Ghana national cricket team
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| Nickname | Black Batters |
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| Association | Ghana Cricket Association |
| ICC status | Affiliate (2002) |
| ICC region | ICC Africa |
| WCL | n/a (regional tournaments) |
| Coach |
 R. P. Sharma(2015 Africa Twenty20) |
| Captain |
Peter Ananya (2015 Africa Twenty20) |
| First international | |
 Gold Coast v. Lagos Colony .svg){kind=small} (Lagos, 25 May 1904) |
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The Ghana national cricket team represents the Ghana in international cricket. It is an affiliate member of ICC, which was elected in the year 2002. The team plays the matches in ICC development zone of Africa.Ghana Cricket Association promotes the sport in the country.
The first international tournament for the team was in Division Three of 2006 World Cricket League Africa Region, where it finished at third position. The team won the Division Three of 2008 World Cricket League Africa Region by defeating Swaziland in the final.
A team representing the British Gold Coast played its first recorded match in 1904, and international matches from 1907. Known as Ghana after independence in 1957, until recent times the majority of the team's matches came against other West African teams, and occasionally against touring English teams. In 1976, Ghana joined the West Africa Cricket Council, with Ghanaian players representing the West African cricket team in international tournaments. Following the breakup of the council, the Ghana Cricket Association gained affiliate membership of the International Cricket Council (ICC) in 2002, with the national side making its debut at an ICC tournament in 2004.
CricketArchive records a team representing the Gold Coast, a British colony, as having played its first match in May 1904, against Lagos Colony (in present-day Nigeria). Similar fixtures were played in the following two seasons, with the venue alternating between Lagos and Accra. A team representing the Southern Nigeria Protectorate toured in April 1907, representing the first international fixture played by a Gold Coast representative team. Similar matches were played again in 1911, 1912, and 1913, with the host alternating each year. Although the sport had been introduced by British settlers, representative teams were multiracial from an early stage – the 1912 Gold Coast–Southern Nigeria fixture, the only pre-war match for which a scorecard is available, featured names like Otoo, Sagoe, Agbokpo, and Akufo (for Gold Coast), and Layode and Oseni (for Southern Nigeria). Gold Coast's Otoo took six wickets in Southern Nigeria's second innings, helping Gold Coast to an innings victory. However, European-only matches were introduced around the same time, beginning in 1906 and ending only in 1956, the year before Ghanaian independence. The Gold Coast's leading runscorer in the inaugural European-only fixture was Gordon Guggisberg, who had earlier played a single first-class match (and was later Governor of the Gold Coast, from 1919 to 1927).
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