ICC Americas Under-19 Championship
| ICC Americas Under-19 Championship | |
|---|---|
| Administrator |
International Cricket Council ICC Americas |
| Format | One Day |
| First tournament | 2001 |
| Last tournament | 2011 |
| Tournament format | Round-robin |
| Number of teams | 9 |
| Current champion |
 United States |
| Most successful |
 Canada (3 titles) |
 2015 ICC Americas Under-19 Championship | |
The ICC Americas Under-19 Championship is a series of cricket tournaments organised by ICC Americas for the representative Under-19 teams from nations in their region. The tournament has run biannually since 2001 and in 2009 a second division was added which took place separately. There are plans for further divisions to be added in the future to allow all member nations to participate.[1] The current champions are Canada.
The championship also serves as a qualification for the U-19 World Cup though the number of teams progressing has varied over the years.
Under-19 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) | Final | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winner | Result | Runner-up | |||
| 2001 |  Bermuda |
Hamilton | Canada |
Canada won on points | Bermuda |
| 2003 | Canada |
King City | Canada 8 points |
Canada won on points table |
 Cayman Islands6 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 | |||||
Division Two
| Year | Host(s) | Venue(s) | Final | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winner | Result | Runner-up | |||
| 2010 |  Argentina |
Buenos Aires | Argentina +1.84 NRR |
Argentina won on net run rate table |
 Suriname+1.28 NRR |
Participating teams
- Legend
- 1st – Champions
- 2nd – Runners-up
- 3rd – Third place
- R1 – First round
- Q – Qualified
- — Hosts
| Team | 2001 |
2003 |
2005 |
2007 |
2009 |
2011 |
2013 |
 2015 |
Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Argentina |
R1 | 5th | 5th | 4th | 6th | 6th | — | — | 6 |
   Combined |
R1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1 |
| Bahamas |
— | — | — | 5th | 5th | 5th | — | — | 3 |
| Bermuda |
2nd | 3rd | 4th | 1st | 3rd | 3rd | 3rd | — | 7 |
| Canada |
1st | 1st | 2nd | 2nd | 1st | 2nd | 1st | — | 7 |
| Cayman Islands |
— | 2nd | 3rd | 3rd | 4th | 4th | — | — | 5 |
| United States |
R1 | 4th | 1st | — | 2nd | 1st | 2nd | — | 6 |
Records
Scorecards for some matches from the 2001 tournament are unavailable.
- Highest team scores
- 423 all out (49.4 overs) – Canada vs Bahamas, 15 August 2007, at Maple Leaf Cricket Club, King City.[6]
- 382 all out (50 overs) – Bermuda vs United States, 8 August 2001, at Southampton Oval, Hamilton.[7]
- 364/5 (50 overs) – Bermuda vs Argentina, 18 July 2003, at Maple Leaf Cricket Club, King City.[8]
- 347/8 (50 overs) – Canada vs Argentina, 14 July 2003, at Maple Leaf Cricket Club, King City.[9]
- 344/9 (50 overs) – Canada vs Argentina, 8 July 2009, 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]
- 34/9 (17.4 overs) – Argentina vs United States, 7 February 2011, at Central Broward Regional Park, Lauderhill.[13]
- 38 all out (27.2 overs) – Argentina vs Canada, 9 February 2011, at Central Broward Regional Park, Lauderhill.[14]
- 40 all out (25 overs) – Cayman Islands vs United States, 9 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]
- 119 (144 balls) – Terryn Fray, vs Argentina, 15 August 2007, at Maple Leaf Cricket Club, King City.[18]
- 118* (137 balls) – Cameron Mirza, vs Argentina, 7 February 2011, at Central Broward Regional Park, Lauderhill.[19]
- 111* (? balls) – Aamer Afzaluddin, vs Argentina, 7 August 2001, at Hamilton.[20]
- Best bowling figures
- 7/3 (5 overs) – Pratik Patel, vs Bahamas, 15 August 2007, at Maple Leaf Cricket Club, King City.[21]
- 7/12 (7 overs) – Troy Taylor, vs Bermuda, 15 July 2003, at Maple Leaf Cricket Club, King City.[22]
- 7/20 (6.2 overs) – Jon Roberts, vs Argentina, 8 August 2001, at St David's Cricket Club, Hamilton.[23]
- 6/3 (3.1 overs) – Akash Shah, vs Bahamas, 7 February 2011, at Brian Piccolo Park, Fort Lauderdale.[24]
- 6/9 (6.4 overs) – Tamauri Tucker, vs Bahamas, 13 August 2007, at Maple Leaf Cricket Club, King City.[25]
See also
References
- ↑ Americas U19 Tournament 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 iccu19worldcup.yahoo.net 17/02/11
- ↑ Argentina look for immediate return to U19 Division 1 cricketeurope4.net 17/02/11
- ↑ Canada Under-19s v Bahamas Under-19s, Americas Under-19 Championship 2007 – CricketArchive. Retrieved 12 February 2015.
