# 2020 Interport T20I Series

The Hong Kong cricket team toured Malaysia in February 2020 to play a five-match Twenty20 International (T20I) series, known as the Interport T20 Series. All the matches were played at the Kinrara Academy Oval, Kuala Lumpur. The series marked the return of the 154-year-old tradition of contests known as 'Interport' matches, a term historically used to refer to matches played between various British settlements in Southeast Asia, such as Hong Kong and Malaysia (and the Malay states that preceded Malaysia). The series was originally scheduled to be played at the Mission Road Ground in Mong Kok, Hong Kong, but was cancelled in early February due to the coronavirus pandemic in China.
Malaysia won the first three matches to give them an unassailable lead in the series. The hosts went on to sweep the series 5–0. Both teams went on to compete in the 2020 ACC Eastern Region T20 tournament (the first stage of qualification for the 2020 Asia Cup) which started a few days after the completion of the series.

## Squads

| Malaysia | Hong Kong |
| Ahmad Faiz (c) Virandeep Singh (vc, wk) Mohamed Arief Syed Aziz Khizar Hayat Syazrul Idrus Dhivendran Mogan Sharvin Muniandy Anwar Rahman Nazril Rahman Aminuddin Ramly Bhushan Save Fitri Sham Pavandeep Singh | Aizaz Khan (c) Kinchit Shah (vc) Haroon Arshad Waqas Barkat Aftab Hussain Ehsan Khan Hamed Khan Mohsin Khan Nizakat Khan Waqas Khan Scott McKechnie (wk) Hassan Khan Mohammad Nasrulla Rana Shahid Wasif |

## T20I series
### 1st T20I

* 20 February 2020 19:30 (D/N) Scorecard
| Malaysia 123/3 (16.3 overs) | v | Hong Kong 61/8 (9 overs) |
| Ahmad Faiz 40 (39) Kinchit Shah 1/15 (3 overs) | | Shahid Wasif 26* (21) Khizar Hayat 5/4 (2 overs) |
* Malaysia won by 21 runs (DLS method) Kinrara Academy Oval, Kuala Lumpur Umpires: Viswanadan Kalidas (Mas) and Denish Sevakumaran (Mas) Player of the match: Khizar Hayat (Mas)
* Malaysia won the toss and elected to bat.
* Malaysia's innings was ended after 16.3 overs and Hong Kong were set a revised target of 83 runs to win from 9 overs due to multiple rain delays.
* Khizar Hayat, Bhushan Save (Mas), Aftab Hussain, Hamed Khan and Mohsin Khan (HK) all made their T20I debuts.
* Khizar Hayat became the first bowler for Malaysia to take a five-wicket haul in T20Is and took a wicket with his first delivery in a T20I.

### 2nd T20I

* 21 February 2020 19:30 (D/N) Scorecard
| Malaysia 138/6 (19 overs) | v | Hong Kong 103/8 (19 overs) |
| Virandeep Singh 46 (40) Aizaz Khan 2/15 (4 overs) | | Waqas Barkat 35 (29) Pavandeep Singh 3/18 (4 overs) |
* Malaysia won by 35 runs Kinrara Academy Oval, Kuala Lumpur Umpires: Viswanadan Kalidas (Mas) and Mathan Kumar (Mas) Player of the match: Virandeep Singh (Mas)
* Malaysia won the toss and elected to bat.
* The match was reduced to 19 overs per side due to rain.

### 3rd T20I

* 23 February 2020 19:30 (D/N) Scorecard
| Malaysia 152/9 (20 overs) | v | Hong Kong 144/7 (20 overs) |
| Ahmad Faiz 58 (46) Haroon Arshad 4/12 (2 overs) | | Waqas Khan 60 (47) Syazrul Idrus 3/17 (4 overs) |
* Malaysia won by 8 runs Kinrara Academy Oval, Kuala Lumpur Umpires: Rudy Ismandy (Mas) and Narayanan Sivan (Mas) Player of the match: Ahmad Faiz (Mas)
* Malaysia won the toss and elected to bat.

### 4th T20I

* 24 February 2020 14:00 Scorecard
| Malaysia 167/7 (20 overs) | v | Hong Kong 154/7 (20 overs) |
| Virandeep Singh 50 (40) Mohsin Khan 3/37 (4 overs) | | Shahid Wasif 29 (25) Pavandeep Singh 2/26 (4 overs) |
* Malaysia won by 13 runs Kinrara Academy Oval, Kuala Lumpur Umpires: Viswanadan Kalidas (Mas) and Loganathan Poobalan (Mas) Player of the match: Virandeep Singh (Mas)
* Malaysia won the toss and elected to bat.
* Dhivendran Mogan (Mas) and Hassan Khan Mohammad (HK) both made their T20I debuts.

### 5th T20I

* 26 February 2020 10:00 Scorecard
| Hong Kong 171/7 (20 overs) | v | Malaysia 176/4 (18.3 overs) |
| Kinchit Shah 72 (46) Syazrul Idrus 2/27 (4 overs) | | Syed Aziz 50 (33) Aizaz Khan 2/30 (3.3 overs) |
* Malaysia won by 6 wickets Kinrara Academy Oval, Kuala Lumpur Umpires: Nasir Ali (Mas) and Viswanadan Kalidas (Mas) Player of the match: Kinchit Shah (HK)
* Hong Kong won the toss and elected to bat.