2019 Iberia Cup

The 2019 Iberia Cup was a Twenty20 International (T20I) cricket tournament held in Spain between 25 and 27 October 2019.[1] The participating teams were the hosts Spain,[2] along with Gibraltar and Portugal.[3][4] The teams competed for the Iberian Cup, which was last contested in the 1990s.[4] Gibraltar and Portugal played their first matches with T20I status during the tournament, following the decision of the International Cricket Council (ICC) to grant full Twenty20 International status to all its members from 1 January 2019.[5] Spain won the series with a 100% record.[6]

2019 Iberia Cup
Date25–27 October 2019
Location Spain
Result Spain won the series
Teams
 Gibraltar  Portugal  Spain
Captains
Matthew Hunter Paolo Buccimazza Christian Munoz-Mills
Most runs
Balaji Pai (124) Najjam Shahzad (126) Faran Afzal (121)
Most wickets
Balaji Pai (6) Tariq Aziz (6) Yasir Ali (4)

Squads
 Gibraltar[7][8]  Portugal[8]  Spain[8]
  • Matthew Hunter (c)
  • Nikhil Advani
  • Mark Bacarese
  • Tim Caruana
  • Luke Collado (wk)
  • Chris Delany
  • James Fitzgerald
  • Julian Freyone
  • Mark Garratt
  • Richard Hatchman
  • Kenroy Nestor
  • Adam Orfila
  • Edmund Packard
  • Balaji Pai
  • Paolo Buccimazza (c)
  • Arslan Ahmed
  • Yousef Awan
  • Tariq Aziz
  • Aamer Ikram
  • Imran Khan
  • Assad Mehmood
  • Mian Mehmood
  • Fakhrul Mohon
  • Ali Naqi
  • Zohaib Sarwar
  • Najjam Shahzad
  • Davinder Singh
  • Sukhwinder Singh
  • Francoise Stoman (wk)
  • Christian Munoz-Mills (c)
  • Raja Adeel
  • Faran Afzal
  • Awais Ahmed (wk)
  • Yasir Ali
  • Zulqarnain Haider
  • Paul Hennessy
  • Tauqeer Hussain
  • Vinod Kumar
  • Kuldeep Lal
  • Atif Mehmood
  • Rhys Morgan
  • Nadim Hussain Naureen
  • Ravi Panchal
  • Jack Perman
  • Mukhtiar Singh
  • Tom Vine

Points table
Team P W L T NR Pts NRR
 Spain 440008+1.627
 Portugal 422004–0.595
 Gibraltar 404000–0.969

Fixtures
25 October 2019
15:00
Scorecard
Portugal 
87/7 (20 overs)
v
 Spain
89/2 (14.2 overs)
Najjam Shahzad 27* (31)
Faran Afzal 2/14 (4 overs)
Paul Hennessy 38 (30)
Tariq Aziz 2/26 (4 overs)
Spain won by 8 wickets
La Manga Club Bottom Ground, Cartagena
Umpires: Sunil Chandiramani (Gib) and Adnan Khan (Esp)
  • Spain won the toss and elected to field.
  • Raja Adeel (Esp), Arslan Ahmed, Tariq Aziz, Paolo Buccimazza, Aamer Ikram, Imran Khan, Mian Mehmood, Fakhrul Mohon, Ali Naqi, Zohaib Sarwar, Najjam Shahzad and Francoise Stoman (Por) all made their T20I debuts.
26 October 2019
08:45
Scorecard
Gibraltar 
113/6 (20 overs)
v
 Portugal
116/4 (18.3 overs)
Balaji Pai 52 (52)
Paolo Buccimazza 2/18 (4 overs)
Zohaib Sarwar 33* (21)
Balaji Pai 2/18 (4 overs)
Portugal won by 6 wickets
La Manga Club Bottom Ground, Cartagena
Umpires: Gordon Ashford (Esp) and Adnan Khan (Esp)
  • Gibraltar won the toss and elected to bat.
  • Mark Bacarese, Luke Collado, Chris Delany, James Fitzgerald, Julian Freyone, Mark Garratt, Richard Hatchman, Matthew Hunter, Kenroy Nestor, Edmund Packard and Balaji Pai (Gib) all made their T20I debuts.
26 October 2019
12:15
Scorecard
Gibraltar 
98/6 (20 overs)
v
 Spain
99/2 (15 overs)
Edmund Packard 26 (33)
Yasir Ali 2/16 (3 overs)
Faran Afzal 59* (43)
Edmund Packard 1/8 (2 overs)
Spain won by 8 wickets
La Manga Club Bottom Ground, Cartagena
Umpires: Sunil Chandiramani (Gib) and Adnan Khan (Esp)
  • Spain won the toss and elected to field.
  • Jack Perman (Esp) and Tim Caruana (Gib) both made their T20I debuts.
26 October 2019
15:15
Scorecard
Spain 
143/6 (20 overs)
v
 Portugal
114 (17.4 overs)
Faran Afzal 41 (38)
Tariq Aziz 3/20 (4 overs)
Najjam Shahzad 46 (31)
Paul Hennessy 2/12 (2 overs)
Spain won by 29 runs
La Manga Club Bottom Ground, Cartagena
Umpires: Gordon Ashford (Esp) and Adnan Khan (Esp)
  • Portugal won the toss and elected to field.
  • Nadim Hussain Naureen (Esp) and Sukhwinder Singh (Por) both made their T20I debuts.
27 October 2019
10:00
Scorecard
Gibraltar 
107/7 (20 overs)
v
 Portugal
110/6 (19.2 overs)
Balaji Pai 35 (45)
Najjam Shahzad 2/16 (4 overs)
Najjam Shahzad 53* (35)
Balaji Pai 3/14 (4 overs)
Portugal won by 4 wickets
La Manga Club Bottom Ground, Cartagena
Umpires: Gordon Ashford (Esp) and Sunil Chandiramani (Gib)
  • Portugal won the toss and elected to field.
27 October 2019
14:00
Scorecard
Gibraltar 
95 (19.5 overs)
v
 Spain
96/4 (15.5 overs)
Matthew Hunter 27 (33)
Yasir Ali 2/11 (3 overs)
Yasir Ali 42* (33)
Matthew Hunter 1/8 (2 overs)
Spain won by 6 wickets
La Manga Club Bottom Ground, Cartagena
Umpires: Sunil Chandiramani (Gib) and Adnan Khan (Esp)
  • Spain won the toss and elected to field.
  • Nikhil Advani and Adam Orfila (Gib) both made their T20I debuts.

References
  1. "2019 Iberia Cup - Fixtures and Results". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 23 September 2019.
  2. Segura, Cristian (3 August 2019). "La Roja del críquet habla panyabí". El País (in Spanish). ISSN 1134-6582. Retrieved 28 October 2019.
  3. "Cricket - Gibraltar prepares for big weekend". Gibraltar Chronicle. Retrieved 3 September 2020.
  4. "Iberia Cup Revived". Cricket España. Retrieved 26 September 2019.
  5. "All T20 matches between ICC members to get international status". International Cricket Council. 26 April 2018. Retrieved 2 August 2019.
  6. "Congratulations to España for their tournament victory". Gibraltar Cricket (via Facebook). Retrieved 27 October 2019.
  7. "Gibraltar Cricket squad announcement for the Iberian Cup". Gibraltar Cricket (via Facebook). Retrieved 18 October 2019.
  8. "Iberia Cup to be live-streamed in 2019". Emerging Cricket. Retrieved 23 October 2019.
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