2026 ICC Men’s T20 World Cup Africa Sub-regional Qualifier A Schedule

21st – 22nd September 2024: Malawi vs Lesotho (Scorecard) ; Ghana vs Cameroon (Scorecard) ; Tanzania vs Mali (Scorecard) ; Mali vs Cameroon (Scorecard) ; Ghana vs Malawi (Scorecard) ; Lesotho vs Tanzania (Scorecard)

24th – 25th September 2024: Ghana vs Lesotho (Scorecard) ; Cameroon vs Tanzania (Scorecard) ; Mali vs Malawi (Scorecard) ; Tanzania vs Ghana (Scorecard) ; Lesotho vs Mali (Scorecard) ; Malawi vs Cameroon (Scorecard)

26th September 2024: Mali vs Ghana (Scorecard) ; Cameroon vs Lesotho (Scorecard) ; Tanzania vs Malawi (Scorecard)

West Africa Trophy 2023 Schedule

04th October 2023: Rwanda vs Nigeria (Scorecard) ; Sierra Leone vs Ghana (Scorecard)

05th October 2023: Ghana vs Rwanda (Scorecard) ; Nigeria vs Sierra Leone (Scorecard)

06th October 2023: Rwanda vs Sierra Leone (Scorecard) ; Ghana vs Nigeria (Scorecard)

07th October 2023: Nigeria vs Rwanda (Scorecard) ; Sierra Leone vs Ghana (Scorecard)

08th October 2023: Rwanda vs Ghana (Scorecard) ; Nigeria vs Sierra Leone (Scorecard)

10th October 2023: Sierra Leone vs Rwanda (Scorecard) ; Ghana vs Nigeria (Scorecard)

11th October 2023: Rwanda vs Sierra Leone (Scorecard) ; Nigeria vs Ghana (Scorecard)

12th October 2023: Ghana vs Rwanda (Scorecard) ; Sierra Leone vs Nigeria (Scorecard)

14th October 2023: Rwanda vs Nigeria (Scorecard) ; Ghana vs Sierra Leone (Scorecard)

15th October 2023: 3rd/4th Play-off (Scorecard) ; FINAL (Scorecard)

Squads

Rwanda: Didier Ndikubwimana (Captain), Eric Dusingizimana, Orchide Tuyisenge, Hamza Khan, Emmanuel Sebareme, Nadir Muhammad, Zappy Bimenyimana, Michael Iradukunda, Emile Rukiriza, Kevin Irakoze, Martin Akayezu, Eric Kubwimana, Oscar Manishimwe and Wilson Niyitanga

Nigeria: Sylvester Okpe (Captain), Joshua Asia, Miracle Akhigbe, Sesan Adedaji, Akhere Isesele, Ifeanyichukwu Uboh, Isaac Okpe, Prosper Useni, Ademola Onikoyi, Sulaimon Runsewe, Chiemelie Udekwe, Daniel Ajekun, Isaac Danladi, Peter Aho, Ridwan Abdulkareem and Taiwo Mohammed

Ghana: Samson Awaiah (Captain), Obed Harvey, Rexford Bakum, Michael Aboagye, James Vifah, Kofi Bagabena, Godfred Bakiweyem, Joseph Theodore, Kelvin Awala, Syed Aqueel Israr, Aziz Sualley, Alexander Osei, Nurudeen Ibrahim and Daniel Anefie

Sierra Leone: George Ngegba (Captain), Alusine Turay, Miniru Kpaka, Lansana Lamin, John Bangura, George Sesay, Raymond Coker, Abass Gbla, Samuel Conteh, Chernoh Bah, Bali Williams, Yegbeh Jalloh, Aruna Kainesie and Ibrahim Kamara

Women’s teams representing Pomposo Royals, Royal Batters, White Hawks and Tutuka Queens will be competing again in the 2nd edition of the tournament. Morning session matches will begin at 8am local time, while the Afternoon session matches will start at 1pm local time.

More details on the squads will be updated shortly.

Ghana men’s national squad will themselves be playing only the 5th T20I in their record-books, with all the first four games and their last International assignment coming during the ICC Africa regional finals held in May 2019 in Uganda. Both Ghana and Rwanda are placed in the same group for the upcoming ICC Africa sub-regional qualifiers in Rwanda from October 14th – 23rd and the series will be crucial for both camps preparations. Players from both the countries have been playing domestic T20 competitions at home it the past couple of months.

