Kenya national cricket team

This article is about the men's team. For the women's team, see Kenya women's national cricket team.

{{Infobox cricket team | name = Kenya Cricket Team | native_name = Timu ya kriketi ya Kenya | image = Flag_of_Kenya.svg | alt = | chairman = Manoj Patel[1] | caption = | association = Cricket Kenya | nickname = Simbas[2] | captain = Sachin Bhudia | coach = Dodda Ganesh | icc_status = Associate member | icc_member_year = 1981 | icc_region = Africa | t20i_rank = 33rd | t20i_rank_best = 12th (1 Mar 2007) | odi_rank = --- | odi_rank_best = 10th (1 May 1998)

| first_match = 1 December 1951 vs Tanzania at Nairobi


| first_odi = v  India at the Barabati Stadium, Cuttack; 18 February 1996 | most_recent_odi = v  Denmark at [[Gymkhana Club Ground], Nairobi; 29 September 2024 | num_odis = 156 | num_odis_this_year = 2 | odi_record = 43/108
(0 ties, 5 no results) | odi_record_this_year = 1/1
(0 ties, 0 no results)

| wc_apps = 5 | wc_first = 1996 | wc_best = Semi-finals (2003) | wcq_apps = 7 | wcq_first = 1982 | wcq_best = Runners-up (1994, 1997)

| first_t20i = v  Bangladesh at Gymkhana Club Ground, Nairobi; 1 September 2007 | most_recent_t20i = v  Nigeria at Sikh Union Club Ground, Nairobi; 17 July 2024 | num_t20is = 104 | num_t20is_this_year = 13 | t20i_record = 56/45
(0 ties, 3 no results) | t20i_record_this_year = 9/4
(0 ties, 0 no results)

| wt20_apps = 1 | wt20_first = 2007 | wt20_best = Group stage (2007) | wt20q_apps = 7[a] | wt20q_first = 2008 | wt20q_best = 4th (2008, 2023)

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The Kenya men's national cricket team represents the Republic of Kenya in international cricket. Kenya is an associate member of the International Cricket Council (ICC) which has Twenty20 International (T20I) status after the ICC granted T20I status to all its members.[3]

They have been an associate member of the ICC since 1981. Since then they have played in five Cricket World Cups from 1996 to 2011 with their best result being a bronze medal finish as the semi-final appearance at the 2003 Cricket World Cup in Southern Africa. They have only qualified for one ICC World Twenty20 tournament, in 2007. The Kenyan national team is governed by Cricket Kenya.

Kenya gained One Day International (ODI) status in 1996 in preparation for the 1996 Cricket World Cup and would have it for eighteen years before losing it at the 2014 Cricket World Cup Qualifier where they finished in the fifth place. After April 2019, Kenya will play in the 2019–21 ICC Cricket World Cup Challenge League.[4]

  1. ^ "manoj-patel-elected-cricket-kenya-chairman/". Cricket Kenya. 26 February 2022. Retrieved 18 May 2022.
  2. ^ Ndawula, Innocent. "ICC T20 World Cup Africa Final - Unique Trophy Shoot Leaves Captains In Awe". Cricket Uganda. Archived from the original on 16 July 2019. Retrieved 20 May 2019.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  3. ^ "All T20 matches between ICC members to get international status". International Cricket Council. 26 April 2018. Retrieved 1 September 2018.
  4. ^ "All to play for in last e". International Cricket Council. Retrieved 11 April 2019.


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