Singapore cricket team

Singapore

Flag of Singapore
Personnel
Captain	Chetan Suryawanshi
Coach	Trevor Chappell
International Cricket Council
ICC status	Associate Member (1974)
ICC region	Asian Cricket Council
WCL	Global Division Three
Tests
First international	27 May 1927 v WAS Oldfield's XI at The Padang, Singapore
One Day Internationals
World Cup Qualifier Appearances	6 (first in 1979)
Best result	Plate competition, 1990
Women's One Day Internationals

The Singapore national cricket team is the team that represents the Republic of Singapore in international cricket matches. They have been an associate member of the International Cricket Council (ICC) since 1974, and were a foundation member of the Asian Cricket Council in 1983.

Singapore currently sit in ICC World Cricket League Division Three, which is their highest ever level in the World Cricket League system. They have also played in the ICC World Cup Qualifier several times, most recently in the 2001 ICC Trophy. Their greatest rivalry is with neighbours Malaysia, who they play annually in the Stan Nagaiah Trophy. For most of their history they have been evenly matched, with both currently sitting in the third tier of Asian cricket – that is, the level below the Test teams (India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Pakistan) and the high-level associates (Afghanistan, Hong Kong, Nepal, UAE).

The first recorded mention of cricket in Singapore was in 1837 when a "Mr Z" complained, in a letter to the Singapore Free Press, of cricket being played near a church on a Sunday in violation of the Christian Sabbath. This resulted in cricket being banned on Sundays, a prohibition that remained in place until the 1930s.