Botswana Senior Men Cricket team has qualified for the Men’s T20 World Cup Qualifies Africa Finals which are set for the latter half of next year after winning majority of its games at the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup Sub Regional Africa Qualifier Group C held in Abuja, Nigeria this week.
The six-day long tournament had featured Group C teams being Botswana, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Eswatini, St.Helena and Cote d’voire which saw each play five games.
Botswana in its four games defeated Eswatini by 45 runs during the opening day and also won against Sierra Leone by five wickets on Sunday (24th November). On Tuesday (26th November) Botswana walloped Cote d’voire by a 10-wicket and also defeated St. Helena by a nine-wicket on Wednesday (27th November).
This means that Botswana has already secured the spot at the Men’s T20 Africa Finals before playing its last against Nigeria, which was set for yesterday. The top two Group C teams being Botswana and Nigeria will be joining Namibia, Uganda, Zimbabwe, Kenya, Tanzania and Malawi which are also battling for a spot in the next ICC T20 World Cup.
In an interview, Botswana Cricket Association (BCA) Vice Chairman Sumod Damodar explained that at the Africa qualifiers which would consist of eight teams there will be a team that will advance to the actual Cricket World Cup to be held in 2026. He is hopeful that Botswana will be the one to qualify for the World Cup.
By Wednesday morning Damodar was hopeful that the team would have advanced to the Africa qualifiers as they have had a very good start winning their first two games.
‘‘We have so far won two games we have to keep going and the momentum is just getting better, the ideally eventuality is to win all the five games and advance to the next stage,’’ he said.