Ghana Squad: Obed Harvey, Samson K.A Awiah, Rexford Bakum, Richmond Baaleri, James K. Vifah, Kofi Bagabena, Devender Singh Malik, Amoluk Singh Sehmbi, Joseph Theodore, Daniel K. Anefie, Godfred Bakiweyem, Moses Anafie, Francis Bakiweyem and Aziz Sualley

Rwanda Squad: Eric Dusingizimana, Orchide Tuyisenge, Clinton Rubagumya, David Uwimana, Didier Ndikubwimana, Bosco Tuyizere, Subhasis Samal, Pankaj Vakeria, Eric Niyomugabo, Wilson Niyitanga, Zappy Bimenyimana, Yvan Mitali, Kevin Irakoze and Martin Akayezu

Ghana Men’s Tour of Rwanda Schedule

18th August 2021: 1st T20I @9:30am (Scorecard) and 2nd T20I @1:50pm (Scorecard)

20th August 2021: 3rd T20I @9:30am (Scorecard) and 4th T20I @1:50pm (Scorecard)

21st August 2021: 5th T20I @1:30pm (Scorecard)

Two players each from Kenya, Uganda, Ghana, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Mozambique & Botswana will be part of the program, which will be overseen by Gordon Parsons, North West Dragons team coach.

Isaac Kofi Otuafo Aboagye and Simon Ateak from Ghana along with Peter Aho and Isaac Okpe from Nigeria have been selected for the training camp, based on their consistent performances over the past 12 months for their respective countries and the program is designed to further their skills and help in their development. Both Nigeria and Ghana will be part of 2020 Men’s T20 World Cup Africa regional final qualifiers in 2019 in Uganda.

Similarly, Frank Akankwasa and Zephaniah Arinaitwe from Uganda have been chosen for the camp.

ICC will be covering the cost’s for their travel, accommodation and food during the duration of the entire training period.

The remaining players from other countries will be announced shortly.

Ghana again proved too strong for Nigeria in the final as they defeated them by 7 wickets to lift the trophy. Batting first, Nigeria could manage to post only 109/8 in their 20 overs, which Ghana surpassed in the 16th over, losing only three wickets in the process.

Nigeria hosted the 5-nation Northwestern qualifiers for ACA T20 Africa Cup from 23rd – 29th Apr, 2018 with Ghana, The Gambia and Sierra Leone continuing from the ICC Africa A qualifiers and Cameroon joining them as the fifth country in the event. Mali were also supposed to join for the tournament but backed out of it at the last moment after ACA had announced their squad on their twitter handle earlier this month.

Ghana played Sierra Leone in the semi-finals after topping the group league stage by winning all their four fixtures while Nigeria played The Gambia in the 2nd semi-final after finishing 2nd & 3rd respectively in the points table.

Kenya will be hosting the East Africa qualifiers for T20 Africa Cup in Jul 2018 with Rwanda, Uganda, Tanzania and Seychelles joining the host’s, from which the top 2 teams will be advancing to T20 Africa Cup. Similarly, Botswana will be hosting the Southern Africa qualifiers in Nov 2018 with Namibia, Mozambique, Zambia, St. Helena, Lesotho, Malawi and Swaziland joining the host’s to compete for top 2 qualification spots in T20 Africa Cup.

Kenya will host the T20 Africa Cup tournament in mid-2019 in Nairobi with top 2 teams from all three qualifiers competing for the trophy in what will be the biggest tournament for non-full members of ICC from the African region.

A lot of work needed in the Africa Cricket website which has not updated any of the scores for the qualifiers held in Lagos and no updates about Mali’s non-participation in the event and the reason for their withdrawal from the tournament.

Captain Isaac Aboagye won the toss and Ghana bowlers did the rest of the work as they bowled out Nigeria for only 73 runs in 19.3 overs with Koffi Bagabena picking up 4/22 runs and got good support from Micheal Aboagye, who picked up 2/4 runs of his 4 overs, which included 2 maidens as well.

Gala & Award Night of #ICC #WT20 Africa.

Man of the Tournament Simon Ateak of Ghana pic.twitter.com/sjTjoFFrFz

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Ghana didn’t have much of troubles as they reached the target with more than 5 overs to spare to claim the trophy. Nigeria, too have already qualified for Africa Regional finals.

The other two teams in the tournament, Sierra Leone and The Gambia will now try to better their performances in the T20 Africa Cup qualifiers and show much more resolve against both Ghana and Nigeria.

Gala & Award Night of #ICC #WT20#Nigeria2018

Best Bowler Mohammed Taiwo of Nigeria

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Sierra Leone ended their campaign with a second win over The Gambia. ICC development team will be very happy with how Lagos has organised the tournament in the past one week and will be looking forward to seeing Botswana and Rwanda hosting the Africa “B” and “C” group qualifiers, later in the year.

Gala & Award Night of #ICC #WT20

Best Batman of the Tournament Onwuzilike Chimizie of Nigeria pic.twitter.com/AFwwMI8O7T

— Grande Sports (@grandesportstv) April 21, 2018

Simon Ateak of Ghana was awarded the Man of the Series award while Nigeria Captain Chimizie Onwuzulike was adjudged the Batsman of the tournament and Mohammed Taiwo won the bowler of the tournament award.

