Gulf Cricket T20 Championship 2024 - Teams, Player Squads, Fixtures Schedule, Venues - All you need to know
The highly awaited 2nd edition of Gulf Cricket T20 Championship is commencing on the 13th of December with Bahrain squaring off against the hosts UAE in the Inaugural match at ICC Academy, Dubai.
The Final Match of the competition will take place on the 21st of December, 2024.
A total of 16 matches will be played in the tournament over the course of 8 days. 15 league matches will be played in Gulf Cricket T20 Championship. The top 2 teams will then clash in the Finals.
All of the matches are scheduled to be played at the ICC Academy, Dubai.
There are 6 teams participating in Gulf Cricket T20 Championship namely UAE, Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Oman.
The teams will play against each other once in a single round robin format. There are 2 matches scheduled per day, except for the 19th of December.
Oman are the defending champions of Gulf Cricket T20 Championship. They won the Final Match against UAE by 5 wickets.
Highly skilled players like Jatinder Singh, Haider Butt, Nilansh Keswani, Muhammad Waseem, Imal Liyanage, Meet Bhavsar and Faisal Khan are taking part in the competition.
Impact Players in Each Team:
1. Bahrain - Ali Dawood, Haider Butt, Rizwan Butt
2. UAE - Dhruv Parashar, Nilansh Keswani, Muhammad Waseem
3. Oman - Jatinder Singh, Pratik Athavale, Bilal Khan
4. Qatar - Imal Liyanage, Amir Farooq, Muhammad Ikramullah
5. Saudi Arabia - Abdul Waheed, Zain Ul Abidin, Faisal Khan
6. Kuwait - Meet Bhavsar, Shiraz Khan, Sayed Monib
Last Edition's Stats:
Winner - Oman
Runners up - UAE
Top Run Scorer - Muhammad Waseem, 316 Runs (UAE)
Top Wicket Taker - Ali Naseer, 11 Wickets (UAE)
Let's have a look at the squads:
Kuwait: Mohammed Aslam (captain), Ali Zaheer, Bilal Tahir, Clinto Anto, Meet Bhavsar (wicket-keeper), Mirza Ahmed, Mohammad Amin, Mohamed Shafeeq, Nimish Lathief, Ravija Sandaruwan, Shiraz Khan, Sayed Monib, Usman Patel (wicket-keeper), Yasin Patel
Oman: Jatinder Singh (captain), Aamir Kaleem, Ashish Odedara, Bilal Khan, Hammad Mirza (wicket-keeper), Jay Odedra, Karan Sonavale, Mehran Khan, Mohammad Nadeem, Muzahir Raza, Pratik Athavale (wicket-keeper), Pruthvikumar Macchi, Samay Shrivastava, Sandeep Goud, Shakeel Ahmad, Siddharth Bukkapatnam, Sufyan Mehmood, Sultan Ahmed (wicket-keeper), Suraj Kumar (wicket-keeper), Wasim Ali
Bahrain: Abdul Majid, Ahmer Bin Nasir, Ali Dawood, Asif Ali, Fiaz Ahmed, Haider Butt, Imran Ali (wicket-keeper), Imran Anwar, Imran Khan, Junaid Aziz, Mohd. Asif Shahizan, Muhammad Basil, Muhammad Salman, Rizwan Butt. Sachin Kumar, Shahbaz Badar (wicket-keeper), Sohail Ahmed, Umer Toor (wicket-keeper), Yousif Wali
Qatar: Amir Farooq, Arumuga Ganesh, Gayan Munaweera, Himanshu Rathod, Imal Liyanage (wicket-keeper), Mirza Mohammed Baig, Mohammad Ahnaff, Mohammed Irshad, Mohammed Nadeem Aslam, Mohammed Rizlan (wicket-keeper), Muhammad Ikramullah, Muhammad Jabir, Muhammad Tanveer, Muhammad Zaman, Noman Sarwar, Owais Ahmed, Saqlain Arshad, Shakkir Kassim
Saudi Arabia: Waji Ul Hassan (captain), Abdul Manan Ali (wicket-keeper), Abdul Waheed, Abdul Wahid, Ahmad Raza, Anwar Saleem, Faisal Khan, Hisham Shaikh, Ishtiaq Ahmad, Sajid Imran Cheema, Saud Syed, Shahzaib, Sidharth Sankar (wicket-keeper), Syed Ali Abbas, Usman Khalid, Usman Najeeb, Zain Ul Abidin
UAE: Aayan Khan, Ali Naseer, Alishan Sharafu, Asif Khan, Aryansh Sharma (wicket-keeper), Basil Hameed, Dhruv Parashar, Junaid Siddique, Mayank Kumar, Muhammad Farooq, Muhammad Jawadullah, Muhammad Waseem, Muhammad Zuhaib, Nilansh Keswani, Omid Rahman, Rahul Chopra (wicket-keeper), Sanchit Sharma, Simranjeet Singh Kang, Syed Haider (wicket-keeper), Tanish Suri (wicket-keeper), Vishnu Sukumaran, Vriitya Aravind (wicket-keeper)
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Fixtures Schedule:
Friday, December 13
Match 1 - Bahrain vs United Arab Emirates
Match 2 - Kuwait vs Saudi Arabia
Saturday, December 14
Match 3 - Kuwait vs Bahrain
Match 4 - Qatar vs Oman
Sunday, December 15
Match 5 - United Arab Emirates vs Oman
Match 6 - Saudi Arabia vs Qatar
Monday, December 16
Match 7 - Saudi Arabia vs Bahrain
Match 8 - United Arab Emirates vs Kuwait
Tuesday, December 17
Match 9 - Qatar vs Kuwait
Match 10 - Oman vs Bahrain
Wednesday, December 18
Match 11 - Oman vs Saudi Arabia
Match 12 - Qatar vs United Arab Emirates
Thursday, December 19
Match 13 - United Arab Emirates vs Saudi Arabia
Friday, December 20
Match 14 - Qatar vs Bahrain
Match 15 - Oman vs Kuwait
Saturday, December 21
Final Match - TBA vs TBA
Where to watch Gulf Cricket T20 Championship 2024:
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*NB these predictions may be changed nearer the start of the match once the final starting teams have been announced and we will be running ‘In-Play’ features, so stay tuned.
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