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| Nickname | Cricket Vultures | |||||||||
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| Association | Mexico Cricket Association | |||||||||
| Personnel | ||||||||||
| Captain | Shantanu Kaveri | |||||||||
| Coach | Jon Bonfiglio | |||||||||
| Manager | Jack Little | |||||||||
| International Cricket Council | ||||||||||
| ICC status | Associate member[1] (2017) | |||||||||
| ICC region | Americas | |||||||||
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| International cricket | ||||||||||
| First international | 19 March 2006 vCosta Rica atLadyville, Belize | |||||||||
| T20 Internationals | ||||||||||
| First T20I | v. Belize atReforma Athletic Club,Naucalpan; 25 April 2019 | |||||||||
| Last T20I | v. Brazil at Sao Fernando Polo and Cricket Club,Itaguaí; 2 November 2025 | |||||||||
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TheMexican national cricket team representsMexico ininternational cricket. They became an affiliate member of theInternational Cricket Council (ICC) in 2004.[5] Their international debut was in 2006 againstCosta Rica. The team made theirICC Americas Championship debut in June 2010 and in 2011 participated in the ICC Americas Division 3 tournament in Costa Rica. Mexico has also participated in theSouth American Championship in 2014 and 2018, winning the title on both occasions. In 2017, they became anassociate member of the ICC.[1]
In April 2018, the ICC decided to grant fullTwenty20 International (T20I) status to all its members. Therefore, allTwenty20 matches played between Mexico and otherICC members after 1 January 2019 have the full T20I status.[6]
Mexico became an affiliate member of theICC in 2004. Their first international match was played on 19 March 2006 in the Central American Cricket Championship againstCosta Rica who they beat. Prior to this there had been teams based in Mexico City that had played againstBelize but these were not recognised as international fixtures.[7][8] Having beatenCosta Rica in the tournament they then lost toBelize finishing second.
In 2007, Mexico hosted the Central American Cricket Championship and won it by defeatingCosta Rica and El Salvador.
In 2008, Mexico travelled to El Salvador to take part in the 2nd Easter Cup. They finished second, losing toBelize but winning easily against El Salvador.
Mexico took part in the 3rd Central American Championship in 2009 inPanama under the newTwenty20 format. Mexico performed well in the tournament, winning all but one of their matches and even defeating close rivalsBelize in a close fought match. As a result, they finished 2nd in the tournament.
In 2011, Mexico competed in the ICC Division 3 Americas tournament in Costa Rica finishing in 4th place.[9]
In 2012, a youthful Mexico team participated in the 4th Volcano Cup in El Salvador finishing runners up to the hosts after defeating Guatemala.
In April 2018, the ICC decided to grant fullTwenty20 International (T20I) status to all its members. Therefore, allTwenty20 matches played between Mexico and otherICC members after 1 January 2019 have the full T20I status.[6]
Mexico played their first everTwenty20 International match againstBelize in the2019 Central American Cricket Championship.
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Pradeep Chandran 23 (28) Aaron Muslar 3/18 (4 overs) | Bernan Stephenson 48 (27) Rama Inampud 2/29 (4 overs) |
Belize won by 4 wickets Reforma Athletic Club,Naucalpan Umpires: Supratim Das (Mex) and Kanti Lal Patel (Mex) Player of the match: Bernan Stephenson (Blz) |
| South American Cricket Championship records | |||||||||||||||
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| Year | Round | Position | GP | W | L | T | NR | ||||||||
 1995[10] | Did not participate | ||||||||||||||
| 1997[11] | |||||||||||||||
 1999[12] | |||||||||||||||
| 2000[13] | |||||||||||||||
| 2002[14] | |||||||||||||||
 2004[15] | |||||||||||||||
| 2007[16] | |||||||||||||||
| 2009[17] | |||||||||||||||
| 2011 | |||||||||||||||
| 2013 | |||||||||||||||
| 2014 | Winners | Records not available | |||||||||||||
| 2015[18] | Round-robin | 4/6 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||
| 2016[19] | Round-robin | 6/6 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||
| 2017[20] | Round-robin | 6/7 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||
 2018 | Winners | 1/8 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||
| 2019 | Runners-up | 2/7 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||
| 2022 | Round-robin | 4/7 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||
| 2023 | Semi-finals | 4/8 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||
| 2024 | Play-offs | 4/8 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | ||||||||
| Total | 9/19 | – | 46 | 22 | 23 | 0 | 1 | ||||||||
| T20WC Americas Sub-regional Qualifiers | ICC Americas Championship | Central American Championship |
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Updated as on 17 April 2025
This lists all the active players who played for Mexico in the2025 Men's Central American Championship.
