Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Gabashin Afirka ya ziyarci Ingila a 1972 kuma Marylebone Cricket Club ya buga wasan farko da Gabashin Afirka a watan Janairun 1974, ya ci nasara da tseren 237. A shekara mai zuwa, Gabashin Afirka ya taka leda a gasar cin kofin duniya ta 1975
a Ingila. Bayan wasanni daban-daban na dumama jiki, gami da cin kwallaye 3 a kan Glamorgan, sun buga New Zealand, Indiya da Ingila a gasar cin kofin duniya da kanta, sun rasa duka wasannin uku. Gasar cin kofin duniya ta biyo bayan wasan farko da Sri Lanka a County Ground, Taunton, wanda Sri Lanka ta ci nasara da gudu 115. Gabashin Afirka ya taka leda a gasar cin kofin ICC na 1979, 1982 da 1986, ba tare da cancanci zuwa gasar cin kofin duniya daga kowanne daga cikinsu ba.