The South American Cricket Championship is an international limited-overs cricket tournament featuring national teams from South America and certain other invited sides often national teams from outside South America, currently played annually but until 2013 was usually played every two years. The first men's event was held in 1995 and a women's tournament started in 2010. The two tournaments have been played simultaneously since 2013. Argentine teams have been the most successful at the men's tournament, winning on ten out of the fourteen occasions it has been held. The Argentine national team won the first three championships without losinga game, and subsequently the country was represented by a development squad, Argentina A, between 2000 and 2018. Chile is the only other team to feature in every edition of the championships, but has won only twice, despite finishing runner-up on six occasions. Peru and Brazil have each only missed one tournament, in 2002 and 2011 respectively. Guyana, the only Test-playing country in South America, has sent a team four times, winning twice, but this has generally been a "masters" team consisting of past players. Colombia were going to send a team to the 2000 tournament, but in fact did not debut until 2015. The non-South American teams invited to the tournament have been Panama, Puerto Rico, Costa Rica and Mexico. The thirteenth edition of the tournament was held in Itaguaí, Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil, in October 2016. Chile won the men's tournament and Brazil won the women's tournament. The 2018 Championships were awarded to Colombia for the first time, and took place over 4 days in August with Mexico emerging as champions for the second time. Mexico won the men's event for the second time in 2018, and Argentina won again in 2019. Argentina also dominated the women's event in the early editions, but Brazil have been the most successful team recently. From 2018, all women's matches between ICC member nations will be eligible for Twenty20 Internationalstatus after the ICC decided to grant T20I status to all matches involving its members from 1 January 2019. Brazil's women won the first edition with this enhanced status. Starting from the 2019 edition, the same status will apply to the men's event. The only non-ICC playing nations in 2019 were Colombia and Uruguay.
