The Chile national cricket team is the team that represents Chile in international cricket. The team is organised by the Chilean Cricket Association, which became an affiliate member of the International Cricket Council (ICC) in 2001 and an associate member in 2017.[1] However, the national side had debuted as early as 1893, when it played Argentina in Santiago.[5] Chile began playing regular international matches in the early 1920s, and, with the exception of a gap during World War II, has continued to do so. Until the team affiliated to the ICC, its opponents were almost all other South American teams. It first participated in an ICC tournament in 2006, when it fielded a team in division three of the 2006 ICC Americas Championship.[6] In the South American Championships, which began in 1995, Chile has participated in every edition, but won only twice, in 2011 & 2016.[7]