Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Cricket a Kenya ya koma farkon shekarun 1890 lokacin da mazauna mulkin mallaka, da masu gudanarwa suka fara wasa da juna a Nairobi da Mombasa a tsakanin wasu wurare da yawa. Wasan farko na kowane sakamako ya faru ne a 1899, kuma a cikin 1910 an fara wasan kwana uku tsakanin Jami'ai da Mazauna, wanda ya kasance babban abin da aka tsara na kalandar gida har zuwa 1964, tare da Turawa da Asiya wanda ya fara a 1933. A cikin 1966, Kenya ta zama memba na Taron Cricket na Gabashin Afirka (EACC) kuma ta halarci gasar Quadrangular ta shekara-shekara wacce ta haɗa da ƙasashen Afirka ta Gabas uku da Zambia. Gasar da aka buga a kowace ƙasa ta hanyar juyawa ta ga Kenya ta ci nasara tara daga cikin gasa 15 tsakanin 1960 da 1980. Wasu 'yan Kenya sun shiga gasar cin kofin duniya ta 1975
a matsayin wani bangare na gabashin Afirka, kuma wannan rukunin ya sake bayyana a gasar cin kofin ICC ta 1979, amma a shekarar 1982 Kenya tana wasa a karkashin tutar ta, a karkashin kungiyar Cricket ta Kenya. A karkashin wannan hukumar ne wasan kirkiret na Kenya ya kai kololuwarsa, a gasar cin kofin duniya ta 2003, wanda ya dauki bakuncin kuma ya kai wasan kusa da na karshe. A cikin shekaru masu zuwa duk da haka, mummunan rikice-rikice tsakanin kwamitin da 'yan wasan ya haifar da jerin yajin aiki, amma mafi rauni, KCA ta sami kanta tana yaƙi da yawancin masu ruwa da tsaki na ƙasar. A ƙarshen rikici a shekara ta 2005, wasan kurket na Kenya ya kasance cikin damuwa, ba shi da mai tallafawa, kuma yana da tasiri a cikin keɓewar ƙasa da ƙasa. Daga baya a cikin shekarar ICC ta cire matsayin ODI.