# 2022 European Cricket League

The 2022 European Cricket League (abbreviated as ECL22) also known as the 2022 Bet2Ball European Cricket League was the second edition of the European Cricket League that was held at the Cartama Oval in Málaga, Spain. It was postponed from 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Spain.

## Background

The European Cricket League was founded in 2019 by German cricketer Daniel Weston intended as a way to develop cricket in emerging nations in Europe as a cricket equivalent to football's UEFA Champions League. In 2020, it was announced the European Cricket League expanded from 8 teams to include the national club champions of 30 European countries. This came after Weston signed agreements with several European cricket boards to ensure their domestic champions would be invited.
The host for the 2021 and 2022 editions was announced as Spain. The Cartama Oval in Málaga was chosen as the host city ahead of La Manga, Murcia, who were due to host in 2021. It was announced the 2022 edition would run from 7 February 2022 to 25 March.

## Participants

The following teams were invited to take part as champions of their domestic leagues. The draw was made according to International Cricket Council seedings with England's ECB National Club Twenty20 champions Tunbridge Wells entering as top seeds. Jersey's Farmers expressed concern about the scheduling of the tournament due to the Jersey national cricket team's participation in the 2019–2022 ICC Cricket World Cup Challenge League and qualifiers for the 2022 ICC Men's T20 World Cup, as well as their players needing to use leave from their jobs to play. The reigning European Cricket League champions VOC Rotterdam were also invited back to participate.
It was announced that, due to issues with getting visas, that Petersburg Sporting would not be taking part in their group. They would be replaced by the Calpe Giants of Gibraltar.
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| Group A | Tunbridge Wells | Svanholm | Austrian Tigers | Star CC | Helsinki Titans | Dreux |
| Group B | Brigade | Griffins | Bjørvika | Royal Tigers | Indo Bulgarian | Zagreb Sokol |
| Group C | Carlton | Brescia | Cluj | Prague CC Kings | Olten | Zeytinburnnu Zafir |
| Group D | V.O.C Rotterdam | MSC Frankfurt | Alby Zalmi | Ostend Exiles | Malta Super Kings | Calpe Giants |
| Group E | HBS Craeyenhout | Farmers | Pak I Care Badalona | Malo | GEK Corfu | Punjab Lions Nicosia |

## Group stage

The Group Stage is to be played across the first 5 weeks of the tournament, with each Group lasting a week. Each week starts with a 3-day round-robin tournament, from which the top 3 progress to a Super 3 playoff. The bottom two teams face off in an eliminator, with the winner going on to play the team who finished 4th. The winner of that game then plays the 3rd place team from the Super 3 playoff, while the Top 2 from that playoff play each other in the first Qualifier. The loser of that game and the winner of the third eliminator then play in the second qualifier. The winners of the Qualifiers then play in the group final to decide the overall Group Winner.
During the Group A final between Tunbridge Wells and Dreux, the match went viral after Dreux's Wahid Abdul and Tunbridge Wells' Chris Williams exchanged phone celebrations.

### Group A

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | Pts | NRR | Qualification |
| 1 | Austrian Tigers | 5 | 4 | 1 | 8 | 2.699 | Advance to Super 3 |
| 2 | Tunbridge Wells | 5 | 4 | 1 | 8 | 1.656 | Advance to Super 3 |
| 3 | Dreux | 5 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 3.473 | Advance to Super 3 |
| 4 | Svanholm | 5 | 3 | 2 | 6 | −0.418 | Advance to Eliminator 2 |
| 5 | Helsinki Titans | 5 | 1 | 4 | 2 | −0.615 | Advance to Eliminator 1 |
| 6 | Star CC | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | −5.000 | Advance to Eliminator 1 |

### Super 3

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | Pts | NRR | Qualification |
| 1 | Tunbridge Wells | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 2.550 | Advanced to Qualifier 1 |
| 2 | Austrian Tigers | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0.292 | Advanced to Qualifier 1 |
| 3 | Dreux | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | −2.891 | Advanced to Eliminator 3 |