| Name | Age | Batting style | Bowling style | Last T20I | Note(s) |
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| Batters | |||||
| Kashigoud Patil | 35 | Right-handed | N/a |  2025 | |
| Puneet Arora | 39 | Right-handed | Right-armmedium |  2024 | |
| Rupesh Singh | 37 | Left-handed | Right-armoff break | 2024 | |
| Anurag Tripathi | 39 | Right-handed | Right-armmedium | 2025 | |
| Praveen Santhanakrishnan | 39 | Right-handed | N/a | 2025 | |
| Jagdeesh Umanath | 44 | Right-handed | Right-armmedium | 2025 | |
| Sanjay Wagh | 36 | Right-handed | Right-armoff break | 2025 | |
| All-rounders | |||||
| Shantanu Kaveri | 47 | Right-handed | Right-armmedium | 2025 | Captain |
| Shashikant Laxman | 44 | Right-handed | Right-armmedium | 2025 | Vice-captain |
| Revanakumar Ankad | 48 | Right-handed | Right-armmedium |  2025 | |
| Devjani Mutreja | 17 | Right-handed | Right-armmedium | 2025 | |
| Dhananjaya Panda | 28 | Right-handed | Right-armmedium-fast | 2025 | |
| Luis Hermida | 43 | Right-handed | Right-armmedium-fast | 2025 | |
| Wicket-keepers | |||||
| Rohit Poojary | 37 | Right-handed | N/a | 2025 | |
| Kaushal Kumar | 47 | Right-handed | N/a | 2025 | |
| Pace bowlers | |||||
| Yashvanth Jasti | 29 | Left-handed | Left-armmedium | 2024 | |
| Pradeep Mohanarangam | 32 | Right-handed | Right-armmedium | 2024 | |
| Shoaib Rafiq | 36 | Right-handed | Right-armmedium-fast | 2024 | |
| Pratik Singh Bais | 27 | Right-handed | Right-armmedium-fast | 2025 | |
International match summary — Mexico[21]
Last updated 2 November 2025
| Playing Record | ||||||
| Format | M | W | L | T | NR | Inaugural Match |
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| Twenty20 Internationals | 30 | 12 | 17 | 0 | 1 | 25 April 2019 |
Most T20I runs for Mexico[25]
| Most T20I wickets for Mexico[26]
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T20I record versus other nations[21]
Records complete to T20I #3554. Last updated 2 November 2025.
| Opponent | M | W | L | T | NR | First match | First win |
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| Argentina | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 3 October 2019 | |
| Bahamas | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 16 December 2024 | |
| Belize | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 25 April 2019 | |
 Bermuda | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 10 December 2024 | |
| Brazil | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 October 2019 | 5 October 2019 |
 Cayman Islands | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 11 December 2024 | |
| Chile | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 October 2019 | 18 October 2023 |
 Costa Rica | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 26 April 2019 | 26 April 2019 |
| Panama | 4 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 27 April 2019 | |
| Peru | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 October 2019 | 5 October 2019 |
 Suriname | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 December 2024 | 12 December 2024 |
| Turks and Caicos Islands | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18 April 2025 | 18 April 2025 |
For a list of selected international matches played by Mexico, seeCricket Archive.
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