The 2017 Desert T20 Challenge was an international

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(T20I)

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tournament that was held in

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and

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from 14 to 20 January 2017. The eight

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of the

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that have T20I status were scheduled to take part. However,

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declined to participate and were replaced by

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(who did not have T20I status at the time). Therefore, matches with Namibia were played as

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matches. The fixtures for the tournament were confirmed by the Emirates Cricket Board (ECB) in December 2016. The eight teams were split into two groups of four teams, with Afghanistan, Ireland, Namibia and the United Arab Emirates in Group A and Netherlands, Scotland, Oman and Hong Kong in Group B. The semi-finals and final of the tournament took place at the

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on 20 January. Afghanistan and Ireland qualified from Group A and Scotland and Oman qualified from Group B for the finals stage of the tournament. Afghanistan beat Ireland by 10 wickets in the final match to win the tournament.

Teams

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Squads

Before the tournament started, both Andrew Balbirnie and

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were ruled out of Ireland's squad due to injury. They were replaced by Stuart Poynter and

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respectively.

Fixtures

Group A

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Group B

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Finals

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Statistics

Most runs

Most wickets

References

External links

Series home at ESPN Cricinfo
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