The 2021 Continental Cup was a Twenty20 International (T20I) cricket tournament that took place at the Moara Vlasiei Cricket Ground in Ilfov County, Romania, in the first week of September 2021. Austria won the previous edition in 2019, but did not return to defend the title in 2021. The participating nations were the hosts Romania, along with Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Luxembourg and Malta. Hungary played their first ever official men's T20I match during the tournament. The teams were split into two groups, with the top two in each group progressing to the semi-finals.
Luxembourg topped Group A to set up a semi-final against Hungary, while Romania earned a semi-final against Malta after winning Group B. Luxembourg and Romania advanced to the final by winning their semi-final matches, while the Czech Republic finished in fifth place after defeating Bulgaria in a play-off. On the last day of the tournament, Romania defeated Luxembourg in the final by 33 runs, before Hungary secured third place with a comfortable eight-wicket win over Malta.
Squads Prakash Mishra (c) Agagyul Ahmadhel Jacob Albin Kevin D'Souza Aravinda De Silva Akshay Harikumar Vasil Hristov Mukul Kadyan Ivaylo Katzarski Hristo Lakov Dimo Nikolov Omar Rassol (wk) Bakhtiar Tahiri Delrick Varghese Nikolay Yordanov Arun Ashokan (c) Kushalkumar Mendon (vc) Hilal Ahmad (wk) Naveed Ahmed Sabawoon Davizi Kyle Gilham Sahil Grover (wk) Vyshakh Jagannivasan Kayul Mehta Smit Patel Satyajit Sengupta Ali Waqar Sameera Waththage Sudesh Wickramasekara Abhijeet Ahuja (c) Khaibar Deldar (vc) Abhishek Ahuja (wk) Satyadeep Ashwathnarayana (wk) Mark Fontaine Salman Khan Abishek Kheterpal Zeeshan Kukikhel Sanjay Kumar Nishanta Liyanage Harshvardhan Mandhyan Zahir Mohammed Sandeep Mohandas Asanka Weligamage Ali Yalmaz Joost Mees (c) James Barker Timothy Barker Marcus Cope William Cope Amit Dhingra Mohit Dixit Amit Halbhavi Atif Kamal Pankaj Malav Advyth Manepalli (wk) Ankush Nanda Vikram Vijh Tony Whiteman Bikram Arora (c) Amar Sharma (vc) Waseem Abbas Samuel Aquilina (wk) Basil George John Grima Zeeshan Khan Niraj Khanna Haroon Mughal Bilal Muhammad Indika Perera Suhrid Roy Samuel Stanislaus Varun Thamotharam Lee Tuck Ramesh Satheesan (c) Waqar Abbasi Asif Bevinje Pavel Florin Imran Haider (wk) Ijaz Hussain Aftab Kayani Gohar Manan Dharmendra Manani Satvik Nadigotla (wk) Sivakumar Periyalwar Vasu Saini Abdul Shakoor (wk) Taranjeet Singh Sami Ullah Shantanu Vashisht Cosmin Zavoiu
Group stage Group A Teams 2 2 0 0 0 4 +1.692 Advanced to the semi-finals 2 1 1 0 0 2 +1.484 2 0 2 0 0 0 –3.549 Advanced to the 5th place playoff
Group B Teams 2 2 0 0 0 4 +1.075 Advanced to the semi-finals 2 1 1 0 0 2 –0.075 2 0 2 0 0 0 –1.000 Advanced to the 5th place playoff
Playoffs 5th place playoff
Semi-finals 1st Semi-final
2nd Semi-final
3rd place playoff
Final
References
External links Series home at ESPN Cricinfo