The national cricket team in the 19th century.

The first Fiji cricket team as we have seen was formed in the 18th century...but it did not become an associate member of the world cricket body..the International Cricket Council until 1965...quite an achievement don't you think..??

But before it became an associate member of the ICC..Fiji continued to tour the Asia-Pacific region..following the success of its first tour to New Zealand in 1895...Fiji sent a team to tour the Land of the Long White Clouds again in 1948...but i think history has a tendency of repeating itself..the reason being just like the tour in 1895 where Fiji lost its first match against Auckland..the same happend on their first game against the same team Auckland by 168 runs...but...but..it wasn't the same on their second game as they won by only one wicket against Wellington...and than they eventually lost the game after that to Canterburry by 36 runs....their next game was against Otago which they lost by 46 runs...but the team ended of their 1948 tour with a wonderful revengeful win against Auckland by a 115 runs....

Although not a member of the ICC at this time...Fiji has definitely been showing signs that it can be a dedicated country to anything especially sports and in this case cricket....even looking at the space of time form when it was introduced to the time of the 1948 tour...i would definitely say that cricket in Fiji has definitely come a long way...