The development is still in the early phase hence the majority are expatriates at present. Cricket Romania has been working on this aspect as now we have a quota system which mandates each club to have minimum 3 ingenious Romanians in the playing 11. Also in this tournament each club played one under 15 Romanian national which came through the ranks from the cricket development program being run since last 3 years. In two years Romania intends to send an under 16 national team to play in tournaments outside Romania.
For a start, the pitch played really well. Curator left lot of grass on it to make sure we get good bounce and as per him it will get better and better with time. Pitch offered some lateral movement off the seam and was not as pacy as I expected after looking at the grass. The ball stopped and came on to the bat probably because the soil underneath is still relatively soft after a long winter.
We expect it to get bouncier and faster with the sun baking on it during the summer. The ICC curator said the grass roots is the strongest he experienced in Europe and he expect it to have lot of pace and bounce with time.
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