Iceland national cricket team

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Iceland
Ísland
Iceland cricket badge.png
One Day nameIceland
Twenty20 nameIceland
AssociationIcelandic Cricket Association
Personnel
CaptainLakmal Bandara
CoachNolan Williams
ChairmanBala Kamallakharan
Chief executiveBala Kamallakharan
International Cricket Council
ICC statusNon-member
International cricket
First internationalv Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg   Switzerland at Weybridge, England; 28 July 2018
Official website www.krikket.is

The Iceland national cricket team represents the country of Iceland in international cricket. They are not members of the International Cricket Council (ICC), but played their first unofficial international match in 2018.

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History

Formed in 2008, the team is administered by the Icelandic Cricket Association (Krikketsamband Íslands). [1] An Icelandic team competed at the 2016 Pepsi Cup tournament in Prague, finishing fifth out of six teams. [2]

They played their first, unofficial, international matches in July 2018 during a tour to England, when they faced Switzerland at Weybridge in Surrey. [3] The costs of the tour were met through crowdfunding by members of the r/Cricket forum on Reddit, who became the team's official sponsors in the period 2018 to 2020. They won their first international match, a fifty-over game against Switzerland, by 215 runs. [4] In August 2023 they played a two-match bilateral series in Tallinn against Estonia, losing both T20 matches by 6 wickets and 79 runs, respectively.

Icelandic cricket lacks official recognition, but they plan to gain associate membership of the International Cricket Council. [5]

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