### Eliminators

* Eliminator 1 10 February 2022 10:00 Scorecard
| Helsinki Titans 118/8 (10 overs) | v | Star CC 118/6 (10 overs) |
| Ahad Qureshi 50 (18) Jatin Madan 3/20 (2 overs) | | Jatin Madan 49 (20) Wahid Qureshi 3/12 (2 overs) |
* Match Tied (Star CC wins the Golden Ball) Cartama Oval, Cartama Umpires: Harrison Ward and Suleman Saeed Player of the match: Jatin Madan
* Star CC won the toss and elected to Bat
* Eliminator 2 10 February 2022 14:00 Scorecard
| Svanholm 43/0 (4.2 overs) | v | Star CC 44 (8.3 overs) |
| Wahab Hashimi 23* (12) Jatin Madan 0/15 (2 overs) | | Shiv Karan Gill 23 (16) Zeeshan Khan 3/3 (2 overs) |
* Svanholm beat Star CC by 10 wickets Cartama Oval, Cartama Umpires: Harrison Ward and Suleman Saeed Player of the match: Zeeshan Khan
* Star CC won the toss and elected to bat
* Eliminator 3 11 February 2022 10:00 Scorecard
| Dreux 101/8 (10 overs) | v | Svanholm 80/8 (10 overs) |
| Kamran Ahmadzai 26 (9) Toqeer Ahmad 2/15 (2 overs) | | Hamid Shah 21 (14) Kamran Ahmadzai 3/18 (2 overs) |
* Dreux beat Svanholm by 21 runs Cartama Oval, Cartama Umpires: Harrison Ward and Charles Croucher Player of the match: Kamran Ahmadzai
* Svanholm won the toss and elected to Bowl

### Qualifiers and Final

* Qualifier 1 11 February 2022 08:00 Scorecard
| Tunbridge Wells 141/4 (10 overs) | v | Austrian Tigers 113/8 (10 overs) |
| Alex Williams 58 (25) Imran Asif 2/19 (2 overs) | | Imran Asif 33 (19) Dave Smith 3/15 (2 overs) |
* Tunbridge Wells won by 28 runs Cartama Oval, Cartama Umpires: Nilkesh Patel and Suleman Saeed Player of the match: Alex Williams
* Austrian Tigers won the toss and elected to bowl.
* Qualifier 2 11 February 2022 13:00 Scorecard
| Austrian Tigers 83/9 (10 overs) | v | Dreux 86/3 (6.4 overs) |
| Ahsan Yousuf 21 (8) Shahzeb Mohammad 3/14 (2 overs) | | Hamza Niaz 28 (11) Adal Afzal 2/24 (1.4 overs) |
* Dreux won by 7 wickets Cartama Oval, Cartama Umpires: Suleman Saeed and Subh Navjot Anand Player of the match: Shahzeb Mohammad
* Austrian Tigers won the toss and elected to bat
* Final 11 February 2022 16:00 Scorecard
| Tunbridge Wells 128/5 (10 overs) | v | Dreux 101/8 (10 overs) |
| Dave Smith 28 (12) Tabush Bhatti 2/20 (2 overs) | | Mohammad Nisar 48 (19) Marcus O'Riordan 4/17 (2 overs) |
* Tunbridge Wells won by 27 runs Cartama Oval, Cartama Umpires: Charles Croucher and Nilkesh Patel Player of the match: Marcus O'Riordan
* Tunbridge Wells won the toss and elected to Bat

### Group B

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | Pts | NRR | Qualification |
| 1 | Royal Tigers | 5 | 4 | 1 | 8 | 1.923 | Advanced to Super 3 |
| 2 | Brigade | 5 | 4 | 1 | 8 | 0.297 | Advanced to Super 3 |
| 3 | Griffins | 5 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 2.103 | Advanced to Super 3 |
| 4 | Bjørvika | 5 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 0.255 | Advanced to Eliminator 2 |
| 5 | Indo-Bulgarian | 5 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 0.648 | Advanced to Eliminator 1 |
| 6 | Zagreb Sokol | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | −5.236 | Advanced to Eliminator 1 |

