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2011 ICC European T20 Championship Division Two

Administrator(s)	International Cricket Council
Cricket format	Twenty20
Tournament format(s)	Round-robin
Host(s)	Belgium and  Netherlands
Champions	Belgium (1st title)
Participants	11
Matches	36
Most runs	Gareth Morris
Most wickets	Andrew Naudi
Official website	ICC European Championship
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The 2011 ICC European Twenty20 Championship Division Two is a cricket tournament that took place between 20 and 25 June 2011. It forms part of the European Cricket Championship. Belgium and the Netherlands hosted the event.

Teams

Teams that qualified are as follows:

Group A

•  Cyprus
•  Finland
•  Isle of Man
•  Luxembourg
•  Portugal

Group B

•  Austria
•  Belgium
•  Greece
•  Malta
•  Spain
•  Sweden

Squads

Austria	Belgium	Cyprus	Finland
Amar Naeem (c) and (wk) Muhammad Akhtar Imran Asif Syed Qamar Erwin Grasinger Lakmal Kasturiarachchige Satish Kaul Benji Loader Tiran Indika Perera Wasif Saluja Aman Deep Simpson-Parker Nandeep Soggi Satyam Subhash Q Abbas	Andre Wagener (c) Shaheryar Butt Jamie Farmiloe Javed Iqbal Aamir Iqbal Nadeem Khan Faisal Khaliq Shaival Mehta Sunny Sheikh Shahid Muhammad Simon Newport Ali Raza (wk) Abdul Rehman Nirvam Shah Shahzad Jillani Akshat Sanghvi Sebastien Shukla W Shafiq Charles Wright	Michalis Kyriacou (c) Dhanuka Agathocleous Dineja Agathocleous (wk) Babar Ayub Alan Broadbent Nimal Durayalage Syed Hussain Stelios Michaelides Andrew Mulkern Yasir Nazir George Papaonisiforou Niroshan Pelawattha Malik Tariq Mohamedriyaz Kajalwala Muhammad Khan Christos Markides Sakhawat Rubel Sampath Tsangarides	Jonathan Scamans (c) Madhu Bhandari Amrik Bhatia Shakil Islam Zakiullah Kamal Zahidullah Kamal Ekhpelwak Kuchey Shidhu Kanade Bilal Khan Obaidullah Sadiqui Michael Shaw (wk) Roholah Sadiqui Muhammad Tariq Sarfraz Shabir Sheerzad

Greece	Isle of Man	Luxembourg	Malta
Mehmood Ahmed Stamatios Giourgas Spyridon Goustis Oliver Hutton Athanasios Karakantas Iordanis Kontarinis Spyridon Kontos Andreas Koutsoufis Anastasios Manousis Christos Molinaris (wk) Stavros Nikitaras (c) Georgios Stogiannos Georgios Toulantas Dimitrios Triantafillidis Alexis Souvlakis	Sebastian Aycock Ross Berry Daniel Hawke Christopher Hawke Jaco Jansen Daniel Kniveton Richard Kniveton (c) (wk) Shaun Kelly Peter Lewis Gareth Morris Garreth Roome Max Stokoe Arnie van den Berg Oliver Webster	William Heath (c) Timothy Andrews Timothy Barker James Barker Wayne Codd Graham Cope (wk) Taral Desai Sebastian Finch Nishith Gandhi Deepak Gianchandani Piran Merkl Joost Mees Anand Pattabiraman Tony Whiteman Saravanan Narayanan	Andrew Lenard (c) Samuel Aquilina Justin Brooke Michael Caruana Malcolm Crabbe Balakrishnan Dhandapani Ghose Roy John Grima (wk) Darren Grech Nowell Khosla Andrew Naudi Mark George Sacco Ronald Sacco Anthony Slater Sarfraz Ali David Borg Known As Newton Robert Krishna Javeed Shah Frankie Spiteri

