2012 Trinidad and Tobago Quadrangular Twenty20 facts for kids
| Quick facts for kids2012 Trinidad and Tobago Quadrangular Twenty20 Series | |
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| Dates | 6 September 2012 – 8 September 2012 | 
| Administrator(s) | Trinidad & Tobago Cricket Board | 
| Cricket format | Twenty20 cricket | 
| Tournament format(s) | Round Robin | 
| Host(s) |  Trinidad and Tobago | 
| Champions |  Afghanistan (unofficialth title) | 
| Participants | 4 | 
| Matches played | 6 | 
| Man of the Series |  Mohammad Nabi | 
| Most runs |  Mohammad Nabi (123) | 
| Most wickets |  Mohammad Nabi (7) | 
| Official website | Espn Cricinfo | 
The 2012 Trinidad Quadrangular T20 was a special Twenty20 cricket tournament. It took place in Trinidad & Tobago. This tournament celebrated Trinidad and Tobago's 50th year of independence. Four teams played in this series: Trinidad & Tobago, Barbados, Bangladesh, and Afghanistan.
The matches were not official Twenty20 International games. Instead, they were considered practice matches. The winning team received a prize of $50,000.
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How the Tournament Worked
This tournament followed a few simple rules:
| Result | Points | 
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| Win | 3 points | 
| No result | 1 point | 
| Loss | 0 points | 
- Each team played 3 matches.
- The team with the most points won the championship trophy.
- If two teams had the same points, the winner was decided by who won when they played each other.
- If three or more teams had the same points, the winner was decided by their Net Run Rate. This is a way to see which team scored runs faster and gave away fewer runs.
The Teams and Players
Here are the teams and the players who were part of each squad:
|  Afghanistan |  Bangladesh Cricket Board XI |  Barbados |  Trinidad and Tobago | 
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Tournament Standings
Here's how the teams ranked at the end of the 2012 Trinidad and Tobago Quadrangular T20 Series:
| Team | Pld | W | L | NR | Pts | NRR | 
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|  Afghanistan | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 6 | +0.404 | 
|  BCB XI | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 6 | +0.330 | 
|  Trinidad and Tobago | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 | +0.105 | 
|  Barbados | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | -0.928 | 
Match Results
Here are the results of the six matches played in the tournament:
| 6 September (scorecard) | Barbados  65/4 (8 overs) | v | BCB XI  71/3 (6.3 overs) | BCB XI won by 7 wickets Queen's Park Oval, Port of Spain, Trinidad Umpires: Nadir Shah and JS Wilson Player of the match: Ashley Nurse | 
| Kyle Mayers 18 (7) Abul Hasan 2/14 (2 overs) | Mushfiqur Rahim 18 (17) Ryan Hinds 2/22 (2 overs) | |||
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| 6 September (scorecard) | Trinidad and Tobago  171/9 (20 overs) | v | Afghanistan  172/7 (19.4 overs) | Afghanistan won by 3 wickets Queen's Park Oval, Port of Spain, Trinidad Umpires: MW Brown and PJ Nero Player of the match: Mohammad Nabi | 
| William Perkins 49 (31) Dawlat Zadran 2/30 (4 overs) | Mohammad Nabi 57 (36) Rayad Emrit 2/25 (3.4 overs) | |||
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| 7 September (scorecard) | Afghanistan  99/5 (15 overs) | v | BCB XI  100/2 (14.2 overs) | BCB XI won by 8 wickets Queen's Park Oval, Port of Spain, Trinidad Umpires: PJ Nero and JS Wilson Player of the match: Mohammad Nabi | 
| Mohammad Shahzad 29 (26) Shakib Al Hasan 2/13 (3 overs) | Mohammad Ashraful 47 (44) Mohammad Nabi 2/11 (3 overs) | |||
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| 7 September (scorecard) | Barbados  154/5 (20 overs) | v | Trinidad and Tobago  155/5 (20 overs) | Trinidad & Tobago won by 5 wickets Queen's Park Oval, Port of Spain, Trinidad Umpires: MW Brown and Nadir Shah Player of the match: Evin Lewis | 
| Jonathan Carter 54 (36) Yannic Ottley 1/13 (4 overs) | Evin Lewis 69 (59) Ryan Hinds 2/27 (4 overs) | |||
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| 8 September (scorecard) | Barbados  119/9 (20 overs) | v | Afghanistan  122/5 (17.1 overs) | Afghanistan won by 5 wickets Queen's Park Oval, Port of Spain, Trinidad Umpires: Nadir Shah and PJ Nero Player of the match: Mohammad Nabi | 
| Kyle Mayers 39 (25) Mohammad Nabi 3/23 (4 overs) | Mohammad Nabi 40 (27) Jonathan Carter 1/11 (1.1 overs) | |||
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| 8 September (scorecard) | BCB XI  124/9 (20 overs) | v | Trinidad and Tobago  129/6 (19.3 overs) | Trinidad & Tobago won by 4 wickets Queen's Park Oval, Pot of Spain, Trinidad Umpires: MW Brown and Nadir Shah Player of the match: Sherwin Ganga | 
| Mohammad Ashraful 30 (21) Dave Mohammed 3/17 (4 overs) | Yannick Ottley 52* (27) Abdur Razzak 3/17 (4 overs) | |||
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Top Players
Here are the players who performed best in the tournament:
Leading Run Scorers
These players scored the most runs:
| Player | Country | Matches | Innings | NO | Runs | Average | SR | Highest | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Mohammad Nabi |  Afghanistan | 3 | 3 | 1 | 123 | 61.50 | 148.19 | 57 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Evin Lewis |  Trinidad and Tobago | 2 | 2 | 0 | 88 | 44 | 115.78 | 69 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Mohammad Ashraful |  BCB XI | 3 | 2 | 1 | 77 | 77 | 118.46 | - | Kyle Mayers |  Barbados | 3 | 3 | 2 | 74 | 74 | 189.74 | - | Jonathan Carter |  Barbados | 3 | 3 | 0 | 68 | 22.66 | 138.77 | 54 | 
Leading Wicket Takers
These players took the most wickets (got the most batters out):
| Player | Country | Matches | Innings | Wickets | Average | Economy | SR | Best Figure | 
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| Mohammad Nabi |  Afghanistan | 3 | 3 | 7 | 10.0 | 6.36 | 9.40 | 3/23 | 
| Abdur Razzak |  BCB XI | 3 | 2 | 4 | 8.25 | 4.71 | 10.50 | 3/17 | 
| Ryan Hinds |  Barbados | 2 | 2 | 4 | 12.25 | 8.16 | 9.0 | 2/22 | 
| Dave Mohammed |  Trinidad and Tobago | 3 | 3 | 4 | 16.50 | 6.60 | 15.0 | 3/17 | 
| Rayad Emrit |  Trinidad and Tobago | 3 | 3 | 4 | 17.75 | 6.08 | 17.5 | 2/25 |