Kenyan cricket team
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| ICC status | Associate member (1981) |
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| ICC region | Africa |
| WCL | Two |
| Coach |
 Steve Tikolo
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| Captain | Rakep Patel |
| First international | |
| 1 December 1951 vs Tanzania at Nairobi | |
| World Cup | |
| Appearances | 5 (first in 1996) |
| Best result | Semi-finals, 2003 |
| World Cup Qualifier | |
| Appearances | 7 (first in 1982) |
| Best result | Runners-up, 1994 and 1997 |
| World Twenty20 | |
| Appearances | 1 (first in 2007) |
| Best result | Group stage, 2007 |
| World Twenty20 Qualifier | |
| Appearances | 5 (first in 2008) |
| Best result | 4th place, 2008 |
| As of 10 March 2016 | |
The Kenya national cricket team is the team that represents the country of Kenya in international cricket matches. Kenya has been an associate member of the International Cricket Council (ICC) since 1981; it played its first One Day International in 1996, and its first Twenty20 International in 2007. At one time it was considered one of the strongest of the associate members of the ICC, particularly after reaching the semi-finals of the 2003 Cricket World Cup. It lost ODI and T20I status in 2014, after failing to qualify for the 2015 World Cup and the 2014 World Twenty20.
Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda combined to form the East Africa cricket team, which became an associate member of the ICC in 1966. They continued playing amongst themselves, and were joined by Zambia in a quadrangular tournament played annually between 1966 and 1980.
India toured East Africa in 1967 and played a three-day match against Kenya on 5 August, which was drawn. Various tours of, and by, East Africa continued, including a tour of England in 1972 and a first-class match between East Africa and the MCC at Nairobi Gymkhana Club in 1974 before East Africa took part in the first Cricket World Cup.
The 1975 Cricket World Cup took place in England, and East Africa were one of two non-test teams invited to the tournament, the other being Sri Lanka. Kenya provided half of the fourteen man squad for the tournament. After warm-up matches against Somerset, Wales, Glamorgan and various club sides, they played in the same first round group as England, India and New Zealand, losing to all three. The World Cup was followed by a first-class match against Sri Lanka at the County Ground, Taunton.
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