The 2019 Continental Cup was a Twenty20 International (T20I) cricket tournament held in Romania between 29 August and 1 September 2019. The hosts were the defending champions, having won the previous edition in 2018.
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. However, after Russia withdrew two days before the tournament, the format was changed to a single round-robin stage followed by a final. The participating teams were hosts Romania, along with Austria, Czech Republic, Luxembourg and Turkey. 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. 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. These included Czech Republic's winning margin of 257 runs, in a game that also saw Sudesh Wickramasekara's innings of 106 in 36 balls equal the fastest century in T20I cricket and the then joint-highest T20I total (278/4).
Squads 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 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 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 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 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 Team 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
Final
References
External links Series home at ESPN Cricinfo