God knows I love a short lived round Robin tournament and we have this running over the long weekend. Free to watch on the ICC website.
Initially supposed to comprise 6 teams, Turkey dropped out, meaning that the big hitting Ireland, Netherlands and Scotland will face off against just France and Germany to vie for qualifocation for next year's World Cup.
Ireland's game against Germany this morning was unusual to say the least. After a poor bowling performance was met with a dominant Irish batting, Germany went on to bat as if they didn't know what format they were playing.
Gaby Lewis scored 105* to take Ireland to 196-2. Germany then batted turgidly. They were 10-1 after the poweplay and 16-1 after 10 overs. They ended the game at 32-3 which was....odd.
Despite the Netherlands playing twice today, Ireland top the table and Gabby Lewis tops the run scoring table. The Netherlands lost to Scotland but beat France which sees them in second. Their bowler Frederique Overdijk registered the frankly unbelievable score of 7-3 against France and naturally leads the wicket taking. Her figures were a world record for T20 Cricket.