Portugal	Spain	Sweden
Akbar Saiyad (c) Zafar Ali Paulo Buccimazza Syed Bukhari Nadeem Butt Abu Butt Shahzad Hassan Khalid Izaz Rizwan Khaliq (wk) Babar Khan Intesab Medhi Muhammad Mirza Nadeem Nazar Muhammad Shoaib Ricardo Antunes Carlo Buccimazza Silkesh Deuchande Jose Ricardo Pais	Sajad Ali Shafique Ali Gary Crompton Mohib Hussein Tanveer Iqbal Muhammad Irshad Khan Armaghan Khan Farhat Mahmood James Morgan (c) (wk) Christian Munoz-Mills Talat Ali Mark Spencer Wasim Ur Rehman Khan Venus Valiente Faran Afzal Mohammad Akmal Shoaib Hussein Gurmeet Singh	Piyal Rahman (c) Imran Amjad Usman Azim Sanaullah Habibzai Azam Khalil Maqsood Khawaja Azam Mohammad Ewan Prezens Sunny Sharma Sadat Sidiqi (wk) Christopher Tebbutt Aman Zahid Bilal Zaigham Hassan Zaigham Adnan Raza Sandeep Sharma Noman Zahid

Fixtures

Group stage

Group A

Team	P	W	L	T	NR	Points	NRR
Isle of Man	4	4	0	0	0	8	+4.480
Portugal	4	2	1	0	1	5	+0.446
Finland	4	2	1	0	1	5	–0.308
Luxembourg	4	1	3	0	0	2	–1.638
Cyprus	4	0	4	0	0	0	–3.567

Cyprus  134/9 (20 overs)	v	Finland 135/2 (17.2 overs)
Nimal Durayalage 24 (19) Ekhpelwak Kuchey 3/23 (3 overs)		Jonathan Scamans 47* (33) Syed Hussain 2/24 (3 overs)

• Finland won the toss and elected to field.

Isle of Man  200/3 (20 overs)	v	Luxembourg 58/9 (18 overs)
Gareth Morris 95 (42) James Barker 2/32 (4 overs)		William Heath 18 (31) Arnie van den Berg 4/7 (4 overs)

• Isle of Man won the toss and elected to bat.

Isle of Man  224/4 (20 overs)	v	Cyprus 74 (17.1 overs)
Gareth Morris 141* (62) Syed Hussain 3/30 (4 overs)		Dineja Agothocleous 19* (25) Arnie van den Berg 4/15 (4 overs)

• Isle of Man won the toss and elected to bat.

Portugal  139/3 (20 overs)	v	Luxembourg 145/5 (19.2 overs)
Taral Desai 59* (34) Nadeem Nazar 1/18 (2 overs)		Zafar Ali 41* (18) Piran Merkl 2/19 (4 overs)

• Portugal won the toss and elected to field.

Finland  87 (17.2 overs)	v	Isle of Man 88/1 (12.5 overs)
Bilal Khan 26 (22) Ross Berry 4/14 (2.2 overs)		Mox Stokoe 29* (41) Bilal Khan 1/26 (2 overs)

• Finland won the toss and elected to bat.

Portugal  26/2 (6 overs)	v	Finland
Nadeem Butt 15 (11) Shidhu Kanade 1/5 (3 overs)

• Finland won the toss and elected to field.

Luxembourg  141/3 (18 overs)	v	Cyprus 101/7 (17 overs)
Taral Desai 56* (42) Babar Ayub 1/22 (2 overs)		Yasir Nazir 26 (13) Piran Merkl 3/14 (3 overs)

• Luxembourg won the toss and elected to bat.

Isle of Man  142/8 (20 overs)	v	Portugal 133/9 (20 overs)
Max Stokoe 59 (59) Babar Khan 3/31 (4 overs)		Zafar Ali 38 (17) Daniel Hawke 3/20 (4 overs)

• Isle of Man won the toss and elected to bat.

Luxembourg  86/8 (17 overs)	v	Finland 70/1 (11 overs)
Sebastian Finch 17 (20) Tariq Sarfraz 2/21 (4 overs)		Michael Shaw 22 (31) Piran Merkl 1/14 (2 overs)

• Finland won the toss and elected to field.

Cyprus  115/6 (17 overs)	v	Portugal 86/4 (9.2 overs)
Nimal Durayalage 33 (16) Zafar Ali 3/22 (3 overs)		Rizwan Khaliq 53* (32) Yasir Nazir 1/21 (3 overs)

• Cyprus won the toss and elected to bat.

