The Romanian Cricket Federation returns as host of the Women's Continental Cricket Cup for the 2026 edition, and the Moara Vlasiei Cricket Ground — a single-venue setup on the northern edge of Bucharest in Ilfov county — will carry every one of the fourteen matches on the published schedule. The tournament opens with three T20s on Wednesday 26 August and closes on Sunday 30 August, with three fixtures per day through day three and additional games on days four and five to complete the round-robin. Every entry on the official series page carries an UPCOMING / Match Yet to Begin marker as of early August, so the standings table will be built from the very first innings rather than carried over from a prior edition.
For readers tracking the tournament from outside Romania, the more useful framing is around the venue rather than the format. Moara Vlasiei has been the Romanian federation's main cricket ground for the past several seasons and has hosted a steady run of T20 internationals across 2025 and 2026. A single-venue European associate week tends to settle into a familiar rhythm: a morning fixture, an afternoon fixture and an evening fixture each day, with teams rotating their bowling and fielding units because nobody travels between grounds. That rhythm shapes almost every tactical decision across the five days, and it shapes how the live scores land for Indian readers as well.
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Moara Vlasiei, in plain words
Moara Vlasiei is a small town about twenty-five kilometres north of central Bucharest, and the cricket ground sits on the edge of the town on a layout that the federation has gradually upgraded. It is a flat, slow-bounce European surface — not the dust-bowl associate deck that some readers might picture — with a square that holds enough length for genuine pace off the pitch and enough true bounce for the cut-and-pull shots that win T20 games. The outfield is compact enough that a well-timed boundary is genuinely a boundary rather than a par save, and the sight screen setup is standard for an associate-member T20 venue. The pavilion and the players' area sit on one side of the ground, with the broadcast position and the camera gantry on the other.
The weather window in late August tends to be hot and largely dry, with afternoon temperatures typically in the high twenties Celsius and a low chance of late-afternoon thunderstorms rolling in off the plains. For bowlers, that means a flat first innings and a slower second innings once the surface has been used; for batters, the powerplay tends to be productive and the middle overs often decide the chase. Day-five evening conditions in late August at Moara Vlasiei also bring a bit of cross-field wind off the Ilfov plain, which is worth keeping in mind for any reader tracking the live score and seeing an unusual swing-and-miss rate in the closing overs.
The full five-day schedule
All fourteen matches are listed for Moara Vlasiei. Start times are local at the ground. The published schedule for the opening three days sets three T20s per day, with additional fixtures on days four and five to fill out the round-robin.
Day one — Wednesday 26 August 2026
| Local time | Match | IST |
|---|---|---|
| 11:00 AM | Turkey Women vs Austria Women | 1:30 PM |
| 3:00 PM | Romania Women vs Isle of Man Women | 5:30 PM |
| 6:30 PM | Austria Women vs Guernsey Women | 9:00 PM |
Day one is a back-to-back test for Austria Women, who play both the morning fixture and the late-evening fixture on the same surface. A team that gets through both with the same opening bowling pair intact will have read the conditions well; a team that rotates after the morning game is signalling that the first innings told them something about the pitch. Romania Women's afternoon debut against Isle of Man Women is the host federation's first chance to set the tone of the tournament, and the late evening kick-off gives the European broadcasters a comfortable primetime slot.
Day two — Thursday 27 August 2026
| Local time | Match | IST |
|---|---|---|
| 11:00 AM | Greece Women vs Isle of Man Women | 1:30 PM |
| 3:00 PM | Czechia Women vs Turkey Women | 5:30 PM |
| 6:30 PM | Romania Women vs Norway Women | 9:00 PM |
The morning fixture is the lower-table pressure game of the day: both Greece Women and Isle of Man Women are still looking for their first win after day one, and a loss here pushes the losing side into a difficult closing run. Czechia Women take on Turkey Women in the afternoon, which gives the Turkish side a chance to rotate their seam attack after the morning's opening fixture with Austria. Romania Women return for their second appearance of the week in the evening slot against Norway Women, and a second win inside forty-eight hours would put the hosts in a strong position before the weekend.
Day three — Friday 28 August 2026
| Local time | Match | IST |
|---|---|---|
| 11:00 AM | Romania Women vs Greece Women | 1:30 PM |
| 3:00 PM | Turkey Women vs Guernsey Women | 5:30 PM |
| 6:30 PM | Austria Women vs Czechia Women | 9:00 PM |
By day three every side has played at least once. Romania Women's morning game against Greece Women is the day's first test of whether the host's batting depth is sustainable across three T20s in five days. The headline evening fixture is Austria Women against Czechia Women — the only match-up of the week between two sides with a documented head-to-head record, where the published tile shows Austria holding a 5-0 lead across five total meetings. That kind of historical edge is informative but not decisive at this level: T20 cricket is short enough that a single partnership from a set batter or one disciplined four-over spell from a frontline spinner can flip a chase of 130.
