Team information | |
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Established | 1898 |
Last match | 1980 |
International Cricket Council | |
ICC status | now Zimbabwe (1981 (as Zimbabwe-Rhodesia)) |
ICC region | Africa |
WCL | 15 |
International cricket | |
First international | 1905 v Transvaal |
As of 4 December 2008 |
The Rhodesia cricket team played first-class cricket and represented originally the British colony of Southern Rhodesia and later the unilaterally independent state of Rhodesia which became Zimbabwe. In 1980 the Rhodesia cricket team was renamed as the Zimbabwe-Rhodesia cricket team, and in 1981 it adopted its current name of the Zimbabwe national cricket team.