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Dates | 14 – 20 January 2017 |
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Administrator(s) | ICC |
Cricket format | Twenty20 International Twenty20 |
Tournament format(s) | Round-robin, finals |
Host(s) | UAE |
Champions | Afghanistan |
Participants | 8 |
Matches | 15 |
Player of the series | Mohammad Nabi |
Most runs | Mohammad Shahzad (207) |
Most wickets | Jacob Mulder (10) |
The 2017 Desert T20 Challenge was an international Twenty20 International (T20I) cricket tournament that was held in Dubai and Abu Dhabi from 14 to 20 January 2017. The eight Associate Members of the International Cricket Council that have T20I status were scheduled to take part. However, Papua New Guinea declined to participate and were replaced by Namibia (who did not have T20I status at the time). Therefore, matches with Namibia were played as Twenty20 matches.
The fixtures for the tournament were confirmed by the Emirates Cricket Board (ECB) in December 2016. The eight teams were split into two groups of four teams, with Afghanistan, Ireland, Namibia and the United Arab Emirates in Group A and Netherlands, Scotland, Oman and Hong Kong in Group B. The semi-finals and final of the tournament took place at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium on 20 January.
Afghanistan and Ireland qualified from Group A and Scotland and Oman qualified from Group B for the finals stage of the tournament. Afghanistan beat Ireland by 10 wickets in the final match to win the tournament.
Afghanistan Coach: Lalchand Rajput |
Hong Kong Coach: Simon Cook |
Ireland Coach: John Bracewell |
Namibia Coach: Dee Thakur |
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Netherlands Coach: Chris Adams |
Oman Coach: Duleep Mendis |
Scotland Coach: Grant Bradburn |
United Arab Emirates Coach: Owais Shah |
Before the tournament started, both Andrew Balbirnie and Stuart Thompson were ruled out of Ireland's squad due to injury. They were replaced by Stuart Poynter and Lorcan Tucker respectively.
Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | NR | Pts | NRR |
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1 | Afghanistan | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1.419 |
2 | Ireland | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0.319 |
3 | United Arab Emirates | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | −0.552 |
4 | Namibia | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | −1.177 |
Qualified to Finals
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Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | NR | Pts | NRR |
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1 | Scotland | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0.666 |
2 | Oman | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0.890 |
3 | Hong Kong | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | −0.005 |
4 | Netherlands | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | −1.529 |
Qualified to Finals
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Mohammad Shahzad 52* (40)
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Player | Matches | Innings | Runs | Average | SR | HS | 100 | 50 | 4s | 6s |
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Mohammad Shahzad | 5 | 5 | 207 | 51.75 | 121.76 | 80 | 0 | 2 | 26 | 6 |
Gary Wilson | 5 | 5 | 155 | 51.66 | 156.56 | 65* | 0 | 1 | 15 | 5 |
Paul Stirling | 5 | 5 | 152 | 30.40 | 128.81 | 60 | 0 | 1 | 16 | 5 |
Calum MacLeod | 4 | 4 | 117 | 39.00 | 131.46 | 60 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 4 |
Shaiman Anwar | 3 | 3 | 110 | 36.66 | 100.00 | 66* | 0 | 2 | 9 | 2 |
Source: ESPN Cricinfo |
Player | Matches | Innings | Wickets | Overs | Econ. | Ave. | BBI | S/R | 4WI | 5WI |
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Jacob Mulder | 5 | 5 | 10 | 18 | 5.66 | 10.20 | 4/16 | 10.80 | 1 | 0 |
Rashid Khan | 5 | 5 | 9 | 16.2 | 3.61 | 6.55 | 3/4 | 10.80 | 0 | 0 |
Amir Hamza | 4 | 4 | 7 | 16 | 4.81 | 11.00 | 2/15 | 13.70 | 0 | 0 |
Mohammad Nabi | 5 | 5 | 7 | 16.2 | 5.69 | 13.28 | 4/10 | 14.00 | 1 | 0 |
Bilal Khan | 4 | 4 | 7 | 13.5 | 8.45 | 16.71 | 3/18 | 11.80 | 0 | 0 |
Source: ESPN Cricinfo |