From the late 1990s onward, Zambia has been a regular participant in ICC Africa tournaments, although it has generally played in the lower divisions.

The team has been promoted into the World Cricket League structure only once, placing fourth at the 2010 Division Eight tournament.

[5] Despite the slow rate of development, the MCC travelled to Livingstone in December 1930 during their tour of South Africa,[6] easily beating Northern Rhodesia by 9 wickets in their first international.

[10] For instance, the 1975 Quadrangular was played in Kampala, sadly with rain spoiling much of the schedule, the scorecard from Zambia v Kenya 1975[11] and the Zambian team photograph from that tour to Uganda.

[14] However, in the early 1980s the government began to invest less money in sport and with athletics and soccer being of more interest, cricket was a lower priority.

A combined Minor Counties side toured in 1982, but this was the last match played by the national side until the mid-1990s, though some Zambian players played as part of the East African cricket team and East and Central African cricket team.

[1] Zambia hosted the African Cricket Association Championship in 2004, the tournament being part of the qualification process for the 2005 ICC Trophy in Ireland.