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Kenya women's national cricket team

The Kenya national women's cricket team is the team that represents the country of Kenya in international women's cricket. Their first matches were in January 2006 when they played a triangular series against Kenya A and Uganda.

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AssociationCricket Kenya
Personnel
CaptainEsther Wachira
CoachLameck Ngoche
International Cricket Council
ICC statusAssociate member (1981)
ICC regionAfrica
ICC Rankings Current[1] Best-ever
T20I 24th 16th (11 Oct 2018)
International cricket
First internationalv  Uganda; January 2006
T20 Internationals
First T20Iv  Zimbabwe at Lugogo Stadium, Kampala; 6 April 2019
Last T20Iv  Rwanda at Gahanga B Ground, Kigali; 2 November 2024
T20Is Played Won/Lost
Total[2] 76 37/38
(1 tie, 0 no results)
This year[3] 0 0/0
(0 ties, 0 no results)
As of 2 November 2024
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Kenya played in the African regional qualifiers for the 2009 World Cup in December 2006 against Tanzania, Uganda and Zimbabwe. They performed poorly in the tournament, finishing in last place.

In 2008, Sarah Bhakita scored an unbeaten 186 against Rwanda to become the second woman in the world to achieve the feat in an international match. The team also participated in the World Cup Qualifiers held in Nairobi in December 2010, missing an opportunity to represent the continent by negligible scores, having tied with Zimbabwe at second place. South Africa who won all their matches and Zimbabwe achieved that feat instead.[4]

In December 2009, they won the Africa Women Championships under the captainship of Emily Ruto.

In December 2011, the women' team represented the country in Kampala, Uganda at the annual Africa Cricket Championships finishing fourth after the winners Uganda, Tanzania and Namibia. the other participating countries were Nigeria and Sierra Leone.

In April 2016, the team played in 2016 ICC Africa Women's World Twenty20 to qualify for 2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20 in the West Indies.[5][6]

In April 2018, the International Cricket Council (ICC) granted full Women's Twenty20 International (WT20I) status to all its members. Therefore, all Twenty20 matches played between Kenya women and another international side after 1 July 2018 will be a full WT20I.[7] Kenya made its Twenty20 International debut on 6 April 2019 against Zimbabwe during the 2019 Victoria Tri-Series in Kampala, Uganda.[8]

Current squad

Updated on 17 June 2024.

This lists all the players who played for Kenya in the past 12 months or were named in the most recent squad.

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Name Age Batting style Bowling style Notes
Batters
Venasa Ooko26Right-handedRight-arm medium
Veronica Abuga23Right-handedRight-arm off break
Mercy Sifuna23Right-handedRight-arm medium
Marion Juma21Right-handedRight-arm medium
All-rounders
Esther Wachira26Right-handedRight-arm mediumCaptain
Queentor Abel27Right-handedRight-arm off break
Mary Mwangi30Right-handedRight-arm medium
Kelvia Ogola22Right-handedRight-arm medium
Wicket-keepers
Charity Muthoni24Right-handed
Spin Bowler
Melvin Khagisota19Right-handedRight-arm off breakVice-captain
Judith Ajiambo24Right-handedRight-arm off break
Edith Waithaka24Right-handedSlow left-arm orthodox
Pace Bowlers
Lavendah Idambo19Right-handedRight-arm medium
Flavia Odhiambo23Right-handedRight-arm medium
Jemimah Ndanu20Right-handedRight-arm medium
Ann Wanjira21Right-handedRight-arm medium
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Records and statistics

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International Match Summary — Kenya Women[9]

Last updated 2 November 2024

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Playing Record
FormatMWLTNRInaugural Match
Twenty20 Internationals763738106 April 2019
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Twenty20 International

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WT20I record versus other nations[9]

Records complete to WT20I #2121. Last updated 2 November 2024.

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Opponent M W L T NR First Match First Win
ICC Full members
 Bangladesh 1010019 January 2021
 Sri Lanka 1010020 January 2021
 Zimbabwe 303006 April 2019
ICC Associate members
 Botswana 14121102 December 20192 December 2019
 Brazil 1100015 June 202215 June 2022
 Cameroon 220006 September 20236 September 2023
 Germany 1100016 June 202216 June 2022
 Lesotho 110005 September 20235 September 2023
 Malawi 220003 September 20233 September 2023
 Malaysia 1010023 January 2022
 Namibia 312005 May 201912 June 2021
 Nigeria 642008 June 20218 June 2021
 Qatar 2200015 December 202215 December 2022
 Rwanda 187110010 June 202110 June 2021
 Scotland 1010022 January 2022
 Sierra Leone 110006 May 20196 May 2019
 Tanzania 6240012 June 202213 December 2022
 Uganda 11110006 April 201910 June 2022
 United Arab Emirates 1010018 April 2023
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