Eswatini national cricket team
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The Eswatini national cricket team represents Eswatini (formerly known as Swaziland), a country in Southern Africa, in international cricket. The Eswatini national cricket team, which is administered by the Eswatini Cricket Association (ECA), became an affiliate member of the International Cricket Council (ICC) in 2007.[6] The ECA, along with the cricket associations of Cameroon, the Falkland Islands and Peru, was promoted to affiliate status in 2007 by the ICC.[7] In 2017, they became associate members.[1] Eswatini is also a member of the African Cricket Association.[6] The Eswatini national cricket team would compete in the World Cricket League Africa Region and the ICC Africa Twenty20 Championship.
Association | Eswatini Cricket Association | |||||||||
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Personnel | ||||||||||
Captain | Melusi Magagula | |||||||||
History | ||||||||||
Twenty20 debut | v. Sierra Leone on 14 May 2011 | |||||||||
International Cricket Council | ||||||||||
ICC status | Associate member[1] (2017) | |||||||||
ICC region | Africa | |||||||||
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International cricket | ||||||||||
First international | v. Zambia, 1981 | |||||||||
Twenty20 Internationals | ||||||||||
First T20I | v. Lesotho at IPRC Cricket Ground, Kigali; 16 October 2021 | |||||||||
Last T20I | v. Lesotho at Malkerns Country Club Oval, Malkerns; 31 March 2024 | |||||||||
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As of 31 March 2024 |
In April 2018, the ICC decided to grant full Twenty20 International (T20I) status to all its members. Therefore, all Twenty20 matches played between Eswatini and other ICC members after 1 January 2019 are eligible for T20I status.[8]