Administrator | ICC Americas |
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Format | 50 overs |
First edition | 2001 |
Latest edition | 2024 |
Current champion | United States |
Most successful | Canada (7 titles) |
The 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.
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]
Year | Host(s) | Venue(s) | Result | ||
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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 Archived 2018-05-27 at the Wayback Machine | 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 |
2023 | Canada | King City and Toronto | United States 10 points, +4.849 NRR | United States won on net run rate table | Canada 10 points, +3.500 NRR |
Year | Host(s) | Venue(s) | Result | ||
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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 |
Team | 2001 | 2003 | 2005 | 2007 | 2009 | 2011 | 2013 | 2015 | 2017 | 2019 | 2021 | 2023 | Total |
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Argentina | R1 | 5th | 5th | 4th | 6th | 6th | — | — | — | 4th | X | 4th | 9 |
Combined Bahamas, Belize and Panama | R1 | Defunct | 1 | ||||||||||
Bahamas | — | — | — | 5th | 5th | 5th | — | — | — | — | — | — | 3 |
Bermuda | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 1st | 3rd | 3rd | 3rd | 3rd | 3rd | 3rd | X | 3rd | 12 |
Canada | 1st | 1st | 2nd | 2nd | 1st | 2nd | 1st | 1st | 1st | 1st | X | 2nd | 12 |
Cayman Islands | — | 2nd | 3rd | 3rd | 4th | 4th | — | — | — | 5th | — | — | 6 |
Suriname | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | # [a] | — | — | — | # | 0 |
United States | R1 | 4th | 1st | — | 2nd | 1st | 2nd | 2nd | 2nd | 2nd | X | 1st | 11 |
Scorecards for some matches from the 2001 tournament are unavailable.
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