### Super 3

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | Pts | NRR | Qualification |
| 1 | Brigade | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0.644 | Advanced to Qualifier 1 |
| 2 | Royal Tigers | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0.623 | Advanced to Qualifier 1 |
| 3 | Griffins | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | −1.381 | Advanced to Eliminator 3 |

### Eliminators

* Eliminator 1 17 February 2022 10:00 Scorecard
| Indo-Bulgarian 149/1 (10 overs) | v | Zagreb Sokol 111/1 (10 overs) |
| Jamie Batten 54* (28) Sam Houghton 1/37 (2 overs) | | Dan Lazarides 47* (29) Chris Lakov 1/26 (2 overs) |
* Indo-Bulgarin beat Zagreb Sokol by 38 runs Cartama Oval, Cartama Umpires: Shubh Navjot Anand and Suleman Saeed Player of the match: Jamie Batten
* Zagreb Sokol won the toss and elected to Bowl
* Eliminator 2 17 February 2022 14:00 Scorecard
| Bjørvika 71/0 (6.3 overs) | v | Indo-Bulgarian 70/8 (10 overs) |
| Chris Lakov 28* (21) Waseem Abbas 2/10 (2 overs) | | Qamar Ejaz 33* (19) Jamie Batten 0/11 (2 overs) |
* Bjørvika beat Indo-Bulgarian by 10 wickets Cartama Oval, Cartama Umpires: Nilkesh Patel and Shubh Navjot Anand Player of the match: Waseem Abbas
* Indo-Bulgarian won the toss and elected to Bat
* Eliminator 3 18 February 2022 10:00 Scorecard
| Griffins 63/8 (10 overs) | v | Bjørvika 69/3 (7.5 overs) |
| Adam Martel 18 (10) Muhammad Afzaal 4/6 (2 overs) | | Khurram Shahzad 27* (12) Jordan Martel 2/12 (2 overs) |
* Bjørvika beat Griffins by 7 wickets Cartama Oval, Cartama Umpires: Suleman Saeed and Shubh Navjot Anand Player of the match: Muhammad Afzaal
* Bjørvika won the toss and elected to Bowl

#### Qualifiers and Final
### Group C

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | Pts | NRR | Qualification |
| 1 | Carlton | 5 | 5 | 0 | 10 | 2.301 | Advanced to the Super 3 |
| 2 | Olten | 5 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 2.153 | Advanced to the Super 3 |
| 3 | Cluj | 5 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 0.760 | Advanced to the Super 3 |
| 4 | Brescia | 5 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 3.296 | Advanced to Eliminator 2 |
| 5 | Prague Kings | 5 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 1.173 | Advanced to Eliminator 1 |
| 6 | Zeytinburnu Zafer | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | −1.141 | Advanced to Eliminator 1 |

### Super 3

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | NR | Pts | NRR | Qualification |
| 1 | Carlton | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 3.076 | Advanced to Qualifier 1 |
| 2 | Cluj | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | −2.634 | Advanced to Qualifier 1 |
| 3 | Olten | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | −3.331 | Advanced to Eliminator 3 |

#### Qualifiers and Final
### Group D

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | Pts | NRR | Qualification |
| 1 | MSC Frankfurt | 5 | 5 | 0 | 10 | 2.402 | Advanced to the Super 3 |
| 2 | Ostend Exiles | 5 | 4 | 1 | 8 | 1.636 | Advanced to the Super 3 |
| 3 | V.O.C Rotterdam | 5 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 1.118 | Advanced to the Super 3 |
| 4 | Alby Zalmi | 5 | 2 | 3 | 4 | −0.754 | Advanced to Eliminator 2 |
| 5 | Malta Super Kings | 5 | 1 | 4 | 2 | −0.504 | Advanced to Eliminator 1 |
| 6 | Calpe Giants | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | −4.177 | Advanced to Eliminator 1 |

