# 2019 Malaysia Tri-Nation Series

The 2019 Malaysia Tri-Nation Series was a Twenty20 International (T20I) cricket tournament held in Malaysia.
The series took place from 24 to 29 June 2019. The participating teams were Malaysia, Maldives and Thailand. Papua New Guinea were also included in the original schedule for a quadrangular tournament, but later withdrew. The matches were played at the Kinrara Oval in Kuala Lumpur. Malaysia and Thailand both played their first matches with T20I status during this tournament, following the decision of the ICC to grant full Twenty20 International status to all its members from 1 January 2019. Maldives played three 20-over warm up matches against an MCA President XI side from 19 to 21 June 2019. On the penultimate day, Malaysia secured the title after their last fixture against Maldives, a rain-affected match, finished in a no result. The fixtures were part of Malaysia's preparation for the Regional Finals of the 2018–19 ICC T20 World Cup Asia Qualifier tournament in July 2019. Maldives all-rounder Nilantha Cooray was named player of the series.

## Squads

| Malaysia | Maldives | Thailand |
| Ahmad Faiz (c) Anwar Arudin Syed Aziz Neville Liyanage Sharvin Muniandy Anwar Rahman Nazril Rahman Aminuddin Ramly Fitri Sham Shafiq Sharif Virandeep Singh Pasha Syafiq Ali Muhamad Syahadat | Mohamed Mahfooz (c) Umar Adam Chandana Liyanage Nilantha Cooray Muaviath Ganee Ahmed Hassan Ibrahim Hassan Shafraz Jaleel Wedage Malinda Ameel Mauroof Hassan Rasheed Mohamed Rishwan Shafee Saeed Ihala Kumara | Vichanath Singh (c) Mahsid Faheem Md Shafiqul Haque Sittipong Hongsi Ziaul Hoque Anowarul Islam Daniel Jacobs Nicholas Janes Henno Jordaan Naveed Pathan Chanchai Pengkumta Kamron Senamontree Kiatiwut Suttisan |

## Tour matches
### 1st T20 match

* 19 June 2019 Scorecard
| MCA President XI 105/8 (20 overs) | v | Maldives 109/5 (18.2 overs) |
| Pasha Syafiq Ali 29 (33) Chandana Liyanage 3/15 (4 overs) | | Mohamed Rishwan 37 (34) Amiruddin Azahar 1/9 (3 overs) |
* Maldives won by 5 wickets Selangor Turf Club, Selangor
* MCA President XI won the toss and elected to bat.

### 2nd T20 match

* 20 June 2019 Scorecard
| Maldives 92 (19.2 overs) | v | MCA President XI 93/3 (13.3 overs) |
| Hassan Rasheed 17 (28) Muhamad Syahadat 3/10 (4 overs) | | Aminuddin Ramly 28 (22) Nilantha Cooray 2/13 (2 overs) |
* MCA President XI won by 7 wickets Selangor Turf Club, Selangor
* Maldives won the toss and elected to bat.

### 3rd T20 match

* 21 June 2019 Scorecard
| Maldives 177/2 (20 overs) | v | MCA President XI 41/6 (8.1 overs) |
| Mohamed Rishwan 102* (54) Muhammad Hafiz 1/16 (4 overs) | | Ainool Hafizs 14 (16) Mohamed Mahfooz 2/4 (2 overs) |
* Maldives won by 59 runs (DLS method) Selangor Turf Club, Selangor Player of the match: Mohamed Rishwan (Mdv)
* Maldives won the toss and elected to bat.
* MCA President XI were set a revised target of 101 runs from 8 overs due to rain.

