The 2022-23 ICC Men's T20 World Cup Africa Qualifier is a Twenty20 International (T20I) cricket tournament being played as part of qualification process for the 2024 ICC Men's T20 World Cup, starting from November 2022. The first stage of the qualification pathway in the Africa region consists of two sub-regional qualifiers, with the top two teams from each event progressing to the Regional Final. The sub-regional tournaments are taking place from 17 November to 9 December 2022, hosted by the Rwanda Cricket Association. The Regional Finals will be played in Namibia in 2023. The top two sides in the regional final events will qualify for the 2024 ICC Men's T20 World Cup. Kenya were the clear favourites going into Qualifier A, while Mali and Saint Helena played their first T20I matches at the event. Kenya and Rwanda progressed from Qualifier A after finishing top of the round-robin tournament. Rwanda's win over Malawi proved to be decisive, in what was one of the several matches affected by rain. Malawi's Sami Sohail was named player of the series, Rwanda's Eric Dusingizimana and Kenya's Collins Obuya shared the best batsman award, Botswana's Dhruv Maisuria and Rwanda's Emmanuel Sebareme shared the bowling award and Orchide Tuyisenge was named as best fielder. (en)
Katlo Piet , Rashen de Silva, Thiwanka Rajapaksha, Samarathunga Rukmal and Tharmenthiran Shanmugam all made their T20I debuts. (en)
Khan Arbaaz, Lerotholi Gabriel, Waseem Yaqoob , Mohamed Coulibaly, Mahamadou Diaby, Sekou Diaby, Moustapha Diakite, Mamadou Diawara, Sanze Kamate, Cheick Keita, Theodore Macalou, Lamissa Sanogo, Mamadou Sidibe and Daouda Traore all made their T20I debuts. (en)
Lassina Berthe and Mahamadou Malle both made their T20I debuts. (en)
Peter Langat took his first five-wicket haul in T20Is. (en)
Beston Masauko made his T20I debut. (en)
Dax Richards made his T20I debut. (en)
Pednekar Abhijit made his T20I debut. (en)
Rod Mbaiwa made his T20I debut. (en)
Armando Chuvale, Dario Macome, Camate Roposo , Akhere Isesele and Chiemelie Udekwe all made their T20I debuts. (en)
Zakaria Makadji made his T20I debut. (en)
Andrew Yon became the first player for Saint Helena to take a five-wicket haul in T20Is. (en)
Mohammed Alamgir , Ousman Bah, Modou Bojang, Frank Campbell, Peter Campbell, Aniru Conteh, Andre Jarju, Musa Jobarteh, Muhammed Manga, Gabriel Riley, Mustapha Suwareh and Ismaila Tamba all made their T20I debuts. (en)
Pushkar Sharma, Tanzeel Sheikh , Scott Crowie, Jamie Ellick, Rhys Francis, Jordi Henry, Brett Isaac, Gareth Johnson, Alex Langham, Aiden Leo, Cliff Richards, Barry Stroud and Andrew Yon all made their T20I debuts. (en)
Raymond Coker, Mohammad Shamshad Khan and George Ngegba all made their T20I debuts. * Harsheed Chohan became the first bowler for Tanzania to take a hat-trick in T20Is. (en)
Adil Butt, Dinesh Polpitiya, Tarun Sandeep and Phumlani Sibiya all made their T20I debuts. (en)
Vinoo Balakrishnan became the first player for Botswana to score a century in men's T20Is. (en)
Daniel Jakiel took his first five-wicket haul in T20Is. (en)
Boemo Kgosiemang and Vijayakumar Jayant both made their T20I debuts. (en)