HISTORY OF ZAMBIA CRICKET NEW

The Zambia introduced with cricket by neighboring Zimbabwe  in the early of 19th century. With the relatively low compared of British settlers to Zimbabwe. Cricket developed slowly in Zambia.

Development of cricket was very slow, the MCC toured in Livingstone by December 1930, South Africa defeated Northern Rhodesia by 9 wickets in the tour of their first international. Northern Rhodesia was undisputed with cricket between Zimbabwe. Though Northern players was rare in the cricket team.

After the Second World War cricket became more formal of the Northern Rhodesia cricket union and annual match series began from 1948 between Northern Rhodesia and Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe). The series continued until 1954. Southern Rhodesia were more strong  to make any decent contest. During the period Northern won only once, another one draw and five lost to South.

Federation of Rhodesia by the formation cricket became  fully undisputed with Southern Rhodesia but investment was mainly focus on Harare and Bulawayo. The Newly organized team  courage to play international match against Australia in 1957 and the end toured in South Africa. Northern Rhodesia did not played further match  until 1962 but only two  first class matches played  at EK Park Kitwe, One match against International XI and another match against a Commonwealth XI.

The Independence gained by Zambia in 1964,  they formed their cricket union almost immediately and started to multi racial cricket. In 1968 East African regional tournaments Zambia started to participate with Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. In September 1968 they played their first match against Kenya in Nairobi.

Their most successful period were 1970 for Zambian cricket history. The country started a favoured goal for English team. Gloucestershire visited in Zambia in 1971. Glamorgan toured in 1972ambia in 1974 and Warsidckshir toured in 1977. The government started to investment a few money for sports in early 1980 and athletics. A match conducted between the national team and the minor side of the country and that was the last march until 1990.As a part of the east African cricket team were played by Zambian Players.

In 1994 African Cricket Association Championship played by national team of Zambia. In 2002 Zambia participated  in the Africacup, there beating Namibia and Tanzania . Zambia Cricket Union achieved the associate membership of ICC from 2003.

In 2004 African Cricket Association championship hosted in Zambia. The tournament was the qualifying game of the ICC Trophy 2005, Zambia ended the third place of the tournaments. The ICC Trophy tournament was conducted in Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia on February 2005. Zambia was eight place of the tournament.

World Cricket league Africa region Division two Zambia secured fourth of the tournament in 2006. There defeated only Nigeria, they played much better in 2008 tournament. They secured third place. In 2010 they won the tournament.