Rwanda Cricket to host 2024 ICC Men’s T20 World Cup Qualifier (Africa sub-regionals)

Rwanda Cricket Association (RCA) have been given the hosting rights for the sub-regional qualification tournament for the African region for the 2024 ICC Men’s T20 World Cup in USA and the West Indies. The tournament structure has been changed by ICC for this edition, as all the competing nations in the sub-regional qualifiers will play against each other in single round-robin group stage format, instead of the two (2) groups of four (4) teams structure, that was being followed across all the ICC regions.

The two (2) sub-regional qualifier tournaments will take place from November 15th – 24th, 2022 (Qualifier A) and November 30th – December 06th, 2022 (Qualifier B). Men’s teams from Botswana, Rwanda, Mali, Kenya, St. Helena, Seychelles, Lesotho and Malawi are part of Qualifier A event, while Men’s teams from Cameroon, Mozambique, Nigeria, Eswatini, Ghana, The Gambia, Sierra Leone and Tanzania are part of Qualifier B. The top two (2) teams from both the Qualifier events will advance to the Africa Finals in 2023, where Uganda are already placed after they could not advance from the 2022 T20 World Cup Global qualifier B tournament held in Zimbabwe in July, and are now joined by Namibia, who were eliminated in the first round of 2022 T20 World Cup in Australia.

Rwanda Cricket had previously hosted the Africa sub-regional qualifiers and Africa Finals for the 2022 T20 World Cup during September – November 2021. Their successful hosting of those multi-nation events with good safety protocols/procedures in place during the pandemic situation helped them get the hosting rights again to stage the events in Kigali this year. Seven (7) teams in the sub-regional qualifiers have had competitive cricket leading into these events in Kigali, during the ACA T20 Africa Cup tournament held in South Africa.

ICC Africa Sub-Regional Qualifier B Schedule

01st December 2022: Tanzania vs Sierra Leone (Scorecard) ; Ghana vs Eswatini (Scorecard) ; Nigeria vs Mozambique (Scorecard) ; Eswatini vs Gambia (Scorecard)

02nd December 2022: Sierra Leone vs Nigeria (Scorecard) ; Mozambique vs Ghana (Scorecard) ; Cameroon vs Sierra Leone (Scorecard) ; Eswatini vs Mozambique (Scorecard)

04th December 2022: Mozambique vs Cameroon (Scorecard) ; Nigeria vs Eswatini (Scorecard) ; Ghana vs Tanzania (Scorecard) ; Gambia vs Nigeria (Scorecard)

05th December 2022: Mozambique vs Tanzania (Scorecard) ; Sierra Leone vs Eswatini (Scorecard) ; Nigeria vs Cameroon (Scorecard) ; Ghana vs Sierra Leone (Scorecard)

06th December 2022: Eswatini vs Tanzania (Scorecard) ; Gambia vs Sierra Leone (Scorecard) ; Tanzania vs Gambia (Scorecard) ; Cameroon vs Ghana (Scorecard)

08th December 2022: Ghana vs Gambia (Scorecard) ; Eswatini vs Cameroon (Scorecard) ; Nigeria vs Tanzania (Scorecard) ; Gambia vs Mozambique (Scorecard)

09th December 2022: Mozambique vs Sierra Leone (Scorecard) ; Cameroon vs Gambia (Scorecard) ; Nigeria vs Ghana (Scorecard) ; Tanzania vs Cameroon (Scorecard)

ICC Africa Sub-Regional Qualifier A Schedule

17th November 2022: Botswana vs Rwanda (Scorecard) ; Lesotho vs Mali (Scorecard) ; St Helena vs Kenya (Scorecard) ; Seychelles vs Botswana (Scorecard)

18th November 2022: Rwanda vs St Helena (Scorecard) ; Botswana vs Lesotho (Scorecard) ; Kenya vs Malawi (Scorecard) ; Mali vs Seychelles (Scorecard)

20th November 2022: Malawi vs Botswana (Scorecard) ; Kenya vs Mali (Scorecard) ; Rwanda vs Kenya (Scorecard) ; Seychelles vs Lesotho (Scorecard)

21st November 2022: Mali vs Malawi (Scorecard) ; Lesotho vs Kenya (Scorecard) ; Rwanda vs Malawi (Scorecard) ; St Helena vs Seychelles (Scorecard)

22nd November 2022: Botswana vs Mali (Scorecard) ; Lesotho vs St Helena (Scorecard) ; Malawi vs Seychelles (Scorecard) ; St Helena vs Mali (Scorecard)

24th November 2022: Malawi vs St Helena (Scorecard) ; Rwanda vs Seychelles (Scorecard) ; Kenya vs Botswana (Scorecard) ; Mali vs Rwanda (Scorecard)

25th November 2022: Seychelles vs Kenya (Scorecard) ; Lesotho vs Malawi (Scorecard) ; Botswana vs St Helena (Scorecard) ; Lesotho vs Rwanda (Scorecard)