South American Cricket Championship

South American Cricket Championship
Format Limited-overs cricket
First tournament 1995
Current champion  Chile (2016 – 2nd title)
Most successful  Argentina[lower-alpha 1] (8 titles)

The South American Cricket Championship (Spanish: Campeonato Sudamericano de Cricket) is an international limited-overs cricket tournament featuring national teams from South America and certain other invited sides, currently played annually but until 2013 usually played every two seasons.[lower-alpha 2]

Argentine teams have been the most successful at the tournament, winning on eight out of the thirteen occasions it has been held. The Argentine national team won the first three championships without losing a game, and consequently since 2000 the country has been represented by a development squad, Argentina A.[2] Chile is the only other team to feature in every edition of the championships, but has won only twice (in 2011 and 2016), despite finishing runner-up on six occasions. Peru and Brazil have each only missed one tournament, in 2002 and 2011 respectively. Guyana, the only Test-playing country in South America (as part of the West Indies cricket team), has sent a team four times, winning twice, but this has generally been a "masters" team consisting of past players.[3] The non-South American teams invited to the tournament have been Panama (in 2000), Puerto Rico (in 2004), and Mexico (since 2014). Colombia were going to send a team to the 2000 tournament, but in fact did not debut until 2015.[4]

The most recent edition of the tournament was held in Itaguaí, Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil, in October 2016.[5] Chile won the men's tournament and Brazil won the women's tournament.[6]

Results

Year Host(s) Venue(s) Result
Winner Margin Runner-up
1995  Argentina Buenos Aires  Argentina
12 points
Argentina won on points
table
 Chile
8 points
1997  Argentina Buenos Aires  Argentina
12 points
Argentina won on points
table
 Brazil
4 points
1999  Peru Lima  Argentina
135/2 (28.3 overs)
Argentina won by 8 wickets
scorecard
 Guyana[lower-alpha 3]
134 (38.4 overs)
2000  Argentina Buenos Aires  Argentina[lower-alpha 1]
77/2 (16 overs)
Argentina won by 8 wickets
report
 Chile
75 (? overs)
2002  Argentina Buenos Aires  Argentina[lower-alpha 1]
196/8 (28.3 overs)
Argentina won by 2 wickets
scorecard
 Chile
194 (40 overs)
2004  Chile Santiago  Guyana[lower-alpha 3]
323/3 (40 overs)
Guyana won by 117 runs
scorecard
 Puerto Rico
206/7 (40 overs)
2007  Peru Lima  Guyana[lower-alpha 3]
204 (39.1 overs)
Guyana won by 150 runs
scorecard
 Argentina[lower-alpha 1]
54 (28.4 overs)
2009  Brazil São Paulo  Argentina[lower-alpha 1]
12 points
Argentina won on points
table
 Chile
8 points
2011  Chile Santiago  Chile
173/6 (? overs)
Chile won by 47 runs
report
 Argentina[lower-alpha 1]
126/9 (? overs)
2013  Argentina Buenos Aires  Argentina[lower-alpha 1]
12 points
Argentina won on points
report
 Chile
8 points
2014  Peru Lima  Mexico
154/4 (20 overs)
Mexico won by 20 runs
report
 Chile
134 (19.1 overs)
2015  Chile Santiago  Argentina[lower-alpha 1]
137/2 (14.2 overs)
Argentina won by 8 wickets
scorecard
 Brazil
135/6 (20 overs)
2016  Brazil Itaguaí  Chile
164/8 (19.4 overs)
Chile won by 2 wickets
scorecard
 Argentina
163/7 (20 overs)

Performance by team

Legend
Team Argentina
1995
Argentina
1997
Peru
1999
Argentina
2000
Argentina
2002
Chile
2004
Peru
2007
Brazil
2009
Chile
2011
Argentina
2013
Peru
2014
Chile
2015
Brazil
2016
Total
Andean Masters 4th GS 4th 3
 Argentina[lower-alpha 1] 1st 1st 1st 1st 1st 3rd 2nd 1st 2nd 1st 5th 1st 2nd 13
 Brazil 4th 2nd GS 3rd 3rd GS 4th 3rd 3rd 3rd 2nd 4th 12
 Chile 2nd 4th 3rd 2nd 2nd 4th 3rd 2nd 1st 2nd 2nd 3rd 1st 13
 Chile "A" GS 1
 Colombia 4th 5th 2
 Ecuador GS 1
 Guyana[lower-alpha 3] 2nd 5th 1st 1st 4
 Mexico 1st 5th 6th 3
 Panama 4th 1
 Peru 3rd 3rd 4th 6th GS GS 4th 3rd 4th 4th 6th 3rd 12
 Puerto Rico 2nd 1
 Venezuela GS 7th 2

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 From the 2000 tournament onwards, Argentina has been represented by its "A team" (development team).
  2. As in the rest of the Southern Hemisphere, the cricket season in South America is played during the summer months, and so seasons consist of the last few months of one year and the first few months of the next year. For instance, the inaugural South American Championship was held in December 1995, as part of the 1995–96 season.[1]
  3. 1 2 3 4 When Guyana, which plays Test cricket as part of the West Indies Cricket Board, has featured at the tournament, it has always been represented by an overage team, the Guyana Masters.

References

  1. South American Championships 1995/96 – CricketArchive. Retrieved 16 July 2015.
  2. "South American Championships: Argentina gambles and wins at successful tournament" – ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 16 July 2015.
  3. (10 April 1999). "Argentina easily win South American Championship" – ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 16 July 2015.
  4. (9 November 2000> "South American Championships: Colombia may be late addition" – ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 16 July 2015.
  5. "Rio’s Carioca Cricket Club Launches 2016 Season", The Rio Times, 3 February 2016. Retrieved 2 September 2016.
  6. South American Championships, CricHQ. Retrieved 3 November 2016.
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