Romania national cricket team

Romania

ICC status	Affiliate Member (2013)
ICC region	Europe
WCL	n/a
Coach	Andrew Begg
Captain	Zeeshan Mazhar
First international
v Bulgaria at Berceni cricket ground, Bucharest, 27 June 2009
As of 15 April 2016

Cricket was played in Romania between 1893 and 1930, after which it declined and the sport in Romania died out. In recent years the game has begun to grow again, particularly in Bucharest, Timișoara and Cluj-Napoca.

In July 2010 they played in a European Twenty20 tournament which was held in Skopje, Macedonia.

On 29 June 2013 Romania was granted affiliate status by the International Cricket Council and are therefore entitled to participate in ICC official events.

As in a number of European countries, the game is dominated by expatriates from the United Kingdom and other traditional cricket-playing countries.

The main cricket ground of the team for national and international matches is at Moara Vlăsiei, 26 km (16 miles) away from the Bucharest city centre. It was built between 2011 and 2013 and is the only turf ground in eastern Europe.

Romanian cricket clubs

• Banat Lions Cricket Club (BLCC)
• Băneasa Cricket Club (BCC)
• Cluj Cricket Club (CCC)
• Indian Cricket Club of Bucharest (ICCB)
• Cricket Timiș (CT)
• Timișoara Titans Cricket Club (TTCC)
• Transylvania Cricket Club (TCC)
• United Cricket Club (UCC)

Current squad

The following list contains the 17 players eligible to play at the 2015 Continental Cricket Cup.

• Saad Mohsin (Captain) - BCC
• Zeeshan Mazhar (Vice Captain) - BCC
• Abdul Shakoor - BCC
• Aftab Kayani - UCC
• Asif Bevinje - ICCB
• Cosmin Zavoiu - UCC
• Jon Georgescu - TCC
• Mihai Soricu - BCC
• Radu Dagla - TTCC
• Ramesh Satheesan - UCC
• Shafad Manawar - ICCB
• Shantanu Vashisht - UCC
• Shiraz Gondal - UCC
• Shiv Kumar - BCC
• Sudeep Thakur - UCC
• Vicky Manani - UCC

External links

• Cricket Romania website