2021 Sofia Twenty20

2021 Sofia Twenty20
Dates24 – 27 June 2021
Administrator(s)Bulgarian Cricket Federation
Cricket formatTwenty20 International
Host(s) Bulgaria
Champions Romania
Runners-up Bulgaria
Participants4
Matches9
Player of the seriesRomania Taranjeet Singh
Most runsRomania Ramesh Satheesan (197)
Most wicketsRomania Sami Ullah (7)
Romania Pavel Florin (7)

The 2021 Sofia Twenty20 tournament was a Twenty20 International (T20I) cricket tournament held in Bulgaria in June 2021.[1] The tournament was played at the National Sports Academy in Sofia and was arranged to mark 20 years since the founding of the Bulgarian Cricket Federation.[2] In addition to the hosts Bulgaria, the competing nations were Greece, Romania and Serbia.[3] The tournament consisted of a round-robin stage, followed by semi-finals and a final.[4]

Romania topped the round-robin stage to set up a semi-final match against Serbia, with Bulgaria and Greece playing in the second semi-final.[5] After winning their semi-final against Serbia, Romania defeated Bulgaria by 7 wickets in the final.[6]

Squads

 Bulgaria[2]  Greece[2]  Romania[2]  Serbia[2]
  • Prakash Mishra (c)
  • Hristo Lakov (vc)
  • Jacob Albin
  • Sulaiman Ali
  • Rohan Bhavesh Patel
  • Kevin D'Souza
  • Aravinda De Silva
  • Vasil Hristov
  • Boiko Ivanov
  • Hristo Ivanov (wk)
  • Ivaylo Katzarski
  • Aswad Khan
  • Fayaz Mohammad
  • Nikolay Nankov
  • Dimo Nikolov
  • Bakhtiar Tahiri
  • Delrick Varghese
  • Nikolay Yordanov
  • Anastasios Manousis (c, wk)
  • Arsalan Ahmed
  • Asrar Ahmed
  • Syed Amanullah
  • Georgios Galanis
  • Spiridon Gasteratos
  • Nikolaos Katechis
  • Alexandros Lagos
  • Alkinoos Manatos
  • Amarpreet Mehmi
  • Aslam Mohammad
  • Nikolaos Mourikis
  • Spiros Siriotis
  • Spiros Tsirigotis
  • Thomas Zotos
  • Ramesh Satheesan (c)
  • Waqar Abbasi
  • Pavel Florin
  • Ijaz Hussain
  • Aftab Kayani
  • Gohar Manan
  • Patras Masih
  • Satvik Nadigotla (wk)
  • Sivakumar Periyalwar
  • Vasu Saini
  • Abdul Shakoor (wk)
  • Taranjeet Singh
  • Sudeep Thakur
  • Sami Ullah
  • Shantanu Vashisht
  • Cosmin Zavoiu
  • Aleksa Djorovic (c)
  • Rahman Ademi
  • Wintley Burton
  • Brett Davidson
  • Dragan Djokic
  • Michael Dorgan
  • Bogdan Dugic
  • Leslie Dunbar (wk)
  • Nicholas Johns-Wickberg
  • Apon Mustafizur
  • Danijel Petrovic
  • Jovan Reb
  • Matija Sarenac
  • Slobodan Tosic
  • Nemanja Zimonjic
  • Vukasin Zimonjic

Round-robin

Points table

Team[7] P W L T NR Pts NRR
 Romania 3 3 0 0 0 6 +4.011
 Bulgaria 3 2 1 0 0 4 +1.200
 Greece 3 1 2 0 0 2 –1.445
 Serbia 3 0 3 0 0 0 –3.502

