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 other invited national sides 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 2007. The two tournaments have been played simultaneously or back-to-back since 2013.

South American Cricket Championship
FormatLimited-overs cricket
First editionMen: 1995
Women: 2007
Latest editionMen: 2024
Women: 2024
Current championMen:  Panama (2024 – 1st title)
Women:  Brazil (2024 – 6th title)
Most successfulMen:  Argentina[a] (12 titles)
Women:  Argentina (7 titles)

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] Guyana, the only Test-playing country in South America (as part of the West Indies cricket team), had 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 is also the reigning champion having won the 2023 edition.[3]

Argentina also dominated the women's event by winning on seven occasions. From 2018, all women's matches between ICC member nations would 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 would apply to the men's event. The only non-ICC playing nations in 2019 were Colombia and Uruguay.

Results (Men's)

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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
  Puerto Rico
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)
2022   Brazil Itaguaí   Argentina
227/5 (20 overs)
Argentina won by 10 runs
scorecard
  Brazil
217 (20 overs)
2023   Argentina Buenos Aires   Argentina
116/8 (20 overs)
Argentina won by 34 runs
scorecard
  Uruguay
82 (19 overs)
2024   Brazil Itaguaí   Panama
128 (19.1 overs)
Panama won by 26 runs
scorecard
  Brazil
102/9 (20 overs)

Performance by team (Men's)

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Legend
  • 1st – Champions
  • 2nd – Runners-up
  • 3rd – Third place
  • GS – Group stage
  • Q – Entered
  •     — Hosts
Team  
1995
 
1997
 
1999
 
2000
 
2002
 
2004
 
2007
 
2009
 
2011
 
2013
 
2014
 
2015
 
2016
 
2017
 
2018
 
2019
 
2022
 
2023
 
2024
Total
19
  Andean Masters 4th GS 4th 3
  Argentina[a] 1st 1st 1st 1st 1st 3rd 2nd 1st 2nd 1st 5th 1st 2nd 1st 7th 1st 1st 1st 3rd 19
  Brazil 4th 2nd GS 3rd 3rd GS 4th 3rd 3rd 3rd 2nd 4th 3rd 6th 6th 2nd 5th 2nd 18
  Chile 2nd 4th 3rd 2nd 2nd 4th 3rd 2nd 1st 2nd 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 8th 7th 3rd 8th 6th 19
  Chile "A" GS 1
  Colombia 4th 5th 7th 4th 4th 6th 3rd 7th 8
  Costa Rica 3rd 1
  Ecuador GS 1
  Guyana[b] 2nd 5th 1st 1st 4
  Mexico 1st 5th 6th 6th 1st 2nd 4th 4th 4th 9
  Panama 4th 7th 1st 3
  Peru 3rd 3rd 4th 6th GS GS 4th 3rd 4th 4th 6th 3rd 5th 5th 3rd 7th 6th 5th 18
  Puerto Rico 2nd 1
  Uruguay 4th 2nd 5th 5th 2nd 8th 6
  Venezuela GS 7th 2

Performance by team (Women's)

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Legend
  • 1st – Champions
  • 2nd – Runners-up
  • 3rd – Third place
  • P – Participated, position not known
  • T – Participated, but games not counted towards the South American Championship
  • E – Entered
  •     — Hosts
Team  
2007
 
2009
 
2010
 
2011
 
2013
 
2014
 
2015
 
2016
 
2017
 
2018
 
2019
 
2022
 
2023
 
2024
Total
14
  Argentina 1st 1st 1st 1st 1st 1st 2nd 2nd 1st 2nd 2nd 1st 2nd 13
  Brazil 2nd 2nd 2nd P P P 1st 1st 2nd 1st 1st 1st[c] 1st 13
  Canada T[d] 1
  Cayman Islands 3rd 1
  Chile 3rd P P 3rd 3rd 2nd 3rd 2nd 8
  Mexico 4th 4th 4th 3
  Peru P P 4th 3rd 4th 3rd 5th 3rd 8

Notes

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  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 (who play Test cricket as part of the West Indies Cricket Board) have featured in the tournament, they have been represented by an overage team – the Guyana Masters.
  3. ^ Brazil won the South American Championship before losing to Canada in the final of the Americas Championship.
  4. ^ Canada's matches did not have T20I status, and were only counted towards the Americas Championship. Canada won the Americas Championship, defeating Brazil in the final.

References

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  1. ^ "South American Championships: Argentina gambles and wins at successful tournament" – ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 16 July 2015.
  2. ^ "2023 Men's South American Cricket Championship", Wikipedia, 6 October 2024, retrieved 9 October 2024
  3. ^ a b "2023 SAMC".
  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.