2019 Continental Cup (cricket) explained

2019 Continental Cup
Fromdate:	29 August
Todate:	1 September 2019
Cricket Format:	Twenty20 International
Tournament Format:	Round-robin, final
Host:	Romania
Participants:	5
Matches:	11
Most Runs:	Sudesh Wickramasekara (219)
Most Wickets:	Bilal Zalmai (9)
Previous Year:	2018
Next Year:	2021
Next Tournament:	2021 Continental Cup (cricket)

The 2019 Continental Cup was a Twenty20 International (T20I) cricket tournament held in Romania between 29 August and 1 September 2019.^{[1] [2]} The hosts were the defending champions, having won the previous edition in 2018.^[3]

The format was originally to be two groups of three teams played over the first two days, followed by a series of play-off matches.^[4] However, after Russia withdrew two days before the tournament, the format was changed to a single round-robin stage followed by a final.^[5] The participating teams were hosts Romania, along with Austria, Czech Republic, Luxembourg and Turkey.^[1] All five teams played their first matches with T20I status during this tournament, following the decision of the ICC to grant full Twenty20 International status to all its members from 1 January 2019.^[6] Austria topped the round-robin stage and went on to defeat the Czech Republic in the final.

A number of T20I records were set during the tournament, particularly in games against Turkey who had been affected by visa problems resulting in many of their best players not being able to travel to Romania.^[7] These included Czech Republic's winning margin of 257 runs, in a game that also saw Sudesh Wickramasekara equal the fastest century in T20I cricket.

Squads

width=20%	^[8]	width=20%	^[9]	width=20%	^[10]	width=20%	^[11]	width=20%
valign=top	Razmal Shigiwal (c) Habib Ahmadzai Mirza Ahsan Abdullah Akbarjan Arsalan Arif Zeshan Arif Abrar Bilal Aqib Iqbal Kunal Joshi Anthony Lark Amit Nathwani Abdul Rahman Mark Simpson-Parker Bilal Zalmai	valign=top	Edward Knowles (c) Hilal Ahmad Naveed Ahmed Shaun Dalton Sabawoon Davizi Honey Gori Arshad Hayat Kushalkumar Mendon Christopher Pearce Sumit Pokhriyal Shoumyadeep Rakshit Paul Taylor Sameera Waththage Sudesh Wickramasekara	valign=top	Tony Whiteman (c) James Barker Timothy Barker Marcus Cope Mohit Dixit Chris Fry Atif Kamal Joost Mees Ankush Nanda Richard Neale Suhail Sadiq Girish Venkateswaran Vikram Vijh Roshan Vishwanath	valign=top	Ramesh Satheesan (c) Petre Danci Pavel Florin Laurentiu Gherasim Imran Haider Ijaz Hussain Sadeeq Khan Rajesh Kumar Gohar Manan Dharmendra Manani Satvik Nadigotla Sivakumar Periyalwar Rajendra Pisal Abdul Shakoor Shantanu Vashisht Cosmin Zavoiu	valign=top	Recep Ulutuna (c) Cengiz Akyüz Hasan Alta Ahmet Dursak Osman Goker Hasan Helva Serdar Kansoy Serkan Kizilkaya Mehmet Koc Ali Kose Mehmat Sert Tunahan Turan Ali Türkmen Tunahan Ulutuna

Round-robin

Points table

width=200	Team^[12]	width=20		width=20		width=20		width=20		width=20		width=20		width=50
	4	3	1	0	0	6	+3.816	Advanced to the final
	4	3	1	0	0	6	+3.686
	4	3	1	0	0	6	+2.848
	4	1	3	0	0	2	-1.232
	4	0	4	0	0	0	-10.674

Fixtures

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External links

• Series home at ESPN Cricinfo

Notes and References

1. Web site: Continental Cricket Cup 2019. Cricket Romania via Facebook. 14 August 2019. 14 August 2019.
2. Web site: Continental Cup 2019 - Fixtures and Results. Cricinfo. 23 August 2019.
3. CricketRomania . 1017294230304317441 . 12 July 2018 . Congratulations to the Romanian team as winners of the Continental Cricket Cup 2018.
4. Web site: Continental Cricket Cup 2019. Cricket Romania via Facebook. 23 August 2019. 23 August 2019.
5. Web site: Continental Cricket Cup 2019. Cricket Romania via Facebook. 27 August 2019. 27 August 2019.
6. Web site: All T20 matches between ICC members to get international status. International Cricket Council. 26 April 2018. 2 August 2019.
7. Web site: The day Czech Republic held four world records in cricket . ESPN Cricinfo . 25 December 2019.
8. Web site: AUSTRIA NT heading to Romania to participate in Continental Cricket Cup. . Austrian Cricket Association (via Facebook). 28 August 2019. 3 September 2019.
9. CzechCricket . 1161914648108720128 . 16 August 2019 . In 2 weeks our national team will travel to Romania for the Continental Cricket Cup.
10. Web site: Luxembourg cricket team to compete in Continental Cup in Romania. Luxembourg Chronicle. 26 August 2019. 26 August 2019.
11. Web site: Romania's squad for the fifth Continental Cricket Cup. Cricket Romania (via Facebook). 27 August 2019. 27 August 2019.
12. Web site: Continental Cup 2019 . ESPN Cricinfo . 28 August 2019.