Qatar national cricket team

Qatar
Flag of Qatar
AssociationQatar Cricket Association
Personnel
CaptainMuhammad Tanveer
CoachMuhammad Haroon
International Cricket Council
ICC statusAssociate member[1] (2017)
Affiliate member (1999)
ICC regionAsia
ICC Rankings Current[2] Best-ever
T20I 28th 21st (2 May 2019)
International cricket
First internationalQatar Qatar v Sharjah Emirate of Sharjah
(Kuwait City; 30 October 1979)
Twenty20 Internationals
First T20Iv  Saudi Arabia at Al Emarat Cricket Stadium, Muscat; 21 January 2019
Last T20Iv  Saudi Arabia at Oman Cricket Academy Ground Turf 1, Al Amarat; 16 April 2024
T20Is Played Won/Lost
Total[3] 51 27/19
(3 ties, 2 no results)
This year[4] 7 3/3
(1 tie, 0 no results)

T20I kit

As of 16 April 2024

The Qatar national cricket team is the team that represents Qatar in international cricket. The team is organised by the Qatar Cricket Association, which became an affiliate member of the International Cricket Council (ICC) in 1999[5] and an associate member in 2017.[1]

Qatar made its international debut in 1979, at an invitational tournament that also included Bahrain, Kuwait, and Sharjah (one of the United Arab Emirates). The team's first Asian Cricket Council (ACC) event was the 2002 ACC Trophy in Singapore. For a period during the 2000s, Qatar was one of the top-ranked non-Test teams in Asia – at the 2004 ACC Trophy, the team placed fourth. However, a few years later it was relegated to the second-division ACC events.[6]

Qatar made its first and only World Cricket League (WCL) appearance at the 2017 ICC World Cricket League Division Five event in South Africa. It placed third, enough to secure the team a place in the new 2019–21 ICC Cricket World Cup Challenge League.[7]

  1. ^ a b "Ireland and Afghanistan ICC newest full members amid wide-ranging governance reform". International Cricket Council. 22 June 2017. Retrieved 1 September 2018.
  2. ^ "ICC Rankings". International Cricket Council.
  3. ^ "T20I matches - Team records". ESPNcricinfo.
  4. ^ "T20I matches - 2024 Team records". ESPNcricinfo.
  5. ^ Affiliate members: Qatar Archived 28 December 2016 at the Wayback Machine – International Cricket Council. Retrieved 17 September 2015.
  6. ^ Other matches played by Qatar Archived 11 July 2018 at the Wayback Machine – CricketArchive. Retrieved 17 September 2015.
  7. ^ "All to play for in last ever World Cricket League tournament". International Cricket Council. Retrieved 11 April 2019.

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