Rwanda national cricket team

Infobox non test cricket team
country_name = Rwanda

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image_caption = Flag of Rwanda
icc_member_year = 2003
icc_status = Affiliate member
icc_region = Africa
current_captain = Mohammed Jashat
WCL_division = n/a
regional_tournament = World Cricket League Africa Region
regional_tournament_division = Three
first_match = 21 March 2004
world_ranking = not ranked
regional_ranking = 13th
asofdate = 31 July 2007

The Rwandan cricket team is the team that represents the country of Rwanda in international cricket matches. They became an affiliate member of the International Cricket Council in 2003. [http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Countries/113.html] Their international debut came in the African Affiliates Championship in 2004, where they finished seventh. In 2006 they competed in Division Three of the African region of the World Cricket League, improving their performance and finishing in sixth. They will remain in Division Three in 2008.

Rwanda has a junior U-17 team participating in the East Africa Regional U-17 Tournament. In their first match in the 2008 version of the tournament the team lost to Uganda by 10 wickets. [http://blogs.cricinfo.com/btw/archives/2008/07/uganda_off_to_a.php]

External Links

Schoolboy cricketers bat their way to a place in the Commonwealth [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/africa/article2903598.ece]