The 2006 ICC Americas Championship was a cricket tournament in Canada, taking place between 21 and 26 August 2006. It gave five North and South American Associate and Affiliate members of the International Cricket Council experience of international one-day cricket.
Administrator(s) | Americas Cricket Association |
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Cricket format | 50 overs per side (all matches except 🇨🇦 vs 🇧🇲 which is a full ODI match) |
Tournament format(s) | round robin |
Host(s) | Canada |
Champions | Bermuda (1st title) |
Participants | 5 |
Matches | 10 |
Most runs | Steve Massiah 283 |
Most wickets | Ronald Ebanks 10 |
This was the first edition of the Americas Championship in which the tournament was split up into divisions.
Teams
editThere were 5 teams that played in the tournament. These teams were non-test member nations of the Americas Cricket Association. The teams that played were:
Squads
editArgentina | Bermuda | Canada |
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Gaston Arizaga Alejandro Ferguson |
Lionel Cann |
Ashish Bagai Trevin Bastiampillai |
Cayman Islands | United States |
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Pearson Best Ryan Bovell |
Lennox Cush |
Group stage
editPoints Table
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Team | P | W | L | T | NR | NRR | Points |
Bermuda | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | +1.420 | 14 |
United States | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | +0.485 | 10 |
Canada | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | +1.056 | 8 |
Cayman Islands | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | -0.257 | 8 |
Argentina | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | -2.469 | 0 |
Group stage
edit 25 August
Scorecard |
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Sushil Nadkarni 83 (101)
George O'Brien 2/54 (8 overs) |
Steven Outerbridge 4 (2)
Steve Pitter 1/5 (1 over) |
- Bermuda won the toss and elected to field.
- Rain reduced United States' innings to 34.2 overs. Bermuda's revised target was 162 runs off 20 overs
25 August
Scorecard |
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- Canada won the toss and elected to field.
- Rain reduced Canada's innings to 33 overs. Revised target was 137 runs off 33 overs.
26 August
Scorecard |
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Gary Savage 44 (102)
Ronald Ebanks 5/47 (9.4 overs) |
- Argentina won the toss and elected to field.
Statistics
editMost Runs | Most Wickets | ||
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Steve Massiah | 283 | Ronald Ebanks | 10 |
Pearson Best | 244 | Troy Taylor | 9 |
Sushil Nadkarni | 211 | Imran Awan | 7 |
Donald Forrester | 149 | Steven Welsh | 5 |
Steve Gordon | 149 | 6 others with | 4 |