K. A. Auty Cup

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The K.A. Auty Cup Trophy is an international cricket series played between Canada and the United States, founded in 1963. [1] It is a revival of a series that took place between 1844 and 1912, which was cricket's earliest international series. [2] [3]

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The Auty Cup has been played intermittently since 1963. [3] It is hosted alternately by Cricket Canada and USA Cricket, previously the USACA. [4] [5] No matches were held between 1995 and 2011, [3] and the series was last held in 2017. [6]

The Auty Cup trophy is named after the engineer, writer and cricketer Karl Andre Auty, who was born in Dewsbury, England in 1881 and died in Chicago, Illinois in 1959, [7] [8] "who for many years had been a driving force in American cricket, mainly around the Chicago area". [1]

Traditionally held as a single two-day match, [9] [10] [11] the series between 2012 and 2017 included 50-over and Twenty20 matches. [12] [13]

Background

A Canadian cricket team visited Manhattan to play a tour match in 1844; the Anglo American explicitly reports the match as being St George's Cricket Club against "eleven players of all Canada", [14] although it was billed as "United States of America versus the British Empire's Canadian Province". [15] The match was arranged after the St George's team had arrived unexpectedly at the Toronto Cricket Club in 1840 because of a hoax invitation. [16]

After the 1844 match, which the Canadians won by 23 runs, [14] an American team traveled to play a return match in 1845 at McGill University in Montreal. [2] The series was played regularly from 1853 but ended in 1912. [17]

Cricket Canada has incorrectly claimed that the 1844 match was the first international sporting fixture, [18] when many older international events existed in other sports. [19] [20] [21]

History

Early history

The Auty Cup, first contested in 1844 between Canada and the United States, is regarded as the oldest international sporting trophy still played for in North America. [22]

A lesser-known figure associated with the origins of the competition was a New York cricket enthusiast identified only as "Mr. Phillpotts." Contemporary accounts suggest that Phillpotts played an important role in arranging early fixtures between Canadian and American clubs in the mid-nineteenth century, helping to establish the foundation for what later became the formal Auty Cup rivalry. [23]

The Cup itself was formally donated in 1884 by John Auty, a Montreal-born jeweler, to encourage regular competition between the two nations. [24]

In 1961, "the President of the USACA, John I. Marder was entertained by the CCA President Lewis J.H. Gunn." This meeting "agreed to revive the International Series and as a result the famous contest reappeared in the summer of 1963." [1] The K.A. Auty trophy was presented by the USACA in 1963 to honour the memory of Karl Andre Auty. [1] [8]

The series ceased after the 1995 match, [10] was revived in 2011, [11] but was not played in 2014 or 2015. [5]

The 2016 Auty Cup was won by Canada (retaining the Cup), [25] in a series of three 50-over matches held on October 13, 14, and 16, in Los Angeles just before the 2016 ICC World Cricket League Division Four tournament. In 2017 the USA won, in a series of three 50-over matches played on September 12–14 in Toronto. [5] There was no competition in 2018, as the two organizations were not able to finalize terms for the series. [6] The series was scheduled to resume in July 2021, but was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [26]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Boller, Kevin E. "K.A. Auty Trophy, symbol of cricket supremacy in North America". Canadian Cricket Association. Archived from the original on April 21, 2007.
  2. 1 2 "Philip Barker: An unlikely cricketing rivalry between Canada and United States". Inside the Games. August 30, 2019.
  3. 1 2 3 Chandler, Martin (February 27, 2011). "Review: A History of Canadian Cricket: An immigrant's game?". CricketWeb.
  4. ↑ Peter Della Penna (June 21, 2016). "USA, Canada set to revive Auty Cup rivalry". ESPN Cricinfo.
  5. 1 2 3 Peter Della Penna (August 22, 2017). "Auty Cup scheduled for September in Toronto". ESPN Cricinfo.
  6. 1 2 "USA-Canada Auty Cup scrapped for 2018". ESPN Cricinfo. September 8, 2018.
  7. ↑ "Wisden - Obituaries in 1959". ESPN Cricinfo. John Wisden & Co. 1960.
  8. 1 2 "AUTY, Karl Andre O.B.E. - Personal Information". One-Name.net. Archived from the original on May 21, 2024.
  9. ↑ "Canada v United States of America in 1963". Cricket Archive. Archived from the original on January 11, 2020.
  10. 1 2 "Canada v United States of America in 1995". Cricket Archive. Archived from the original on January 11, 2020.
  11. 1 2 "Hansra guides Canada to victory". ESPN Cricinfo. August 17, 2011.
  12. ↑ "Auty Cup morale boost for Canada, but problems persist". ESPN Cricinfo. November 23, 2012.
  13. ↑ Peter Della Penna (September 29, 2016). "Auty Cup to be contested as three-match 50-over series". ESPN Cricinfo.
  14. 1 2 "Cricketers' Chronicle". The Anglo American. Vol. 3, no. 23. New York: E. L. Garvin & Co. September 28, 1844. pp. 548–549 – via HathiTrust.
  15. ↑ Kimber, Jarrod (2015). Test Cricket: The Unauthorised Biography. Richmond: Hardic Grant Books. p. 15. ISBN   978-1743790199.
  16. ↑ Boller, Kevin E. "Canada vs. USA: International cricket was launched by a hoax". Canadian Cricket Association. Archived from the original on April 23, 2007.
  17. ↑ "Canada's Colourful Cricket History: Part 2". Canadian Cricket Association. Archived from the original on February 10, 2007.
  18. ↑ "Canada's Colourful Cricket History: Part 1". Canadian Cricket Association. Archived from the original on February 8, 2007.
  19. ↑ "History of Polo". Polo Museum. Polo has been an international sport since at least 821 A.D., when Chinese ambassadors in Japan played a team fielded by the Emperor.
  20. ↑ "Real tennis: Coaching the quirky sport of kings". RFI. May 5, 2022. Real tennis, which boasts a list of world champions stretching back to 1740
  21. ↑ "Combat de cinq Anglais contre cinq Français". Breton Cultural Institute. Archived from the original on September 13, 2012. Joust between two teams of five knights, one English and the other Breton
  22. ↑ "Auty Cup: Canada vs United States," ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 10 August 2025.
  23. ↑ "Mr. Phillpotts and the Canadian Roots of the Auty Cup," *365NotOut.com*, 10 May 2025. Retrieved 10 August 2025.
  24. ↑ "History of the Auty Cup," Cricket Canada. Retrieved 10 August 2025.
  25. ↑ "Pervez, Dhindsa help Canada beat USA, retain Auty Cup Trophy". ESPN Cricinfo. October 15, 2016. Retrieved October 15, 2016.
  26. ↑ "USA and Canada to resume Auty Cup rivalry after four-year hiatus". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved March 10, 2021.
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