The 2019 Continental Cup was a Twenty20 International (T20I) cricket tournament held in Romania between 29 August and 1 September 2019.
[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.
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.