| Administrator | ICC Americas |
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| Format | 50 overs |
| First edition | 2001 |
| Latest edition | 2024 |
| Current champion |  United States |
| Most successful |  Canada (7 titles) |
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TheICC U19 Cricket World Cup Americas Qualifier (formerlyICC Americas Under-19 Championship) is an internationalcricket tournament contested by under-19 national teams from theICC Americas region. The tournament has run bi-annually since 2001, occasionally with more than one division.[1] The tournament serves as a qualification tournament for theUnder-19 World Cup. Canada are by far the most successful team overall, winning seven titles, to the three won by theUnited States and the single title won byBermuda.
Prior to the introduction of the Americas Under-19 Championship in 2001 there was no qualification route for associate and affiliate teams to the U-19 World Cup. As a result, the only Americas team represented in the 1998 competition was the full member, theWest Indies.[2]
With the new championship came the possibility for an individual team to qualify for the U-19 World Cup. The winner of each championship would automatically go through to play in the finals the following year.
For the 2000 tournament, a combined Americas team was also given the chance to take part, representing the four longstanding associate members from the region: Canada, USA, Bermuda and Argentina.[3]
2005 ICC U19 Cricket World Cup Americas QualifierThe tournament featured five teams, the same as at the preceding 2003 edition, but a full USA Squad featured for the first time, to compete at a simpleround-robin. TheUnited States finished the tournament undefeated to win its first title, and consequently qualified for the2006 Under-19 World Cup in Sri Lanka. The team had nearly been barred from playing, as part of proposedInternational Cricket Council (ICC) sanctions against theUnited States of America Cricket Association (USACA) for maladministration, but ICC allowed the participation of the U19 Squad for the 2005 Qualifiers.[4][5]Canada was the runner-up at the championship, with theCayman Islands placing third,Bermuda fourth, andArgentina placing last, again finishing winless.[6] The tournament was affected by rain, with two matches beingabandoned and another shortened. A feature of the championship was its low scoring, with only four innings above 200 being recorded from the ten matches played.[7] The tournament's leading runscorer, Canadian batsmanTrevin Bastiampillai, was the only player to record more than 100 runs,[8] while the leading wicket-taker, and MVP of the tournament was American bowlerAbhimanyu Rajp, who took two five-wicket hauls.[9]
In 2009, Under-19 World Cup qualification was changed dramatically and a World Cup Qualifier event was introduced in which the top two teams from each of the ICC regions would compete for the final six places in the U-19 World Cup.[10] In addition to this, the Championship was expanded to two divisions due to the increase in the number of regional teams. The first Division Two tournament took place in 2010.[11]
| Year | Host(s) | Venue(s) | Result | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winner | Margin | Runner-up | |||
| 2001 |  Bermuda | various | Canada | Canada won on points fixtures | Bermuda |
| 2003 | Canada | King City | Canada 8 points | Canada won on points table |  Cayman Islands6 points |
| 2005 | Canada | King City | United States 8 points | United States won on points table | Canada 5 points |
| 2007 | Canada | King City | Bermuda 8 points | Bermuda won on points table | Canada 6 points |
| 2009 | Canada | King City | Canada +3.87 NRR | Canada won on net run rate table | United States +2.59 NRR |