Group B

Team	P	W	L	T	NR	Points	NRR
Belgium	5	5	0	0	0	10	+2.432
Austria	5	3	1	1	0	7	+0.246
Spain	5	3	2	0	0	6	+2.119
Greece	5	1	2	1	1	4	–0.100
Sweden	5	1	3	0	1	3	+0.828
Malta	5	0	5	0	0	0	–5.899

Greece  98/6 (10 overs)	v	Malta 68/9 (10 overs)
Georgios Stogiannos 36 (23) Michael Caruana 2/7 (2 overs)		Darren Grech 14 (13) Mehmood Ahmed 3/15 (2 overs)

• Malta won the toss and elected to field.

Sweden  141/5 (20 overs)	v	Spain 145/5 (17.2 overs)
Piyal Rahman 54* (42) Farhat Mahmood 3/25 (4 overs)		James Morgan 70 (44) Ewan Prezens 2/18 (3 overs)

• Sweden won the toss and elected to bat.

Belgium  183/6 (20 overs)	v	Austria 123/8 (20 overs)
Abdul Rehman 58 (18) Satyam Subhash 3/26 (4 overs)		Benji Loader 50 (46) W Shafiq 3/21 (4 overs)

• Belgium won the toss and elected to bat.

Greece  53/3 (8.3 overs)	v	Sweden
Andreas Koutsoufis 17* (23) Hassan Zaigham 2/15 (3 overs)

• Greece won the toss and elected to bat.

Spain  215/8 (20 overs)	v	Malta 30 (9.4 overs)
Shafique Ali 72 (39) Ronald Sacco 3/24 (4 overs)		Ronald Sacco 9 (14) Talat Ali 5/13 (4 overs)

• Spain won the toss and elected to bat.

Spain  215/6 (20 overs)	v	Austria 216/4 (19.5 overs)
James Morgan 71 (36) Lakmal Kasturiarachchige 2/8 (2 overs)		Amar Naeem 73 (39) Armaghan Khan 2/32 (3 overs)

• Spain won the toss and elected to bat.

Belgium  196/8 (20 overs)	v	Sweden 174/6 (20 overs)
Aamir Iqbal 74 (75) Azam Khalil 2/39 (4 overs)		Sanaullah Habibzai 78 (52) Andre Wagener 2/42 (4 overs)

• Belgium won the toss and elected to bat.

Austria  171/7 (20 overs)	v	Malta 91/8 (20 overs)
Aman Deep 40 (38) Andrew Naudi 3/26 (3 overs)		Michael Caruana 22* (25) Lakmal Kasturiarachchige 3/20 (3 overs)

• Austria won the toss and elected to bat.

Greece  149/9 (20 overs)	v	Belgium 150/3 (18.3 overs)
Anastasios Manousis 37 (32) Andre Wagener 2/19 (3 overs)		Shaheryar Butt 45* (22) Anastasios Manousis 2/26 (4 overs)

• Greece won the toss and elected to bat.

Sweden  160/5 (20 overs)	v	Malta 48 (18.5 overs)
Christopher Tebbutt 29 (18) Michael Caruana 2/25 (4 overs)		John Grima 10* (23) Usman Azim 4/14 (4 overs)

• Malta won the toss and elected to field.

Greece  142/6 (20 overs)	v	Spain 146/3 (17.3 overs)
Georgios Stogiannos 45 (21) Tanveer Iqbal 2/28 (4 overs)		Shafique Ali 50 (34) Oliver Hutton 2/17 (2 overs)

• Greece won the toss and elected to bat.

Belgium  169 (20 overs)	v	Spain 143 (18.2 overs)
Sunny Sheikh 38 (29) Farhat Mahmood 3/35 (4 overs)		James Morgan 27 (22) Aamir Iqbal 4/29 (4 overs)

• Spain won the toss and elected to field.

Sweden  154/6 (20 overs)	v	Austria 155/9 (20 overs)
Sunny Sharma 83 (60) Benji Loader 2/3 (1 over)		Lakmal Kasturiarachchige 47 (33) Azam Khalil 2/22 (4 overs)

• Sweden won the toss and elected to bat.

