2018–19 ICC T20 World Cup Americas Qualifier
The 2018–19 ICC T20 World Cup Americas Qualifier was the tournament played as part of qualification process for the 2021 ICC 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 with the other in the United States. The top two teams in each group advanced to the regional finals 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
| Southern Sub-regional Group | Northern Sub-regional Group |
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Southern sub region
| Dates | 26 February – 3 March 2018 |
|---|---|
| Administrator(s) | ICC Americas |
| Cricket format | T20 |
| Tournament format(s) | Double round-robin |
| Host(s) |  Argentina |
| Champions |  Bermuda |
| Participants | 3 |
| Matches played | 6 |
| Most runs | Kamau Leverock (171) |
| Most wickets |  Alessandro Morris (8) |
The Southern sub region group was held in Argentina from 26 February to 3 March 2018.[4]
Points table
| 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
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Kamau Leverock 93 (51) Samuel Hatt 3/46 (4 overs) |
Pedro Arrighi 42 (50) Kwaisi James 2/8 (4 overs) |
- Bermuda won the toss and elected to bat.
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- Cayman Islands won the toss and elected to bat.
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Omar Willis 51 (52) David Mauro 2/22 (4 overs) |
Santiago Rossi 30 (19) Adrian Wright 4/11 (4 overs) |
- Cayman Islands won the toss and elected to bat.
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Terryn Fray 40 (37) Santiago Rossi 1/20 (4 overs) |
Santiago Rossi 24 (13) Curt Stovell 2/4 (4 overs) |
- Bermuda won the toss and elected to bat.
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Kamau Leverock 31 (30) Adrian Wright 2/16 (3 overs) |
- Cayman Islands won the toss and elected to bat.
Northern sub region
| Dates | 20 – 26 September 2018 |
|---|---|
| Administrator(s) | ICC Americas |
| Cricket format | T20 |
| Tournament format(s) | Double round-robin |
| Host(s) |  United States |
| Champions | United States |
| Participants | 4 |
| Matches played | 12 |
| Most runs | Monank Patel (208) |
| Most wickets | 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
| 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 |
.svg.png.webp){kind=small} 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 | –5.334 | |
(H) Host, (Q) Qualified to next stage
Fixtures
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Imran Bulbulia 25 (27) Timil Patel 2/4 (2 overs) |
Monank Patel 45* (21) |
- Panama won the toss and elected to bat.
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Mitulkumar Patel 16 (30) Nitish Kumar 3/8 (2.5 overs) |
Hamza Tariq 27* (13) |
- Panama won the toss and elected to bat.
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Monank Patel 108 (58) Herbert Banner 2/45 (4 overs) |
Francis Sutherland 17 (17) Nosthush Kenjige 4/5 (2.3 overs) |
- United States won the toss and elected to bat.
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Aaron Muslar 30 (41) Irfan Hafejee 1/12 (4 overs) |
Mahmud Jasat 16 (15) Francis Sutherland 3/27 (4 overs) |
- Belize won the toss and elected to bat.
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- United States won the toss and elected to bat.
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Herbert Banner 10 (4) Abraash Khan 3/4 (2 overs) |
Ravinderpal Singh 18* (8) |
- Canada won the toss and elected to field.
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Irfan Hafejee 25 (25) Nosthush Kenjige 3/19 (4 overs) |
Monank Patel 46 (24) Aslam Doria 1/15 (0.5 overs) |
- Panama won the toss and elected to bat.
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Soyeb Chohan 51* (24) Kenroy Roca 2/16 (3 overs) |
Aaron Muslar 28 (35) Khengar Ratilal 4/10 (4 overs) |
- Panama won the toss and elected to bat.
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- Canada won the toss and elected to bat.
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- Belize won the toss and elected to bat.
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Aslam Doria 12 (19) Cecil Pervez 3/10 (4 overs) |
Rizwan Cheema 23* (9) |
- Panama won the toss and elected to bat.
Regional Finals
| Dates | 18 – 25 August 2019 |
|---|---|
| Administrator(s) | ICC Americas |
| Cricket format | Twenty20 International |
| Tournament format(s) | Double round-robin |
| Host(s) | Bermuda |
| Champions | Canada |
| Participants | 4 |
| Matches played | 12 |
| Most runs | Navneet Dhaliwal (190) |
| Most wickets | Dillon Heyliger (11) |
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
Team[20] |
P | W | L | T | NR | Pts | NRR | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Canada (Q) | 6 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 11 | +2.417 | Qualify to 2019 ICC 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
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- 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.
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- 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]
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Rizwan Cheema 25* (10) |
- 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.
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- 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.
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- Cayman Islands won the toss and elected to bat.
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- Bermuda won the toss and elected to field.
- Sinclair Smith (Ber) and Sunny Sohal (USA) both made their T20I debuts.
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- Cayman Islands won the toss and elected to bat.
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- United States won the toss and elected to field.
- Mark Montfort and Harsh Thaker (Can) both made their T20I debuts.
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- 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
- 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.
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