Gambia
AssociationGambia Cricket Association
Personnel
CaptainPeter Campbell
International Cricket Council
ICC statusAssociate member[1] (2017)
ICC regionAfrica
ICC Rankings Current[2] Best-ever
T20I 76th 74th (9 Dec 2022)
International cricket
First internationalv  Sierra Leone, 1927[3]
Twenty20 Internationals
First T20Iv  Eswatini at IPRC Cricket Ground, Kigali; 1 December 2022
Last T20Iv  Ghana at Willowmoore Park, Benoni; 10 December 2023
T20Is Played Won/Lost
Total[4] 9 1/8 (0 ties, 0 no results)
This year[5] 0 0/0 (0 ties, 0 no results)
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
FormatMWLTNRInaugural Match
Twenty20 Internationals918001 December 2021

Twenty20 International

T20I record versus other nations[12]

Records complete to T20I #2390. Last updated 10 December 2023.

OpponentMWLTNRFirst matchFirst win
vs Associate Members
 Cameroon110009 December 20229 December 2022
 Eswatini101001 December 2022
 Ghana202008 December 2022
 Mozambique101008 December 2022
 Nigeria101004 December 2022
 Sierra Leone101006 December 2022
 Rwanda101008 December 2023
 Tanzania101006 December 2022

Other records

For a list of selected international matches played by Gambia, see Cricket Archive.

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Ireland and Afghanistan ICC newest full members amid wide-ranging governance reform". International Cricket Council. 22 June 2017. Retrieved 1 September 2018.
  2. "ICC Rankings". International Cricket Council.
  3. 1 2 3 "Gambia Cricket Association". International Cricket Council. Retrieved 3 December 2022.
  4. "T20I matches - Team records". ESPNcricinfo.
  5. "T20I matches - 2024 Team records". ESPNcricinfo.
  6. "The Home of CricketArchive".
  7. "All T20 matches between ICC members to get international status". International Cricket Council. 26 April 2018. Retrieved 1 September 2018.
  8. "The Rise, Fall and Rise Again of Cricket in The Gambia". The Chronicle. Gambia. 1 April 2019. Retrieved 3 December 2022.
  9. "Miscellaneous matches played by Gambia". CricketArchive. Retrieved 3 December 2022.
  10. "The Home of CricketArchive".
  11. Nepal, Netherlands gain in annual rankings update
  12. 1 2 "Records / Gambia / Twenty20 Internationals / Result summary". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 1 December 2022.

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