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| Association | Gambia Cricket Association | |||||||||
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| Personnel | ||||||||||
| Captain | Peter Campbell | |||||||||
| International Cricket Council | ||||||||||
| ICC status | Associate member[1] (2017) | |||||||||
| ICC region | Africa | |||||||||
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| International cricket | ||||||||||
| First international | v  Sierra Leone, 1927[3] | |||||||||
| Twenty20 Internationals | ||||||||||
| First T20I | v  Eswatini at IPRC Cricket Ground, Kigali; 1 December 2022 | |||||||||
| Last T20I | v  Ghana at Willowmoore Park, Benoni; 10 December 2023 | |||||||||
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| As of 1 January 2024 | ||||||||||
The Gambian national cricket team is the team that represents The Gambia in international cricket. They became an affiliate member of the International Cricket Council (ICC) in 2002[6] and an associate member in 2017.[1]
In April 2018, the ICC decided to grant full Twenty20 International (T20I) status to all its members. Therefore, all Twenty20 matches played between Gambia and other ICC members after 1 January 2019 will be a full T20I.[7]
History
Cricket was introduced to the Gambia by the British during the colonial period.[8] Gambia played against other British West African colonies from 1927, when they faced Sierra Leone for the first time.[3] From the 1960s Gambia also played regularly against Nigeria, and later in the West African Championships.[9]
Gambia was a member of the West Africa Cricket Council, which was an ICC member from 1976 to 2003, and fielded players in the West Africa cricket team until its dissolution. It became a member of the ICC in its own right in 2002.[3] Gambia's ICC debut came at the African affiliate championship in 2004 where they finished sixth. In 2006 they played in the equivalent tournament, Division Three of the African qualifiers for the ICC World Cricket League, this time finishing in seventh place.[10]
In 2021 Gambia was among five teams excluded from the ICC T20I Championship for failing to play enough fixtures in the relevant period, an effect of the COVID-19 pandemic.[11]
Records
International Match Summary — Gambia[12]
Last updated 10 December 2023
| Playing Record | ||||||
| Format | M | W | L | T | NR | Inaugural Match |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Twenty20 Internationals | 9 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 1 December 2021 |
Twenty20 International
T20I record versus other nations[12]
Records complete to T20I #2390. Last updated 10 December 2023.
| Opponent | M | W | L | T | NR | First match | First win |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs Associate Members | |||||||
 Cameroon | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 December 2022 | 9 December 2022 |
| Eswatini | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 December 2022 | |
| Ghana | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 8 December 2022 | |
 Mozambique | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 8 December 2022 | |
 Nigeria | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 December 2022 | |
| Sierra Leone | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 December 2022 | |
 Rwanda | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 8 December 2023 | |
 Tanzania | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 December 2022 | |
Other records
For a list of selected international matches played by Gambia, see Cricket Archive.
See also
References
- 1 2 "Ireland and Afghanistan ICC newest full members amid wide-ranging governance reform". International Cricket Council. 22 June 2017. Retrieved 1 September 2018.
- ↑ "ICC Rankings". International Cricket Council.
- 1 2 3 "Gambia Cricket Association". International Cricket Council. Retrieved 3 December 2022.
- ↑ "T20I matches - Team records". ESPNcricinfo.
- ↑ "T20I matches - 2024 Team records". ESPNcricinfo.
- ↑ "The Home of CricketArchive".
- ↑ "All T20 matches between ICC members to get international status". International Cricket Council. 26 April 2018. Retrieved 1 September 2018.
- ↑ "The Rise, Fall and Rise Again of Cricket in The Gambia". The Chronicle. Gambia. 1 April 2019. Retrieved 3 December 2022.
- ↑ "Miscellaneous matches played by Gambia". CricketArchive. Retrieved 3 December 2022.
- ↑ "The Home of CricketArchive".
- ↑ Nepal, Netherlands gain in annual rankings update
- 1 2 "Records / Gambia / Twenty20 Internationals / Result summary". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 1 December 2022.
Further reading
- The Rise, Fall and Rise Again of Cricket in The Gambia by Omar Jarju, 2019
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