The Malaysia national cricket team represents the country of

Malaysia Malaysia is a country in Southeast Asia. Featuring the Tanjung Piai, southernmost point of continental Eurasia, it is a federation, federal constitutional monarchy consisting of States and federal territories of Malaysia, 13 states and thre ...

international cricket International cricket matches are played between the teams representing their nations, administrated by the International Cricket Council. The main forms are Test matches, ODI matches and T20I matches. Most games are played as part of "tou ...

matches. The team is organised by the

Malaysian Cricket Association The Malaysian Cricket Association () is the official governing body of the sport of cricket in Malaysia. Its current headquarters is in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The Malaysian Cricket Association is Malaysia's representative at the International C ...

which has been an associate member of the

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(ICC) since 1967.Malaysia
at CricketArchive During the British colonial period, the

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and Malaya cricket teams played regularly in Interport matches and against other visiting teams. Following Malaysian independence, the team's most frequent opponent has been

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in the

Saudara Cup The Saudara Cup is an annual cricket match played between Malaysia and Singapore. It has been played since 1970, with the exception of 2013, when it was not held, and 2014, when the match was abandoned without a ball being bowled. Malaysia have won ...

and

Stan Nagaiah Trophy The Stan Nagaiah Trophy is an annual series of one-day cricket matches played between Malaysia and Singapore. It has been played annually since 1995, and is named in honour of Stan Nagaiah, a cricketer Cricket is a Bat-and-ball games, ba ...

. Malaysia made its debut in ICC tournaments in the inaugural 1979 ICC Trophy, making regular appearances until ICC pathways were altered in the 2000s and hosting the 1997 ICC Trophy. Malaysia has regularly hosted

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(ACC) tournaments and finished runner-up in the 1998 ACC Trophy. In the World Cricket League the team reached as high as Division Three, subsequently being placed in the ICC Cricket World Cup Challenge League.

History

Early days

Cricket has been played in what is now Malaysia since the 1880s. Various teams represented Malaya, the

and the

, formed in 1884 by the British, Royal Selangor Club (RSC) is the first cricket club founded in present Malaysia (locally called a padang also in Singapore e.g.

Padang, Singapore The Padang (Malay language, Malay for 'field') is an open playing field located within the Downtown Core of the Central Area, Singapore, Central Area in Singapore. It includes the Singapore Cricket Club Ground, Padang Cricket Ground. The Pa ...

). The

Singapore Cricket Club The Singapore Cricket Club (SCC) is one of the premier sports and social clubs in Singapore. Its clubhouse is located on Connaught Drive on the south end of the Padang in Singapore's central business district. History The SCC was establ ...

, a former affiliate of the Malayan Cricket Association, is the oldest cricket club in the region (founded in 1852). The first recorded match was between

Selangor Selangor ( ; ), also known by the Arabic language, Arabic honorific Darul Ehsan, or "Abode of Sincerity", is one of the 13 states of Malaysia. It is on the west coast of Peninsular Malaysia and is bordered by Perak to the north, Pahang to the e ...

and

Malacca Malacca (), officially the Historic State of Malacca (), is a States and federal territories of Malaysia, state in Malaysia located in the Peninsular Malaysia#Other features, southern region of the Malay Peninsula, facing the Strait of Malacca ...

in 1887. The Selangor-Singapore series was played in 1891. Cricket in Johor was played in the early 20th century, but the first recorded cricketing event is the visit of the Australian team led by C. G. Macartney in 1927. Penang is another historical cricket venue in Malaysia where cricket has been played from British times. The Penang Sports Club was established in the early 1900s. On 6 June 1927 Malaya beat Australia by 39 runs to make history. Lall Singh became the first Malaysia-born Test player (played for India in their debut Test at

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against England in 1932). After World War II, cricket grew in popularity, leading to the founding of the Malayan Cricket Association (MCA) in 1948. Regional cricket associations like Sabah, Sarawak and Singapore joined and in 1963, the MCA was renamed the Malaysian Cricket Association. In 1965, the independence of Singapore led its association to leave the MCA. The first team to represent Malaysia was in 1970, three years after the MCA became an ICC associate member, when it played an MCC side captained by Tony Lewis in a two-day match, losing by 230 runs. The same year, Malaysia played the first

match against

, drawing the three-day match. The Saudara Cup match continued annually, and in 1979 Malaysia participated in the first ICC Trophy, failing to progress beyond the first round, a performance they repeated in

1982 Events January * January 1 – In Malaysia and Singapore, clocks are adjusted to the same time zone, UTC+8 (GMT+8.00). * January 13 – Air Florida Flight 90 crashes shortly after takeoff into the 14th Street Bridge in Washington, D.C. ...

1982 ICC Trophy
at Cricinfo and 1986.1986 ICC Trophy
at Cricinfo They reached the plate competition in

1990 Important events of 1990 include the Reunification of Germany and the unification of Yemen, the formal beginning of the Human Genome Project (finished in 2003), the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope, the separation of Namibia from South ...

