East Africa was the associate team, besides Sri Lanka, that played in the 1975 Cricket World Cup.
The inaugural tournament in England featured eight teams. Six were the Test-playing nations of the time—England, Australia, the West Indies, India, Pakistan and New Zealand—while Sri Lanka and East Africa completed the field.
East Africa was a composite side representing Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and Zambia. It had been an ICC Associate Member since 1966 and qualified for the 1975 tournament by invitation, because the World Cup did not yet use a formal qualifying competition.
The team played three group matches, against England, India and New Zealand, but lost all three and finished at the bottom of its group. Sri Lanka also competed as an associate side, making the wording “besides Sri Lanka” important: Bermuda, Canada and the Netherlands did not appear in that first World Cup. East Africa later disappeared as a World Cup team after its ICC place was replaced by East and Central Africa.