Beyond the Boundary!

With the year drawing to a close, all cricket websites will be preparing their year in review articles. Beyond the Boundary is no exception, except we will be reviewing the year in non test cricket. We’re going to cover every associate and affiliate member of the ICC, with one batch a day until the final […]

The Botswana leg of the MCC’s African tour has ended, and it’s been a close series. The opening Twenty20 game, played under lights on a turf wicket went the way of the MCC by seven wickets. The first one day match was won by the MCC by just one run, and Botswana came back in […]

On September 25th, an MCC team will leave Lords for a 16-day tour of Hong Kong and China. While I doubt, they will actually play any major games in China, most of the effort will be put into organising training and coaching workshops, while they start their tour of Hong Kong with a game against […]

Tanzania have won the WCL Africa Division Two tournament after an eight wicket win over Botswana on the final day. Athumani Kakonzi took 5/23 to dismiss Botswana for just 97, and then completed a fine all-round performance with an unbeaten 42 as Tanzania cruised to the target in the 17th over.
In today’s other game, 70 […]

The ICC have finally seen fit to publish the scorecards for day three of the tournament, for some reason after the day four scorecards were published.
In the first game today, qualifiers Mozambique did well to reach 168. They then had Botswana struggling at 4/2, before a 165 run partnership between Noor Ahmed and Abdul Patel […]

Before I start the day four report, the observant amongst you may notice the absence of a day three report. This is because the scorecards for that day have seemingly not been released. The scorecard for day four are easily obtainable, but not for day three. If the games were rained off, the ICC could […]

Hot on the heels of my Day One report comes my Day Two report, thanks to CricketEurope, who are much better at getting scores from ICC tournaments than the ICC themselves.
It was a day of low scores. When 5/20 from Kandela helped Zambia bowl out Botswana for just 99, they must have given themselves a […]

The latest stage of the African regional qualifiers for the World Cricket League (which goes by four different names on the ICCs website) got underway with wins for the hosts and for Botswana.
Botswana made 192, but it would have been less had it not been for an unbeaten 102 from Noor Ahmad. They then dismissed […]

Starting today, five countries begin the battle to rise to the top of the World Cricket League Africa Division. They are hosts Tanzania, Botswana, Nigeria, Zambia and recently promoted affiliate, Mozambique. It will be an intense few days for the players as each team plays the others once in a league format over 5 days.

It […]