### Super 3

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | NR | Pts | NRR | Qualification |
| 1 | MSC Frankfurt | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0.957 | Advanced to Qualifier 1 |
| 2 | Ostend Exiles | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0.645 | Advanced to Qualifier 1 |
| 3 | V.O.C Rotterdam | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | −1.813 | Advanced to Eliminator 3 |

#### Qualifiers and Final
### Group E

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | Pts | NRR | Qualification |
| 1 | Pak I Care Badalona | 5 | 5 | 0 | 10 | 3.906 | Advanced to the Super 3 |
| 2 | HBS Craeyenhout | 5 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 0.300 | Advanced to the Super 3 |
| 3 | Punjab Lions Nicosia | 5 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 0.022 | Advanced to the Super 3 |
| 4 | Malo | 5 | 2 | 3 | 4 | −0.599 | Advanced to Eliminator 2 |
| 5 | Farmers | 5 | 1 | 4 | 2 | −1.382 | Advanced to Eliminator 1 |
| 6 | GEK Corfu | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | −1.836 | Advanced to Eliminator 1 |

### Super 3

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | NR | Pts | NRR | Qualification |
| 1 | Pak I Care Badalona | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1.984 | Advanced to Qualifier 1 |
| 2 | Punjab Lions Nicosia | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | −0.067 | Advanced to Qualifier 1 |
| 3 | HBS Craeyenhout | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | −1.960 | Advanced to Eliminator 3 |

#### Eliminators

* Eliminator 1 10 March 2022 10:00 Scorecard
| Farmers 88/2 (7.5 overs) | v | GEK Corfu 85/9 (10 overs) |
| Asa Tribe 44* (22) Ilias Bardis 2/24 (2 overs) | | Tasos Manousis 27 (12) Charles Perchard 2/12 (2 overs) |
* Farmers beat GEK Corfu by 8 wickets Cartama Oval, Cartama Umpires: Steffan Gooch and Joe Foster Player of the match: Asa Tribe
* Farmers won the toss and elected to Bowl
* Eliminator 2 10 March 2022 14:00 Scorecard
| Malo 95 (10 overs) | v | Farmers 97/4 (9.3 overs) |
| Najam Shahzad 49 (22) Ben Kynman 4/12 (1 over) | | Zak Tribe 26 (11) Adnan Gondal 1/19 (2 overs) |
* Farmers beat Malo by 6 wickets Cartama Oval, Cartama Umpires: Tyrone Peters and Asad Ali Player of the match: Ben Kynman
* Farmers won the toss and elected to Bowl
* Eliminator 3 11 March 2022 10:00 Scorecard
| HBS Craeyenhout 95/3 (10 overs) | v | Farmers 96/4 (10 overs) |
| Tayo Walbrugh 47* (28) Joel Richardson 2/5 (2 overs) | | Asa Tribe 46 (22) Ferdi Vink 2/17 (2 overs) |
* Farmers beat HBS Craeyenhout by 6 wickets Cartama Oval, Cartama Umpires: Steffan Gooch and Joe Foster Player of the match: Asa Tribe
* Farmers won the toss and elected to bowl

