Beyond the Boundary!

Nigeria have won the North West Africa Championship for the second consecutive year after beating Sierra Leone in the final group game yesterday. Read a report on the final game (written with a lot of help from regular commenter at this blog Roland Ilube) here, and a review of the other group games here.

Part Five of our year in review sees us cover the Netherlands to Papua New Guinea.
Netherlands
Like the other ODI status associates, this has been a hit and miss year for the Netherlands. The highs have been the emergence of Ryan ten Doeschate as a world-class all-rounder. He set the record for the highest Intercontinental Cup […]

In May 2006, Kwesi Sagoe was elected as the new President of the Nigeria Cricket Federation. Sagoe comes from a proud cricketing family that has provided three generations of Nigerian national representatives. The emergence of Sagoe as the new cricket boss has raised the question; can the new leadership turn Nigeria into a cricketing force?
Nigeria […]

In something that is hoped to be a recurring feature here at BTB, we are proud to bring you the tour diary of the recently concluded WCL Africa Division 1. This is provided to us by the Nigerian cricketer, Roland Ilube who will be hopefully be here to answer any questions anyone might leave him […]

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 […]