Peru Cricket Association
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| ICC status | Affiliate member (2007) |
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| ICC region | Americas |
| WCL | n/a |
| Coach | Steve Hallett |
| Captain | Nick Myers |
| First international | |
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South American Championship, 1997, Opponent Brazil. First official ICC game Feb 2007 in Americas Division 3 Tournament – Opponent Turks and Caicos Islands (Eventual winners). |
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| As of 17 July 2015 | |
South American Championship, 1997, Opponent Brazil.
The Asociación Peruana de Cricket or Cricket Peru is the official governing body of the sport of cricket in Peru. Cricket Peru is Peru's representative at the International Cricket Council and is an affiliate member and has been a member of that body since 2007. It is included in the ICC Americas region.
Cricket has been played in Peru for over 150 years, at the splendid Lima Cricket & Football Club (LCFC), and is now undergoing resurgence as a recently admitted Affiliate Member of the International Cricket Council (ICC) and a founder member of Cricket South America (CSA), along with Argentina, Brazil and Chile.
Peru traditionally held an 8-10 week season at the LCFC from February until Easter. Most of the fixtures were friendlies, and the most important regular matches on the calendar were traditionally the British Ambassador’s XI vs President of the LCFC XI and Asia vs Rest of the World. The latter is still hotly contested, while the former has been developed into a one-day cricket carnival, The Ambassador's Cup, featuring teams - and ambassadors - representing Australia, India, South Africa and UK.
The Easter holiday, which was traditionally a time for overseas touring teams to visit Lima, is now set aside for the South American Championship (SAC), a non-official, annual tournament between teams representing CSA members i.e. Argentina, Brazil, Chile & Peru, as well as invited national teams. 2014 saw the 11th staging of this tournament, with Lima hosting.
The advantage of playing cricket in Lima is that play is never lost to rain!
In November 2006, a uniquely Peruvian cricket form, Cricket Veloz, was introduced to the cricketing calendar, and the Cricket Veloz Trophy has been hotly contested every year since. Originally designed as a four-team, indoor tournament, in 2009 it was rebranded as an outdoor 6-a-side festival, with great success, fitting nicely into the 150th Anniversary celebrations of the LCFC.
In 2007, the Peruvian National T20 Championship was inaugurated, with all games being played at LCFC.
The four founding teams were: 1) The Kiteflyers: the cricketing arm of a multinational local football team - with a British core - founded in 1981.
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