Day four — Saturday 29 August 2026
| Local time | Match | IST |
|---|---|---|
| 11:00 AM | Norway Women vs Greece Women | 1:30 PM |
Day four's published slot opens with Norway Women versus Greece Women, the morning fixture that decides the middle of the table. Additional fixtures on day four and day five are listed on the series page as UPCOMING and are scheduled to complete the round-robin. By the 29th, most sides will have played three matches and the run-rate gap between the top four and the bottom four becomes the most useful single number on the standings board.
Day five — Sunday 30 August 2026
The closing day finishes the round-robin. The host federation's published format does not include a separate knockout after the final round-robin match, so the standings at the close of play on Sunday determine the final table. For readers following the live scores from outside Romania, the practical close-of-tournament note is the wrap from the evening fixture, with the final net run rate calculation published once the last ball is bowled.
The eight squads entered for the 2026 edition
The published entry list confirms eight women's T20 sides for the tournament. Detailed playing XIs are typically released by the host federation on the morning of each match rather than at the start of the week, but the confirmed squad entry list is the right place to start for any reader looking to track specific players through the live scores.
- Austria Women (AUT-W) — returning as the side with the deepest published historical record of the eight, including a 5-0 head-to-head lead over Czechia Women across five total meetings.
- Czechia Women (CZE-W) — looking to break that head-to-head pattern; the day-three evening fixture against Austria Women is the headline match-up for their week.
- Guernsey Women (GSY-W) — back at Moara Vlasiei for another edition, opening their tournament against Austria Women in the late evening slot on day one.
- Greece Women (GRE-W) — drawn into a tight middle of the table with Norway Women, Isle of Man Women and Czechia Women across the five days.
- Isle of Man Women (IOM-W) — open their tournament with two quick-fire fixtures: against Romania Women on day one and Greece Women on day two.
- Norway Women (NOR-W) — mid-table battlers whose day-four fixture against Greece Women will shape the closing run of their week.
- Romania Women (ROM-W) — hosts, playing three fixtures across the week at Moara Vlasiei.
- Turkey Women (TUR-W) — open the tournament in the 11:00 AM slot on day one against Austria Women.
For most associate women's programmes the full squad list travels with the team delegation and is published through the host association's match-day notes rather than as a single pre-tournament press release. Readers looking for a player-by-player read should treat the list above as a confirmed entry list rather than a playing XI; the XI is announced at the toss on the morning of each fixture.
How to follow the live scores from India
The local start times at Moara Vlasiei line up well with Indian Standard Time. The morning slot at 11:00 AM local (EEST, UTC+3) translates to 1:30 PM IST; the afternoon slot at 3:00 PM local becomes 5:30 PM IST; and the evening slot at 6:30 PM local lands at 9:00 PM IST. Every match falls inside an Indian workday, and the evening kick-off is comfortably inside prime time on the subcontinent. That rhythm means a reader tracking the tournament from India can follow all three fixtures on each of the first three days without rescheduling anything else.
Quick reference for Indian viewers: Match 1 of each day — 1:30 PM IST. Match 2 — 5:30 PM IST. Match 3 — 9:00 PM IST. All three fixtures are scheduled to be played at Moara Vlasiei, and the live score windows above match the host federation's published start times.
The host federation typically streams the matches live from Moara Vlasiei through a combination of its own broadcast channels and partner feeds. The live matches hub at paripesa11.com/live-matches will carry match-by-match follow-along updates as the five days unfold, with published team sheets, toss notes, brief innings summaries and a closing-day table read once day five wraps.
Three things to watch when the tournament opens
The first morning of any European associate T20 week tends to settle the questions that the rest of the week builds on. For readers planning to follow the live scores from the first ball on 26 August, the questions worth tracking through day one are:
- How Romania Women's batting order reads when the host federation's captain walks out for the toss against Isle of Man Women in the afternoon fixture — whether the order reflects a confidence pick or a rotation pick is itself a signal.
- Whether Austria Women's seam attack looks sharp enough to carry them through the morning fixture against Turkey Women and back onto the field in the late evening slot against Guernsey Women.
- Whether Guernsey Women's top order can absorb the early-evening movement at Moara Vlasiei in the late-evening slot, since the cross-field breeze off the Ilfov plain tends to pick up after sundown.
Day one rarely settles a tournament at this level, but it does set the tone for the rest of the week. Teams that win their opening fixture tend to be more settled at the toss on day two, and the captaincy conversation is quieter when the first result has gone the right way. Teams that lose the opener tend to rotate more aggressively in the second match, which often produces a more volatile result on the second afternoon. Following that pattern across the first three days is usually a more reliable guide to the eventual table than any single head-to-head number.