Rwanda Beneath-19s 119 for 8 (Gisele 34, Moyo 3-22) beat Zimbabwe Beneath-19s 80 all out (Mtomba 20, Henriette 4-13) by 39 runs
The Zimbabwean collapse began with a run-out within the seventeenth over, when victory already appeared to be evading their grasp. They wanted 39 runs off 14 balls when Adel Zimunu was run-out by Rwanda captain Giselle Ishimwe.
Henriette – no relation – then stepped as much as bowl the nineteenth over. She bowled Kudzai Chigora, had Olinder Chare given out lbw after which eliminated each Chipo Moyo and Religion Ndlalambi’s stumps to seal victory with eight balls remaining. She informed ESPNcricinfo that every one 4 deliveries had been “yorkers, as a result of that is a supply I follow so much.”
Her efficiency on this match constructed on her type main into the match. Henriette additionally took 2 for 19 in Rwanda’s one-run win over Eire within the warm-up matches, and has been capped 44 instances for the senior facet as effectively.
Rwanda’s victory could come as bittersweet for his or her coach Leonard Nhamburo, who’s Zimbabwean and was beforehand concerned with their senior girls’s facet, as an assistant coach and interim head coach. Nhamburo is skilled on the continent and has additionally coached the Namibian nationwide girls’s workforce earlier than transferring to Rwanda in 2021.
