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2019–20 Oman Pentangular Series

2019–20 Oman Pentangular Series

Dates	5 – 10 October 2019
Administrator(s)	Oman Cricket
Cricket format	Twenty20 International
Host(s)	Oman
Champions	Oman
Runners-up	Ireland
Participants	5
Matches	10
Most runs	Kevin O'Brien (191)
Most wickets	Karan KC (11)

The 2019–20 Oman Pentangular Series was a Twenty20 International (T20I) cricket tournament, that was held in Oman in October 2019.^[1] Originally scheduled to be played between four teams, it was increased to five.^[2][3] The series was played by Hong Kong, Ireland, Nepal, the Netherlands and hosts Oman ahead of the 2019 ICC Men's T20 World Cup Qualifier tournament in the United Arab Emirates.^[4][5] All the matches were played at the Al Amerat Cricket StadiuminMuscat.^[6][7]

In September 2019, when Cricket Hong Kong announced their squad, Anshuman Rath was not included in the side, after quitting the national team to pursue a career in India.^[8] Following Rath's announcement to quit playing for the Hong Kong team, Babar Hayat then declared that he was no longer available to play for Hong Kong.^[9] Brothers Tanveer Ahmed and Ehsan Nawaz also withdrew themselves for selection.^[9]

Hosts Oman won the tournament, after they won all four of their matches, with Ireland finishing as the runners-up.^[10][11]

Squads[edit]

Hong Kong[12]	Ireland[13]	Nepal[14]	Netherlands[15]	Oman[16]
Aizaz Khan (c) Kinchit Shah (vc) Ahsan Abbasi Haroon Arshad Waqas Barkat Aarush Bhagwat Kyle Christie Mohammad Ghazanfar Raag Kapur Ehsan Khan Nizakat Khan Waqas Khan Scott McKechnie (wk) Nasrulla Rana Shahid Wasif	Gary Wilson (c) Mark Adair Andrew Balbirnie Gareth Delany George Dockrell Shane Getkate Barry McCarthy Kevin O'Brien Boyd Rankin Simi Singh Paul Stirling Harry Tector Stuart Thompson Lorcan Tucker Craig Young	Paras Khadka (c) Dipendra Singh Airee (vc) Binod Bhandari (wk) Sushan Bhari Abinash Bohara Sundeep Jora Sompal Kami Karan KC Sandeep Lamichhane Kushal Malla Ishan Pandey Rohit Paudel Lalit Rajbanshi Pawan Sarraf Aarif Sheikh	Pieter Seelaar (c) Colin Ackermann Philippe Boissevain Ben Cooper Ryan ten Doeschate Scott Edwards (wk) Brandon Glover Timm van der Gugten Fred Klaassen Paul van Meekeren Roelof van der Merwe Max O'Dowd Shane Snater Antonius Staal Tobias Visee	Zeeshan Maqsood (c) Aqib Ilyas (vc) Khawar Ali Fayyaz Butt Sandeep Goud Aamir Kaleem Kaleemullah Bilal Khan Mehran Khan Naseem Khushi Suraj Kumar Sufyan Mehmood Mohammad Nadeem Khurram Nawaz Jay Odedra Jatinder Singh

Points table[edit]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	T	NR	Pts	NRR
1	Oman (H)	4	4	0	0	0	8	2.268
2	Ireland	4	3	1	0	0	6	0.648
3	Nepal	4	2	2	0	0	4	−0.731
4	Netherlands	4	1	3	0	0	2	−0.208
5	Hong Kong	4	0	4	0	0	0	−2.070

Fixtures[edit]

• Hong Kong won the toss and elected to bat.
• Suraj Kumar (Oma), Ahsan Abbasi, Haroon Arshad, Aarush Bhagwat, Kyle Christie, Scott McKechnie and Nasrulla Rana (HK) all made their T20I debuts.

• Ireland won the toss and elected to field.
• Colin Ackermann (Ned) made his T20I debut.

• Ireland won the toss and elected to field.

• Nepal won the toss and elected to field.
• Mohammad Ghazanfar and Raag Kapur (HK) both made their T20I debuts.

• Nepal won the toss and elected to field.

• Ireland won the toss and elected to bat.
• Kevin O'Brien became the first batsman for Ireland to score a century in T20Is.^[18]

• Ireland won the toss and elected to bat.

• Netherlands won the toss and elected to bat.
• Khawar Ali (Oma) took a hat-trick.^[19]

• Hong Kong won the toss and elected to field.

• Oman won the toss and elected to field.
• Aamir Kaleem became the first bowler for Oman to take a five-wicket haul in T20Is.^[20]

References[edit]

External links[edit]

• Series home at ESPN Cricinfo