TheEast Africa cricket team was acricket team representingKenya,Uganda,Tanzania andZambia. Their first game was against a South African, Non-European side in 1958, and they appeared in the1975 World Cup.East Africa was an Associate Member of theICC from 1966 to 1989, after which its place was taken byEast and Central Africa.[1]
| Cricket World Cup record | Qualification record | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Round | Position | GP | W | L | T | NR | Pld | W | L | T | NR | |
 1975[2] | Group Stage | 8/8 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | No qualifier held (qualified by invitation) | |||||
| 1979[3] | Did not qualify | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |||||||
| 1983[4] | 7 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 3 | ||||||||
  1987[5] | 6 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||
  1992 | Not eligible – not an ICC member | Not an ICC member (part of East and Central Africa) | |||||||||||
 1996 | |||||||||||||
   1999 | |||||||||||||
   2003 | |||||||||||||
| Total | Group Stage | 0 titles | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 5 | 8 | 0 | 4 | |
| Cricket World Cup matches (By team) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total : 3 Wins – 0 Ties – 3 Losses – 3 games played | ||||
| Against | Wins | Draws | Losses | Total |
| England | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| India | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| New Zealand | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
East Africa qualified for the first Cricket World Cup in 1975 by invitation, and were drawn against hosts England, India and New Zealand. They lost all three matches, and failed to qualify for the Knockout stage.[2]
| Group stage (Group A) | Semifinal | Final | Overall Result | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Rank | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | |
| New Zealand L by 181 runs | India L by 10 wickets | England L by 196 runs | 4 | Did not advance | Group stage | |
Group stage (Group A) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Score | Opponent | Venue | Season |
|---|---|---|---|
| 128/8 (60 overs) | New Zealand | Birmingham | 1975 |
| 120/10 (55.3 overs) | India | Leeds | 1975 |
| 94/10 (52.3 overs) | England | Birmingham | 1975 |
| Last updated: 14 June 1975[6] | |||
| Runs | Player | Mat | Inn | Avg | 100s | 50s | Period | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 57 | Frasat Ali | 3 | 3 | 19.00 | — | — | 1975–-1975 | |
| 54 | Ramesh Sethi | 3 | 3 | 18.00 | — | — | 1975–-1975 | |
| 46 | Jawahir Shah | 3 | 3 | 15.33 | — | — | 1975–-1975 | |
| 41 | Mehmood Quaraishy | 3 | 3 | 20.50 | — | — | 1975–-1975 | |
| 39 | Zulfiqar Ali | 3 | 3 | 19.50 | — | — | 1975–-1975 | |
| Last updated: 14 June 1975[7] | ||||||||
| Score | Player | Opponent | Venue | Season |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 45 | Frasat Ali | New Zealand | Birmingham | 1975 |
| 37 | Jawahir Shah | India | Leeds | 1975 |
| 30 | Zulfiqar Ali | New Zealand | Birmingham | 1975 |
| 30 | Ramesh Sethi | England | Birmingham | 1975 |
| 23 | Ramesh Sethi | India | Leeds | 1975 |
| Last updated: 14 June 1975[8] | ||||
| Runs | Players | Opposition | Venue | Season |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 42 (6th wicket) | Ramesh Sethi &Jawahir Shah | v India | Leeds | 1975 |
| 37 (7th wicket) | Zulfiqar Ali &Mehmood Quaraishy | v New Zealand | Birmingham | 1975 |
| 30 (1st wicket) | Samuel Walusimbi &Frasat Ali | v New Zealand | Birmingham | 1975 |
| 30 (1st wicket) | Ramesh Sethi &Mehmood Quaraishy | v England | Birmingham | 1975 |
| 26 (1st wicket) | Samuel Walusimbi &Frasat Ali | v India | Leeds | 1975 |
| Last updated: 14 June 1975[9] | ||||
| Wickets | Player | Matches | Avg. | Econ. | BBI | 4W | 5W | Period |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | Zulfiqar Ali | 3 | 41.50 | 4.74 | 3/63 | 0 | 0 | 1975–1975 |
| 3 | Mehmood Quaraishy | 3 | 31.33 | 5.22 | 2/55 | 0 | 0 | 1975–1975 |
| 1 | John Nagenda | 1 | 50.00 | 5.55 | 1/50 | 0 | 0 | 1975–1975 |
| Ramesh Sethi | 3 | 100.00 | 5.00 | 1/51 | 0 | 0 | 1975–1975 | |
| Parbhu Nana | 3 | 116.00 | 4.02 | 1/34 | 0 | 0 | 1975–1975 | |
| Last updated: 14 June 1975[10] | ||||||||
