Bronze medallists from the 2023 African Games in Ghana and Nigeria’s senior female cricket team, the Female Yellow Greens, will join hosts Rwanda and six other countries for the 2024 Kwibuka tournament in Kigali, PRIMANEWS Sports Extra reports.
The 10th edition of the tournament is scheduled for May 27 and will run through June 8 at Gahanga International Cricket Stadium.
Other teams confirmed for the competition include Uganda, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Kenya, Malawi and Cameroon.
General Manager of the Rwanda Cricket Association, Emmanuel Byiringiro, the hosts are still expecting Tanzania, Namibia, USA and Japan to confirm their participation in the expanded tournament.
The Female Yellow Greens will be making their fifth appearance at the tournament which they finished fourth last year after losing to Kenya in the third-place playoff.
With their current rise from their performance at the African Games where they stunned Namibia and Uganda to claim bronze in Ghana, other African countries would be wary of the Nigerian team in Rwanda come May.
Last year, Rwanda also claimed a surprise six-wicket victory over Uganda in the final to claim their first title in nine years. It was Rwanda’s first win against Uganda and the first time that they had won the Kwibuka tournament, which is organised annually to commemorate the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi (an ethnic group in Rwanda).
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