Kenyan national cricket team

The Kenyan national cricket team represents Kenya at international cricket matches . You have been an Associate Member of the International Cricket Council since 1981 , having previously served on the East African national cricket team .

history

Beginnings of cricket in Kenya

Cricket was introduced to Kenya by colonialists in the late 19th century. The first match took place in 1899, national games were played regularly from 1910. First international games took place in 1951 when they played against Tanganyika . The association, the Kenyan Cricket Association, was founded in 1953. As a result, some teams, such as the non-European team from South Africa, toured the country and played a few games.

Part of East Africa

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In 1966, Kenya merged with Tanzania , Uganda and Zambia to form the East African national cricket team , which immediately joined the ICC. As part of this, games against India and England were played and the Cricket World Cup 1975 took part. At the ICC Trophy 1979 , the team missed qualification for the Cricket World Cup 1979 when it could not prevail in the preliminary round against Bermuda .

After independence

In 1981 Kenya broke away from the East African team and tried to establish itself in the ICC. The focus was initially on qualifications for the next world championships. At the ICC Trophy 1982 they were fourth in their preliminary group behind Zimbabwe , Papua New Guinea and Canada and were eliminated. In the 1986 edition they also took fourth place in the preliminary round. Things went better at the ICC Trophy 1990 . Here they survived the preliminary round as second in a group of four. In the second round they also took second place behind Zimbabwe. The tournament only ended for the team in the semi-finals, where they lost with 5 wickets to the Dutch national cricket team.

First successes

The 1994 ICC Trophy was held in its own country and, unlike in previous years, three places were available at the 1996 Cricket World Cup . Both in the preliminary round and in the intermediate round they took first place in their group and after beating bermuda in the semi-finals they lost in the final with two wickets against the United Arab Emirates. At the main tournament they managed a surprising win against the West Indies but lost all other games. So they were eliminated as the last of their preliminary group. As a consequence, the ICC considered them the only non-test nation with ODI status, which gave the team new game opportunities. At that time, the team was widely traded as the upcoming test nation. The following year they sovereignly qualified second behind Bangladesh in the 1997 ICC Trophy for the 1999 Cricket World Cup . There, however, they lost each of their preliminary round games. The ICC KnockOut 2000 was held in Kenya itself, but the home team lost their qualifier against India. At the next edition, the ICC Champions Trophy 2002 , Kenya lost both of their preliminary round matches and were eliminated.

World Championship 2003 and possible test status

Thanks to its ODI status, Kenya did not need to qualify for the 2003 World Cricket Championship . The tournament was played in South Africa , but two preliminary round matches were to take place in Nairobi . After the team had lost significantly to South Africa , they managed a narrow win against Canada in the second group game. The third game was to be played in Nairobi against New Zealand . However, New Zealand refused to go there for security reasons and Kenya won without a fight. After two more victories against Bangladesh and Sri Lanka and one defeat against the West Indies, Kenya finished the preliminary group in third and qualified for the Super Six round. There they lost to India and Australia, while they were able to prevail against Zimbabwe. However, they benefited from the preliminary round victories against New Zealand and Sri Lanka and therefore qualified third in the group for the semifinals. As expected, they were eliminated by India when they lost with a 91 run. In the course of this surprise, Kenya was again the top candidate for test status.

The crisis

The national team's first problems after the 2003 World Cup came in 2004 when their captain Maurice Odumbe was convicted of game fraud. The team also suffered from numerous player strikes because the KCA association was unable to meet its financial obligations. In the following Champions Trophy , Kenya lost both of its preliminary round matches and was eliminated very early. In order to introduce the non-test nations to the multi-day games, the ICC introduced the ICC Intercontinental Cup . In the first edition in 2004 , Kenya lost in the semi-finals to the Scottish national cricket team , the following year the team lost the final to Ireland . Organizationally, the association got more and more into crisis at this time because it was unable to meet the requirements of the ICC. As part of an investigation into mismanagement, the government dissolved the association in favor of a new one, Cricket Kenya, and tried to establish it. The ICC subsequently decided to revoke Kenya 's ODI status. All of this meant that the team's performance fell in the following period. At the Intercontinental Cup 2007-08 , Kenya retired early as third in the preliminary round. At the Cricket World Cup 2007 you could only prevail against Canada and were also eliminated in the preliminary round. The same followed at the ICC World Twenty20 2007 , where two very clear defeats against Sri Lanka and New Zealand meant the premature end. In the following years Kenya failed in the qualifications for this tournament ( 2008 : 4th place; 2010 : preliminary round; 2012 : 9th place). At the Cricket World Cup 2011 , the team lost all games and was eliminated in the preliminary round as bottom group. The team could not qualify for further world championships.

International tournaments

World Cricket Championship

• 1975–1979 member of the East African national cricket team
• 1983 not qualified ( qualification )
• 1987 not qualified ( qualification )
• 1992 not qualified ( qualification )
• 1996 preliminary round ( qualification )
• 1999 preliminary round ( qualification )
• 2003 semi-finals ( qualification )
• 2007 preliminary round ( qualification )
• 2011 preliminary round ( qualification )
• 2015 not qualified ( qualification )
• 2019 not qualified ( qualification )

World Twenty20

• 2007 preliminary round
• 2009 not qualified ( qualification )
• 2010 not qualified ( qualification )
• 2012 not qualified ( qualification )
• 2014 not qualified ( qualification )
• 2016 not qualified ( qualification )

ICC Intercontinental Cup

• 2004 semi-finals
• 2005 2nd place
• 2006 preliminary round
• 2007-08 3rd place
• 2009-10 5th place
• 2011–13 7th place
• 2015–2017 Not participated

Champions Trophy

• 1998 did not qualify
• 2000 qualification
• 2002 preliminary round
• 2004 did not qualify
• 2006 did not qualify
• 2009 did not qualify
• 2013 did not qualify
• 2017 did not qualify

Web links

Official site of Cricket Kenya

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Martin Williamson: A brief history of Kenyan cricket ( English ) Cricinfo. Retrieved February 17, 2013.
2. ^ South African Non-Europeans in East Africa 1958/59 ( English ) Cricket Archive. Retrieved February 17, 2013.
3. ↑ New Zealand Cricket reconfirms Kenyan decision ( English ) Cricinfo. February 16, 2003. Retrieved February 17, 2013.
4. ↑ Lynn McConnell: New Zealand has nothing to be sorry for in Kenyan stance ( English ) Cricinfo. February 21, 2003. Retrieved February 17, 2013.
5. ↑ Stephen Lamb: Fantastic Kenya through after Zimbabwe wilt ( English ) Cricinfo. March 12, 2003. Retrieved February 17, 2013.
6. ↑ Anand Vasu: India set up dream final after brushing Kenya aside ( English ) Cricinfo. March 20, 2003. Retrieved February 17, 2013.
7. ↑ Oliver Brett: No Test fast-track for Kenya ( English ) BBC. March 22, 2003. Retrieved February 17, 2013.
8. ↑ The charges against Odumbe ( English ) Cricinfo. August 18, 2004. Retrieved February 17, 2013.
9. ↑ Court bars fresh Kenyan board elections ( English ) Cricinfo. June 1, 2004. Retrieved February 17, 2013.
10. ↑ Another day of confusion in Kenya ( English ) Cricinfo. February 17, 2005. Retrieved February 17, 2013.
11. ↑ Kenya to lose ODI member status ( English ) Cricinfo. May 18, 2005. Retrieved February 17, 2013.