Italy captain-cum head coach Gareth Berg turned the oldest male captain to file a T20I four-wicket haul throughout his aspect’s T20 World Cup 2024 European Area Qualifier match towards Denmark on Tuesday.
Berg, 42 years and 188 days previous, signed on as Italy’s head coach in January 2021. After bagging a golden duck, Berg recorded career-best figures of 4 for 14 whereas opening the bowling. Italy efficiently defended a 150-run complete by 26 runs to file its second win of the event.
Berg’s haul was the thirty fifth occasion of a males’s T20I four-wicket haul by a captain and the Nineteenth-best figures by a captain.
The South Africa-born Berg has plied his commerce in county cricket in England with Northamptonshire and Middlesex. He made his Checklist A and First-Class debut with Middlesex in 2008 and was not too long ago seen in motion within the County Championship Division One with Northamptionshire. Berg has featured in over 150 FC matches, compiling 5000-plus runs and amassing 321 wickets.
The Italian senior males’s coach made his T20I debut for the crew in October 2021. He has recorded 16 wickets from 11 innings
Italy is at the moment positioned fourth within the seven-team event. The highest two groups from the league stage will qualify for the 20-team T20 World Cup, to be held within the USA and West Indies in mid-2024.