 Botswana Cricket Association logo | ||||||||||
| Nickname(s) | Baggy Blues[1] | |||||||||
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| Association | Botswana Cricket Association | |||||||||
| Personnel | ||||||||||
| Captain | Karabo Motlhanka | |||||||||
| Coach | Stanley Timoni | |||||||||
| International Cricket Council | ||||||||||
| ICC status | Associate member[2] (2005) | |||||||||
| ICC region | Africa | |||||||||
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| International cricket | ||||||||||
| First international | 2 September 2002 v Zambia at Lusaka, Zambia | |||||||||
| Twenty20 Internationals | ||||||||||
| First T20I | v  Uganda at Lugogo Stadium, Kampala; 20 May 2019 | |||||||||
| Last T20I | v  Malawi at Willowmoore Park, Benoni; 19 December 2023 | |||||||||
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| As of 1 January 2024 | ||||||||||
The Botswana national cricket team is the men's team that represents Botswana in international cricket. They have been an associate member of the International Cricket Council since 2005, after previously being an affiliate member since 2001[6] and an associate member in 2017.[2] They are in Division Five of the World Cricket League[7] and are ranked at joint 29th in the world by the International Cricket Council (ICC). They are the 5th-highest ranked non-Test team in the African region.[8] The team's coach is former Kenyan ODI player Joseph Angara, who was appointed in July 2015.[9]
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- ^ a b "Ireland and Afghanistan ICC newest full members amid wide-ranging governance reform". International Cricket Council. 22 June 2017. Retrieved 1 September 2018.
- ^ "ICC Rankings". International Cricket Council.
- ^ "T20I matches - Team records". ESPNcricinfo.
- ^ "T20I matches - 2024 Team records". ESPNcricinfo.
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- ^ Jersey to host World Cricket League Division Five Archived 24 May 2011 at the Wayback Machine, ICC Media Release
- ^ "Live Cricket Scores & News International Cricket Council (ICC)". icc-cricket.com. Archived from the original on 29 September 2007. Retrieved 3 January 2017.
- ^ Deepak Madangarli (19 August 2015). BCA Activities Update Archived 1 September 2018 at the Wayback Machine – Botswana Cricket Association. Retrieved 25 August 2015.