| Gambia | |
| Association: | Gambia Cricket Association |
| Captain: | Peter Campbell |
| Icc Member Year: | 2017 |
| Icc Status: | Associate member[1] |
| Icc Region: | Africa |
| T20i Rank: | 82nd |
| T20i Rank Best: | 74th (9 Dec 2022) |
| First Match: | v, 1927 |
| First T20i: | v at IPRC Cricket Ground, Kigali; 1 December 2022 |
| Most Recent T20i: | v at Willowmoore Park, Benoni; 10 December 2023 |
| Num T20is: | 9 |
| Num T20is This Year: | 0 |
| T20i Record: | 1/8 (0 ties, 0 no results) |
| T20i Record This Year: | 0/0 (0 ties, 0 no results) |
| Asofdate: | 11 May 2024 |
The Gambia national cricket team is the team that represents The Gambia in international cricket. They became an affiliate member of the International Cricket Council (ICC) in 2002[2] and an associate member in 2017.[1]
In April 2018, the ICC decided to grant full Twenty20 International (T20I) status to all its members. Therefore, all Twenty20 matches played between Gambia and other ICC members after 1 January 2019 have the T20I status.[3]
Cricket was introduced to the Gambia by the British during the colonial period.[4] Gambia played against other British West African colonies from 1927, when they faced Sierra Leone for the first time.[5] From the 1960s Gambia also played regularly against Nigeria, and later in the West African Championships.[6]
Gambia was a member of the West Africa Cricket Council, which was an ICC member from 1976 to 2003, and fielded players in the West Africa cricket team until its dissolution. It became a member of the ICC in its own right in 2002.[5] Gambia's ICC debut came at the African affiliate championship in 2004 where they finished sixth. In 2006 they played in the equivalent tournament, Division Three of the African qualifiers for the ICC World Cricket League, this time finishing in seventh place.[7]
In 2021 Gambia was among five teams excluded from the ICC T20I Championship for failing to play enough fixtures in the relevant period, an effect of the COVID-19 pandemic.[8]
International Match Summary — Gambia[9] Last updated 10 December 2023
| Playing Record | |||||||
| Format | M | W | L | T | NR | Inaugural Match | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Twenty20 Internationals | 9 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 1 December 2021 |
T20I record versus other nations[9]
Records complete to T20I #2390. Last updated 10 December 2023.
| Opponent | M | W | L | T | NR | First match | First win | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs Associate Members | ||||||||
| 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 December 2022 | 9 December 2022 | ||
| 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 December 2022 | |||
| 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 8 December 2022 | |||
| 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 8 December 2022 | |||
| 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 December 2022 | |||
| 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 December 2022 | |||
| 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 8 December 2023 | |||
| 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 December 2022 | |||
For a list of selected international matches played by Gambia, see Cricket Archive.