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Botswana Cricket Association

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Botswana Cricket Association
SportCricket
JurisdictionBotswana
Founded1979
AffiliationInternational Cricket Council
Affiliation date2002 (affiliate member)
2005 (associate member)
Regional affiliationICC Africa
HeadquartersGaborone
Official website
cricketbotswana.org
Botswana

The Botswana Cricket Association (BCA) is the official governing body of the sport of cricket in Botswana. Its headquarters is in Gaborone, Botswana. It is affiliated with Botswana National Sports Council (BNSC) and the Botswana National Olympic Committee (BNOC). Established in 1979, the BCA has been a member of the International Cricket Council (ICC) since 2002, and was also a founding member of the Africa Cricket Association.[1]

History

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The earliest cricketing history which can be substantiated relates to a paragraph contained in the publication "The White Tide" by David Sinclair, Modern Press, Gweru 2000 wherein it is recorded that a cricket match was played in the late 1870s in a village named Shoshong between "Home-Born" and the "Colonials". The game was started in the main by expatriates from Britain, South Africa, India, Pakistan and Sri-Lanka who were on various assignments in the country soon after independence in September 1966. The game was initially played in the two main centres viz Gaborone and Francistown. However, with the discovery of diamonds on 1 March 1967 at Orapa. The Botswana Cricket Association was founded on 8 February 1983.[2]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ About BCA Archived 4 January 2019 at the Wayback Machine – cricketbotswana.org. Retrieved 15 April 2016.
  2. ^ "Botswana Cricket History". Archived from the original on 12 August 2016. Retrieved 11 August 2016.
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