| Dates | 21 – 24 October 2021 |
|---|---|
| Administrator | Malta Cricket Association |
| Cricket format | Twenty20 International |
| Host |  Malta |
| Champions | Malta |
| Runners-up |  Switzerland |
| Participants | 4 |
| Matches | 8 |
| Player of the series |  Avinash Pai |
| Most runs | Louis Bruce (222) |
| Most wickets | Ashwin Vinod (9) |
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The2021 Valletta Cup was aTwenty20 International (T20I) cricket tournament held in Malta between 21 and 24 October 2021.[1] It was the second edition of theValletta Cup. The matches were played at theMarsa Sports Club inMarsa.[2] The participating teams were the hostsMalta along withBulgaria,Gibraltar andSwitzerland.[1]
This was the first international tournament for Switzerland since the introduction of global T20I status in January 2019,[3] and their re-admittance to theInternational Cricket Council (ICC) in July 2021.[1]Cricket Switzerland (previously known as the Swiss Cricket Association), had been suspended by the ICC in 2012 due to non-compliance following the formation of a second organization also claiming to oversee cricket in the country.[4] They were one of three nations to gainAssociate membership after the ICC's annual general meeting in July 2021.[5][6]
Switzerland finished on top of the round-robin stage with three wins.[7] Malta defeated Switzerland in the final,[8] after Bulgaria defeated Gibraltar in the third-place playoff.[9] After the tournament, Malta and Gibraltar played a rain-affected two-match bilateral T20I series that was shared after one game was lost to the weather and the other finished as aDLS method tie.[10]
 Bulgaria | Gibraltar[11] | Malta | Switzerland[1] |
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| Team[12] | P | W | L | T | NR | Pts | NRR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Switzerland | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | +3.067 |
| Malta | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | +1.379 |
| Gibraltar | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | –1.274 |
| Bulgaria | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | –3.662 |
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Heinrich Gericke 64 (25) Avinash Pai 2/28 (4 overs) | Louis Bruce 57* (55) Bilal Muhammad 1/24 (4 overs) |
Malta won by 61 runs Marsa Sports Club,Marsa Umpires: Andrew Naudi (Mlt) and Tim Wheeler (Mlt) Player of the match: Heinrich Gericke (Mlt) |
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Louis Bruce 31 (27) Aidan Andrews 3/21 (4 overs) | Osama Mahmood 58* (46) Charles Harrison 1/19 (2 overs) |
Switzerland won by 9 wickets Marsa Sports Club,Marsa Umpires: Tony Slater (Mlt) and Tim Wheeler (Mlt) Player of the match: Osama Mahmood (Sui) |
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Jacob Albin 19* (30) Aneesh Kumar 3/3 (2.3 overs) | Arjun Vinod 43* (20) Delrick Varghese 1/21 (1 over) |
Switzerland won by 8 wickets Marsa Sports Club,Marsa Umpires: Ghose Roy (Mlt) and Tony Slater (Mlt) Player of the match: Aneesh Kumar (Sui) |
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Avinash Pai 107* (52) Sulaiman Ali 2/38 (4 overs) | Hristo Lakov 80 (63) James Fitzgerald 2/37 (4 overs) |
Gibraltar won by 37 runs Marsa Sports Club,Marsa Umpires: Ashok Bishnoi (Mlt) and John Grima (Mlt) Player of the match: Avinash Pai (Gib) |
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Asad Mahmood 33 (25) Bikram Arora 3/20 (4 overs) | Bilal Muhammad 35* (17) Ashwin Vinod 3/30 (4 overs) |
Switzerland won by 8 runs Marsa Sports Club,Marsa Umpires: John Grima (Mlt) and Ghose Roy (Mlt) Player of the match: Osama Mahmood (Sui) |
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Omar Rassol 63* (36) Varun Thamotharam 2/30 (4 overs) | Basil George 41 (27) Sulaiman Ali 2/26 (3 overs) |
Malta won by 6 wickets Marsa Sports Club,Marsa Umpires: Jitesh Patel (Mlt) and Ghose Roy (Mlt) Player of the match: Heinrich Gericke (Mlt) |
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Avinash Pai 71 (37) Prakash Mishra 3/22 (4 overs) | Aravinda De Silva 62 (40) Charles Harrison 2/31 (4 overs) |
Bulgaria won by 6 wickets Marsa Sports Club,Marsa Umpires: Jitesh Patel (Mlt) and Ghose Roy (Mlt) Player of the match: Hristo Lakov (Bul) |
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Bikram Arora 42 (39) Aneesh Kumar 2/26 (4 overs) | Idrees Ul Haque 42 (23) Varun Thamotharam 3/25 (4 overs) |
Malta won by 6 runs Marsa Sports Club,Marsa Umpires: John Grima (Mlt) and Jitesh Patel (Mlt) Player of the match: Varun Thamotharam (Mlt) |
| Gibraltarian cricket team in Malta in 2021–22 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
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| Malta | Gibraltar | ||
| Date | 25 October 2021 | ||
| Captains | Bikram Arora | Avinash Pai | |
| Twenty20 International series | |||
| Results | 2-match series drawn 0–0 | ||
| Most runs | Varun Thamotharam (50) | Kieron Ferrary (35) | |
| Most wickets | Waseem Abbas (1) Bilal Muhammad (1) | Louis Bruce (4) | |
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Varun Thamotharam 50 (27) Louis Bruce 4/13 (3 overs) | Kieron Ferrary 35* (25) Waseem Abbas 1/15 (2 overs) |
Match tied (DLS method) Marsa Sports Club,Marsa Umpires: Andrew Naudi (Mlt) and Les White (Mlt) Player of the match: Louis Bruce (Gib) |