ICC U19 Cricket World Cup Americas Qualifier

ICC U19 Cricket World Cup Americas Qualifier (formerly ICC Americas Under-19 Championship) is an international cricket tournament contested by under-19 national teams from the ICC Americas region. The tournament has run bi-annually since 2001, occasionally with more than one division.[1] The championship also serves as a qualification tournament for the Under-19 World Cup, though the number of teams progressing has varied. The most recent tournament was held in Canada and won by Canada. Canada are by far the most successful team overall, winning seven titles, to the two won by the United States and the single title won by Bermuda.

For the most recent tournament, see 2015 ICC Americas Under-19 Championship.

ICC Americas Under-19 Championship

Administrator	ICC Americas
Format	50-overs
First edition	2001
Current champion	Canada
Most successful	Canada (7 titles)
2020 Under-19 Cricket World Cup qualification

History

Prior to the introduction of the Americas Under-19 Championship in 2001 there was no qualification route for associate and affiliate teams to the U-19 World Cup. As a result, the only Americas team represented in the 1998 competition was the full member, the West Indies.[2] For the 2000 tournament, a combined Americas team was also given the chance to take part, representing the four longstanding associate members from the region: Canada, USA, Bermuda and Argentina.[3]

With the new championship came the possibility for an individual team to qualify for the U-19 World Cup. The winner of each championship would automatically go through to play in the finals the following year.

In 2009, Under-19 World Cup qualification was changed dramatically and a World Cup Qualifier event was introduced in which the top two teams from each of the ICC regions would compete for the final six places in the U-19 World Cup.[4] In addition to this, the Championship was expanded to two divisions due to the increase in the number of regional teams. The first Division Two tournament took place in 2010.[5]

Tournament results

Division One

Year	Host(s)	Venue(s)	Result
			Winner	Margin	Runner-up
2001	Bermuda	various	Canada	Canada won on points fixtures	Bermuda
2003	Canada	King City	Canada 8 points	Canada won on points table	Cayman Islands 6 points
2005	Canada	King City	United States 8 points	United States won on points table	Canada 5 points
2007	Canada	King City	Bermuda 8 points	Bermuda won on points table	Canada 6 points
2009	Canada	King City	Canada +3.87 NRR	Canada won on net run rate table	United States +2.59 NRR
2011	United States	Fort Lauderdale and Lauderhill	United States 10 points	United States won on points table	Canada 8 points
2013	Canada	King City	Canada 6 points	Canada won on points table	United States 4 points
2015	Bermuda	Somerset Village and St. David's	Canada 8 points	Canada won on points table	United States 2 points
2017	Canada	King City and Toronto	Canada 6 points, +1.395 NRR	Canada won on net run rate table	United States 6 points, +1.162 NRR
2019	Canada	King City and Toronto	Canada 8 points	Canada won on points table	United States 6 points

Division Two

Year	Host(s)	Venue(s)	Result
			Winner	Margin	Runner-up
2010	Argentina	Buenos Aires	Argentina +1.84 NRR	Argentina won on net run rate table	Suriname +1.28 NRR
2014	Bahamas	Nassau	Suriname	Suriname won on net run rate report	Argentina

Participating teams (Division One)

Legend

• 1st – Champions
• 2nd – Runners-up
• 3rd – Third place
• R1 – First round
• Q – Qualified
•     — Hosts

Team	2001	2003	2005	2007	2009	2011	2013	2015	2017	2019	Total
Argentina	R1	5th	5th	4th	6th	6th	—	—	—	4th	7
Combined Bahamas, Belize and Panama	R1	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1
Bahamas	—	—	—	5th	5th	5th	—	—	—	—	3
Bermuda	2nd	3rd	4th	1st	3rd	3rd	3rd	3rd	3rd	3rd	10
Canada	1st	1st	2nd	2nd	1st	2nd	1st	1st	1st	1st	10
Cayman Islands	—	2nd	3rd	3rd	4th	4th	—	—	—	5th	6
Suriname	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	4th[lower-alpha 1]	—	—	1
United States	R1	4th	1st	—	2nd	1st	2nd	2nd	2nd	2nd	9

Records

Scorecards for some matches from the 2001 tournament are unavailable.

