Bahrain national cricket team

The Bahrain national cricket team is the team that represents the country of Bahrain in international cricket. The team is organised by the Bahrain Cricket Association (BCA), which became an ICC affiliate member in 2001[5] and an associate member in 2017.[1] The Bahraini national side made its first international appearance in 1979, at a tournament with Kuwait, Qatar, and Sharjah (one of the United Arab Emirates). Its first appearance in an Asian Cricket Council tournament came at the 2004 ACC Trophy in Malaysia; since then, Bahrain has regularly appeared in ACC events. Bahrain has also made several appearances in World Cricket League tournaments, but was relegated back to regional tournaments after finishing fifth at the 2013 Division Six event.[6]

Bahrain

Association	Bahrain Cricket Association
Personnel
Captain	Al Amin Shehzad
International Cricket Council
ICC status	Associate member[1] (2017) Affiliate member (2001)
ICC region	Asia
ICC Rankings Current [2] Best-ever T20I 48th 46th (12-May-2019)
International cricket
First international	v.  Kuwait at Kuwait City; 30 October 1979
Twenty20 Internationals
First T20I	v  Saudi Arabia at Al Emarat Cricket Stadium, Muscat; 20 January 2019
Last T20I	v  Kuwait at Al Amerat Cricket Stadium Turf 1, Muscat; 26 February 2020
T20Is Played Won/Lost Total [3] 8 4/4 (0 ties, 0 no result) This year [4] 4 2/2 (0 ties, 0 no result)
As of 31 May 2020

In April 2018, the ICC decided to grant full Twenty20 International (T20I) status to all its members. Therefore, all Twenty20 matches played between Bahrain and other ICC members after 1 January 2019 will be a full T20I.[7] Bahrain made its Twenty20 International debut on 20 January 2019, defeating Saudi Arabia by 41 runs in the 2019 ACC Western Region T20 at Al Emarat Cricket Stadium, Muscat, Oman.[8]