1990 ICC Trophy
at Cricinfo and

1994 The year 1994 was designated as the " International Year of the Family" and the "International Year of Sport and the Olympic Ideal" by the United Nations. In the Line Islands and Phoenix Islands of Kiribati, 1994 had only 364 days, omitti ...

.1994 ICC Trophy
at Cricinfo

1990s

The first

was played in Singapore in February 1995 with Singapore beating Malaysia 2–1 in the three-match one-day series. After winning the Stan Nagaiah Trophy and drawing the Saudara Cup match in 1996 Malaysia hosted the first ACC Trophy tournament, finishing third in their first round group.1996 ACC Trophy
at CricketEurope Malaysia began to host major international tournaments in 1997, starting with the 1997 ICC Trophy in which Malaysia finished 16th after losing a play-off to

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.Scorecard
of Malaysia v Namibia, 4 April 1997 at CricketArchive They played one season in Pakistani domestic cricket in 1998, losing all four of their preliminary round matches. Cricket made its first and, to date, only appearance in the

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later that year, with Malaysia hosting that year's games. The cricket tournament saw Malaysia participate as hosts though they lost all three of their first round matches.1998 Commonwealth Games cricket tournament
at CricketEurope They reached the final of the ACC Trophy that same year, losing to

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.1998 ACC Trophy
at CricketEurope

21st century

2000–2017

In 2000, Malaysia reached the semi-final of the ACC Trophy before losing to hosts the

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.2000 ACC Trophy
at CricketEurope They failed to progress beyond the first round of the 2001 ICC Trophy2001 ICC Trophy
at Cricinfo and lost to

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in the semi-finals of the 2002 ACC Trophy.2002 ACC Trophy
at CricketEurope Malaysia played their first first-class matches in 2004 as part of that year's

ICC Intercontinental Cup The ICC Intercontinental Cup was a first-class cricket tournament organised by the International Cricket Council (ICC) as part of its cricket development programme. It was designed to allow List of International Cricket Council members, Associ ...

. They lost to both Nepal and the UAE and failed to reach the semi-final stage of the tournament.2004 ICC Intercontinental Cup
at CricketEurope Malaysia hosted the ACC Trophy in 2004, which was the first stage of qualification for the

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and the 2007 World Cup, finishing joint seventh with

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.Asian qualifying
at the official website of the 2005 ICC Trophy They finished last in the

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in 2004, thus failing to qualify for the 2005 ICC Intercontinental Cup.2004 ACC Fast Track Countries Tournament points table
at

website They played in the tournament again in 2005, this time finishing third.2005 ACC Fast Track Countries Tournament points table
at Asian Cricket Council website] In 2006, Malaysia competed in the ACC Fast Track Countries Tournament, ACC Premier League, finishing fourth.2006 ACC Premier League points table
at Asian Cricket Council website They again hosted the ACC Trophy that year, again finishing seventh after beating

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in a play-off.2006 ACC Trophy
at CricketEurope Malaysia have played in the ACC Twenty20 Cup thrice. They did not win a match in

2007 2007 was designated as the International Heliophysical Year and the International Polar Year. Events January * January 1 **Bulgaria and Romania 2007 enlargement of the European Union, join the European Union, while Slovenia joins the Eur ...

but finished seventh in

2009 2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...

after winning 3 Group B matches and a positional playoff against

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. In

2011 The year marked the start of a Arab Spring, series of protests and revolutions throughout the Arab world advocating for democracy, reform, and economic recovery, later leading to the depositions of world leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen ...

, they finished sixth after winning 4 Group A matches and losing a positional playoff against the

. In August 2017, Malaysia won two medals in cricket at the 2017 Southeast Asian Games. They won the gold medal in the 50-over tournament and the silver medal in the 20-over tournament.

2018-Present

In April 2018, the ICC decided to grant full

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(T20I) status to all its members. Therefore, all

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matches played between Malaysia and other ICC members after 1 January 2019 have the full T20I status. Malaysia played their first T20I on 24 June against

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during the 2019 Malaysia Tri-Nation Series. They recorded a comfortable win. After April 2019, Malaysia will play in the 2019–21 ICC Cricket World Cup Challenge League.

Grounds

* Kinrara Academy Oval,

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* Bayuemas Oval,

* Selangor Turf Club,

* Royal Selangor Club,

* UKM-YSD Cricket Oval, Bangi

Tournament history

T20 World Cup Qualifier (Asia Regional Final)

2023 Catastrophic natural disasters in 2023 included the Lists of 21st-century earthquakes, 5th-deadliest earthquake of the 21st century 2023 Turkey–Syria earthquakes, striking Turkey and Syria, leaving up to 62,000 people dead; Cyclone Freddy ...

: Group stage

World Cricket League

* 2009 Division Six: Fourth place * 2011 Division Six: Second place – ''promoted'' * 2012 Division Five: Second place – ''promoted'' * 2012 Division Four: Fifth place – ''relegated'' * 2014 Division Five: Second place – ''promoted'' * 2014 Division Four: Champions – ''promoted'' * 2014 Division Three: Third place * 2017 Division Three: Sixth place – ''relegated'' * 2018 Division Four: Third place

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1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for Lunar water, frozen water, in soil i ...

