ICC Americas Under-19 Championship
AdministratorICC Americas
Format50-overs
First edition2001
Current champion United States
Most successful Canada (7 titles)
2024 ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup qualification

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.

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
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

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
  • X – Qualified, tournament cancelled
  • # – Qualified, withdrew
  •      Hosts
Team Bermuda
2001
Canada
2003
Canada
2005
Canada
2007
Canada
2009
United States
2011
Canada
2013
Bermuda
2015
Canada
2017
Canada
2019
United States
2021
Canada
2023
Total
 Argentina R15th5th4th6th6th4thX4th9
The BahamasBelizePanama Combined Bahamas, Belize and Panama R1Defunct1
 Bahamas 5th5th5th3
 Bermuda 2nd3rd4th1st3rd3rd3rd3rd3rd3rdX3rd12
 Canada 1st1st2nd2nd1st2nd1st1st1st1stX2nd12
 Cayman Islands 2nd3rd3rd4th4th5th6
 Suriname #[lower-alpha 1]#0
 United States R14th1st2nd1st2nd2nd2nd2ndX1st11

Records

Scorecards for some matches from the 2001 tournament are unavailable.

Highest team scores
Lowest team scores
Highest individual scores
Best bowling figures

See also

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
  6. https://www.icc-cricket.com/match/103003#scorecard
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  18. Canada Under-19s v Bahamas Under-19s, Americas Under-19 Championship 2007 – CricketArchive. Retrieved 12 February 2015.
  19. "7th Match, ICC Under-19 World Cup Qualifier Americas Region at King City (NW), Jul 12 2019". Cricinfo. Retrieved 17 July 2019.
  20. Pepsi ICC U19 Division 1 Championship - Bermuda 2015 - Round: 3 - Finals: Top 3 Round Robin – CricHQ. Retrieved 13 July 2015.
  21. Argentina Under-19s v Bermuda Under-19s, Americas Under-19 Championship 2007 – CricketArchive. Retrieved 12 February 2015.
  22. Canada Under-19s v Bahamas Under-19s, Americas Under-19 Championship 2007 – CricketArchive. Retrieved 12 February 2015.
  23. "2nd Match, ICC Under-19 World Cup Qualifier Americas Region at King City (NE), Jul 8 2019". Cricinfo. Retrieved 17 July 2019.
  24. Bermuda Under-19s v Cayman Islands Under-19s, Americas Under-19 Championship 2003 – CricketArchive. Retrieved 12 February 2015.
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