Lesotho national cricket team
The Lesotho national cricket team is the team that represents the Kingdom of Lesotho in international cricket. They became an affiliate member of the International Cricket Council (ICC) in 2001[5] and an associate member in 2017.[1]
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| Association | Lesotho Cricket Association | |||||||||
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| Personnel | ||||||||||
| Captain | Sameer Patel | |||||||||
| Coach | Lekoatsa Chaka | |||||||||
| International Cricket Council | ||||||||||
| ICC status | Associate member[1] (2017) | |||||||||
| ICC region | Africa | |||||||||
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| International cricket | ||||||||||
| First international | v  Eswatini at Maseru, Lesotho; 1986 | |||||||||
| Twenty20 Internationals | ||||||||||
| First T20I | v Eswatini at IPRC Cricket Ground, Kigali; 16 October 2021 | |||||||||
| Last T20I | v  Malawi at IPRC Cricket Ground, Kigali; 22 October 2021 | |||||||||
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| As of 1 January 2022 | ||||||||||
Lesotho has played international cricket since at least 1986, when they played Swaziland in Maseru.[6] They made their official ICC debut at Division Three of the Africa Region of the ICC World Cricket League in April 2006, where they came last in the eight-team tournament.
In April 2018, the ICC decided to grant full Twenty20 International (T20I) status to all its members. Therefore, all Twenty20 matches played between Lesotho and other ICC members after 1 January 2019 will be a full T20I.[7]
Records and Statistics
International Match Summary — Lesotho[8]
Last updated 22 October 2021
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| Format | M | W | L | T | NR | Inaugural Match |
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| Twenty20 Internationals | 6 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 16 October 2021 |
Twenty20 International
T20I record versus other nations[8]
Records complete to T20I #1340. Last updated 22 October 2021.
| Opponent | M | W | L | T | NR | First match | First win |
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| Eswatini | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 16 October 2021 | |
 Ghana | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 17 October 2021 | |
| Malawi | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 22 October 2021 | |
 Rwanda | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 21 October 2021 | |
 Seychelles | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 17 October 2021 | |
 Uganda | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 19 October 2021 | |
Other matches
For a list of selected international matches played by Lesotho, see Cricket Archive.
References
- "Ireland and Afghanistan ICC newest full members amid wide-ranging governance reform". International Cricket Council. 22 June 2017. Retrieved 1 September 2018.
- "ICC Rankings". International Cricket Council.
- "T20I matches - Team records". ESPNcricinfo.
- "T20I matches - 2022 Team records". ESPNcricinfo.
- "The Home of CricketArchive".
- "Miscellaneous matches played by Lesotho". CricketArchive. Retrieved 5 November 2021.
- "All T20 matches between ICC members to get international status". International Cricket Council. 26 April 2018. Retrieved 1 September 2018.
- "Records / Lesotho / Twenty20 Internationals / Result summary". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 16 October 2019.
