The Kenya men's national cricket team represents the Republic of Kenya in international cricket. Kenya is an associate member of the International Cricket Council (ICC) which has Twenty20 International (T20I) status after the ICC granted T20I status to all of their members.[9] They have been an associate member of the ICC since 1981. Since then they have played in five Cricket World Cups from 1996 to 2011 with their best result being a bronze medal finish as the semi-final appearance at the 2003 Cricket World Cup in Southern Africa. They have only qualified for one ICC World Twenty20 tournament with that being in 2007. The Kenyan national team is governed by Cricket Kenya. Kenya did have One Day International (ODI) status in 1996 in preparation for the 1996 Cricket World Cup and would have it for eighteen years before losing it at the 2014 Cricket World Cup Qualifier where they finished in fifth place. After April 2019, Kenya will play in the 2019–21 ICC Cricket World Cup Challenge League.[10] History East Africa team Full article: East Africa cricket team Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda combined to form the East Africa cricket team, which became an associate member of the ICC in 1966.[11] They continued playing amongst themselves, and were joined by Zambia in a quadrangular tournament played annually between 1966 and 1980.[12] India toured East Africa in 1967[13] and played a three-day match against Kenya on 5 August, which was drawn.[14] Various tours of, and by, East Africa continued, including a tour of England in 1972[15] and a first-class match between East Africa and the MCC at Nairobi Gymkhana Club in 1974[16] before East Africa took part in the first Cricket World Cup. The 1975 Cricket World Cup took place in England, and East Africa were one of two non-test teams invited to the tournament, the other being Sri Lanka.[17] Kenya provided half of the fourteen man squad for the tournament.[12] After warm-up matches against Somerset, Wales, Glamorgan and various club sides, they played in the same first round group as England, India and New Zealand, losing to all three.[17] The World Cup was followed by a first-class match against Sri Lanka at the County Ground, Taunton.[18] East Africa then took part in the 1979 ICC Trophy, the first ICC Trophy tournament, but did not progress beyond the first round, thus missing out on qualification for the 1979 World Cup.[19] ICC membership Long considered the strongest part of the East Africa team,[12] Kenya broke away in 1981 and joined the ICC in their own right as an associate member,[20] shortly after a tour of Zimbabwe in 1980/81. They played two three-day matches against Zimbabwe on that tour, losing both.[21] Kenya played in the ICC Trophy in their own right in 1982,[22] 1986,[23] and 1990,[24] also playing their first first-class match against Pakistan B in September 1986.[25] 1996 World Cup The 1994 ICC Trophy was hosted in Nairobi and Kenya finished as runners-up to the UAE, thus qualifying for the 1996 World Cup.[26] Kenya then played at home against India A in August 1995,[27] and went on a tour to South Africa in September/October that year,[28] before playing in the World Cup, which was to bring Kenyan cricket to a much wider audience, and catapult them into the spotlight. Kenya were in the same group as Australia, India, Sri Lanka, the West Indies and Zimbabwe.[29] They played their very first ODI match against India.