- ↑ Bermuda Under-19s v United States of America Under-19s, Americas Under-19 Championship 2001 – CricketArchive. Retrieved 12 February 2015.
- ↑ Argentina Under-19s v Bermuda Under-19s, Americas Under-19 Championship 2003 – CricketArchive. Retrieved 12 February 2015.
- ↑ Canada Under-19s v Argentina Under-19s, Americas Under-19 Championship 2003 – CricketArchive. Retrieved 12 February 2015.
- ↑ Canada Under-19s v Argentina Under-19s, Americas Under-19 Championship 2009 – CricketArchive. Retrieved 12 February 2015.
- ↑ Argentina Under-19s v Bermuda Under-19s, Americas Under-19 Championship 2010/11 – CricketArchive. Retrieved 12 February 2015.
- ↑ Canada Under-19s v Argentina Under-19s, Americas Under-19 Championship 2003 – CricketArchive. Retrieved 12 February 2015.
- ↑ United States of America Under-19s v Argentina Under-19s, Americas Under-19 Championship 2010/11 – CricketArchive. Retrieved 12 February 2015.
- ↑ Argentina Under-19s v Canada Under-19s, Americas Under-19 Championship 2010/11 – CricketArchive. Retrieved 12 February 2015.
- ↑ United States of America Under-19s v Cayman Islands Under-19s, Americas Under-19 Championship 2010/11 – CricketArchive. Retrieved 12 February 2015.
- ↑ Argentina Under-19s v Bermuda Under-19s, Americas Under-19 Championship 2003 – CricketArchive. Retrieved 12 February 2015.
- ↑ Canada Under-19s v Bahamas Under-19s, Americas Under-19 Championship 2007 – CricketArchive. Retrieved 12 February 2015.
- ↑ Argentina Under-19s v Bermuda Under-19s, Americas Under-19 Championship 2007 – CricketArchive. Retrieved 12 February 2015.
- ↑ United States of America Under-19s v Argentina Under-19s, Americas Under-19 Championship 2010/11 – CricketArchive. Retrieved 12 February 2015.
- ↑ Argentina Under-19s v United States of America Under-19s, Americas Under-19 Championship 2001 – CricketArchive. Retrieved 12 February 2015.
- ↑ Canada Under-19s v Bahamas Under-19s, Americas Under-19 Championship 2007 – CricketArchive. Retrieved 12 February 2015.
- ↑ Bermuda Under-19s v Cayman Islands Under-19s, Americas Under-19 Championship 2003 – CricketArchive. Retrieved 12 February 2015.
- ↑ Argentina Under-19s v Canada Under-19s, Americas Under-19 Championship 2001 – CricketArchive. Retrieved 12 February 2015.
- ↑ Bahamas Under-19s v Canada Under-19s, Americas Under-19 Championship 2010/11 – CricketArchive. Retrieved 12 February 2015.
- ↑ Bahamas Under-19s v Bermuda Under-19s, Americas Under-19 Championship 2007 – CricketArchive. Retrieved 12 February 2015.
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