South American Cricket Championship

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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[a] (10 titles)
Women:  Argentina (5 titles)

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.

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), (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[b]
134 (38.4 overs)
2000  Argentina Buenos Aires  Argentina[a]
77/2 (16 overs) 		Argentina won by 8 wickets
report 		 Chile
75 (? overs)
2002  Argentina Buenos Aires  Argentina[a]
196/8 (28.3 overs) 		Argentina won by 2 wickets
scorecard 		 Chile
194 (40 overs)
2004  Chile Santiago  Guyana[b]
323/3 (40 overs) 		Guyana won by 117 runs
scorecard 		 
206/7 (40 overs)
2007  Peru Lima  Guyana[b]
204 (39.1 overs) 		Guyana won by 150 runs
scorecard 		 Argentina[a]
54 (28.4 overs)
2009  Brazil São Paulo  Argentina[a]
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[a]
126/9 (20 overs)
2013  Argentina Buenos Aires  Argentina[a]
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[a]
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[a]
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 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 		Argentina
2017 		Colombia
2018 		Peru
2019 		Brazil
2020 		Total
16
Flag of None.svg Andean Masters — — — — 4th GS — — 4th — — — — — — — — 3
 Argentina[a] 1st 1st 1st 1st 1st 3rd 2nd 1st 2nd 1st 5th 1st 2nd 1st 7th 1st — 16
 Brazil 4th 2nd GS 3rd 3rd GS 4th 3rd — 3rd 3rd 2nd 4th 3rd 6th 6th — 15
 Chile 2nd 4th 3rd 2nd 2nd 4th 3rd 2nd 1st 2nd 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 8th 7th — 16
 Chile "A" — — — — — GS — — — — — — — — — — — 1
 Colombia — — — — — — — — — — — 4th 5th 7th 4th 4th — 5
 Costa Rica — — — — — — — — — — — — — — 3rd — — 1
  — — — — — — GS — — — — — — — — — — 1
 Guyana[b] — — 2nd 5th — 1st 1st — — — — — — — — — — 4
 Mexico — — — — — — — — — — 1st 5th 6th 6th 1st 2nd — 6
 Panama — — — 4th — — — — — — — — — — — — — 1
 Peru 3rd 3rd 4th 6th — GS GS 4th 3rd 4th 4th 6th 3rd 5th 5th 3rd — 15
  — — — — — 2nd — — — — — — — — — — — 1
 Uruguay — — — — — — — — — — — — — 4th 2nd 5th — 3
  — — GS 7th — — — — — — — — — — — — — 2

Performance by team (Women's)[]

Legend
  • 1st – Champions
  • 2nd – Runners-up
  • 3rd – Third place
  • P – Participated, position not known
  •     — Hosts
Team Chile
2010 		Brazil
2011 		Argentina
2013 		Peru
2014 		Chile
2015 		Brazil
2016 		Argentina
2017 		Colombia
2018 		Peru
2019 		Brazil
2020 		Total
9
 Argentina 1st 1st 1st 1st 2nd 2nd 1st — 2nd — 8
 Brazil 2nd P P P 1st 1st 2nd 1st 1st — 9
 Chile 3rd P P – 3rd — 3rd 2nd 3rd — 7
 Mexico — — — — — — — 4th 4th — 2
 Peru — P — P 4th 3rd 4th 3rd 5th — 7

Notes[]

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j From 2000 to 2018, Argentina was represented by its "A team" (development team).
  2. ^ a b c d 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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