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 tournament serves as a qualification tournament for the Under-19 World Cup. Canada are by far the most successful team overall, winning seven titles, to the three won by the United States and the single title won by Bermuda.
| Administrator | ICC Americas |
|---|---|
| Format | 50-overs |
| First edition | 2001 |
| Current champion | |
| Most successful | |
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 | various | Canada won on points fixtures |
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| 2003 | King City | 8 points |
Canada won on points table |
6 points | |
| 2005 | King City | 8 points |
United States won on points table |
5 points | |
| 2007 | King City | 8 points |
Bermuda won on points table |
6 points | |
| 2009 | King City | +3.87 NRR |
Canada won on net run rate table |
+2.59 NRR | |
| 2011 | Fort Lauderdale and Lauderhill |
10 points |
United States won on points table |
8 points | |
| 2013 | King City | 6 points |
Canada won on points table |
4 points | |
| 2015 | Somerset Village and St. David's | 8 points |
Canada won on points table |
2 points | |
| 2017 | King City and Toronto |
6 points, +1.395 NRR |
Canada won on net run rate table |
6 points, +1.162 NRR | |
| 2019 | King City and Toronto |
8 points |
Canada won on points table |
6 points | |
| 2023 | King City and Toronto |
10 points, +4.849 NRR |
United States won on net run rate table |
10 points, +3.500 NRR | |
Participating teams (Division One)
- Legend
- 1st – Champions
- 2nd – Runners-up
- 3rd – Third place
- R1 – First round
- Q – Qualified
- X – Qualified, tournament cancelled
- # – Qualified, withdrew
- — Hosts
| Team | 2001 |
2003 |
2005 |
2007 |
2009 |
2011 |
2013 |
2015 |
2017 |
2019 |
2021 |
2023 |
Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| R1 | 5th | 5th | 4th | 6th | 6th | — | — | — | 4th | X | 4th | 9 | |
| R1 | Defunct | 1 | |||||||||||
| — | — | — | 5th | 5th | 5th | — | — | — | — | — | — | 3 | |
| 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 1st | 3rd | 3rd | 3rd | 3rd | 3rd | 3rd | X | 3rd | 12 | |
| 1st | 1st | 2nd | 2nd | 1st | 2nd | 1st | 1st | 1st | 1st | X | 2nd | 12 | |
| — | 2nd | 3rd | 3rd | 4th | 4th | — | — | — | 5th | — | — | 6 | |
| — | — | — | — | — | — | — | #[lower-alpha 1] | — | — | — | # | 0 | |
| R1 | 4th | 1st | — | 2nd | 1st | 2nd | 2nd | 2nd | 2nd | X | 1st | 11 | |
Records
Scorecards for some matches from the 2001 tournament are unavailable.
- Highest team scores
- 515/8 (50 overs) -
United States vs
Argentina, 14 August 2023, at Toronto Cricket, Skating and Curling Club, Toronto[6]
- 441/5 (50 overs) –
Canada vs
Cayman Islands, 12 July 2019, at Maple Leaf Cricket Club, King City.[7]
- 423 all out (49.4 overs) –
Canada vs
Bahamas, 15 August 2007, at Maple Leaf Cricket Club, King City.[8] - 382 all out (50 overs) –
Bermuda vs
United States, 8 August 2001, at Southampton Oval, Hamilton.[9] - 364/5 (50 overs) –
Bermuda vs
Argentina, 18 July 2003, at Maple Leaf Cricket Club, King City.[10] - 347/8 (50 overs) –
Canada vs
Argentina, 14 July 2003, at Maple Leaf Cricket Club, King City.[11]
- Lowest team scores
- 22 all out (13.5 overs) –
Argentina vs
Bermuda, 12 February 2011, at Brian Piccolo Park, Fort Lauderdale.[12] - 25 all out (15.2 overs) –
Argentina vs
Canada, 14 July 2003, at Maple Leaf Cricket Club, King City.[13] - 29 all out (15.3 overs) –
Cayman Islands vs
United States, 8 July 2019, at Maple Leaf Cricket Club, King City.[14] - 33 all out (21 overs) –
Argentina vs
Canada, 9 July 2019, at Maple Leaf Cricket Club, King City.[15] - 34 all out (17.4 overs) –
Argentina vs
United States, 7 February 2011, at Central Broward Regional Park, Lauderhill.[16]
- Highest individual scores
- 204 (179 balls) –
Dion Stovell, vs
Argentina, 18 July 2003, at Maple Leaf Cricket Club, King City.[17] - 155 (107 balls) –
Ruvindu Gunasekera, vs
Bahamas, 15 August 2007, at Maple Leaf Cricket Club, King City.[18] - 151 (104 balls) –
Ashtan Deosammy, vs
Cayman Islands, 12 July 2019, at Maple Leaf Cricket Club, King City.[19] - 121 (93 balls) –
Harsh Thaker, vs
United States, 10 July 2015, at Somerset Cricket Club Ground, Somerset Village.[20] - 119 (144 balls) –
Terryn Fray, vs
Argentina, 15 August 2007, at Maple Leaf Cricket Club, King City.[21]
- Best bowling figures
- 7/3 (5 overs) –
Pratik Patel, vs
Bahamas, 15 August 2007, at Maple Leaf Cricket Club, King City.[22] - 7/10 (8 overs) –
Raj Vyas, vs
Cayman Islands, 8 July 2019, at Maple Leaf Cricket Club, King City.[23] - 7/12 (7 overs) –
Troy Taylor, vs
Bermuda, 15 July 2003, at Maple Leaf Cricket Club, King City.[24] - 7/20 (6.2 overs) –
Jon Roberts, vs
Argentina, 8 August 2001, at St David's Cricket Club, Hamilton.[25] - 6/3 (3.1 overs) –
Akash Shah, vs
Bahamas, 7 February 2011, at Brian Piccolo Park, Fort Lauderdale.[26]
See also
Notes
- Suriname qualified for the 2015 tournament, but were forced to withdraw shortly beforehand after failing to secure visas for their players.
References
- Americas U19 Tournament Archived 2010-06-26 at the Wayback Machine icc-cricket.yahoo.net 14/11/10
- Local talent does country proud at opening of U-19 cricket World Cup espncricinfo.com 17/02/11
- Historic ICC meeting in Toronto espncricinfo.com
- How Teams Qualified in ICC U19 Cricket World Cup Archived 2010-03-16 at the Wayback Machine iccu19worldcup.yahoo.net 17/02/11
- Argentina look for immediate return to U19 Division 1 cricketeurope4.net 17/02/11
- https://www.icc-cricket.com/match/103003#scorecard
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