South American Cricket Championship

The South American Cricket Championship (Spanish: Campeonato Sudamericano de Críquet; Portuguese: Campeonato Sul-Americano de Críquete) is an international limited-overs cricket tournament featuring national teams from South America and certain other invited sides often national teams from outside South America, currently played annually but until 2013 was usually played every two years. The first men's event was held in 1995 and a women's tournament started in 2010. The two tournaments have been played simultaneously since 2013.

South American Cricket Championship
FormatLimited-overs cricket
First edition1995
Latest edition2019
Current championMen:  Argentina (2019 – 10th title)
Women:  Brazil (2019 – 4th title)
Most successfulMen:  Argentina[lower-alpha 1] (10 titles)
Women:  Argentina (5 titles)

Argentine teams have been the most successful at the men's tournament, winning on ten out of the fourteen occasions it has been held. The Argentine national team won the first three championships without losing a game, and subsequently the country was represented by a development squad, Argentina A, between 2000 and 2018.[1] 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.[2] Colombia were going to send a team to the 2000 tournament, but in fact did not debut until 2015.[3] The non-South American teams invited to the tournament have been Panama (in 2000), Puerto Rico (in 2004), Costa Rica (in 2018) and Mexico (since 2014). The thirteenth edition of the tournament was held in Itaguaí, Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil, in October 2016.[4] Chile won the men's tournament and Brazil won the women's tournament.[5]

The 2018 Championships were awarded to Colombia for the first time, and took place over 4 days in August with Mexico emerging as champions for the second time. Mexico won the men's event for the second time in 2018, and Argentina won again in 2019.[6]

Argentina also dominated the women's event in the early editions, but Brazil have been the most successful team recently. From 2018, all women's matches between ICC member nations will be eligible for Twenty20 International (T20I) status after the ICC decided to grant T20I status to all matches involving its members from 1 January 2019.[7] Brazil's women won the first edition with this enhanced status.[8] Starting from the 2019 edition, the same status will apply to the men's event. The only non-ICC playing nations in 2019 were Colombia and Uruguay.

Results (Men's)

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 2]
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 2]
323/3 (40 overs)
Guyana won by 117 runs
scorecard
 Puerto Rico
206/7 (40 overs)
2007  Peru Lima  Guyana[lower-alpha 2]
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 (20 overs)
Chile won by 47 runs
report
 Argentina[lower-alpha 1]
126/9 (20 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)
2017[9]  Argentina Buenos Aires  Argentina[lower-alpha 1]
138/3 (15.3 overs)
Argentina won by 7 wickets
scorecard
 Chile
132/8 (20 overs)
2018[10]  Colombia Bogota - Mosquera  Mexico
45/4 (10 overs)
Mexico won by 6 wickets
scorecard
 Uruguay 44/10 (17 overs)
2019[11]  Peru Lima  Argentina
111/6 (18.4 overs)
Argentina won by 4 wickets
scorecard
 Mexico
105/9 (20 overs)
2020  Brazil Rio de Janeiro Cancelled

Performance by team (Men's)

Legend
  • 1st – Champions
  • 2nd – Runners-up
  • 3rd – Third place
  • GS – Group stage
  • Q – Qualified
  •      Hosts
Team
1995

1997

1999

2000

2002

2004

2007

2009

2011

2013

2014

2015

2016

2017

2018

2019

2020
Total
16
Andean Masters 4thGS4th3
 Argentina[lower-alpha 1] 1st1st1st1st1st3rd2nd1st2nd1st5th1st2nd1st7th1st16
 Brazil 4th2ndGS3rd3rdGS4th3rd3rd3rd2nd4th3rd6th6th15
 Chile 2nd4th3rd2nd2nd4th3rd2nd1st2nd2nd3rd1st2nd8th7th16
 Chile "A" GS1
 Colombia 4th5th7th4th4th5
 Costa Rica 3rd1
 Ecuador GS1
 Guyana[lower-alpha 2] 2nd5th1st1st4
 Mexico 1st5th6th6th1st2nd6
 Panama 4th1
 Peru 3rd3rd4th6thGSGS4th3rd4th4th6th3rd5th 5th3rd15
 Puerto Rico 2nd1
 Uruguay 4th2nd5th3
 Venezuela GS7th2

Performance by team (Women's)

Legend
  • 1st – Champions
  • 2nd – Runners-up
  • 3rd – Third place
  • P – Participated, position not known
  •      Hosts
Team
2010

2011

2013

2014

2015

2016

2017

2018

2019

2020
Total
9
 Argentina 1st1st1st1st2nd2nd1st2nd8
 Brazil 2ndPPP1st1st2nd1st1st9
 Chile 3rdPP3rd3rd2nd3rd7
 Mexico 4th4th2
 Peru PP4th3rd4th3rd5th7

Notes

  1. From 2000 to 2018, Argentina was represented by its "A team" (development team).
  2. 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: Argentina gambles and wins at successful tournament" – ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 16 July 2015.
  2. (10 April 1999). "Argentina easily win South American Championship" – ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 16 July 2015.
  3. (9 November 2000> "South American Championships: Colombia may be late addition" – ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 16 July 2015.
  4. "Rio’s Carioca Cricket Club Launches 2016 Season", The Rio Times, 3 February 2016. Retrieved 2 September 2016.
  5. South American Championships, CricHQ. Retrieved 3 November 2016.
  6. "South American Championships Wrap". Emerging Cricket. Retrieved 10 October 2019.
  7. "All T20 matches between ICC members to get international status". International Cricket Council. 26 April 2018. Retrieved 1 September 2018.
  8. "South American Championship: Tournament round-up". Women's CricZone. 2 September 2018. Retrieved 29 June 2019.
  9. "SAC Mens 2017". CricHQ. Retrieved 30 August 2018.
  10. "SAC Mens 2018". CricHQ. Retrieved 30 August 2018.
  11. "SAC Mens 2019". CricHQ. Retrieved 7 October 2019.
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