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2020 Luxembourg T20I Trophy
Date	28–30 August 2020
Location	Luxembourg
Result	Belgium won the series
Teams  Belgium  Czech Republic  Luxembourg Captains Shaheryar Butt Edward Knowles Joost Mees Most runs Shaheryar Butt (236) Honey Gori (106) Joost Mees (124) Most wickets Ashiqullah Said (7) Kushalkumar Mendon (5) Marcus Cope (7)
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The 2020 Luxembourg T20I Trophy was a Twenty20 International (T20I) cricket tournament that was played in Luxembourg from 28 to 30 August 2020. The participating teams were the hosts Luxembourg, along with Belgium and Czech Republic. The matches were played at the Pierre Werner Cricket Ground in Walferdange. These were the first official T20I matches to be played in Luxembourg since the International Cricket Council announced that all matches played between Associate Members from 1 January 2019 would be eligible for T20I status. The series was organised to provide players with some international cricket after the postponement of the 2019 T20 World Cup Europe Qualifier. Belgium won the series with a game to spare, ending with a perfect record of four victories.

Squads

Belgium	Czech Republic	Luxembourg
Shaheryar Butt (c) Khalid Ahmadi Saqlain Ali Murid Ekrami Sazzad Hosen Syed Jamil (wk) Mamoon Latif Nemish Mehta (vc) Sherul Mehta (wk) Muhammad Muneeb Ashiqullah Said Gurnam Singh Wahidullah Usmani Saber Zakhil	Edward Knowles (c) (wk) Hilal Ahmad Naveed Ahmed Arun Ashokan Sabawoon Davizi Abul Farhad Shripal Gajjar (wk) Kyle Gilham Honey Gori Siddarth Goud Kushalkumar Mendon Sumit Pokhriyal Shoumyadeep Rakshit Surya Rengarajan Sudesh Wickramasekara	Joost Mees (c) (wk) James Barker Scott Browne Marcus Cope William Cope Mohit Dixit Reinhardt Heyns Saransh Kushretha Pankaj Malav Advyth Manepalli (wk) Ankush Nanda Shameek Vats Vikram Vijh Tony Whiteman

Points table

Team	P	W	L	T	NR	Pts	NRR
Belgium	4	4	0	0	0	8	+2.738
Luxembourg	4	1	3	0	0	2	–0.449
Czech Republic	4	1	3	0	0	2	–2.426

Fixtures

Luxembourg  164/7 (20 overs)	v	Czech Republic 89/9 (16.5 overs)
Joost Mees 40 (24) Arun Ashokan 1/12 (2 overs)		Honey Gori 38 (27) Marcus Cope 3/16 (4 overs)

• Luxembourg won the toss and elected to bat.
• No further play was possible due to rain.
• Scott Browne, William Cope, Saransh Kushretha, Pankaj Malav, Advyth Manepalli (Lux), Shripal Gajjar and Kyle Gilham (Cze) all made their T20I debuts.

Luxembourg  112 (18.5 overs)	v	Czech Republic 115/5 (18.5 overs)
James Barker 27 (29) Naveed Ahmed 3/10 (1 over)		Honey Gori 35 (21) Vikram Vijh 2/24 (3.5 overs)

• Luxembourg won the toss and elected to bat.
• Surya Rengarajan (Cze) made his T20I debut.

Belgium  165/8 (20 overs)	v	Luxembourg 128/8 (20 overs)
Shaheryar Butt 81* (45) William Cope 2/22 (4 overs)		Tony Whiteman 36 (22) Khalid Ahmadi 3/14 (4 overs)

• Belgium won the toss and elected to bat.
• Reinhardt Heyns (Lux), Khalid Ahmadi, Sazzad Hosen, Nemish Mehta, Muhammad Muneeb and Wahidullah Usmani (Bel) all made their T20I debuts.

Belgium  197/6 (20 overs)	v	Czech Republic 151/8 (20 overs)
Shaheryar Butt 125* (50) Honey Gori 2/22 (4 overs)		Sudesh Wickramasekara 60 (36) Ashiqullah Said 3/15 (4 overs)

• Belgium won the toss and elected to bat.
• Shaheryar Butt became the first batsman for Belgium to score a century in T20Is.
• Shaheryar Butt also became the first cricketer to score a fifty and a century in two T20I matches on the same day.

Belgium  161/6 (20 overs)	v	Czech Republic 74/7 (20 overs)
Wahidullah Usmani 72 (50) Kushalkumar Mendon 1/14 (4 overs)		Arun Ashokan 23 (30) Saber Zakhil 3/20 (4 overs)

• Belgium won the toss and elected to bat.

Belgium  184/8 (20 overs)	v	Luxembourg 135/3 (20 overs)
Saber Zakhil 44 (16) William Cope 4/18 (4 overs)		Joost Mees 67* (55) Khalid Ahmadi 2/19 (4 overs)

• Belgium won the toss and elected to bat.
• Shameek Vats (Lux) and Sherul Mehta (Bel) both made their T20I debuts.

References

1. "Luxembourg announce a T20I tri-series with Belgium, Czech Republic". Emerging Cricket. 30 June 2020. Retrieved 30 June 2020.
2. @LuxembourgCric1 (29 June 2020). "Luxembourg Cricket to host T20 International tournament vs Belgium and Czechia" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
3. ^ "Luxembourg to host T20I tri-series in August". Cricket Europe. 30 June 2020. Archived from the original on 3 July 2020. Retrieved 30 June 2020.
4. "All T20 matches between ICC members to get international status". International Cricket Council. 26 April 2018. Retrieved 29 June 2020.
5. "Luxembourg set to host official international cricket for the first time". International Cricket Council. Retrieved 26 August 2020.
6. "Cricket in Europe's richest country: Interview with Luxembourg team manager Graham Cope". Emerging Cricket. 20 August 2020. Retrieved 20 August 2020.
7. "Belgium dominate to claim clean sweep of Luxembourg T20I Trophy". Emerging Cricket. Retrieved 31 August 2020.
8. "Belgium wins Luxembourg T20I Trophy". Luxembourg Chronicle. Retrieved 1 September 2020.
9. @CricketBelgium (13 August 2020). "Belgium announced the national squad for #LuxT20iTrophy" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
10. @CzechCricket (30 July 2020). "Czech national squad: Luxembourg T20I Trophy" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
11. @LuxembourgCric1 (13 August 2020). "Luxembourg Cricket announces squad for forthcoming ICC-recognised T20i Trophy vs Czechia and Belgium" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
12. "Czech climb, Belgium soar in Luxembourg T20I Trophy". Emerging Cricket. Retrieved 30 August 2020.
13. "Pakistani-born Belgian cricketer creates history in T20I". BDcrictime. Retrieved 30 August 2020.

External links

• Series home at ESPN Cricinfo

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