Global InformationUnited Arab Emirates national cricket team information
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| Association | Emirates Cricket Board | |||||||||
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| Personnel | ||||||||||
| One Day captain | Muhammad Waseem | |||||||||
| T20I captain | Muhammad Waseem | |||||||||
| Coach | Lalchand Rajput | |||||||||
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| ICC status | Associate member (1990) Affiliate member (1989) | |||||||||
| ICC region | Asia | |||||||||
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| One Day Internationals | ||||||||||
| First ODI | v.  India at Sharjah Cricket Stadium, Sharjah; 13 April 1994 | |||||||||
| Last ODI | v.  Canada at Dubai International Cricket Stadium, Dubai; 5 March 2024 | |||||||||
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| World Cup appearances | 2 (first in 1996) | |||||||||
| Best result | Group stage (1996, 2015) | |||||||||
| World Cup Qualifier appearances | 7 (first in 1994) | |||||||||
| Best result | Champions (1994) | |||||||||
| Twenty20 Internationals | ||||||||||
| First T20I | v.  Netherlands at Sylhet International Cricket Stadium, Sylhet; 17 March 2014 | |||||||||
| Last T20I | v.  Oman at Oman Cricket Academy Ground Turf 1, Al Amarat; 21 April 2024 | |||||||||
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| T20 World Cup appearances | 2 (first in 2014, 2022) | |||||||||
| Best result | First round (2014, 2022) | |||||||||
| T20 World Cup Qualifier appearances | 6[a] (first in 2010) | |||||||||
| Best result | Champions (2022) | |||||||||
| Official website | https://www.emiratescricket.com/ | |||||||||
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| As of 21 April 2024 | ||||||||||
The United Arab Emirates men's national cricket team (Arabic: منتخب الإمارات العربية المتحدة للكريكيت) is the team that represents the United Arab Emirates in international cricket. They are governed by the Emirates Cricket Board (ECB) which became an Affiliate Member of the International Cricket Council (ICC) in 1989 and an Associate Member the following year.[6] Since 2005, the ICC's headquarters have been located in Dubai.
One of the emerging One Day International (ODI) teams,[7] the UAE won the ACC Trophy on four consecutive occasions between 2000 and 2006, and were runners-up in the tournament on three occasions, in 1996, 1998[6] and 2008.[8] They won the ICC Trophy in 1994, and played their first ODIs that year, later playing in the 1996 Cricket World Cup.[6] Other ODI matches came in the 2004 and 2008 Asia Cups. At the 2014 World Cup Qualifier, the UAE finished in the second place behind Scotland, qualifying for the 2015 World Cup and gaining ODI status until 2018.[9]
The UAE made the group stage of the 2014 ICC World Twenty20 and 2022 ICC Men's T20 World Cup. The team qualified for the 2019 ICC T20 World Cup Qualifier as hosts. Following the demise of the World Cricket League (WCL), UAE played in the 2019–22 ICC Cricket World Cup League 2.
- ^ "ICC Rankings". International Cricket Council.
- ^ "ODI matches - Team records". ESPNcricinfo.
- ^ "ODI matches - 2024 Team records". ESPNcricinfo.
- ^ "T20I matches - Team records". ESPNcricinfo.
- ^ "T20I matches - 2024 Team records". ESPNcricinfo.
- ^ a b c The team is composed mainly of Indian and Pakistani expatriates working in UAE. A Timeline of UAE cricket Archived July 9, 2012, at the Wayback Machine at CricketEurope
- ^ Encyclopedia of World Cricket by Roy Morgan, Sportsbooks Publishing, 2007
- ^ Scorecard of Hong Kong v UAE, 3 August 2008 at CricketArchive
- ^ "Scotland and UAE battle lock horns in final of ICC CWCQ 2014". International Cricket Council. 31 January 2014. Archived from the original on 31 January 2014. Retrieved 31 January 2014.
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