Ghana and Nigeria will now meet in the final round of matches in a winner takes all battle for the title. Ghana have 9 points in the bag while Nigeria trail by only 1 point behind them. Sierra Leone and The Gambia will also face each other to finish the tournament on a high and carry the momentum into the Africa Cricket Association (ACA) T20 Africa Cup Northwestern Qualifiers, starting next week in Lagos.

If the first match between Nigeria and Ghana is anything to go by, the next one promises to be a thrilling encounter as well as the virtual finale of the tournament. While both the teams will be upbeat after securing promotion to regional finals, the respective camps will be looking to claim the bragging rights after Ghana coach commented before the start of the tournament that their team is the better one when compared between the two.

For Nigeria, this will be to show that they are once again ready to take the battle to the top Associate countries in the African region. A strong finish in the tournament will also help them prepare well for the T20 Africa Cup Qualifiers.

Chimezie Onwuzulike (Nigeria) leads the run-scorer’s for the tournament so far with 234 runs from 5 matches including his 90 n.o from the match against The Gambia today. Simon Ateak (Ghana) with 136 runs from 4 matches and Rexford Bakum (Ghana) with 135 runs from 4 matches occupy the 2nd & 3rd spot in the list.

In bowlers, five players lead the wicket-taking charts with the same number of 7 wickets and the list includes Mohameed Taiwo (Nigeria), Syvester Okpe (Nigeria), Abu Kamara (Sierra Leone), Isaac Aboagye (Ghana) and Andre Jarju (The Gambia).

Ghana defeated host’s Nigeria by 7 wickets while Sierra Leone notched up their maiden win in the tournament aa they got past The Gambia by 8 wickets in the opening match of the day.

Ghana now has 6 points from their 3 matches while Nigeria stay in the 2nd place with 4 points but better net run-rate compared to all the other teams. With the next round of matches starting from 18th Apr, it is crunch time for both Sierra Leone and The Gambia, if they have to mount any challenge for top spots for qualifying into the regional finals.

With top 2 team’s advancing from Africa A group, Ghana and Nigeria are looking comfortable to claim those spots if the other two teams don’t start winning their matches anytime soon.

Brief Scores:

The Gambia 87 all out in 18.3 overs (Mbye Dumbuya 20, Abu Kamara 3/17, Ibrahim Kamara 2/16, Edward Ngegba 1/8, Hari Ram Bhamu 1/18) Lost to Sierra Leone 89/2 in 12.5 overs (Abu Kamara 26 n.o, Ibrahim Mansaray 25, Yegbeh Jalloh 20 n.o, Andre Jarju 1/16) by 8 wickets

Nigeria 119/8 in 20 overs (Dotun Olatunji 46, Chimezie Onwuzulike 33, David Ankrah 3/14, Isaac Aboagye 1/17, Vincent Ateak 1/24) Lost to Ghana 120/3 in 19.5 overs (Simon Ateak 50 n.o, James Vifah 32, Isaac Okpe 1/17, Mohameed Taiwo 1/15) by 7 wickets

Nigeria captain Chimezie Onwuzulike won the man-of-the-match award for his match-winning knock of 54 runs from 36 deliveries and his partnership with Oladotun Olatunji (49 off 35) of 87 runs for the 4th wicket set the tone for their innings as Nigeria posted 165/6 in their 20 overs. Abu Kamara (2/23) and Solomon Williams (2/15) bowled well for Sierra Leone.

Nigerian bowlers were on top of their game from the get go as they kept picking wickets at regular intervals to bowl out Sierra Leone for only 77 runs in the 19th over. A tough outing for their batsmen as only three players managed to go past 10 runs. Mohameed Taiwo (3/14), Syvester Okpe (2/6) and Chimezie Onwuzulike (2/10) did not let anyone in the middle and late order to settle down after the three starting bowlers for Nigeria picked up a wicket apiece in the first 7 overs.

Ghana were far more comfortable during their batting innings as they posted 173/4 in their 20 overs against Gambia. Rexford Bakum (44 off 33) gave the good start to the innings as Julius Mensah (37 n.o off 25) and David Ankrah (34 n.o off 22) provided the late flourish as they posted an unbeaten partnership of 64 runs for the 5th wicket in 34 deliveries. Andre Jarju manage to pick up couple of wickets for Gambia in an otherwise lacklustre performance from the bowling unit.

Gambia batting innings started on a disastrous note as they lost three players in their top 4 without scoring, leaving them at 3/3 in the 2nd over of the innings itself. Very tough for any International side to make a turnaround from that position and the rest of the batting line-up struggled to keep pace with the increasing asking rate. P Faye (55 off 46) played a sparkling knock amongst the falling wickets around him but after he got out in the 16th over, Gambia only managed to get to 115/8 in their 20 overs.

David Pereira (2/16), Isaac Aboagye (2/21) and David Ankrah (1/18) capped of a disciplined bowling performance by the Ghanian team. Both Nigeria and Ghana have started on a strong note with good boost to their net run-rate’s as well with the big victory margins. All set for action from day 2 of the qualifiers now from Lagos.