2018–19 T20 World Cup Americas Qualifier
The 2018–19 ICC Men's T20 World Cup Americas Qualifier was the tournament played as part of qualification process for the 2021 ICC Men's T20 World Cup.
Twelve regional qualifiers were held by the International Cricket Council (ICC), with 62 teams[n 1] competing during 2018 in five regions – Africa (3 groups), Americas (2), Asia (2), East Asia Pacific (2) and Europe (3). The top 25 sides from these progressed to five Regional Finals in 2019, with seven teams then going on to compete in the 2019 ICC T20 World Cup Qualifier,[1] [n 2] along with the six lowest ranked sides from the ICC T20I Championship.[1]
The first sub-regional qualifier was held in Argentina and the other was held in the United States. The top two teams in each group advanced to the regional final tournament, which would determine two American entrants to the 2019 ICC T20 World Cup Qualifier.[2] In April 2018, the International Cricket Council (ICC) granted full international status to Twenty20 men's matches played between member sides from 1 January 2019 onwards. Therefore, all the matches in the Regional Finals will be played as Twenty20 Internationals (T20Is).[3]
From the Southern sub region group, both Bermuda and the Cayman Islands qualified for the Americas Regional Finals.[4] From the Northern sub region, Canada and United States also qualified for the Americas Regional Finals.[5]
The Regional Finals were held in Bermuda from 18 to 25 August 2019.[6] Following the conclusion of matches that took place on 22 August 2019, Canada and Bermuda had both progressed to the T20 World Cup Qualifier.[7] [8]
Teams
[edit ]Southern Sub-regional Group | Northern Sub-regional Group |
---|---|
Southern sub-region
[edit ]Dates | 26 February 2018 – 3 March 2018 |
---|---|
Administrator(s) | ICC Americas |
Cricket format | 20 overs |
Tournament format(s) | Double round-robin |
Host(s) | Argentina |
Champions | Bermuda |
Runners-up | Cayman Islands |
Participants | 3 |
Matches | 6 |
Most runs | Bermuda Kamau Leverock (171) |
Most wickets | Cayman Islands Alessandro Morris (8) |
The Southern sub region group was held in Argentina from 26 February to 3 March 2018.[4]
Points table
[edit ]Team | Pld | W | L | T | NR | Pts | NRR | Status |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Bermuda (Q) | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 | +1.690 | Advance to Regional Finals |
Cayman Islands (Q) | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 | +1.573 | |
Argentina (H) | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | –3.283 |
(H) Host, (Q) Qualified to next stage
Fixtures
[edit ]Troy Taylor 3/14 (4 overs)
Hurlingham Club Ground, Hurlingham
Umpires: Emmerson Carrington (Ber) and Courtney Young (Cay)
- Argentina won the toss and elected to bat.
Samuel Hatt 3/46 (4 overs)
Kwaisi James 2/8 (4 overs)
Estadio Belgrano Athletic, Buenos Aires
Umpires: Andrew Elliott (Eng) and Courtney Young (Cay)
- Bermuda won the toss and elected to bat.
Hurlingham Club Ground, Hurlingham
Umpires: Emmerson Carrington (Ber) and Andrew Elliott (Eng)
- Cayman Islands won the toss and elected to bat.
David Mauro 2/22 (4 overs)
Adrian Wright 4/11 (4 overs)
Estadio Belgrano Athletic, Buenos Aires
Umpires: Andrew Elliott (Eng) and Martín Siri (Arg)
- Cayman Islands won the toss and elected to bat.
Santiago Rossi 1/20 (4 overs)
Curt Stovell 2/4 (4 overs)
- Bermuda won the toss and elected to bat.
Adrian Wright 2/16 (3 overs)
Estadio Belgrano Athletic, Buenos Aires
Umpires: Andrew Elliott (Eng) and Courtney Young (Cay)
- Cayman Islands won the toss and elected to bat.
