Cricket Sierra Leone history could be traced as far back in 1898 when a British Artillery Regiment brought this beautiful game to Sierra Leone and spread it in the entire country including schools and other institutions and communities. The Sierra Leone Grammar School and the Methodist Boys High School are the first schools to play cricket and the government Secondary School, Bo, is the first secondary school to take the game of cricket to the Hinter Land situated approximately 186km from Freetown, the Capital of Sierra Leone,
The game later spread in almost all existing secondary schools in the country. Sierra Leone started playing international tournament in 1935 with the Gambia who were later joined by Federal republic of Nigeria and Ghana as an inter- Colonial tournament and later became the West Africa cricket Conference WACC. A sub regional cricket governing body that was administering and organizing cricket competitions in West Africa which has now been transformed in the North-west Africa Cricket Conference NWACC which comprises Nigeria, Ghana, Sierra Leone, The Gambia, Mali, Morocco and Cameroun.
Cricket has been playing in Sierra Leone since then. The Cricket Sierra Leone was founded on the 15th November, 1942. Sierra Leone became an affiliate member of the Africa cricket association- ACA in 1997 and the ICC in 2001.
Cricket is the most successful sport in Sierra Leone and has won many laurels for Sierra Leone. Prominent amongst these achievements is the Sierra Leone national U19 cricket team’s exemplary performance in Maputo and Lusaka Zambia in April and August 2009 in the ICC-Africa Cricket U19 world cup qualifiers where Sierra Leone defeated the likes of Kenya, Zambia, Nigeria and Botswana, narrowly loses to Uganda by Duckworth Lewis method of recalculation and Namibia, to qualify for the ICC global U19 cricket world cup qualifier but was denied entry visa to Canada, the then host of the tournament.
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France Cricket | Association Française De Cricket,
Dublin Rains Cricket Association,
Cricket Russia,
Osca - Ontario Schools Cricket Association,
Icelandic Cricket Association,
Fiji Cricket Association,
Buckeye Youth Cricket Association,
Israel Cricket Association,
Nova Scotia Cricket Association,
Sri Lanka Indoor Cricket Association.
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