All three matches were washed out on the last day (April 28) of the ICC Americas Women’s the T20 championships in George Town, Grand Cayman,. So the battle for first place between Canada and the USA, featuring the two unbeaten sides, did not take place. Late Saturday night (Toronto time) there did not seem to be official confirmation on the ICC’s website, nor on the Cricket Canada site.
However, without using any fancy calculators or spreadsheets to calculate net run rates, it would seem that Canada would seem to be ahead of the USA on net run rate.
Update: the ICC have confirmed to us that Canada have won the tournament and will go to the ICC Women’s World Twenty20 Qualifiers. As per the playing conditions, with the last day a wash-out, it meant Canada qualified by virtue of topping the table with a superior net run-rate to the USA.

Canada scored 557 runs in 65 overs and conceded 237 runs in 65 overs. The USA scored 511 runs in 80 overs and conceded 259 runs in 79 overs.
So Canada is plus 320 runs from a balanced 65 overs. The USA is plus 252 and the all out
Cayman score in 19 overs doubtless counts as 20 overs in the NRR calculations, so the 252
averages out against 80 overs.
Canada’s wins against Brazil and the Cayman Islands brought scores of 181 for 3 wickets and
191 for 4 wickets, as well as bigger winning margins than the USA achieved against the same
opponents. The USA had a bad start against Argentina and won by just 10 runs in a game where both sides
batted for 20 overs. Friday’s five over slog between Canada and Argentina had a higher scoring
rate per side and Canada won by 11 runs. The USA had a slightly better win over Bermuda than
Canada, but that would seem to make little difference overall.
Some might think that someone in the ICC’s Dubai headquarters might have calculated the
outcome, as women’s cricket is a priority. But concept and reality, mission statement and reality,
and turning such buzzword mission statements and concepts (not to mention pretty logos) seem
not to meet in a wide range of fields these days.
How many of Canada’s 34.7 million population, or the 310 or so million people in the USA are
hanging on for official word from the ICC’s Dubai offices on the outcome of this tournament?
Sadly, probably not too many, especially with “South Asian Heritage Month” and “Asian
Heritage Month” just a few days away in May on the Canadian side of the border. The film
“Cricket and the Meaning of Life” is due to be shown in a couple of Toronto Public libraries
during May as part of those commemorations.
Cricket was going to be the number one sport in Canada by around 2015 at one of the first
showings of “Cricket and the Meaning of Life”, according to a former President of the sport’s
governing body in Canada. Someone in the current leadership might have inspired news of the
official outcome of this T20 event before the witching hour in Toronto. But some ghost might
sort things out officially in the next few hours, before the day ends off the coast of British
Columbia. Perhaps there are chirping crickets in some fields across western Canada proclaiming
the official outcome. Or even from the top of the Canadian Rockies. Hope, it is said, springs
eternal. Enjoy your cricket, keep breathing and keep hoping. [Eddie Norfolk]