Mexico national cricket team


The Mexican national cricket team represents the country of Mexico in international cricket. They became an affiliate member of the International Cricket Council in 2004 and their international debut was in 2006 against Costa Rica. The team made their ICC 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 the South American Championship in 2014 and 2018 winning both the time. In 2017, they became an associate member.
In April 2018, the ICC decided to grant full Twenty20 International status to all its members. Therefore, all Twenty20 matches played between Mexico and other ICC members after 1 January 2019 will be a full T20I.

History

Mexico became an affiliate member of the ICC in 2004. Their first international match was played on 19 March 2006 in the Central American Cricket Championship against Costa Rica who they beat. Prior to this there had been teams based in Mexico City that had played against Belize but these were not recognised as international fixtures. Having beaten Costa Rica in the tournament they then lost to Belize finishing second.
In 2007, Mexico hosted the Central American Cricket Championship and won it by defeating Costa Rica and El Salvador.
In 2008, Mexico travelled to El Salvador to take part in the 2nd Easter Cup. They finished second, losing to Belize but winning easily against El Salvador.
Mexico took part in the 3rd Central American Championship in 2009 in Panama under the new Twenty20 format. Mexico performed well in the tournament, winning all but one of their matches and even defeating close rivals Belize 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.
In 2012, a youthful Mexico team participated in the 4th Volcano Cup in El Salvador finishing runners up to the hosts after defeating Guatemala.

2018-Present

In April 2018, the ICC decided to grant full Twenty20 International status to all its members. Therefore, all Twenty20 matches played between Mexico and other ICC members after 1 January 2019 will be a full T20I.
Mexico played their first ever Twenty20 International match against Belize in the 2019 Central American Cricket Championship.
On 3rd May 2019, International Cricket Council released global rankings for Twenty20 International in which Mexico were placed on 48th rank.

Grounds

ICC Americas Championship
Central American Championship
South American Championship
Easter Cup
The Volcano Cup
Mexico's squad for 2019 Central American Cricket Championship from 25-28 April 2019.
International Match Summary — Mexico

Twenty20 International

Most T20I runs for Mexico
PlayerRunsAverageCareer span
Tarun Sharma16423.422019–2019
Shantanu Kaveri11422.802019–2019
Shashikant Hirugade7412.332019–2019
Jagdeesh Umanath6916.002019–2019
Revanakumar Ankad2317.002019–2019

Most T20I wickets for Mexico
PlayerWicketsAverageCareer span
Luis Hermida811.752019–2019
Shantanu Kaveri611.662019–2019
Shashikant Hirugade615.332019–2019
Revanakumar Ankad535.602019–2019
Andrew Westphal513.002019–2019

T20I record versus other nations
Records complete to T20I #919. Last updated 6 October 2019.