Canada win inaugural Americas Cup

Canada has won the inaugural Americas Cup with an emphatic seven wicket victory over Bermuda at Toronto, Ontario, Canada on Saturday.

Chasing a target of 186, Canada overtook the Bermudian total with seven overs to spare.

Astute captaincy from Canadian captain, Joe Harris, later named Man of the Series, proved pivotal as the home team restricted Bermuda with the targeting of key batsmen, Clay Smith and Charlie Marshall.

After winning the toss and electing to bat, Bermuda put on 49 for the first wicket, with Dennis Archer, who topscored for the visitors (59) leading the way.

Smith and Marshall were then removed in quick succession, wickets which shaped the size of the Bermudian innings.

Harris brought himself on, straight away claiming Smith with his off-spinners in the only over of the spell.

He replaced himself with Australian-based John Davison, who nabbed the inform Marshall in his first over. Davison bowled his spell straight through, also claiming Archer and Kwame Tucker (21), and generally stifling Bermudian batsmen's attempts to pick up the scoring rate.

Janiero Tucker helped consolidate the muiddle order with 43.

On what was a good batting track, Canada cruised to the target of 187 with Nicholas Ifill earning the Man of the Match award with an unbeaten 78 while Harris scored 60.

Herbie Bascombe, Archer and Smith shared the wickets for Bermuda.

In the other match, the United States defeated Argentina by 41 runs.

United States scored 243 all out with captain, Raymond Denny, topscoring with 84.

In reply, Argentina was allout for 202 with Matias Paterlini their best, striking 63.

Today's results means the teams finished in the following order: 1st-Canada (8pts), 2nd-Bermuda (6pts), 3rd-United States (4pts), 4th-Cayman Islands (2pts), 5th-Argentina (0pts).