Canada did exactly what was expected of them while USA could not. Instead, it was the home nation Bermuda, who produced some fine T20 performances to claim one of the two qualification spots into the T20 World Cup Global Qualifiers in UAE in Oct/Nov 2019.
Those were the headline making scenarios that occurred during the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup Americas regional finals in Bermuda, as the host nation upset their highly fancied opponents in USA, not once but twice in the double round-robin group format in the tournament. Canada remained unbeaten throughout the tournament to finish with 5 wins from their 6 matches (one wash/out match against Bermuda), while Bermuda registered twin victories over USA and Cayman Islands to finish 2nd in the points table with 4 wins from their 6 matches.
USA finished 3rd overall with 2 wins over Cayman Islands, who finished the tournament without registering a win from their 6 matches.
Navneet Dhaliwal (Canada) was the highest run-scorer in the tournament, followed by Ravinderpal Singh (Canada) and Steven Taylor (USA). Among the bowlers, Dillon Heyliger (Canada) was the highest wicket-taker, followed by Timil Patel (USA) and Romesh Eranga (Canada).
ICC Americas Regional Finals Top Run-scorer’s
| Player/Nation | Innings | Runs | Highest | Average | S/R | 100 | 50 |
| Navneet Dhaliwal (Canada) | 5 | 190 | 54 | 63.33 | 132.86 | 0 | 2 |
| Ravinderpal Singh (Canada) | 4 | 189 | 101 | 63 | 190.9 | 1 | 1 |
| Steven Taylor (USA) | 6 | 144 | 56 n.o | 28.8 | 112.5 | 0 | 1 |
| Delray Rawlins (Bermuda) | 5 | 130 | 63 | 26 | 122.64 | 0 | 1 |
| Rizwan Cheema (Canada) | 6 | 126 | 72 | 25.2 | 185.29 | 0 | 1 |
| Kamau Leverock (Bermuda) | 6 | 106 | 33 | 21.2 | 93.8 | 0 | 0 |
| Hayden Walsh (USA) | 5 | 99 | 28 | 19.8 | 105.31 | 0 | 0 |
| Gregory Strydom (Cayman Islands) | 6 | 97 | 49 | 16.16 | 108.98 | 0 | 0 |
| Alan Douglas (Bermuda) | 5 | 96 | 47 n.o | 24 | 124.67 | 0 | 0 |
| Okera Bascome (Bermuda) | 5 | 93 | 35 | 18.6 | 117.72 | 0 | 0 |
The tournament saw Queensland pacer Cameron Gannon make his T20I debut for USA, while former Zimbabwe International Gregory Strydom made his T20I debut for Cayman Islands. Bermuda were also helped by the availability of Sussex county player Delray Rawlins for the event and hopefully, he will be available for them during the Global Qualifiers as well.
ICC Americas Regional Finals Top Wicket-taker’s
| Player/Nation | Inns | Runs | Wickets | Average | Economy | S/R |
| Dillon Heyliger (Canada) | 5 | 111 | 11 | 10.09 | 5.84 | 10.3 |
| Timil Patel (USA) | 5 | 101 | 9 | 11.22 | 5.61 | 12 |
| Romesh Eranga (Canada) | 6 | 121 | 9 | 13.44 | 5.54 | 14.5 |
| Karima Gore (USA) | 4 | 70 | 8 | 8.75 | 4.37 | 12 |
| Onais Bascome (Bermuda) | 4 | 89 | 8 | 11.12 | 6.84 | 9.7 |
| Saad Bin Zafar (Canada) | 6 | 141 | 8 | 17.62 | 6.13 | 17.2 |
| Nikhil Dutta (Canada) | 5 | 110 | 7 | 15.71 | 6.11 | 15.4 |
| Nitish Kumar (Canada) | 5 | 89 | 6 | 14.83 | 5.93 | 15 |
| George O’Brien (Bermuda) | 4 | 89 | 6 | 14.83 | 6.35 | 14 |
| Alessandro Morris (Cayman Islands) | 6 | 114 | 6 | 19 | 5.18 | 22 |
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