2016 ICC Europe Division Two explained

2016 World Cricket League Europe Division Two
Fromdate:	17
Todate:	20 August 2016
Administrator:	ICC Europe
Cricket Format:	20-over
Tournament Format:	Round-robin
Host:	Sweden
Participants:	6
Matches:	15
Most Runs:	Josh Evans (92)
Most Wickets:	Srinath Arachichige (8)
Previous Year:	2014

The 2016 ICC World Cricket League Europe Division Two was an international 20-over cricket tournament played in Stockholm, Sweden, from 17 to 20 August 2016. It was the first official (ICC-approved) international cricket tournament to be played in Sweden.^[1]

Six teams participated in the tournament – Germany, Gibraltar, the Isle of Man, Israel, Spain, and Sweden. The tournament was heavily affected by the weather, with five out of the fifteen games being abandoned. The top two teams, Germany and Sweden, qualified for the 2017 ICC Europe Division One event. Germany finished undefeated, while Sweden were level with Israel and Spain on points, but had a superior net run rate. The leading run-scorer was Israel's Josh Evans, while the leading wicket-taker was another Israeli player, Srinath Arachichige.

The tournament featured the first international cricket match between Gibraltar and Spain.^[2] That match may also have been the first senior international between the two teams in any sport (Gibraltar being a disputed territory that is claimed by both Spain and the United Kingdom).^[3]

Squads

width=330	^[4]	width=330	^[5]	width=330	^[6]
valign=top	Rishi Pillai (c) Brandon Ess Kashif Hussain Khaled Khan Dushant Kumar Ehsan Latif Sajid Liaqat Shahil Momin Asad Mohammad Mudassar Muhammad Amith Sarma Tony Verma Ahmed Wardak Daniel Weston	valign=top	Kieron Ferrary (c) Karan Aswani Mark Bacarese Scott Chipolina Julian Freyone Gareth Gomez John Hazell Matthew Hunter Iain Latin Kabir Mirpuri Adam Orfila Balaji Pai Chris Phillips Sebastian Suarez	valign=top	Philip Littlejohns (c) Matthew Ansell George Burrows Kieran Cawte Christopher Hawke Daniel Hawke Adam Killey Nathan Knights Daniel Kniveton Adam McAuley Sam Mills Arnie van den Berg Oliver Webster Nicholas White
width=330	^[7]	width=330	^[8]	width=330	^[9]
valign=top	Eshkol Solomon (c) Srinath Arachichige Shailesh Bangera Nir Dokarker Emanuel Solomon Josh Evans Matthew Hoffman Eitamar Kahamker David Massil Shifron Nagaonkar Yaniv Razpurker Raphael Schachat Ronen Waskar Shifron Waskar	valign=top	Christian Muñoz-Mills (c) Farzan Afzal Awais Ahmed Nisar Ahmed Zulqarnain Haider Tanveer Iqbal Armghan Khan Kuldeep Lal Farhat Mahmood Atif Mehmood Talat Nadeem Ravi Panchal Jamie Roper Mukhtar Singh	valign=top	Azam Khalil (c) Khalid Ahmad Usman Arif Muhammad Asif Shahzeb Choudhry Wakil Jalali Rahel Khan Azam Mohammad Mohammad Naveed Salman Niazi Sadat Sidiqi Shahid Mustafa Sweed Ullah Afzal Virk Bilal Zaigham

Points table

	Qualified for 2017 ICC World Cricket League Europe Region Division One

Matches

--------------------------------------------------------

Statistics

Most runs

The top five run scorers (total runs) are included in this table.

Runs	Inns	Avg	S/R	Highest	100s	50s
92	3	46.00	119.48	50	0	1
88	2	44.00	122.22	58	0	1
87	5	17.40	90.62	41	0	0
84	3	84.00	164.70	59	0	1
66	3	22.00	83.54	43	0	0

Source: ESPNcricinfo

Most wickets

The top five wicket takers are listed in this table, listed by wickets taken and then by bowling average.

Overs	Wkts	Ave	SR	Econ	BBI
9.0	8	4.50	6.7	4.00	4/13
10.0	6	6.33	10.0	3.80	4/12
11.0	6	11.00	11.0	6.00	3/21
5.0	5	6.40	6.0	6.40	4/22
8.0	5	8.20	9.6	5.12	3/12