The International Cricket Council is the world body for cricket.....Fiji became a member of ICC or as an associate member in 1965...when Fiji Cricket became a member of ICC it enabled them to partcipate in the ICC trophy tournament for the first time which was 1979 and they went on to play in every tournament until 2001...
Now one thing that we should know...just for the record...is that Fiji has already defeated the West Indies..how wonderful is that...ok..heres the story of how that came about..Fiji played its first test match against a test playing nation..in this case the West Indies...in 1956...and not only that...Fiji was playing in its home territory since the West Indies came here...the West Indies side featured one of the worlds great in the sport Garfield Sobers..despite that the Fiji side went on to notch up a victory by 28 runs despite being bowled out for 91...Fiji's victory that day was also due to a six wicket haul from John Gosling...
Fiji Cricket is currently racked 28th in the world..and is the second ranked non-test team in this region..the East-Asia Pacific region....
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isa fanx soo muj for the brief synopsis on how n when cricket started in fiji! but the thing that intrigued me the most was finding out that FIJI defeated the west indies ages ago! wow...awesome staff man! cheers...takigawajin
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