#### Qualifiers and Final

* Qualifier 1 11 March 2022 8:00 Scorecard
| Pak I Care Badalona 88/8 (10 overs) | v | Punjab Lions Nicosia 94/9 (10 overs) |
| Sikandar Ali 28 (13) Gurpartap Singh 2/13 (2 overs) | | Qasim Anwar 27* (11) Muhammad Babar 2/7 (2 overs) |
* Punjab Lions Nicosia beat Pak I Care Badalona by 6 runs Cartama Oval, Cartama Umpires: Tyrone Peters and Asad Ali Player of the match: Taranjit Singh
* Pak I Care Badalona won the toss and elected to bowl
* Qualifier 2 11 March 2022 13:00 Scorecard
| Pak I Care Badalona 112/5 (10 overs) | v | Farmers 71/8 (10 overs) |
| Muhammad Babar 75 (35) Charles Perchard 2/7 (2 overs) | | James Smith 12 (9) Sheroz Ahmed 3/15 (2 overs) |
* Pak I Care Badalona beat Farmers by 41 runs Cartama Oval, Cartama Umpires: Asad Ali and Tyrone Peters Player of the match: Muhammad Babar
* Farmers won the toss and elected to bowl
* Final 11 March 2022 16:00 Scorecard
| Pak I Care Badalona 93/9 (10 overs) | v | Punjab Lions Nicosia 18/5 (3 overs) |
| Muhammad Kamran 35 (15) Sushil Kumar 2/7 (2 overs) | | Gurpartap Singh 6 (5) Muhammad Babar 3/5 (1 over) |
* Pak I Care Badalona beat Punjab Lions Nicosia by 14 runs (D/L Method) Cartama Oval, Cartama Umpires: Steffan Gooch and Joe Foster Player of the match: Muhammad Babar
* Pak I Care Badalona won the toss and elected to bat.
* Rain reduced Punjab Lions Nicosia's innings to 3 overs.
* According to the DLS method, their target was 33 runs.

## Championship Week

The Champions Week features a slightly modified version of the Group Stage model. The 5 group winners play in a double round-robin format from the Monday to Thursday. The top 2 teams after this progress to the 1st Qualifier, while 3rd and 4th go to the Eliminator. The loser of the Qualifier and the Winner of the Eliminator then face off for the right to play the Qualifier winner in the Championship Final. The teams moving on to the Finals week are:
* Team
* Tunbridge Wells
* Brigade
* Brescia
* Alby Zalmi
* Pak I Care Badalona
Due to adverse weather conditions in Malaga, the first 3 days of competition were suspended. The games were shortened to 5 overs a side, with 10 games on Day 1 (Thursday), and 10 games on Day 2 (Friday), with the Saturday now acting as the Final Day of the tournament

### Round robin

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | Pts | NRR | Qualification |
| 1 | Pak I Care Badalona | 8 | 7 | 1 | 14 | 1.492 | Advance to Qualifier 1 |
| 2 | Tunbridge Wells | 8 | 6 | 2 | 12 | 3.781 | Advance to Qualifier 1 |
| 3 | Brescia | 8 | 4 | 4 | 8 | −0.414 | Advance to Eliminator |
| 4 | Brigade | 8 | 3 | 5 | 6 | −3.119 | Advance to Eliminator |
| 5 | Alby Zalmi | 8 | 0 | 8 | 0 | −1.752 | |

### Eliminator, Qualifiers and Final

* Eliminator 19 March 2022 8:00 Scorecard
| Bresica 96/4 (9.3 overs) | v | Brigade 95/3 (10 overs) |
| Ali Raza Islam 41 (21) Ryan MacBeth 3/10 (2 overs) | | David Murdock 48 (26) Ali Raza Islam 3/3 (2 overs) |
* Brescia beat Brigade by 6 wickets Cartama Oval, Cartama Umpires: Charles Croucher and Steffan Gooch Player of the match: Ali Raza Islam
* Brigade won the toss and elected to bat
* Qualifier 1 19 March 2022 10.00 Scorecard
| Pak I Care Badalona 122/7 (10 overs) | v | Tunbridge Wells 95/6 (10 overs) |
| Muhammad Babar 30 (10) Bailey Wrightman 2/11 (2 overs) | | Ian McLean 35* (15) Atif Muhammad 3/13 (2 overs) |
* Pak I Care Badalona beat Tunbridge Wells by 27 runs Cartama Oval, Cartama Umpires: Asad Ali and Tyrone Peters Player of the match: Atif Muhammad
* Tunbridge Wells won the toss and elected to bowl
* Qualifier 2 19 March 2022 13.00 Scorecard
| Tunbridge Wells 150/5 (10 overs) | v | Brescia 120/6 (10 overs) |
| Alex Williams 49 (18) Bashar Khan 1/16 (2 overs) | | Ali Raza Islam 54 (23) Matt Barker 2/6 (2 overs) |
* Tunbridge Wells beat Brescia by 30 runs Cartama Oval, Cartama Umpires: Steffan Gooch and Charles Croucher Player of the match: Matt Barker
* Brescia won the toss and elected to bowl
* Final 19 March 2022 16.00 Scorecard
| Pak I Care Badalona 84/3 (9 overs) | v | Tunbridge Wells 81/7 (10 overs) |
| Mohammad Yasin 24 (20) Michael Waller 1/8 (1 over) | | Christian Davis 23 (18) Muhammad Babar 3/14 (2 overs) |
* Pak I Care Badalona beat Tunbridge Wells by 7 wickets Cartama Oval, Cartama Umpires: Asad Ali and Tyrone Peters Player of the match: Muhammad Babar
* Pak I Care Badalona won the toss and elected to bowl

