	17	13.50	9.34	3/10	8.66
17	Muhammad Kamran	Pak I Care Badalona	17	10.94	6.88	3/3	9.52
	Shehroz Ahmed	Pak I Care Badalona	20	11.35	8.90	4/8	7.64
16	Tas Qureshi	Alby Zalmi	16	11.50	8.00	2/7	8.62
	Matt Barker	Tunbridge Wells	18	14.00	8.90	3/8	9.43
	Neeraj Tiwari	Punjab Lions Nicosia	9	10.50	9.33	3/11	6.75
Source: European Cricket Network

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