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A Timeline of Uganda Cricket

1900 Cricket is first played in Uganda.
1914 British residents of Uganda beat the British Residents of Nairobi by 5 wickets.
1920 Return match against British Residents of Nairobi is played in Nairobi, the Ugandans losing by 48 runs.
1936 Triangular tournament between the European, Indian and Goan communities is established.
1949 A team representing the African community joins the Triangular tournament, making it a Quadrangular. The tournament lasts into the 1960s.
1952 The Ugandan Cricket Association is formed.
First fully representative Uganda side plays its first international in a new annual triangular tournament also involving Tanganyika against Kenya, losing by 254 runs.
1953 Uganda gains its first win, beating Tanganyika by 5 wickets.
1958 Combined East Africa team featuring one Ugandan plays a 3-day match against a South African Non-European team, losing by seven wickets.
1963 East Africa Invitation XI featuring five Ugandans plays a first-class match against the MCC in Kampala, losing by an innings.
1966 Zambia join the annual triangular tournament, Uganda playing them for the first time this year.
East Africa becomes an associate member of the ICC.
1967 India tour East Africa. They beat Uganda by six wickets, and beat an East Africa team featuring six Ugandans by 8 wickets.
1968 Warwickshire visit Uganda, drawing against the national side.
Uganda make their highest ever team total of 436 against Kenya in Nairobi.
1970 V Noordin scores 201 against Zambia in Kampala, the highest individual score for Uganda.
1974 East Africa team featuring one Ugandan loses to the MCC in a first-class match in Nairobi.
1975 East Africa tour England with one Ugandan in their squad. They lose all their matches except one (against Berkshire), including all three ODIs in the World Cup and a first-class match against Sri Lanka.
1989 East Africa is replaced in the ICC by East and Central Africa.
1998 Uganda becomes an associate member of the ICC in their own right.
2001 Uganda finish 10th in the ICC Trophy after losing a play-off to the UAE.
2002 Uganda finish third in their first round group in the Africa Cup.
2004 Uganda's first first-class match finishes with a surprise defeat of Namibia in the Intercontinental Cup. They lose to Kenya by an innings in their second match of the tournament.
Uganda finish as runners-up to Namibia in the African Associates Championship.
2005 Uganda finish twelfth and last in the ICC Trophy.
2007 Uganda win Division 3 of the World Cricket League and are promoted to Division 2 after beating Argentina in the final. They finish fifth in Division 2.
In a quadrangular Twenty20 tournament in Nairobi, Uganda beat Kenya.
Uganda draw a two match series against Bermuda in Nairobi.
2008 The MCC tour Uganda. They beat Uganda A in a one-day match and Uganda Under-19s in a two-day match. The full national side beats the MCC in a one-day match and draws the three-day match.
Uganda win the East African Women's Championship, beating Kenya in the final.
2009 Uganda finish second in Division 3 of the World Cricket League, qualifying for the World Cup Qualifier.

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