Swedish cricket team in Finland in 2021

The Sweden cricket team toured Finland in August 2021 to play a four-match Twenty20 International (T20I) series.^[1] The matches were played at the Kerava National Cricket Ground in Kerava.^[2] Sweden travelled to Finland, having played a series against Denmark the previous weekend.^[3] The two series were the first international action with the Swedish national team for their coach, former South African international cricketer, Jonty Rhodes.^[4]

Sweden cricket team in Finland in 2021
	Finland	Sweden
Dates	21 – 22 August 2021
Captains	Nathan Collins	Abhijit Venkatesh
Twenty20 International series
Results	4-match series drawn 2–2
Most runs	Nathan Collins (114)	Abhijit Venkatesh (115)
Most wickets	Amjad Sher (8)	Abhijit Venkatesh (7)

Finland took a 2–0 lead on the first day, before Sweden won both games on day two to share the series 2–2.^[5][6] Nathan Collins was the Finnish skipper while Abhijit Venkatesh captained Sweden.

Squads

Finland[7]	Sweden[8]
Nathan Collins (c) Hariharan Dandapani Peter Gallagher Raaz Mohammad Aravind Mohan Vanraaj Padhaal Aniketh Pusthay Areeb Quadir Ziaur Rehman Jonathan Scamans (wk) Naveed Shahid Amjad Sher Adnan Syed Mahesh Tambe	Abhijit Venkatesh (c) Wynand Boshoff (vc, wk) Qudratullah Mir Afzail Baz Ayubi Dipanjan Dey Oktai Gholami Rahul Gowthaman Humayun Kabir Liam Karlsson Sami Khalil Rahel Khan Hassan Mahmood Lemar Momand Khalid Zahid Imal Zuwak

T20I series

1st T20I

21 August 2021 10:30 Scorecard

Sweden  135/6 (19 overs)	v	Finland 139/6 (17.5 overs)
Abhijit Venkatesh 54 (41) Amjad Sher 2/12 (4 overs)		Nathan Collins 64* (45) Abhijit Venkatesh 3/13 (3 overs)

Finland won by 4 wickets Kerava National Cricket Ground, Kerava Umpires: Srinidhi Ravindra (Fin) and Jari Schabel (Fin)

• Sweden won the toss and elected to bat.
• The match was reduced to 19 overs per side due to rain.
• Raaz Mohammad, Naveed Shahid and Mahesh Tambe (Fin) all made their T20I debuts.

2nd T20I

21 August 2021 15:00 Scorecard

Sweden  141/8 (20 overs)	v	Finland 142/6 (18.5 overs)
Dipanjan Dey 75* (49) Amjad Sher 3/14 (4 overs)		Amjad Sher 37* (15) Qudratullah Mir Afzail 3/28 (3.5 overs)

Finland won by 4 wickets Kerava National Cricket Ground, Kerava Umpires: Srinidhi Ravindra (Fin) and Sumanta Samanta (Fin)

• Sweden won the toss and elected to bat.

3rd T20I

22 August 2021 10:30 Scorecard

Finland  141/7 (20 overs)	v	Sweden 113/7 (14 overs)
Aniketh Pusthay 56 (52) Oktai Gholami 2/23 (4 overs)		Khalid Zahid 47* (20) Peter Gallagher 3/29 (3 overs)

Sweden won by 3 wickets (DLS method) Kerava National Cricket Ground, Kerava Umpires: Sumanta Samanta (Fin) and Jari Schabel (Fin)

• Sweden won the toss and elected to field.
• Sweden were set a revised target of 110 runs from 15 overs due to rain.
• Adnan Syed (Fin) made his T20I debut.

4th T20I

22 August 2021 15:00 Scorecard

Finland  145/7 (20 overs)	v	Sweden 146/4 (17.1 overs)
Amjad Sher 34 (19) Liam Karlsson 3/38 (4 overs)		Abhijit Venkatesh 43 (24) Aniketh Pusthay 1/4 (1 over)

Sweden won by 6 wickets Kerava National Cricket Ground, Kerava Umpires: Srinidhi Ravindra (Fin) and Sumanta Samanta (Fin)

• Sweden won the toss and elected to field.

References

1. "Swedish men's squad to tour Denmark, Finland and Spain in August/September 2021". Czarsports. Retrieved 15 July 2021.
2. "Finland v Sweden T20I Series August 20th to 22nd at the KNCG". Cricket Finland. Retrieved 27 July 2021.
3. "High performance news, July 14 2021". Cricket Sweden. Retrieved 14 July 2021.
4. "Denmark ramp up qualifier preparation". Cricket Europe. Retrieved 18 July 2021.
5. "2-2 mot Finland" [2-2 against Finland]. Cricket Sweden (in Swedish). Retrieved 25 August 2021.
6. "Finland and Sweden share T20I series". Cricket Europe. Retrieved 22 August 2021.
7. "The Finnish men's national cricket squads have been named for both the Finland-Sweden T20I series and the European Cricket Championships". Cricket Finland. Retrieved 8 August 2021.
8. "T20 men national squad is ready!". Cricket Sweden. Retrieved 22 July 2021.

External links

• Series home at ESPNcricinfo