Japanese cricket team
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| ICC membership granted | 1989 |
| ICC member status | Associate member |
| ICC development region | East Asia/Pacific (formerly Asia) |
| Captain | Tetsuo Fuji |
| World Cricket League division | n/a |
| World Cricket League EAP region division | Trophy |
| First recorded match | 6 September 1996 v Brunei at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia |
| As of 10 September 2006 | |
The Japanese cricket team is the team that represents the country of Japan in international cricket matches.
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[edit] History
Japan became an affiliate member of the International Cricket Council in 1989. [1]. Their first high-level international engagement came in the 1996 ACC Trophy. They played in the first three ACC Trophy's but they then were moved by the ICC to the East-Asia Pacific region.
Their first tournament in this region was in the East-Asia Pacific Challenge, which they hosted in 2004. They came third in the tournament, missing out on a chance to qualify for the 2005 ICC Trophy, and the 2007 World Cup.
2005 will go down as an important year for Japanese cricket. They were promoted to associate membership of the ICC in June [2], and they got their first win in an international tournament, winning the ICC EAP Cricket Cup by six runs over the Cook Islands in Vanuatu. As a result, the Japanese team advanced to the 2006 ICC EAP Cricket Trophy as part of the World Cup qualifying system. Japanese cricket was even the subject of a report on the BBC news in the United Kingdom.
2006 saw Japan compete in the ICC EAP Cricket Trophy against The Cook Islands and Fiji, with the teams vying for the EAP spot in Division 3 of the ICC World Cricket League as part of the 2011 World Cup qualifying system.
Despite performing well in winning the 2005 EAP Cricket Cup, the Japanese lost three of its four matches in the tournament. Their only victory came over the Cooks in a rain-shortened match decided by the Duckworth-Lewis method. Japan was unable to defeat the Cook Islands a second time, however, when they fell 26 runs short of 168 in their chase during the tournament's final game. The team was unable to stop Fiji, losing by 8 wickets in their first match and, in the second, barely reaching reaching half Fiji's run total before going all out in 41 overs.
Munir Ahmad reached the half century mark, scoring 53 in the opener against Fiji, and Gavin Beath led the Japanese with an 11-wicket haul over the four tournament matches.
[edit] Tournament History
[edit] World Cup
Japan have never qualified for the Cricket World Cup.
[edit] ICC Trophy
- 1979 to 1986: Not eligible - Not an ICC member
- 1990 to 2001: Not eligible - ICC affiliate member
- 2005: Did not qualify
[edit] ICC EAP Cricket Trophy
- 2006: 3rd place
[edit] ICC EAP Cricket Cup
- 2005: Won
[edit] ACC Trophy
- 1996: First round
- 1998: First round
- 2000: First round
Japan are no longer part of the Asian Cricket Council and hence will not compete in this tournament again.
