Suriname national cricket team
 | |
| Association | Suriname Cricket Board |
|---|---|
| Personnel | |
| Captain | Al Amin Shehzad |
| International Cricket Council | |
| ICC status | Associate member (2011) Affiliate member (2002) |
| ICC region | Americas |
| International cricket | |
| First international |  Suriname v. Belize  (Panama; 23 March 2004) |
| As of 4 January 2022 | |
The Suriname national cricket team is the team that represents Suriname in international cricket. The team is organised by the Suriname Cricket Board, which has been an affiliate member of the International Cricket Council (ICC) since 2002 and an associate member since 2011.[1]
Suriname made its international debut at the 2004 Americas Affiliates Championship in Panama, where it placed last. At the 2006 ICC Americas Championship, the team won the division three event, and was promoted to division two for the 2008 edition. Suriname also won that event, and were promoted to the 2008 Division One tournament in the United States, but were immediately relegated after going winless. Since then, Suriname has generally alternated between the first and second divisions of ICC Americas events, most recently placing fourth (out of four teams) at the 2015 Americas Twenty20 Championship.[2]
In the World Cricket League (WCL), the team placed last in the 2009 Division Seven tournament and fifth (out of eight teams) at the 2010 Division Eight tournament, relegating it to the regional qualifiers. Suriname re-entered the WCL system at the 2015 Division Six event in England, and subsequently qualified for 2016 Division Five. However, they later withdrew from the Division Five tournament due to an ICC investigation about the eligibility of some of their players.[3][4]
In April 2018, the ICC decided to grant full Twenty20 International (T20I) status to all its members. Therefore, all Twenty20 matches played between Suriname and other ICC members after 1 January 2019 will be a full T20I.[5]
History
[edit]Suriname became an affiliate member of the International Cricket Council in 2002. Their international debut came in 2004 at the Americas Affiliates Championship, where they came last in the five team tournament. A big improvement came two years later in the new Division Three of the ICC Americas Championship when they won a four team tournament also involving Brazil, Chile and the Turks and Caicos Islands. This qualified them for the Division Two tournament played in Argentina late in 2006, when they came fourth out of five teams, which means that they will keep their Division Two place in 2008.
Suriname placed fifth at the 2009 Global Division Seven tournament and was relegated to Division Eight, where it placed fifth to again be relegated.
Tournament history
[edit]ICC World Cricket League
[edit]- 2009 Division Seven: 6th – relegated
- 2010 Division Eight: 5th – relegated
- 2015 Division Six: 1st – promoted
- 2016 Division Five: Pull Out[6]
ICC Americas Championship
[edit]- 2000–04: Did not participate
- 2006: Division Three won, Division Two fourth place
- 2008: Division Two won, Division One sixth place
- 2010: Division Two second place
- 2011 ICC Americas Twenty20 Division One
- 2013 ICC Americas Twenty20 Division One: Third place
- 2015 ICC Americas Twenty20 Division One: Fourth place
Records
[edit]One-day
[edit]Below is a record of international matches played in the one-day format by Suriname between 2004 and 2015.[7]
| Opponent | M | W | L | T | NR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Argentina
|
2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
 Bahamas
|
5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
 Bahrain
|
1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
 Belgium
|
1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Belize
|
4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
 Bermuda
|
1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
 Bhutan
|
3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
 Botswana
|
1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
 Brazil
|
2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
 Canada
|
3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
 Cayman Islands
|
1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
 Chile
|
1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
 Fiji
|
1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
 Gibraltar
|
3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
 Guernsey
|
3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
 Japan
|
2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
 Kuwait
|
1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
 Nigeria
|
1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
 Norway
|
1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
 Panama
|
4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
 Turks and Caicos Islands
|
4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
 United States
|
1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
 Vanuatu
|
2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 48 | 23 | 25 | 0 | 0 |
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Suriname achieves Associate Member Status" – ICC Americas. Retrieved 5 September 2015.
- ^ Other matches played by Suriname Archived 2 September 2018 at the Wayback Machine – CricketArchive. Retrieved 5 September 2015.
- ^ "Suriname pull out of WCL Division 5". ESPN Cricinfo. 4 March 2016. Retrieved 4 March 2016.
- ^ "World Cricket League: Suriname withdraw from Division Five tournament in Jersey". BBC Sport. Retrieved 4 March 2016.
- ^ "All T20 matches between ICC members to get international status". International Cricket Council. 26 April 2018. Retrieved 1 September 2018.
- ^ Suriname pull out of WCL Division 5
- ^ "The Home of CricketArchive".