 Uganda Cricket Association logo | ||||||||||
| Nickname(s) | Cricket Cranes | |||||||||
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| Association | Uganda Cricket Association | |||||||||
| Personnel | ||||||||||
| Captain | Brian Masaba | |||||||||
| Coach | Abhay Sharma | |||||||||
| International Cricket Council | ||||||||||
| ICC status | Associate member (1998) | |||||||||
| ICC region | Africa | |||||||||
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| Twenty20 Internationals | ||||||||||
| First T20I | v.  Botswana at Lugogo Stadium, Kampala; 20 May 2019 | |||||||||
| Last T20I | v.  New Zealand at Brian Lara Cricket Academy, San Fernando; 14 June 2024 | |||||||||
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| T20 World Cup appearances | 1 (first in 2024) | |||||||||
| Best result | Group stage (2024) | |||||||||
| T20 World Cup Qualifier appearances | 6[a] (first in 2012) | |||||||||
| Best result | Runners-up (2023) | |||||||||
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| As of 14 June 2024 | ||||||||||
The Uganda national cricket team, nicknamed the Cricket Cranes, is the men's team that represents Uganda in international cricket. The team is organised by the Uganda Cricket Association, which has been an associate member of the International Cricket Council (ICC) since 1998.[4]
Uganda first fielded an international team as early as 1914, against the East Africa Protectorate, but only began competing regularly in the early 1950s,[5] playing frequent series against regional rivals Kenya and Tanzania (then Tanganyika).[6] From 1966, Uganda contributed players to a combined East African team, which was reconstituted as East and Central Africa in 1989.
The country's first ICC tournament played in its own right was the 2001 ICC Trophy in Canada. Uganda played in the next three editions of the tournament, renamed the ICC World Cup Qualifier, but did not come close to qualifying for the Cricket World Cup. In the World Cricket League (WCL), Uganda reached ICC World Cricket League Division Two on three occasions, but was relegated to Division Three each time.
The team participated in six editions of the ICC World Twenty20 Qualifier. They qualified for the 2024 ICC Men's T20 World Cup, making it their first time in the ICC T20 WC after they finished 2nd in 2023 Africa Qualifier.[7]
- ^ "ICC Rankings". International Cricket Council.
- ^ "T20I matches - Team records". ESPNcricinfo.
- ^ "T20I matches - 2024 Team records". ESPNcricinfo.
- ^ Uganda at CricketArchive
- ^ Other matches played by Uganda Archived 22 November 2018 at the Wayback Machine – CricketArchive. Retrieved 2 September 2015.
- ^ History of Kenyan cricket Archived 24 July 2008 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Tripathi, Divy (30 November 2023). "A historic first for Uganda as side joins Namibia into T20WC 2024". ICC.
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