2019 Women's World Twenty20 Americas Qualifier

The 2019 ICC Women's Qualifier Americas was a cricket tournament that was held in the United States in May 2019.^[1] The matches in the tournament were played as Women's Twenty20 Internationals (WT20Is), with the top team progressing to both the 2019 ICC Women's World Twenty20 Qualifier and the 2021 Women's Cricket World Cup Qualifier tournaments.^[2] The United States qualified for both tournaments, after taking an unassailable 2–0 lead, with wins in their first two matches.^[3] The United States also won the final match by 36 runs, therefore completing a 3–0 whitewash over Canada.^[4][5][6]

2019 ICC Women's Qualifier Americas

Dates	17 – 19 May 2019
Administrator(s)	International Cricket Council
Cricket format	Twenty20 International
Tournament format(s)	Best of three matches
Host(s)	United States
Champions	United States
Runners-up	Canada
Participants	2
Matches	3
Most runs	Sindhu Sriharsha (80)
Most wickets	Lisa Ramjit (5)
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The qualifier was played as a best of three matches, with the fixtures played in Lauderhill, Florida.^[7] The United States named their squad on 1 April 2019,^[8] with Canada naming their squad on 9 May 2019.^[9]

Teams

The following teams competed in the tournament:^[10]

•  Canada
•  United States

Points table

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	T	NR	Pts	NRR
1	United States (H)	3	3	0	0	0	6	2.203	Advanced to qualifying tournament
2	Canada	3	0	3	0	0	0	−2.203	Eliminated

Source: ^[11]
(H) Host

Fixtures

1st WT20I

17 May 2019 11:00 Scorecard

Canada  66/6 (20 overs)	v	United States 67/0 (10 overs)
Kamna Mirchandani 24 (52) Lisa Ramjit 2/5 (4 overs)		Erica Rendler 47* (35)

United States Women won by 10 wickets Central Broward Regional Park, Lauderhill Umpires: Arnold Maddela (Can) and Jacqueline Williams (WI) Player of the match: Erica Rendler (USA)

• United States Women won the toss and elected to field.
• Claudine Beckford, Erica Rendler, Lisa Ramjit, Nadia Gruny, Onika Wallerson, Samantha Ramautar, Sara Farooq, Shebani Bhaskar, Sindhu Sriharsha, Sugetha Chandhrasekar, Uzma Iftikhar (USA), Miryam Khokhar, Achini Perera, Kamna Mirchandani, Chuntell Martin, Mahewish Khan, Saniyah Zia, Habeeba Bader, Hiba Shamshad, Hala Azmat, Kainat Qazi and Maliha Baig (Can) all made their WT20I debuts.

2nd WT20I

18 May 2019 11:00 Scorecard

United States  113/6 (20 overs)	v	Canada 76 (18.2 overs)
Sindhu Sriharsha 38 (30) Mahewish Khan 2/11 (4 overs)		Chuntell Martin 20 (17) Uzma Iftikhar 4/19 (4 overs)

United States Women won by 37 runs Central Broward Regional Park, Lauderhill Umpires: Arnold Maddela (Can) and Jacqueline Williams (WI) Player of the match: Uzma Iftikhar (USA)

• Canada Women won the toss and elected to field.
• Monali Patel (Can) made her WT20I debut.

3rd WT20I

19 May 2019 11:00 Scorecard

United States  116/6 (20 overs)	v	Canada 81/6 (20 overs)
Sindhu Sriharsha 42* (33) Saniyah Zia 3/22 (4 overs)		Saniyah Zia 15* (20) Lisa Ramjit 3/11 (4 overs)

United States Women won by 35 runs Central Broward Regional Park, Lauderhill Umpires: Sameer Bandekar (USA) and Arnold Maddela (Can) Player of the match: Sindhu Sriharsha (USA)

• United States of America Women won the toss and elected to bat.
• Candacy Atkins and Geetika Kodali (USA) both made their WT20I debuts.