: First round

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* 2004: First round *

2005 2005 was designated as the International Year for Sport and Physical Education and the International Year of Microcredit. The beginning of 2005 also marked the end of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples, Internationa ...

: Did not qualify * 2006/07: Did not participate

ICC Trophy

1979 Events January * January 1 ** United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim heralds the start of the ''International Year of the Child''. Many musicians donate to the ''Music for UNICEF Concert'' fund, among them ABBA, who write the song ...

: First round *

: First round * 1986: First round *

: Plate competition *

1997 Events January * January 1 – The Emergency Alert System is introduced in the United States. * January 11 – Turkey threatens Cyprus on account of a deal to buy Russian S-300 missiles, prompting the Cypriot Missile Crisis. * January 1 ...

: 16th place *

2001 The year's most prominent event was the September 11 attacks against the United States by al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror. The United States led a Participan ...

: First round *

: Did not qualify

ACC Fast Track Countries Tournament The ACC Fast Track Countries Tournament was a three-day cricket tournament run by the Asian Cricket Council (ACC), contested between its top-ranking ICC associate members. It was played three times between 2004 and 2006, and then replaced by th ...

* 2004: 5th place * 2005: 3rd place * 2006: 4th place

ACC Trophy

1996 1996 was designated as: * International Year for the Eradication of Poverty Events January * January 8 – A Zairean cargo plane crashes into a crowded market in the center of the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...

: First round *

: Runners up *

2000 2000 was designated as the International Year for the Culture of Peace and the World Mathematics, Mathematical Year. Popular culture holds the year 2000 as the first year of the 21st century and the 3rd millennium, because of a tende ...

: Semi-finals *

2002 The effects of the September 11 attacks of the previous year had a significant impact on the affairs of 2002. The war on terror was a major political focus. Without settled international law, several nations engaged in anti-terror operation ...

: Semi-finals *

2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and Its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 60 ...

: 7th place *

2006 2006 was designated as the International Year of Deserts and Desertification. Events January * January 1– 4 – Russia temporarily cuts shipment of natural gas to Ukraine during a price dispute. * January 12 – A stampede during t ...

: 7th place * 2008 Elite: 6th place * 2010 Elite: 4th place * 2012 Elite: 4th place * 2014 Premier League Elite: 6th place

Asia Cup Qualifier

ACC Eastern Region T20

ACC Twenty20 Cup

Asian Games

Arafura Games

Southeast Asian Games

Records and statistics

International Match Summary — Malaysia ''Last updated 2 May 2025''

Twenty20 International

* Highest team total: 268/4 v.

on 2 October 2023 at Zhejiang University of Technology Cricket Field,

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. * Highest individual score: 126, Syed Aziz v.

on 2 October 2023 at Zhejiang University of Technology Cricket Field,

. * Best individual bowling figures: 7/8 ,

Syazrul Idrus Syazrul Ezat Idrus (born 9 January 1991) is a Malaysian cricketer. He has played for the Malaysia national cricket team since 2012, as a right-arm medium pace bowler. Personal life Syazrul was born on 9 January 1991. In 2015 he married profess ...

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on 26 July 2023 at Bayuemas Oval, Pandamaran. Most T20I runs for Malaysia Most T20I wickets for Malaysia T20I record versus other nations ''Records complete to T20I #3172. Last updated 2 May 2025.''

Other records

Performances by Malaysian cricketers in World Cricket League matches and ACC Premier League matches, as of 29 June 2014

Current squad

This lists all the players who have played for Malaysia in the past 12 months or has been part of the latest One-day or T20I squad. ''Updated as of 9 September 2024''.

Tournaments

* Malaysia hosted the 2014 ICC World Cricket League Division Three in October.

Notes

References

External links

Official website
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Malaysia in international cricket

History

Early days

1990s

21st century

2000–2017

2018-Present

Grounds

Tournament history

T20 World Cup Qualifier (Asia Regional Final)

World Cricket League

Commonwealth Games The Commonwealth Games is a quadrennial international multi-sport event among athletes from the Commonwealth of Nations, which consists mostly, but not exclusively, of territories of the former British Empire. The event was first held in 1930 ...

ICC Intercontinental Cup The ICC Intercontinental Cup was a first-class cricket tournament organised by the International Cricket Council (ICC) as part of its cricket development programme. It was designed to allow List of International Cricket Council members, Associ ...

ICC Trophy

ACC Fast Track Countries Tournament The ACC Fast Track Countries Tournament was a three-day cricket tournament run by the Asian Cricket Council (ACC), contested between its top-ranking ICC associate members. It was played three times between 2004 and 2006, and then replaced by th ...

ACC Trophy

Asia Cup Qualifier

ACC Eastern Region T20

ACC Twenty20 Cup

Asian Games

Arafura Games

Southeast Asian Games

Records and statistics

Twenty20 International

Other records

Current squad

Tournaments

See also

Notes

References

External links