Association | Qatar Cricket Association | |||||||||
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Captain | Muhammad Tanveer | |||||||||
Coach | Muhammad Haroon | |||||||||
International Cricket Council | ||||||||||
ICC status | Associate member[1] (2017) Affiliate member (1999) | |||||||||
ICC region | Asia | |||||||||
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International cricket | ||||||||||
First international | Qatar v Sharjah (Kuwait City; 30 October 1979) | |||||||||
Twenty20 Internationals | ||||||||||
First T20I | v Saudi Arabia at Al Emarat Cricket Stadium, Muscat; 21 January 2019 | |||||||||
Last T20I | v Saudi Arabia at Oman Cricket Academy Ground Turf 1, Al Amarat; 16 April 2024 | |||||||||
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As of 16 April 2024 |
The Qatar national cricket team is the team that represents Qatar in international cricket. The team is organised by the Qatar Cricket Association, which became an affiliate member of the International Cricket Council (ICC) in 1999[5] and an associate member in 2017.[1]
Qatar made its international debut in 1979, at an invitational tournament that also included Bahrain, Kuwait, and Sharjah (one of the United Arab Emirates). The team's first Asian Cricket Council (ACC) event was the 2002 ACC Trophy in Singapore. For a period during the 2000s, Qatar was one of the top-ranked non-Test teams in Asia – at the 2004 ACC Trophy, the team placed fourth. However, a few years later it was relegated to the second-division ACC events.[6]
Qatar made its first and only World Cricket League (WCL) appearance at the 2017 ICC World Cricket League Division Five event in South Africa. It placed third, enough to secure the team a place in the new 2019–21 ICC Cricket World Cup Challenge League.[7]