Kei were a South African first-class cricket team based in the Eastern Cape city of Mthatha.
[citation needed] Their most successful batsman in the first-class matches was Sivuyile Duda,[1] who scored 265 runs at an average of 18.92 including the team's only century, 102 against KwaZulu-Natal Inland.
[citation needed] In a competition that was itself of borderline first-class status, Cricket South Africa considered Kei's performance (and those of Limpopo and Mpumalanga) too weak to justify their place, and after one season, all three teams were omitted.
[citation needed] Since 2010–11 Kei have competed in the Cricket South Africa Rural League, coastal division, a 50-over competition.
[4] Kei played seven matches at first-class level, all during the 2006–07 season of the South African Airways Provincial Challenge.