| 2011 | United States | Fort Lauderdale andLauderhill | United States 10 points | United States won on points table | Canada 8 points |
| 2013 | Canada | King City | Canada 6 points | Canada won on points table | United States 4 points |
| 2015 | Bermuda | Somerset Village andSt. David's | Canada 8 points | Canada won on points tableArchived 2018-05-27 at theWayback Machine | United States 2 points |
| 2017 | Canada | King City andToronto | Canada 6 points, +1.395 NRR | Canada won on net run rate table | United States 6 points, +1.162 NRR |
| 2019 | Canada | King City andToronto | Canada 8 points | Canada won on points table | United States 6 points |
| 2023 | Canada | King City andToronto | United States 10 points, +4.849 NRR | United States won on net run rate table | Canada 10 points, +3.500 NRR |
| Year | Host(s) | Venue(s) | Result | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winner | Margin | Runner-up | |||
| 2010 |  Argentina | Buenos Aires | Argentina +1.84 NRR | Argentina won on net run rate tableArchived 2010-08-22 at theWayback Machine |  Suriname+1.28 NRR |
| 2014 |  Bahamas | Nassau | Suriname | Suriname won on net run rate report | Argentina |
| Team | 2001 | 2003 | 2005 | 2007 | 2009 | 2011 | 2013 | 2015 | 2017 | 2019 | 2021 | 2023 | 2025 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Argentina | R1 | 5th | 5th | 4th | 6th | 6th | — | — | — | 4th | X | 4th | Q | 10 |
 Bahamas | — | — | — | 5th | 5th | 5th | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 3 |
 Bermuda | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 1st | 3rd | 3rd | 3rd | 3rd | 3rd | 3rd | X | 3rd | Q | 13 |
 Canada | 1st | 1st | 2nd | 2nd | 1st | 2nd | 1st | 1st | 1st | 1st | X | 2nd | Q | 13 |
 Cayman Islands | — | 2nd | 3rd | 3rd | 4th | 4th | — | — | — | 5th | — | — | — | 6 |
 Suriname | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | #[a] | — | — | — | # | # | 0 |
 United States | R1 | 4th | 1st | — | 2nd | 1st | 2nd | 2nd | 2nd | 2nd | X | 1st | Q | 12 |
| Defunct teams | ||||||||||||||
  Combined Bahamas, Belize and Panama | R1 | Defunct | 1 | |||||||||||
Scorecards for some matches from the 2001 tournament are unavailable.
United States vs
Argentina, 14 August 2023, atToronto Cricket, Skating and Curling Club,Toronto[12] Canada vs Cayman Islands, 12 July 2019, atMaple Leaf Cricket Club,King City.[13] Canada vs Bahamas, 15 August 2007, atMaple Leaf Cricket Club,King City.[14] Bermuda vs United States, 8 August 2001, at Southampton Oval,Hamilton.[15] Bermuda vs Argentina, 18 July 2003, atMaple Leaf Cricket Club,King City.[16] Canada vs Argentina, 14 July 2003, atMaple Leaf Cricket Club,King City.[17] Argentina vs Bermuda, 12 February 2011, at Brian Piccolo Park,Fort Lauderdale.[18] Argentina vs Canada, 14 July 2003, atMaple Leaf Cricket Club,King City.[19] Cayman Islands vs United States, 8 July 2019, atMaple Leaf Cricket Club,King City.[20] Argentina vs Canada, 9 July 2019, atMaple Leaf Cricket Club,King City.[21] Argentina vs United States, 7 February 2011, atCentral Broward Regional Park,Lauderhill.[22]Dion Stovell, vs Argentina, 18 July 2003, atMaple Leaf Cricket Club,King City.[23]Ruvindu Gunasekera, vs Bahamas, 15 August 2007, atMaple Leaf Cricket Club,King City.[24]Ashtan Deosammy, vs Cayman Islands, 12 July 2019, atMaple Leaf Cricket Club,King City.[25] Harsh Thaker, vs United States, 10 July 2015, at Somerset Cricket Club Ground,Somerset Village.[26]Terryn Fray, vs Argentina, 15 August 2007, atMaple Leaf Cricket Club,King City.[27]Pratik Patel, vs Bahamas, 15 August 2007, atMaple Leaf Cricket Club,King City.[28]Raj Vyas, vs Cayman Islands, 8 July 2019, atMaple Leaf Cricket Club,King City.[29]Troy Taylor, vs Bermuda, 15 July 2003, atMaple Leaf Cricket Club,King City.[30]Jon Roberts, vs Argentina, 8 August 2001, at St David's Cricket Club,Hamilton.[31]Akash Shah, vs Bahamas, 7 February 2011, at Brian Piccolo Park,Fort Lauderdale.[32]
