Swaziland national cricket team
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The Swaziland national cricket team is the team that represents the country of Swaziland
in international cricket
matches. They gained affiliate membership of the International Cricket Council
on 29 June 2007. They made their debut in the World Cricket League Africa Division 3 in Benoni, South Africa on 13 April 2008 against Ghana, losing by 7 wickets.
Swaziland
Swaziland, officially the Kingdom of Swaziland , and sometimes called Ngwane or Swatini, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa, bordered to the north, south and west by South Africa, and to the east by Mozambique...
in international cricket
Cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...
matches. They gained affiliate membership of the International Cricket Council
International Cricket Council
The International Cricket Council is the international governing body of cricket. It was founded as the Imperial Cricket Conference in 1909 by representatives from England, Australia and South Africa, renamed the International Cricket Conference in 1965, and took up its current name in 1989.The...
on 29 June 2007. They made their debut in the World Cricket League Africa Division 3 in Benoni, South Africa on 13 April 2008 against Ghana, losing by 7 wickets.