Northern sub-region
[edit ]Dates | 20 September 2018 – 26 September 2018 |
---|---|
Administrator(s) | ICC Americas |
Cricket format | 20 overs |
Tournament format(s) | Double round-robin |
Host(s) | United States |
Champions | United States |
Runners-up | Canada |
Participants | 4 |
Matches | 12 |
Most runs | United States Monank Patel (208) |
Most wickets | United States Nosthush Kenjige (12) |
The Northern sub region was held in the United States from 20 to 26 September 2018.[9] Originally, the sub region matches were scheduled to start on 19 September, but were postponed by one day because of Hurricane Florence.[10]
Points table
[edit ]Team | Pld | W | L | T | NR | Pts | NRR | Status |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
United States (H,Q) | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 10 | +5.384 | Advance to Regional Finals |
Canada (Q) | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 10 | +5.261 | |
Panama | 6 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 2 | –4.164 | |
Belize | 6 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 2 | –5.344 |
(H) Host, (Q) Qualified to next stage
Fixtures
[edit ]Timil Patel 2/4 (2 overs)
Church Street Park, Morrisville
Umpires: Roger Dill (Ber) and Arnold Maddela (Can)
Player of the match: Monank Patel (USA)
- Panama won the toss and elected to bat.
Church Street Park, Morrisville
Umpires: Sameer Bandekar (USA) and Harry Grewal (Can)
Player of the match: Nitish Kumar (Can)
- Belize won the toss and elected to bat.
Nitish Kumar 3/8 (2.5 overs)
Church Street Park, Morrisville
Umpires: Harry Grewal (Can) and Arnold Maddela (Can)
Player of the match: Nitish Kumar (Can)
- Panama won the toss and elected to bat.
Herbert Banner 2/45 (4 overs)
Nosthush Kenjige 4/5 (2.3 overs)
Church Street Park, Morrisville
Umpires: Sameer Bandekar (USA) and Roger Dill (Ber)
Player of the match: Jaskaran Malhotra (USA)
- United States won the toss and elected to bat.
Irfan Hafejee 1/12 (4 overs)
Francis Sutherland 3/27 (4 overs)
Church Street Park, Morrisville
Umpires: Harry Grewal (Can) and Arnold Maddela (Can)
Player of the match: Francis Sutherland (Blz)
- Belize won the toss and elected to bat.
(Canada won the Super Over)
Church Street Park, Morrisville
Umpires: Sameer Bandekar (USA) and Roger Dill (Ber)
Player of the match: Rizwan Cheema (Can)
- United States won the toss and elected to bat.
Abraash Khan 3/4 (2 overs)
Church Street Park, Morrisville
Umpires: Sameer Bandekar (USA) and Harry Grewal (Can)
Player of the match: Abraash Khan (Can)
- Canada won the toss and elected to field.
Nosthush Kenjige 3/19 (4 overs)
Aslam Doria 1/15 (0.5 overs)
Church Street Park, Morrisville
Umpires: Roger Dill (Ber) and Arnold Maddela (Can)
Player of the match: Sunny Sohal (USA)
- Panama won the toss and elected to bat.
Kenroy Roca 2/16 (3 overs)
Khengar Ratilal 4/10 (4 overs)
Church Street Park, Morrisville
Umpires: Sameer Bandekar (USA) and Arnold Maddela (Can)
Player of the match: Soyeb Chohan (Pan)
- Panama won the toss and elected to bat.
Church Street Park, Morrisville
Umpires: Roger Dill (Ber) and Harry Grewal (Can)
Player of the match: Steven Taylor (USA)
- Canada won the toss and elected to bat.
Church Street Park, Morrisville
Umpires: Roger Dill (Ber) and Arnold Maddela (Can)
Player of the match: Usman Ashraf (USA)
- Belize won the toss and elected to bat.
Cecil Pervez 3/10 (4 overs)
Church Street Park, Morrisville
Umpires: Sameer Bandekar (USA) and Harry Grewal (Can)
Player of the match: Cecil Pervez (Can)
- Panama won the toss and elected to bat.
