Dates | 2 – 5 September 2021 |
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Administrator(s) | Cricket Romania |
Cricket format | Twenty20 International |
Tournament format(s) | Group round-robin and play-offs |
Host(s) | Romania |
Champions | Romania |
Runners-up | Luxembourg |
Participants | 6 |
Matches | 11 |
Most runs | Zeeshan Kukikhel (263) |
Most wickets | Vikram Vijh (9) |
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. [1] Austria won the previous edition in 2019, [2] 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. [1] Hungary played their first ever official men's T20I match during the tournament. [3] 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. [4] 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. [5] 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. [6]
Bulgaria | Czech Republic [7] | Hungary [8] | Luxembourg [9] | Malta [10] | Romania [11] |
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Teams [12] | P | W | L | T | NR | Pts | NRR | Status |
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Luxembourg | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | +1.692 | Advanced to the semi-finals |
Malta | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | +1.484 | |
Bulgaria | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | –3.549 | Advanced to the 5th place playoff |
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Timothy Barker 78 (59)
Mukul Kadyan 2/34 (4 overs) |
Kevin D'Souza 31 (19)
Mohit Dixit 3/19 (4 overs) |
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Varun Thamotharam 28 (22)
Vikram Vijh 4/19 (3 overs) |
Tony Whiteman 55
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Bilal Muhammad 2/22 (4 overs) |
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Hristo Lakov 62
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Bilal Muhammad 4/10 (4 overs) |
Bikram Arora 49
* (39)
Hristo Lakov 2/30 (4 overs) |
Teams [12] | P | W | L | T | NR | Pts | NRR | Status |
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Romania | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | +1.075 | Advanced to the semi-finals |
Hungary | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | –0.075 | |
Czech Republic | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | –1.000 | Advanced to the 5th place playoff |
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Zeeshan Kukikhel 75 (49)
Kayul Mehta 3/18 (3 overs) |
Sudesh Wickramasekara 58 (41)
Zeeshan Kukikhel 2/27 (3 overs) |
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Satvik Nadigotla 38 (23)
Kyle Gilham 2/34 (4 overs) |
Arun Ashokan 51 (30)
Sami Ullah 3/30 (4 overs) |
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Ramesh Satheesan 76 (41)
Harshvardhan Mandhyan 3/33 (4 overs) |
Zeeshan Kukikhel 76 (41)
Asif Bevinje 5/30 (4 overs) |
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Hristo Lakov 64
* (58)
Naveed Ahmed 3/17 (4 overs) |
Vyshakh Jagannivasan 55 (41)
Jacob Albin 1/20 (2 overs) |
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Joost Mees 43 (29)
Zeeshan Kukikhel 3/37 (4 overs) |
Satyadeep Ashwathnarayana 41
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Vikram Vijh 3/21 (3.3 overs) |
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Taranjeet Singh 91 (57)
Waseem Abbas 5/37 (4 overs) |
Bikram Arora 42 (38)
Pavel Florin 2/3 (1 over) |
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Basil George 48 (46)
Abishek Kheterpal 2/35 (4 overs) Zeeshan Kukikhel 2/35 (4 overs) |
Zeeshan Kukikhel 82 (42)
Bikram Arora 1/19 (3.2 overs) |
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Satvik Nadigotla 55 (38)
Vikram Vijh 2/24 (3.5 overs) |
Advyth Manepalli 22 (19)
Aftab Kayani 2/7 (2 overs) |