HISTORY OF FIJI CRICKET TEAM

The Fijians first introduced with the game cricket in 1874, and they began to lifted up the cricket by their own population in 1878. To introduced with the cricket among the Fijians time listed by the Governor of his tenure.

After introduced the  Fiji was playing 21 years as first class cricket then in 1895 they toured in  New Zealand. The captain was John Udal. The tour was two day match against Auckland, Fiji was defeated by an innings. First match was washed out due to rain and second match drawn. They also lost third match against Canterbury by an innings.

The Fijians much improved final two matches of the tour  for a century of John Collins they won against Hawke’s Bay by an innings and defeated Taranaki by two wickets.

Fiji toured in Australia in January 1908.From that tour one match draw against Queensland from a two days match. In their home land they played 26 match against university and District side between 11 December 1907 to 30 March 1908.

In 1948 and 1954 Fiji again toured in New Zealand twice. West Indies visited in Fiji in 1956 to played a test match, Fiji won the match by 28 runs.

Fiji toured to Auckland in 1948 and defeated by them by 168 runs. Their next match they won against Wellington by one wicket. In the same tour they also defeated by Otago for 46 runs. At end they won against Auckland by 115 runs IL Bula was the famous player of Fiji who achieved the most runs of the tour.

Fiji toured in New Zealand in 1954 and played just four matches, they lost in Starting match against Otago. They defeated to Canterbury of the next match by two wickets. Only they won the ended match against Auckland by seven wickets.

In 1965 Fiji achieved the associate membership of ICC. In 1979 they participated first time in the ICC Trophy Tournaments and continued played in every one until 2001. In the ACC trophy they played first in 1996, and lost against USA in the semi final.

First Pacifica Cup Fiji took part in 2001in Auckland and they arrived in the final , there Fiji lost against New Zealand by three wickets. South Pacific Games organized by Fiji but in the final hosts defeat to Papua New Guinea. In the ICC Trophy of 2005 they arrived in the final in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia but they lost against Papua New Guinea by 30 runs.

ICC EAP Cricket Trophy 2006 played by Fiji in Brisbane, Australia. They won all the match of the tournament against Cook Islands and Japan. They qualified for World cricket league Division three in Darwin, Australia. 

Fiji participated in South Pacific games cricket tournament 2007 but defeated by Papua new Guinea group game in the final.

They participated in the World Cricket League Division Five of 2010 in Nepal. They ended the six and last. They could not win a single match of the tournament.