Regional Finals
[edit ]Dates | 18 – 25 August 2019 |
---|---|
Administrator(s) | ICC Americas |
Cricket format | Twenty20 International |
Tournament format(s) | Double round-robin |
Host(s) | Bermuda |
Champions | Canada |
Runners-up | Bermuda |
Participants | 4 |
Matches | 12 |
Most runs | Canada Navneet Dhaliwal (190) |
Most wickets | Canada Dillon Heyliger (11) |
2021 → |
The Regional Finals were held in Bermuda from 18 to 25 August 2019,[11] [12] with the matches played at the Bermuda National Stadium and White Hill Field.[13] [14] [15] On 21 August 2019, the Bermuda Cricket Board confirmed that all the remaining matches scheduled to be played at the Bermuda National Stadium would be moved to White Hill Field, due to the condition of the pitch.[16] [17] Canada won the Regional Finals to progress to the 2019 ICC T20 World Cup Qualifier.[18] They were joined by Bermuda, who finished in second place.[19]
Qualified Teams | |
---|---|
Southern sub-region | Bermuda [4] |
Cayman Islands [4] | |
Northern sub-region | United States [5] |
Canada [5] |
Points table
[edit ]P | W | L | T | NR | Pts | NRR | Status | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Canada (Q) | 6 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 11 | +2.417 | Qualify to 2019 T20 World Cup Qualifier |
Bermuda (H, Q) | 6 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 9 | +0.240 | |
United States | 6 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | +0.419 | |
Cayman Islands | 6 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | –2.591 |
(H) Host, (Q) Qualified
Fixtures
[edit ]White Hill Field, Sandys Parish
Umpires: Nigel Duguid (WI) and Harry Grewal (Can)
Player of the match: Delray Rawlins (Ber)
- Bermuda won the toss and elected to bat.
- Okera Bascome, Onais Bascome, Deunte Darrell, Allan Douglas, Terryn Fray, Malachi Jones, Kamau Leverock, Justin Pitcher, Delray Rawlins (Ber), Timroy Allen, Cameron Gannon and Nisarg Patel (USA) all made their T20I debuts.
White Hill Field, Sandys Parish
Umpires: Emmerson Carrington (Ber) and Jacqueline Williams (WI)
Player of the match: Ravinderpal Singh (Can)
- Canada won the toss and elected to bat.
- Navneet Dhaliwal, Nikhil Dutta, Romesh Eranga, Dillon Heyliger, Ravinderpal Singh, Rodrigo Thomas, Saad Bin Zafar (Can), Darren Cato, Sacha De Alwis, Kervin Ebanks, Chad Hauptfleisch, Alistair Ifill, Paul Manning, Alessandro Morris, Gregory Strydom, Troy Taylor, Omar Willis and Conroy Wright (Cay) all made their T20I debuts.
- Ravinderpal Singh became the first batsman for Canada to score a century in T20Is[21] and the first player to score a century on his T20I debut.[22]
- Belize played their first men's T20I match.
Bermuda National Stadium, Hamilton
Umpires: Nigel Duguid (WI) and Jacqueline Williams (WI)
- Bermuda won the toss and elected to bat.
- Rain during Canada's innings prevented any further play.
- Derrick Brangman (Ber) and Abraash Khan (Can) both made their T20I debuts.
Bermuda National Stadium, Hamilton
Umpires: Emmerson Carrington (Ber) and Harry Grewal (Can)
Player of the match: Luke Harrington-Myers (Cay)
- United States won the toss and elected to field.
- United States were set a revised target of 51 runs from 15 overs.
- Akhilesh Gavde and Luke Harrington-Myers (Cay) both made their T20I debuts.
White Hill Field, Sandys Parish
Umpires: Harry Grewal (Can) and Jacqueline Williams (WI)
Player of the match: Onais Bascome (Ber)
- Cayman Islands won the toss and elected to bat.
White Hill Field, Sandys Parish
Umpires: Emmerson Carrington (Ber) and Nigel Duguid (WI)
Player of the match: Navneet Dhaliwal (Can)
- United States won the toss and elected to bat.
- Karima Gore (USA) made his T20I debut.
White Hill Field, Sandys Parish
Umpires: Emmerson Carrington (Ber) and Nigel Duguid (WI)
Player of the match: Navneet Dhaliwal (Can)
- Canada won the toss and elected to field.
- Zachary McLaughlin (Cay) made his T20I debut.
White Hill Field, Sandys Parish
Umpires: Harry Grewal (Can) and Jacqueline Williams (WI)
Player of the match: Deunte Darrell (Ber)
- Bermuda won the toss and elected to field.
- Sinclair Smith (Ber) and Sunny Sohal (USA) both made their T20I debuts.
White Hill Field, Sandys Parish
Umpires: Emmerson Carrington (Ber) and Harry Grewal (Can)
Player of the match: Steven Taylor (USA)
- Cayman Islands won the toss and elected to bat.
White Hill Field, Sandys Parish
Umpires: Nigel Duguid (WI) and Jacqueline Williams (WI)
Player of the match: Rizwan Cheema (Can)
- Bermuda won the toss and elected to bat.
