Boitumelo Khutsafalo
16 September 2008
Botswana Cricket Association (BCA) is happy with the progress of the junior league for government Primary Schools. The second season of the league starts today with seven new schools added to the founding five.
BCA development officer, Girish Ramakrishna said that the increase in the number of schools is a clear indication that they might be achieving their objective.
He said that cricket is becoming popular and the increasing number of schools participating bears testimony to this. Ramakrishna explained that after popularising the game, they are trying to put children in a competitive environment. He said that this year, they will have boys and girls playing together.
He added that there is still room for improvement and their target is to have about 20 schools next year.
The league will be played in a knockout format in the initial stage. Six teams will then proceed to the round robin stage.
He added that they will be giving prizes for the man/woman of the match in the initial rounds until the semis.
Thereafter, they will have prizes for the best batsman, best fielder and the best bowler. There are prizes for the player of the tournament, the runners-up and winners. Mojadife Primary Schools are the defending champions.
The 12 schools that will take part in the tournament are: Bophirima, Philip Moshotle, Oodi, Mojadife, Mogobane, Rasesa, Tlhaakgame, Botsalano, Itumeleng, Solomon Dihutso, Ben Thema and Ikageng.
Today, Rasesa will battle out with Tlhaakgame while Oodi will play Ikageng. The games start at 1:30pm.
Tomorrow defending champions, Mojadife will be playing against Mogobane while Itumeleng take on Bophirima.
The last fixtures of the knockout stage will be on Thursday when Ben Thema and Philip Moshotle square-off. The other game will be between Solomon Dihutso and Botsalano.
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