Cricket team to play Mat Tuskers

Botswana play Matebeleland Tuskers PIC: MORERI SEJAKGOMO
Botswana play Matebeleland Tuskers PIC: MORERI SEJAKGOMO

The senior cricket team will play Zimbabwe’s Matebeleland Tuskers in four T20 matches starting this afternoon at the BCA Oval.

Botswana Cricket Association (BCA) fixtures and publicity secretary, Sumod Damodar said the matches were meant to prepare the national side for the ICC World T20 qualifiers to be played in Uganda next month.

“The close association between Cricket Zimbabwe (CZ) through their chairman, Dr Tavengwa Mukuhlani and managing director, Givemore Makoni and Botswana Cricket Association (BCA) has enabled the possibility of establishing closer ties between their Provincial/Franchise teams,” Damodar said.

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