Belgium  194/6 (19 overs)	v	Malta 76/4 (19 overs)
Jamie Farmiloe 63 (52) Nowell Khosla 1/29 (4 overs)		Michael Caruana 29* (63) Shaival Mehta 1/10 (3 overs) Shahid Muhammad 1/10 (3 overs)

• Malta won the toss and elected to field.

Austria  116/8 (15 overs)	v	Greece 116/8 (15 overs)
Amar Naeem 55 (44) Spyridon Goustis 2/15 (3 overs)		Iordanis Kontarinis 42 (35) Nandeep Soggi 2/13 (2 overs)

• Greece won the toss and elected to field.

Play-offs

Semi-final

Isle of Man  94 (19 overs)	v	Austria 96/4 (13.1 overs)
Christopher Hawke 58 (47) Muhammad Akhtar 4/5 (4 overs)		Lakmal Kasturiarachchige 43 (31) Christopher Hawke 1/5 (2 overs)

• Austria won the toss and elected to field.

Semi-final

Belgium  236/2 (20 overs)	v	Portugal 91 (17.1 overs)
Shaheryar Butt 73* (27) MuhammadShoaib 1/35 (4 overs)		Nadeem Butt 18 (12) W Shafiq 4/25 (4 overs)

• Portugal won the toss and elected to field.

9th-place play-off League

Malta  158/8 (20 overs)	v	Cyprus 119 (17.2 overs)
Andrew Naudi 62 (51) Michalis Kyriacou 3/22 (3 overs)		Michalis Kyriacou 72* (42) Michael Caruana 4/15 (4 overs)

• Malta won the toss and elected to bat.

5th-place play-off semi-final

Greece  168/5 (20 overs)	v	Finland 149 (19 overs)
Oliver Hutton 42 (50) Obaidullah Sadiqui 1/28 (4 overs)		Ekhpaelwak Kuchey 34 (22) Oliver Hutton 3/12 (2 overs)

• Finland won the toss and elected to field.

5th-place play-off semi-final

Luxembourg  86/7 (20 overs)	v	Spain 87/2 (12.5 overs)
Taral Desai 27* (30) Talat Nadeem 2/18 (4 overs)		Christian Munoz-Mills 27* (34) Anand Pattabiraman 1/20 (3 overs)

• Luxembourg won the toss and elected to bat.

5th-place play-off

Spain  141/8 (20 overs)	v	Greece 106/9 (20 overs)
Gary Crompton 26 (23) Alexis Souvlakis 2/28 (4 overs)		Alexis Souvlakis 24* (24) Mohib Hussein 3/13 (4 overs)

3rd-place play-off

Isle of Man  155/4 (19 overs)	v	Portugal 142/9 (19 overs)
Oliver Webster 68 (42) Khalid Izaz 2/17 (3 overs)		Nadeem Butt 53 (31) Oliver Webster 2/1 (1 overs)

• Isle of Man won the toss and elected to bat.

9th-place play-off League

Malta  95/4 (12 overs)	v	Sweden 92/9 (12 overs)
Justin Brooke 36 (28) Aman Zahid 1/3 (1 over)		Bilal Zaigham 31 (30) Andrew Naudi 4/9 (3 overs)

• Malta won the toss and elected to bat.

Final

Belgium  188/7 (20 overs)	v	Austria 115 (17.5 overs)
Nirvam Shah 58 (38) Satyam Subhash 3/35 (4 overs)		Simpson-Parker 48 (36) Faisal Khaliq 4/11 (2.5 overs)

• Austria won the toss and elected to field.

9th-place play-off League

Cyprus  199/8 (20 overs)	v	Sweden 121 (16.2 overs)
Nimal Durayalage 56 (33) Ewan Prezens 3/6 (1 over)		Bilal Zaigham 32 (26) Yasir Nazir 3/16 (3 overs)

• Cyprus won the toss and elected to bat.

7th-place play-off

Luxembourg  101/9 (20 overs)	v	Finland 104/8 (19.1 overs)
Joost Mees 19 (18) Madhu Bhandari 3/18 (4 overs)		Shabir Sheerzad 23 (24) James Barker 2/16 (4 overs)

• Finland won the toss and elected to field.

