With the sport having been introduced by British immigrants, Argentina played its first international cricket match in 1868, against Uruguay, with fixtures against Brazil and Chile following in 1888 and 1893, respectively.

[5] Argentina, Brazil, and Chile, the mainstays of South American cricket, commenced regular international matches in the 1920s, which have continued into the present-day (outside the period surrounding World War II).

Argentina has been the dominant team at the championship, winning ten out of the sixteen tournaments held, and consequently has sent only development sides since 2000 (until 2019 when the matches in the event were eligible for Twenty20 International status for the first time).

[7] The team won four matches in division two at the 2001 edition, but has made no further appearances in what has now been renamed the World Cup Qualifier.

In the early 2000s, Argentina was one of the leading associates in the ICC Americas region, and in 2007, when the World Cricket League (WCL) was established, the side was placed into Division Three.

For its first match against Chile, the national team had to travel to Santiago by crossing the Andes by mule, which took three and a half days.

[13] Between the wars, infrequent fixtures were played against Brazil and Argentina, and were at that time included in Wisden's cricket records.

[21] Leading players during this period were the Ayling brothers, K. Bush (who also played for Brazil), D. Cavanagh, Herbert Dorning (the so-called "Grand Old Man of Argentine Cricket") and Donald Forrester.

Old Georgian, Lomas, Belgrano, Hurlingham, and San Albano were as strong as they had been for some time along with Buenos Aires CRC, which was once again fielding sides after a long absence.

Bedes Grammar School and Atlético del Rosario were both working their way through the lower divisions of the domestic league and supplying many players to the national age group squads, while an Academy side had been introduced into the First Division in response to the growing number of young players from the Italian/Spanish majority that were taking up the sport.

Previously the club competition had been kept alive largely by Anglo-Argentines – many of whom were descendants of well known cricketing identities in the country going right back to the early 20th century.

Argentina participated in the first ICC Trophy in 1979[23] but missed the second in 1982 which was played in England and started only two days after the conclusion of Falklands War.

[26] Argentina hosted and won the first South American Championship in 1995[27] and still play in the tournament today, though they now send an "A" team.

Following their promotion, in November 2007, Argentina traveled to Namibia to take part in Division Two of the ICC World Cricket League.