Top 5 teams who will not be playing the 2019 ICC Cricket World Cup

3) Kenya

Kenya

Though East African team at the inaugural World Cup in 1975 comprised of players from Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania, Kenya as a Nation appeared in the World Cup for the very first time in the 1996 edition after attaining the ODI status. Though the team under Maurice Odumbe crashed out of the tournament in the Group stages, they defeated the mighty Caribbeans at Pune by 73 runs. They finished six in Group A after losing five out of their six matches.

They were once again knocked out in the Group stages at the 1999 World Cup, where they lost all five group games against South Africa, India, Zimbabwe, England and Sri Lanka. But the African nation came back stronger when they co-hosted the 2003 ICC Cricket World Cup along with South Africa and Zimbabwe, by reaching the semi-finals in that edition. They won four out of their six Pool B matches and made it to the Super Six stages where they managed one win out of three games.

They eventually lost to the Sourav Ganguly-led Indian team in the semi-finals by 91 runs at Kingsmead, Durban. After failing to progress beyond the group stages in the next two editions (2007 and 2011), they failed to even qualify for the 2015 and 2019 editions. The World Cup 2019 in the United Kingdom will no doubt miss the Kenyans, who surprised the world by reaching the semis fifteen years ago.

ICC Cricket World Cup stats: Played-29, Won-7, Lost-22, Tied-0, No Result-0