Final Placings

Pos	Team	Promotion/relegation
1st	Belgium	Promoted to 2011 ICC European T20 Championship Division One
2nd	Austria
3rd	Isle of Man	Remain in 2012 ICC European T20 Championship Division Two
4th	Portugal
5th	Spain
6th	Greece
7th	Finland
8th	Luxembourg
9th	Malta
10th	Cyprus
11th	Sweden

Statistics

Highest team totals

The following table lists the six highest team scores.

Team	Total	Opponent	Ground
Belgium	236/2	Portugal	Arcadians Cricket Club Ground, Ghent
Isle of Man	224/4	Cyprus	Arcadians Cricket Club Ground, Ghent
Austria	216/4	Spain	Mechelen Cricket Club Ground
Spain	215/8	Malta	Mechelen Cricket Club Ground
Spain	215/6	Austria	Mechelen Cricket Club Ground
Isle of Man	200/3	Luxembourg	Arcadians Cricket Club Ground, Ghent

Most runs

The top five highest run scorers (total runs) are included in this table.

Player	Team	Runs	Inns	Avg	S/R	HS	100s	50s	4s	6s
Gareth Morris	Isle of Man	289	6	57.80	200.69	141*	1	1	24	20
James Morgan	Spain	244	7	34.85	132.60	71	0	2	22	8
Nirvam Shah	Belgium	236	7	39.33	122.91	69	0	2	26	1
Shaheryar Butt	Belgium	234	7	46.80	200.00	73*	0	1	18	14
Aamir Iqbal	Belgium	221	6	36.83	109.40	74	0	1	24	4

Highest scores

This table contains the top five highest scores made by a batsman in a single innings.

Player	Team	Score	Balls	4s	6s	Opponent	Ground
Gareth Morris	Isle of Man	141*	62	10	10	Cyprus	Arcadians Cricket Club Ground, Ghent
Gareth Morris	Isle of Man	95	42	7	8	Luxembourg	Arcadians Cricket Club Ground, Ghent
Sunny Sharma	Sweden	83	60	5	2	Austria	Arcadians Cricket Club Ground, Ghent
Sanaullah Habibzai	Sweden	78	52	6	4	Belgium	Arcadians Cricket Club Ground, Ghent
Aamir Iqbal	Belgium	74	75	7	2	Sweden	Arcadians Cricket Club Ground, Ghent

Most wickets

The following table contains the five leading wicket-takers.

Player	Team	Wkts	Mts	Ave	S/R	Econ	BBI
Andrew Naudi	Malta	14	7	13.35	10.2	7.79	4/9
Arnie van den Berg	Isle of Man	12	6	8.33	10.5	4.72	4/7
Michael Caruana	Malta	12	7	14.75	12.5	7.08	4/16
Ronald Sacco	Malta	11	7	17.90	12.5	8.56	3/24
W Shafiq	Belgium	10	6	13.70	14.4	5.70	4/25

Best bowling figures

This table lists the top five players with the best bowling figures.

Player	Team	Overs	Figures	Opponent	Ground
Talat Ali	Spain	4.0	5/13	Malta	Mechelen Cricket Club Ground
Muhammad Akhtar	Austria	4.0	4/5	Isle of Man	Royal Brussels Cricket Club Ground, Waterloo
Arnie van den Berg	Isle of Man	4.0	4/7	Luxembourg	Arcadians Cricket Club Ground, Ghent
Andrew Naudi	Malta	3.0	4/9	Sweden	Mechelen Cricket Club Ground
Faisal Khaliq	Belgium	2.5	4/11	Austria	Royal Brussels Cricket Club Ground, Waterloo

See also

• 2012 ICC World Twenty20 Qualifier
• European Cricket Championship

References

1. "ICC European Division 2 Championship 2011". Archived from the original on 2011-06-04. Retrieved 2011-06-05.

• 2012 World Twenty20
• European Cricket Championship
• 2011 in Belgian sport
• 2011 in Dutch sport
• International cricket competitions in Belgium
• International cricket competitions in the Netherlands