Motlhanka, an embodiment of the present, future of cricket

Friday, November 30, 2018

Motlhanka's rise is expected to inspire young cricket

At 23, he was thrown into cricket’s deep end, when he was handed the national team captaincy. He could have sunk, but Karabo Motlhanka managed to swim, and is now a bold, confident leader, who mirrors the present and future of Botswana cricket, which is in the middle of a critical transformation, writes MQONDISI DUBE

Botswana cricket recently came of age, when the senior men’s team stunned favourites, Namibia to win the T20 Africa C qualifiers.

If it were business as usual, Namibia, who have had the better of Botswana in the last eight years, would have wrapped a routine victory.

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