Matches

24 June 2021
14:00
Scorecard
Bulgaria 
208/2 (20 overs)
v
 Serbia
147/5 (20 overs)
Aravinda De Silva 100* (60)
Vukasin Zimonjic 1/31 (4 overs)
Slobodan Tosic 38* (57)
Hristo Lakov 2/8 (4 overs)
Bulgaria won by 61 runs
National Sports Academy, Sofia
Umpires: Ioannis Afthinos (Gre) and Sudeep Thakur (Rom)
Player of the match: Aravinda De Silva (Bul)
  • Serbia won the toss and elected to field.
  • Jacob Albin, Aswad Khan (Bul), Wintley Burton, Brett Davidson, Michael Dorgan, Nicholas Johns-Wickberg, Slobodan Tosic, Nemanja Zimonjic and Vukasin Zimonjic (Srb) all made their T20I debuts.
  • Aravinda De Silva became the first batsman for Bulgaria to score a century in T20Is.[8]
24 June 2021
17:30
Scorecard
Greece 
157/8 (20 overs)
v
 Romania
159/7 (12.5 overs)
Aslam Mohammad 61 (42)
Shantanu Vashisht 4/22 (4 overs)
Ramesh Satheesan 70 (32)
Spiridon Gasteratos 2/4 (1 over)
Romania won by 3 wickets
National Sports Academy, Sofia
Umpires: Stefan Nerandzic (Srb) and Nisarg Shah (Bul)
Player of the match: Ramesh Satheesan (Rom)
  • Greece won the toss and elected to bat.
  • Syed Amanullah, Spiridon Gasteratos, Nikolaos Mourikis, Spiros Siriotis, Thomas Zotos (Gre) and Taranjeet Singh (Rom) all made their T20I debuts.
25 June 2021
10:00
Scorecard
Serbia 
144 (20 overs)
v
 Greece
147/5 (14.3 overs)
Nicholas Johns-Wickberg 24 (17)
Spiridon Gasteratos 2/12 (4 overs)
Aslam Mohammad 54 (25)
Vukasin Zimonjic 2/27 (4 overs)
Greece won by 5 wickets
National Sports Academy, Sofia
Umpires: Ivan Dimitrov (Bul) and Nisarg Shah (Bul)
Player of the match: Aslam Mohammad (Gre)
  • Greece won the toss and elected to field.
  • Alkinoos Manatos (Gre) made his T20I debut.
25 June 2021
13:30
Scorecard
Bulgaria 
157/8 (20 overs)
v
 Romania
161/3 (14 overs)
Sulaiman Ali 32 (16)
Taranjeet Singh 3/27 (4 overs)
Taranjeet Singh 60 (22)
Prakash Mishra 1/16 (3 overs)
Romania won by 7 wickets
National Sports Academy, Sofia
Umpires: Ioannis Afthinos (Gre) and Stefan Nerandzic (Srb)
Player of the match: Taranjeet Singh (Rom)
  • Bulgaria won the toss and elected to bat.
  • Sudeep Thakur (Rom) made his T20I debut.
25 June 2021
17:00
Scorecard
Romania 
191 (19.2 overs)
v
 Serbia
100 (16.5 overs)
Sudeep Thakur 55 (31)
Nicholas Johns-Wickberg 3/19 (4 overs)
Wintley Burton 22 (12)
Pavel Florin 3/14 (3.5 overs)
Romania won by 91 runs
National Sports Academy, Sofia
Umpires: Ioannis Afthinos (Gre) and Nisarg Shah (Bul)
Player of the match: Sudeep Thakur (Rom)
  • Romania won the toss and elected to bat.
26 June 2021
10:00
Scorecard
Bulgaria 
197/4 (20 overs)
v
 Greece
133 (16.5 overs)
Hristo Lakov 68* (47)
Asrar Ahmed 2/33 (4 overs)
Anastasios Manousis 27 (19)
Prakash Mishra 3/12 (1.5 overs)
Bulgaria won by 64 runs
National Sports Academy, Sofia
Umpires: Andrew Begg (Rom) and Stefan Nerandzic (Srb)
Player of the match: Prakash Mishra (Bul)
  • Greece won the toss and elected to field.

Play-offs

1st Semi-final

26 June 2021
13:30
Scorecard
Serbia 
115/7 (20 overs)
v
 Romania
116/0 (5.4 overs)
Leslie Dunbar 55* (41)
Pavel Florin 2/22 (3 overs)
Taranjeet Singh 57* (19)
Romania won by 10 wickets
National Sports Academy, Sofia
Umpires: Ioannis Afthinos (Gre) and Nisarg Shah (Bul)
Player of the match: Taranjeet Singh (Rom)
  • Serbia won the toss and elected to bat.

2nd Semi-final

26 June 2021
17:00
Scorecard
Bulgaria 
140 (19.5 overs)
v
 Greece
33/2 (3.5 overs)
Bakhtiar Tahiri 49 (45)
Georgios Galanis 3/17 (4 overs)
Anastasios Manousis 17* (10)
Hristo Lakov 1/2 (0.5 overs)
No result
National Sports Academy, Sofia
Umpires: Andrew Begg (Rom) and Stefan Nerandzic (Srb)
  • Greece won the toss and elected to field.
  • No further play was possible due to rain. Bulgaria advanced to the final due to finishing second in the round-robin.[9]

Final

27 June 2021
11:00
Scorecard
Bulgaria 
115/9 (20 overs)
v
 Romania
119/3 (10.2 overs)
Sulaiman Ali 21 (19)
Vasu Saini 4/12 (4 overs)
Taranjeet Singh 39 (16)
Rohan Bhavesh Patel 1/13 (2 overs)
Romania won by 7 wickets
National Sports Academy, Sofia
Umpires: Ioannis Afthinos (Gre) and Stefan Nerandzic (Srb)
Player of the match: Sami Ullah (Rom)
  • Bulgaria won the toss and elected to bat.

References

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  3. ^ "Previzualizare turneu internațional Sofia T20" [Preview Sofia T20 International tour]. Style Guide (in Romanian). Retrieved 21 June 2021.
  4. ^ "Bulgaria to host 4-nation Sofia T20I tournament in June 2021". Czarsportz. Retrieved 21 June 2021.
  5. ^ "Romania on top after second day in Sofia T20". Cricket Europe. Archived from the original on 25 June 2021. Retrieved 26 June 2021.
  6. ^ "Romania win Sofia T20". Cricket Europe. Archived from the original on 27 June 2021. Retrieved 27 June 2021.
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