The Cayman Islands became an affiliate member of the ICC in 1997 Later in the year, they played their first
List A matches as part of the
2000–01 Red Stripe Bowl in the
West Indies. They played against
Bermuda,
Guyana, the
Leeward Islands and the
Windward Islands in the first round, losing all their games. The Cayman Islands gained
associate membership of the ICC in 2002, a year in which they finished third in the Americas Championship in
Buenos Aires, Argentina after recording wins against Argentina, the
Bahamas and Bermuda. The 2004 Americas Championship served as a qualifying competition for the
2005 ICC Trophy, and a repeat of their third-place finish from 2002 would have qualified them for that tournament. Wins against Argentina and the Bahamas meant they could only finish fourth however. This did qualify them for a place in a
repêchage tournament in early 2005 in
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. They finished fifth in that tournament after beating
Kuwait in a play-off match. Later in 2005, the Cayman Islands took part in the
ICC Intercontinental Cup, a tournament for ICC associate members with
first-class status. They lost both their first round matches to Bermuda and
Canada, thus not qualifying for the semi-finals. In 2006, they first played in the inaugural
Stanford 20/20 tournament. They beat the Bahamas in the preliminary round, but lost to
Trinidad & Tobago in the first round proper. In August 2006, they finished third in Division One of the ICC Americas Championship after wins against Argentina and Canada. This qualified them for
2007 Division Three of the World Cricket League, which was played in May/June 2007 in
Darwin, Australia. After beating
Hong Kong and
Tanzania in the first round, they lost to Argentina in the semi-finals, and to
Papua New Guinea in the third place play-off, thus finishing fourth in the tournament. In 2009 they again placed in
2009 Division Three in which they came 5th thus relegating to
Division Four. Like
Argentina their bad run continued and again finished fifth only winning over Argentina. In 2012, they managed to stop the fall, finishing fourth in
2012 Division Five.
2018-Present In April 2018, the ICC decided to grant full
Twenty20 International (T20I) status to all its members. Therefore, all
Twenty20 matches played between Cayman Islands and other
ICC members from 1 January 2019 have been full T20I matches. The Cayman Islands played their first T20I match against
Canada on 18 August 2019, after finishing second in the Southern sub region qualification group and advancing to the Regional Final of the
2018–19 ICC World Twenty20 Americas Qualifier tournament. ==Tournament history==