Cricket U-19 squad off to Kampala

The national Under-19 cricket team leaves today to compete in the ICC-ACA Division One World Cup qualifiers in Kampala, Uganda.

The team consists of 14 players and will fly to the Ugandan capital via Nairobi, Kenya.Botswana Cricket Association (BCA) secretary for fixtures and publicity, Sumod Damodar, said that the tournament is an eight-nation event, which will be played in two groups from May 25 to June 1.

Participating nations include Botswana, Kenya, Namibia, Sierra Leone, Nigeria, Tanzania, hosts Uganda, and Zambia. The teams are divided into two pools, which were determined by the 2010 log of the same competition.

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