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2022 GCC Women's Gulf Cup

Dates	20 – 26 March 2022
Administrator(s)	Gulf Cooperation Council
Cricket format	Women's Twenty20 International
Host(s)	Oman
Champions	United Arab Emirates
Runners-up	Oman
Participants	6
Matches	15
Player of the series	Esha Oza
Most runs	Esha Oza (253)
Most wickets	Maria Jasvi (8)

The 2022 GCC Women's Gulf Cup was a women's T20I cricket (WT20I) tournament played in Oman from 20 to 26 March 2022. Organised by the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), the tournament featured the women's national teams of Oman, Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates. Bahrain and Saudi Arabia played their first official WT20I matches during this tournament.

This was the fourth edition of the women's Gulf Cup, which had been contested annually between 2014 and 2016. The inaugural event in 2014 was hosted in Oman, was contested by Oman, UAE, Kuwait and Qatar, and was won by UAE who defeated Kuwait by 49 runs in the final. Qatar hosted the event in 2015, which saw UAE retain the title by defeating the hosts by five wickets in the final following a round-robin stage that also involved Oman. The 2016 edition was played at the Sharjah Cricket Stadium, and was contested by UAE, Oman, Kuwait, Qatar and guest teams from Kenya, Malaysia and Uganda. Kenya won the 2016 title with a five wicket win over UAE in the final.

On 22 March 2022, in the match between Bahrain and Saudi Arabia, Deepika Rasangika of Bahrain set a new record for the highest individual score in a WT20I match, scoring 161 not out.

Squads

Bahrain	Kuwait	Oman	Qatar	Saudi Arabia	United Arab Emirates
Tharanga Gajanayake (c) Vilcita Barboza Deepika Bhaskara Gayani Fernando Rasika Hathadurage (wk) Prajna Jagdeesha Sachini Jayasinghe Swarna Nunna Shashikala Prakash Deepika Rasangika Rasika Rodrigo Asha Samildeen Pavithra Shetty Abeera Waris	Amna Tariq (c) Maryyam Ashraf Aakriti Bose (wk) Venora D'Souza Siobhan Gomez Mariamma Hyder Iqra Ishaq Maria Jasvi Zeefa Jilani Khadija Khalil Priyada Murali Maryam Omar Balasubramani Shanti Rida Zainab	Vaishali Jesrani (c) Fiza Javed (vc) Afida Afthab Nayan Anil Saya Channa Amanda Dcosta Nikhita Jagadish Kashish Jayawant Sameera Khan Priyanka Mendonca Snehal Nair Sushanthika Sathiya Bhakti Shetty Sakshi Shetty (wk)	Aysha (c) Hiral Agarwal Shahreen Bahadur Saachi Dhadwal Rizpha Bano Emmanuel (wk) Khadija Imtiaz Trupti Kale Aleena Khan Angeline Mare Sabeeja Panayan Kerry Pounsett Rochelle Quyn Shrutiben Rana Aisha Rahman	Cheryl Sewsunker (c) Najwa Akram Mah Noor Amir Emaan Ejaz Zoha Irfan Amna Khan Maira Khan Khazaima Abeer Maryam Simrah Mirza Ruba Rashid (wk) Rida Syeda Saba Ali Syeda	Chaya Mughal (c) Samaira Dharnidharka Kavisha Egodage Mahika Gaur Siya Gokhale Lavanya Keny Suraksha Kotte Vaishnave Mahesh Indhuja Nandakumar Esha Oza Rinitha Rajith Rithika Rajith Theertha Satish (wk) Khushi Sharma

Kuwait named Noora Bahurudeen and Reema Bahurudeen as reserves. Qatar included Manjiri Bawane, Sneha Chandnani, Fatima Saeed and Sharon Williams as reserves.

Points table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	NR	Pts	NRR
1	United Arab Emirates	5	5	0	0	10	7.066
2	Oman	5	4	1	0	8	2.180
3	Qatar	5	2	3	0	4	1.663
4	Kuwait	5	2	3	0	4	−0.016
5	Bahrain	5	2	3	0	4	−0.300
6	Saudi Arabia	5	0	5	0	0	−12.108

Fixtures

Oman  157/7 (20 overs)	v	Bahrain 61/7 (20 overs)
Sakshi Shetty 39 (30) Tharanga Gajanayake 3/18 (4 overs)		Abeera Waris 14 (37) Priyanka Mendonca 2/2 (3 overs)

• Bahrain won the toss and elected to field.
• Nayan Anil, Saya Channa, Amanda Dcosta (Oma), Deepika Bhaskara, Gayani Fernando, Tharanga Gajanayake, Rasika Hathadurage, Prajna Jagdeesha, Sachini Jayasinghe, Shashikala Prakash, Rasika Rodrigo, Pavithra Shetty and Abeera Waris (Bhr) all made their WT20I debuts.
• Deepika Rasangika also made her WT20I debut for Bahrain after previously playing 32 WT20Is for Sri Lanka.

Qatar  75/8 (20 overs)	v	United Arab Emirates 78/2 (8 overs)
Saachi Dhadwal 27 (36) Khushi Sharma 4/4 (3 overs)		Kavisha Egodage 50* (29) Rochelle Quyn 1/15 (2 overs)

• Qatar won the toss and elected to bat.
• Siya Gokhale, Lavanya Keny and Rinitha Rajith (UAE) all made their WT20I debuts.

