The 2019 Central American Cricket Championship was a cricket tournament held in Mexico from 25 to 28 April 2019. It was the seventh edition of the Central American Championship and the first since the ICC granted Twenty20 International (T20I) status to matches between all of its Members.[1]
Men's championship
The five participating teams were the national sides of Belize, Costa Rica, Mexico and Panama, as well as a side representing the MCC.[2] The matches were played at the Reforma Athletic Club in the city of Naucalpan, just to the northwest of Mexico City.[3] All participating nations made their T20I debuts during the tournament (matches involving the MCC did not have T20I status).[4] MCC were the defending champions,[5] but were defeated by five wickets in the final by Belize.[6]
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)
Belize won the toss and elected to field.
Revanakumar Ankad, Buddhadeb Banerjee, Pradeep Chandran, Gaurav Dutta, Shashikant Laxman, Rama Inampud, Shantanu Kaveri, Kaushal Kumar, Ashwin Sathya, Tarun Sharma, Jagdeesh Umanath (Mex), Andrew Banner, Glenford Banner, Herbert Banner, Keenan Flowers, George Hyde, Gareth Joseph, Aaron Muslar, Glenroy Reynolds, Kenroy Reynolds, Bernan Stephenson and Kenton Young (Blz) all made their T20I debuts.
Belize and Mexico both played their first men's T20I match.
Joel Cutinho 32 (37) Dilip Dahyabhai Ahir 2/11 (2 overs)
Yusuf Ebrahim 35* (23) Zain ul Tashnam 1/16 (4 overs)
Panama won by 7 wickets Reforma Athletic Club, Naucalpan Umpires: Bob Baxter (Mex) and Dilip Pachichigar (Mex) Player of the match: Imran Bulbulia (Pan)
Costa Rica won the toss and elected to bat.
Joel Cutinho, Oscar Fournier, Nanda Kumar, Daniel Mejia, Gopinath Murali, Sham Murari, Sudesh Pillai, Christopher Prasad, Sachin Ravikumar, Oswald Sam Arthur, Zain ul Tashnam (Crc), Anilkumar Natubhai Ahir, Dilip Dahyabhai Ahir, Khengar Ahir, Imran Bulbulia, Vimal Chandra, Mahmad Data, Yusuf Ebrahim, Dipakkumar Patel, Mitulkumar Patel, Parish Bharat Patel and Vijay Sachdev (Pan) all made their T20I debuts.
Costa Rica and Panama both played their first men's T20I match.
Mexico won by 3 wickets Reforma Athletic Club, Naucalpan Umpires: Bob Baxter (Mex) and Dilip Pachichigar (Mex) Player of the match: Ashwin Sathya (Mex)
Costa Rica won the toss and elected to bat.
Puneet Arora, Shahzad Muhammad, Nithin Shetty and Sanjay Zargar (Mex) all made their T20I debuts.
Richard Atkins 40 (23) Revanakumar Ankad 3/25 (4 overs)
Puneet Arora 50 (41) Richard Atkins 4/19 (4 overs)
MCC won by 8 runs Reforma Athletic Club, Naucalpan Umpires: Dilip Pachichigar (Mex) and Kanti Lal Patel (Mex) Player of the match: Richard Atkins (MCC)