## Statistics
### Most Runs

| Runs | Player | Team | Inns | HS | Ave | SR | 50 | 30 | 4s | 6s |
| 477 | Chris Williams | Tunbridge Wells | 19 | 61 | 29.81 | 248.43 | 2 | 6 | 24 | 54 |
| 445 | Alex Williams | Tunbridge Wells | 19 | 58* | 40.45 | 223.61 | 2 | 5 | 34 | 37 |
| 433 | Muhammad Babar | Pak I Care Badalona | 20 | 75 | 25.47 | 220.91 | 2 | 4 | 17 | 53 |
| 384 | Babar Hussain | Brescia | 19 | 102* | 25.60 | 193.93 | 1 | 2 | 34 | 27 |
| 361 | Graeme McCarter | Brigade | 18 | 56* | 25.78 | 184.18 | 2 | 4 | 28 | 28 |
| 356 | Ali Raza Islam | Brescia | 16 | 54 | 25.42 | 215.75 | 2 | 4 | 16 | 37 |
| 310 | Yasir Dullu | Brescia | 19 | 66* | 20.66 | 174.15 | 1 | 3 | 31 | 21 |
| 282 | Azam Khalil | Alby Zalmi | 17 | 53* | 20.14 | 157.54 | 1 | 0 | 25 | 18 |
| 262 | Sudesh Wickramasekara | Prague CC Kings | 6 | 76* | 52.40 | 231.85 | 2 | 2 | 14 | 28 |
| 261 | Zeeshan Kukikhel | Royal Tigers | 10 | 54 | 32.62 | 193.33 | 2 | 2 | 25 | 22 |
| Source: European Cricket Network |||||||||||

### Most Wickets

| Wkts | Player | Team | Mat | Ave | Econ | BBI | SR |
| 23 | Muhammad Babar | Pak I Care Badalona | 20 | 10.43 | 8.00 | 3/4 | 7.82 |
| 21 | Dave Smith | Tunbridge Wells | 18 | 9.38 | 8.20 | 3/6 | 6.85 |
| 21 | Ryan MacBeth | Brigade | 18 | 11.66 | 9.07 | 3/10 | 7.71 |
| 19 | Ali Raza Islam | Brescia | 17 | 7.57 | 7.51 | 3/0 | 6.05 |
| 18 | Iftikhar Hussain | Brigade | 17 | 13.50 | 9.34 | 3/10 | 8.66 |
| 17 | Muhammad Kamran | Pak I Care Badalona | 17 | 10.94 | 6.88 | 3/3 | 9.52 |
| 17 | Shehroz Ahmed | Pak I Care Badalona | 20 | 11.35 | 8.90 | 4/8 | 7.64 |
| 16 | Tas Qureshi | Alby Zalmi | 16 | 11.50 | 8.00 | 2/7 | 8.62 |
| 16 | Matt Barker | Tunbridge Wells | 18 | 14.00 | 8.90 | 3/8 | 9.43 |
| 16 | Neeraj Tiwari | Punjab Lions Nicosia | 9 | 10.50 | 9.33 | 3/11 | 6.75 |
| Source: European Cricket Network ||||||||