2020 Desert T20 Challenge

Desert T20 Challenge is a T20 World Cup Tournament arranged only for the top associate teams. There are 8 teams in the tournament based on which 8 associate teams have topped the rankings in T20 Internationals. The teams are divided into 2 groups with 4 teams in each group. The Top 2 from each group qualify for the Playoffs.

Squads

The following squads were named ahead of the tournament:

United Arab Emirates	Nepal	Netherlands	Hong Kong
Shaiman Anwar (c) Rohan Mustafa Rameez Shahzad Ghulam Shabber (wk) Waheed Ahmed Ahmed Raza Ashfaq Ahmed Mohammad Boota (wk) Darius D'Silva Chirag Suri Imran Haider Junaid Siddique Muhammad Usman Faizan Asif	Gyanendra Malla (c) Dipendra Singh Airee (vc) Sandeep Lamichhane Dilip Nath (wk) Binod Bhandari (wk) Sharad Vesawkar Rohit Paudel Paras Khadka Avinash Bohara Basant Regmi KC Karan Sagar Pun Lalit Bhandari Lalit Rajbanshi Kushal Malla	Pieter Seelaar (c) Ben Cooper Ryan ten Doeschate Tobias Visee (wk) Roelof van der Merwe Brandon Glover Paul van Meekeren Wesley Barresi Colin Ackermann Vivian Kingma Scott Edwards (wk) Max O'Dowd Philippe Boissevain Timm van der Gugten Shane Snater	Aizaz Khan (c) Scott McKechnie (wk) Babar Hayat Ehsan Nawaz Simandeep Singh Cameron McAuslan Jamie Atkinson (wk) Tanveer Ahmed Nizakat Khan Nasrulla Rana Kinchit Shah Kyle Christie Ehsan Khan Shahid Wasif Raag Kapur
Scotland	Papua New Guinea	Oman	Namibia
Kyle Coetzer (c) Richie Berrington George Munsey Calum MacLeod Brad Wheal Michael Leask Matthew Cross (wk) Mark Watt Josh Davey Craig Wallace (wk) Safyaan Sharif Tom Sole Hamza Tahir Ollie Hairs Dylan Budge	Assad Vala (c) Simon Atai Charles Amini Norman Vanua Nosaina Pokana Riley Hekure Tony Ura Sese Bau Kiplin Doriga Damien Ravu Lega Siaka Jason Kila Chad Soper Hiri Hiri	Zeeshan Maqsood (c) Khawar Ali Aamer Ali Bilal Khan Jatinder Singh Aamir Kaleem Aqib Ilyas Mohammad Nadeem Fayyaz Butt Kaleemullah Suraj Kumar (wk) Ajay Lalcheta Vaibhav Wategaonkar Naseem Khushi (wk) Sandeep Goud	Gerhard Erasmus (c) Zane Green (wk) Nicolaas Scholtz Stephen Baard Jan Frylinck Pikky Ya France Karl Birkenstock Bernard Scholtz Niko Davin JJ Smit Ben Shikongo Craig Williams Christi Viljoen Jean-Pierre Kotze

Group A

Team	Pld	W	L	T	NR	NRR	Pts
Nepal	2	2	0	0	0	+1.25	4
United Arab Emirates	2	1	1	0	0	+1.05	2
Hong Kong	2	1	1	0	0	+0.00	2
Netherlands	2	0	2	0	0	-2.25	0

Group Stage 10 January 2020 19:00 (D/N)

Hong Kong 196/5 (20 overs)	v	United Arab Emirates 194/4 (20 overs)
Nizakat Khan 60 (40) Zahoor Khan 2/40 (4 overs)		Chirag Suri 120* (64) Aizaz Khan 1/26 (4 overs)

Hong Kong won by 2 runs Sharjah Umpires: Kumar Dharmasena and W. Spence Player of the match: Chirag Suri (UAE)

• Hong Kong won toss and elected to bat
• Chirag Suri smashed a century.

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Group Stage 11 January 2020 19:00 (D/N)

Nepal 220/6 (20 overs)	v	Netherlands 172/7 (20 overs)
Gyanendra Malla 92 (44) Pieter Seelaar 2/44 (4 overs)		Tobias Visee 62 (38) Sagar Pun 2/26 (4 overs)

Nepal won by 48 runs Dubai Umpires: Kumar Dharmasena and W. Spence Player of the match: Gyanendra Malla (NEP)

• Nepal won toss and elected to bat

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Group Stage 14 January 2020 19:00 (D/N)

United Arab Emirates 206/6 (20 overs)	v	Netherlands 162/9 (20 overs)
Ashfaq Ahmed 52 (28) Pieter Seelaar 2/30 (4 overs)		Max O'Dowd 66 (36) Waheed Ahmed 4/6 (4 overs)

United Arab Emirates won by 44 runs Dubai Umpires: Kumar Dharmasena and W. Spence Player of the match: Waheed Ahmed (UAE)

• Netherlands won toss and elected to bat
• Netherlands were eliminated as a result of this match.

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Group Stage 15 January 2020 19:00 (D/N)

Nepal 156/5 (20 overs)	v	Hong Kong 154/4 (20 overs)
Dipendra Singh Airee 56 (28) Raag Kapur 2/28 (4 overs)		Nizakat Khan 62 (40) Sompal Kami 2/24 (4 overs)

Nepal won by 2 runs Dubai Umpires: Kumar Dharmasena and W. Spence Player of the match: Nizakat Khan (HKG)

• Nepal won toss and elected to bat

Group B

Team	Pld	W	L	T	NR	NRR	Pts
Oman	1	1	0	0	0	+2.06	2
Scotland	1	1	0	0	0	+0.20	2
Namibia	1	0	1	0	0	-0.20	0
Papua New Guinea	1	0	1	0	0	-2.06	0

Group Stage 12 January 2020 19:00 (D/N)

Namibia 190/5 (20 overs)	v	Scotland 194/5 (20 overs)
Nicolaas Scholtz 72 (44) Josh Davey 3/26 (4 overs)		Matthew Cross 126* (56) Jan Frylinck 2/18 (4 overs)

Scotland won by 5 wickets Dublin Umpires: Nigel Llong and A. Biggs Player of the match: Matthew Cross (SCO)

• Namibia won toss and elected to bat

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Group Stage 13 January 2020 19:00 (D/N)

Papua New Guinea 178/5 (20 overs)	v	Oman 182/4 (16.4 overs)
Tony Ura 56 (32) Aamir Kaleem 2/20 (4 overs)		Vaibhav Wategaonkar 80 (32) Norman Vanua 2/20 (4 overs)

Oman won by 6 wickets Dublin Umpires: Nigel Llong and A. Biggs Player of the match: Vaibhav Wategaonkar (OMN)

• Papua New Guinea won toss and elected to bat

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