| Timu ya kriketi ya Kenya | ||||||||||
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| Nickname(s) | Simbas[1] | |||||||||
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| Association | Cricket Kenya | |||||||||
| Personnel | ||||||||||
| Captain | Sachin Bhudia | |||||||||
| Coach | Dodda Ganesh | |||||||||
| Chairman | Manoj Patel[2] | |||||||||
| International Cricket Council | ||||||||||
| ICC status | Associate member (1981) | |||||||||
| ICC region | Africa | |||||||||
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| International cricket | ||||||||||
| First international | 1 December 1951 vs Tanzania at Nairobi | |||||||||
| One Day Internationals | ||||||||||
| First ODI | v  India at the Barabati Stadium, Cuttack; 18 February 1996 | |||||||||
| Last ODI | v  Scotland at Hagley Oval, Christchurch; 30 January 2014 | |||||||||
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| World Cup appearances | 5 (first in 1996) | |||||||||
| Best result | Semi-finals (2003) | |||||||||
| World Cup Qualifier appearances | 7 (first in 1982) | |||||||||
| Best result | Runners-up (1994, 1997) | |||||||||
| Twenty20 Internationals | ||||||||||
| First T20I | v  Bangladesh at Gymkhana Club Ground, Nairobi; 1 September 2007 | |||||||||
| Last T20I | v  Zimbabwe at Gymkhana Club Ground, Nairobi; 24 October 2024 | |||||||||
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| T20 World Cup appearances | 1 (first in 2007) | |||||||||
| Best result | Group stage (2007) | |||||||||
| T20 World Cup Qualifier appearances | 7[a] (first in 2008) | |||||||||
| Best result | 4th (2008, 2023) | |||||||||
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| As of 24 October 2024 | ||||||||||
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.[8]
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. Kenya recently qualified the subqualifiers round has advanced and set to play the qualifiers round for the upcoming 2026 t20 world cup.[9]
- ^ 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) - ^ "manoj-patel-elected-cricket-kenya-chairman/". Cricket Kenya. 26 February 2022. Retrieved 18 May 2022.
- ^ "ICC Rankings". International Cricket Council.
- ^ "ODI matches - Team records". ESPNcricinfo.
- ^ "ODI matches - 2024 Team records". ESPNcricinfo.
- ^ "T20I matches - Team records". ESPNcricinfo.
- ^ "T20I matches - 2024 Team records". ESPNcricinfo.
- ^ "All T20 matches between ICC members to get international status". International Cricket Council. 26 April 2018. Retrieved 1 September 2018.
- ^ Mohammed, Rama (24 October 2024). "Kenya qualifies for 2025 ICC Men's T20 World Cup Africa regional finals". The Eastleigh Voice News. Retrieved 2 November 2024.
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