Times Of Swaziland: UNISWA RECLAIMS GLORY

UNISWA RECLAIMS GLORY
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By Multimedia Int’l on 17/03/2014 04:54:00


The University of Swaziland cricket girls team were crowned champions of the
Intervarsity Cricket Cup 2014 on Wednesday in Malkerns.
The very proud moment came after they drew the two-match series against the
National University of Lesotho (NUL), but with a superior Net Run Rate they
claimed the silverware. UNISWA won the first match by 30 runs and lost the
second by 6 wickets. It took grim determination and hard work for the girls to
hoist the Swazi flag high in the tournament. The girls could not wait any longer
to have a gold medal for the boys team already had one which they won back in
Botswana in 2011. The result shows that the sport among girls in the country is
growing and the interest and understanding is indeed growing.
The boys’ team, however, could not be at par with the performance of the girls
in giving their opponents a heavy defeat to surpass the net run rate set by NUL
boys in the first match. The NUL team won the first match by 7 wickets and the
UNISWA team won the second by 3 wickets.
Cricket is growing in the country and we would like to thank the University of
Swaziland for contributing towards the growth of the game.
USUTU AT IT AGAIN
Usutu Forest Primary reigned supreme again in the U-13 Cricket Festival, hosted
by Ubombo Primary in Big Bend, after they topped their group and beating Ubombo
Primary in the final by 20 runs. They were crowned with a beautiful trophy and
gold medals, Ubombo settled for the silver and Montessori Life Primary were
third receiving bronze medals after beating Thembelisha by 6 wickets.
Sachin de Silva of Usutu was the best bowler of the tournament, Dawood of Ubombo
was the best batsman and Liam Taman of Usutu was the best fielder. Ubombo,
however, were crowned champions in the Under 9 mini-cricket tournament with
Usutu and Sifundzani coming second and third, respectively.
MULTIMEDIA INT’L
E500 COMPETITION
We would like to congratulate Lungile Simelane of Mbabane for winning the
February competition, the answer for the number of days allocated for a Test
Cricket match is 5. Our March competition will start rolling on March 10, 2014.
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