- Macai Simmons (Ber) made his T20I debut.
White Hill Field, Sandys Parish
Umpires: Emmerson Carrington (Ber) and Jacqueline Williams (WI)
Player of the match: Ravinderpal Singh (Can)
- United States won the toss and elected to field.
- Mark Montfort and Harsh Thaker (Can) both made their T20I debuts.
White Hill Field, Sandys Parish
Umpires: Nigel Duguid (WI) and Harry Grewal (Can)
Player of the match: Allan Douglas (Ber)
- Cayman Islands won the toss and elected to bat.
- Dion Stovell (Ber) made his T20I debut.
- Allan Douglas became the first bowler for Bermuda to take a five-wicket haul in T20Is.[23]
Notes
[edit ]- ^ Zambia were originally scheduled to compete in the Southern sub region group in the Africa Qualifier, but later withdrew.
- ^ The United Arab Emirates initially qualified to the Asia Regional Final, but later automatically progressed to the qualifier tournament as the host.
References
[edit ]- ^ a b "The journey to the men's ICC World T20 Australia 2020 set to begin in Argentina". International Cricket Council. Retrieved 27 February 2016.
- ^ "North Carolina in line to host World T20 regional qualifier". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 19 July 2018.
- ^ "All T20I matches to get international status". International Cricket Council. Retrieved 26 April 2018.
- ^ a b c d "The road to the men's ICC World T20 Australia 2020 heads to Kuwait as regional qualification groups are confirmed". International Cricket Council. Retrieved 20 April 2018.
- ^ a b c "Cricket growing in Carolina". North State Journal. 26 September 2018. Retrieved 27 September 2018.
- ^ "Bermuda to host T20 qualifying tournament". The Royal Gazette. 4 February 2019. Retrieved 6 February 2019.
- ^ "Thrice bitten, no fly: Bermuda stun USA with twin wins, through to global qualifier with Canada". Emerging Cricket. 22 August 2019. Retrieved 23 August 2019.
- ^ "Bermuda march on to Dubai". The Royal Gazette. 23 August 2019. Retrieved 23 August 2019.
- ^ "Americas T20 Qualifier confirmed for North Carolina, but Auty Cup in doubt". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 19 August 2018.
- ^ "Two remaining spots for the men's ICC World T20 Americas Final up for grabs". International Cricket Council. Retrieved 20 September 2018.
- ^ "Bermuda To Host ICC Americas Region T20". Bernews. 4 February 2019. Retrieved 6 February 2019.
- ^ "One ICC Men's T20 World Cup Qualifier spot up for grabs in EAP final". International Cricket Council. Retrieved 19 March 2019.
- ^ "Rawlins selected for ICC T20 team". The Royal Gazette. Retrieved 8 August 2019.
- ^ "Cayman Cricket names squad for ICC T20 Regional Qualifiers". Caymansportsbuzz.com. 6 August 2019. Retrieved 7 August 2019.
- ^ "Preview: ICC T20 World Cup Americas Final in Bermuda". Emerging Cricket. 14 August 2019. Retrieved 14 August 2019.
- ^ "Venue Change for ICC T/20 World Cup Americas Qualifiers". Bermuda Cricket Board. Archived from the original on 10 September 2020. Retrieved 22 August 2019.
- ^ "North Field described as 'unsuitable'". The Royal Gazette. 21 August 2019. Retrieved 21 August 2019.
- ^ "Canada beat USA in final match". Cricket Canada. Archived from the original on 10 September 2020. Retrieved 26 August 2019.
- ^ "Bermuda and Canada through to global qualifier". Cricket Europe. Archived from the original on 26 August 2019. Retrieved 26 August 2019.
- ^ "ICC Men's T20 World Cup Americas Region Final Table - 2019". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 25 August 2019.
- ^ "Canada beat Caymans in opener". Cricket Canada. Archived from the original on 10 September 2020. Retrieved 18 August 2019.
- ^ "Stats: Canada's Ravinderpal Singh scores a century on his T20I debut". CricTracker. Archived from the original on 19 August 2019. Retrieved 19 August 2019.
- ^ "Canada defeat US again to win ICC T20 World Cup Americas Regional Finals". Inside the Games. 25 August 2019. Retrieved 26 August 2019.