## Points table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | L | T | NR | Pts | NRR |
| 1 | Malaysia (H) | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 2.367 |
| 2 | Maldives | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | −1.327 |
| 3 | Thailand | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | −0.700 |

## Matches

* 24 June 2019 10:00 Scorecard
| Thailand 113/8 (20 overs) | v | Malaysia 114/5 (17 overs) |
| Naveed Pathan 37 (28) Muhamad Syahadat 3/7 (4 overs) | | Muhamad Syahadat 41* (32) Mahsid Faheem 2/26 (4 overs) |
* Malaysia won by 5 wickets Kinrara Oval, Kuala Lumpur Umpires: Viswanadan Kalidas (Mas) and Mathan Kumar (Mas) Player of the match: Muhamad Syahadat (Mas)
* Malaysia won the toss and elected to field.
* Anwar Arudin, Syed Aziz, Ahmad Faiz, Neville Liyanage, Sharvin Muniandy, Nazril Rahman, Aminuddin Ramly, Fitri Sham, Shafiq Sharif, Virandeep Singh, Muhamad Syahadat (Mas), Mahsid Faheem, Md Shafiqul Haque, Ziaul Hoque, Anowarul Islam, Daniel Jacobs, Henno Jordaan, Naveed Pathan, Chanchai Pengkumta, Kamron Senamontree, Vichanath Singh and Kiatiwut Suttisan (Tha) all made their T20I debuts.
* 25 June 2019 10:00 Scorecard
| Malaysia 186/5 (20 overs) | v | Maldives 113 (16.3 overs) |
| Syed Aziz 53* (24) Nilantha Cooray 3/26 (4 overs) | | Ahmed Hassan 40 (23) Anwar Rahman 3/7 (1.3 overs) |
* Malaysia won by 73 runs Kinrara Oval, Kuala Lumpur Umpires: Viswanadan Kalidas (Mas) and Shafizan Shahriman (Mas) Player of the match: Syed Aziz (Mas)
* Maldives won the toss and elected to field.
* Anwar Rahman (Mas), Nilantha Cooray, Shafraz Jaleel and Chandana Liyanage (Mdv) all made their T20I debuts.
* 26 June 2019 10:00 Scorecard
| Thailand 130/7 (20 overs) | v | Maldives 131/8 (20 overs) |
| Naveed Pathan 34 (31) Umar Adam 3/17 (3 overs) | | Nilantha Cooray 40 (34) Mahsid Faheem 2/20 (4 overs) |
* Maldives won by 2 wickets Kinrara Oval, Kuala Lumpur Umpires: Viswanadan Kalidas (Mas) and Loganathan Poobalan (Mas) Player of the match: Nilantha Cooray (Mdv)
* Thailand won the toss and elected to bat.
* Wedage Malinda (Mdv), Sittipong Hongsi and Nicholas Janes (Tha) all made their T20I debuts.
* 27 June 2019 10:00 Scorecard
| Thailand 127/7 (20 overs) | v | Malaysia 129/2 (15 overs) |
| Henno Jordaan 37* (44) Anwar Rahman 4/16 (4 overs) | | Syed Aziz 57* (38) Mahsid Faheem 1/19 (2 overs) |
* Malaysia won by 8 wickets Kinrara Oval, Kuala Lumpur Umpires: Viswanadan Kalidas (Mas) and Zaidan Taha (Mas) Player of the match: Anwar Rahman (Mas)
* Thailand won the toss and elected to bat.
* Pasha Syafiq Ali (Mas) made his T20I debut.
* 28 June 2019 10:00 Scorecard
| Malaysia 123/5 (17 overs) | v | Maldives |
| Shafiq Sharif 43 (31) Umar Adam 2/18 (4 overs) | | |
* No result Kinrara Oval, Kuala Lumpur Umpires: Izmir Azraf (Mas) and Viswanadan Kalidas (Mas)
* Malaysia won the toss and elected to bat.
* No further play was possible due to rain.
* 29 June 2019 10:00 Scorecard
| Maldives 153/6 (20 overs) | v | Thailand 154/5 (19.1 overs) |
| Nilantha Cooray 56* (35) Daniel Jacobs 4/13 (4 overs) | | Naveed Pathan 54* (39) Nilantha Cooray 2/23 (4 overs) |
* Thailand won by 5 wickets Kinrara Oval, Kuala Lumpur Umpires: Viswanadan Kalidas (Mas) and Narayanan Sivan (Mas) Player of the match: Naveed Pathan (Tha)
* Thailand won the toss and elected to field.