Saudi Arabia  31 (14.3 overs)	v	Kuwait 32/0 (2.1 overs)
Maira Khan 12 (27) Maria Jasvi 5/6 (3 overs)		Priyada Murali 11* (8)

• Kuwait won the toss and elected to field.
• Mah Noor Amir, Emaan Ejaz, Zoha Irfan, Amna Khan, Maira Khan, Khazaima, Abeer Maryam, Simrah Mirza, Ruba Rashid, Rida Syeda and Cheryl Sewsunker (Sau) all made their WT20I debuts.
• Maria Jasvi became the first player for Kuwait to take a five-wicket haul in WT20Is.

Qatar  124/6 (20 overs)	v	Bahrain 120/3 (20 overs)
Shahreen Bahadur 31 (38) Deepika Bhaskara 1/14 (2 overs)		Tharanga Gajanayake 43 (46) Aleena Khan 1/15 (4 overs)

• Qatar won the toss and elected to bat.
• Swarna Nunna and Asha Samildeen (Bhr) both made their WT20I debuts.

Oman  234/3 (20 overs)	v	Saudi Arabia 52 (15.5 overs)
Fiza 76* (57) Amna Khan 1/35 (4 overs)		Cheryl Sewsunker 14 (10) Kashish Jayawant 3/2 (3.5 overs)

• Saudi Arabia won the toss and elected to field.
• Afida Afthab, Kashish Jayawant, Sushanthika Sathiya (Oma) and Najwa Akram (Sau) all made their WT20I debuts.

United Arab Emirates  158/2 (20 overs)	v	Kuwait 85/8 (20 overs)
Kavisha Egodage 92* (74) Priyada Murali 1/10 (2 overs)		Maryam Omar 46 (30) Esha Oza 3/5 (2 overs)

• United Arab Emirates won the toss and elected to bat.
• Indhuja Nandakumar (UAE) made her WT20I debut.

Bahrain  318/1 (20 overs)	v	Saudi Arabia 49/8 (20 overs)
Deepika Rasangika 161* (66) Emaan Ejaz 1/63 (4 overs)		Maira Khan 9 (40) Deepika Rasangika 3/9 (4 overs)

• Saudi Arabia won the toss and elected to field.
• Vilcita Barboza (Bhr) and Saba Ali Syeda (Sau) both made their WT20I debuts.
• Deepika Rasangika became the first player for Bahrain to score a century in WT20Is. Her score of 161* was the highest individual score in WT20Is.
• Bahrain's 318/1 is the highest total in a WT20I match.
• The unbroken 255-run partnership between Tharanga Gajanayake and Deepika Rasangika (Bhr) was the highest for the second wicket, and two runs short of the record for any wicket, in WT20Is.

Qatar  73 (18.2 overs)	v	Kuwait 74/1 (13.5 overs)
Aleena Khan 15 (15) Maryam Omar 4/14 (4 overs)		Maryam Omar 40 (44) Rochelle Quyn 1/21 (4 overs)

• Qatar won the toss and elected to bat.

United Arab Emirates  204/4 (20 overs)	v	Oman 95/7 (20 overs)
Esha Oza 67 (31) Bhakti Shetty 1/24 (4 overs)		Fiza 37 (65) Chaya Mughal 3/14 (4 overs)

• United Arab Emirates won the toss and elected to bat.
• Rithika Rajith (UAE) made her WT20I debut.

Oman  128/4 (20 overs)	v	Kuwait 81 (17.1 overs)
Sakshi Shetty 71* (60) Khadija Khalil 2/17 (3 overs)		Khadija Khalil 18 (34) Amanda Dcosta 5/11 (3 overs)

• Kuwait won the toss and elected to field.
• Amanda Dcosta became the first player for Oman to take a five-wicket haul in WT20Is.

Saudi Arabia  25 (12.3 overs)	v	United Arab Emirates 26/0 (1.5 overs)
Cheryl Sewsunker 6 (23) Lavanya Keny 3/3 (2 overs)		Lavanya Keny 12* (7)

• United Arab Emirates won the toss and elected to field.
• Lavanya Keny became the first bowler for United Arab Emirates to take a hat-trick in WT20Is.

Qatar  282/2 (20 overs)	v	Saudi Arabia 26 (18.1 overs)
Aysha 113* (58) Maira Khan 2/48 (4 overs)		Amna Khan 6 (12) Hiral Agarwal 4/4 (4 overs)

• Qatar won the toss and elected to bat.
• Aysha and Shahreen Bahadur became the first players for Qatar to score a century in WT20Is.

Kuwait  125/4 (20 overs)	v	Bahrain 127/4 (18.4 overs)
Maryam Omar 54 (47) Sachini Jayasinghe 2/25 (4 overs)		Tharanga Gajanayake 54* (57) Khadija Khalil 2/23 (4 overs)

• Kuwait won the toss and elected to bat.

Oman  97/8 (20 overs)	v	Qatar 95/8 (20 overs)
Vaishali Jesrani 23 (33) Rochelle Quyn 1/13 (4 overs)		Aysha 24 (25) Priyanka Mendonca 3/11 (4 overs)

• Oman won the toss and elected to bat.

United Arab Emirates  253/1 (20 overs)	v	Bahrain 43 (16 overs)
Esha Oza 158* (71)		Tharanga Gajanayake 25* (45) Lavanya Keny 4/3 (3 overs)

• United Arab Emirates won the toss and elected to bat.
• Esha Oza became the first player for United Arab Emirates to score a century in WT20Is.

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External links

• Series home at ESPN Cricinfo

• 2022 in women's cricket
• Associate international cricket competitions in 2021–22
• March 2022 sports events in Asia
• International cricket competitions in Oman