Highest team scores

• 441/5 (50 overs) –  Canada vs  Cayman Islands, 12 July 2019, at Maple Leaf Cricket Club, King City.[6]
• 423 all out (49.4 overs) –  Canada vs  Bahamas, 15 August 2007, at Maple Leaf Cricket Club, King City.[7]
• 382 all out (50 overs) –  Bermuda vs  United States, 8 August 2001, at Southampton Oval, Hamilton.[8]
• 364/5 (50 overs) –  Bermuda vs  Argentina, 18 July 2003, at Maple Leaf Cricket Club, King City.[9]
• 347/8 (50 overs) –  Canada vs  Argentina, 14 July 2003, at Maple Leaf Cricket Club, King City.[10]

Lowest team scores

• 22 all out (13.5 overs) –  Argentina vs  Bermuda, 12 February 2011, at Brian Piccolo Park, Fort Lauderdale.[11]
• 25 all out (15.2 overs) –  Argentina vs  Canada, 14 July 2003, at Maple Leaf Cricket Club, King City.[12]
• 29 all out (15.3 overs) –  Cayman Islands vs  United States, 8 July 2019, at Maple Leaf Cricket Club, King City.[13]
• 33 all out (21 overs) –  Argentina vs  Canada, 9 July 2019, at Maple Leaf Cricket Club, King City.[14]
• 34 all out (17.4 overs) –  Argentina vs  United States, 7 February 2011, at Central Broward Regional Park, Lauderhill.[15]

Highest individual scores

• 204 (179 balls) – Dion Stovell, vs  Argentina, 18 July 2003, at Maple Leaf Cricket Club, King City.[16]
• 155 (107 balls) – Ruvindu Gunasekera, vs  Bahamas, 15 August 2007, at Maple Leaf Cricket Club, King City.[17]
• 151 (104 balls) – Ashtan Deosammy, vs  Cayman Islands, 12 July 2019, at Maple Leaf Cricket Club, King City.[18]
• 121 (93 balls) – Harsh Thaker, vs  United States, 10 July 2015, at Somerset Cricket Club Ground, Somerset Village.[19]
• 119 (144 balls) – Terryn Fray, vs  Argentina, 15 August 2007, at Maple Leaf Cricket Club, King City.[20]

Best bowling figures

• 7/3 (5 overs) – Pratik Patel, vs  Bahamas, 15 August 2007, at Maple Leaf Cricket Club, King City.[21]
• 7/10 (8 overs) – Raj Vyas, vs  Cayman Islands, 8 July 2019, at Maple Leaf Cricket Club, King City.[22]
• 7/12 (7 overs) – Troy Taylor, vs  Bermuda, 15 July 2003, at Maple Leaf Cricket Club, King City.[23]
• 7/20 (6.2 overs) – Jon Roberts, vs  Argentina, 8 August 2001, at St David's Cricket Club, Hamilton.[24]
• 6/3 (3.1 overs) – Akash Shah, vs  Bahamas, 7 February 2011, at Brian Piccolo Park, Fort Lauderdale.[25]

See also

• ICC Americas Championship

Notes

1. Suriname qualified for the 2015 tournament, but were forced to withdraw shortly beforehand after failing to secure visas for their players.

References

1. Americas U19 Tournament Archived 2010-06-26 at the Wayback Machine icc-cricket.yahoo.net 14/11/10
2. Local talent does country proud at opening of U-19 cricket World Cup espncricinfo.com 17/02/11
3. Historic ICC meeting in Toronto espncricinfo.com
4. How Teams Qualified in ICC U19 Cricket World Cup Archived 2010-03-16 at the Wayback Machine iccu19worldcup.yahoo.net 17/02/11
5. Argentina look for immediate return to U19 Division 1 cricketeurope4.net 17/02/11
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