{"id":96766,"date":"2023-11-30T16:25:31","date_gmt":"2023-11-30T16:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stopsmokingway.com\/?p=96766"},"modified":"2023-11-30T16:25:31","modified_gmt":"2023-11-30T16:25:31","slug":"cricket-minnows-qualify-for-the-t20-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stopsmokingway.com\/sports-news\/cricket-minnows-qualify-for-the-t20-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Cricket minnows qualify for the T20 World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Uganda qualify for the T20 World Cup in miracle result with cricket minnows set to rub shoulders with Australia, England and India in the US and West Indies in 2024\u00a0<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Uganda have qualified for the T20 World Cup\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>They have displaced Zimbabwe at the tournament\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Uganda will rub shoulders with the biggest names\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Uganda will be rubbing shoulders with the likes of Jos Buttler and Glenn Maxwell\u00a0 after securing its place in a global cricket tournament for the first time after beating Rwanda in African qualifying for next year&#8217;s T20 World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>The country of 50 million in East Africa got into the expanded 20-team competition, being co-hosted by the West Indies and the United States in June, at the expense of Zimbabwe &#8211; an established cricketing nation.<\/p>\n<p>Uganda defeated Zimbabwe by five wickets on Sunday for its first ever win over a Full Member team in a T20 international, and followed that up by dismissing Rwanda for 65 then reaching its target in 8.1 overs in Windhoek, Namibia.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It is pretty surreal,&#8217; Uganda captain Brian Masaba said.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/30\/15\/78428437-12809639-image-a-2_1701359099899.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Uganda have qualified for the Twenty20 Cricket World Cup next year<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/30\/15\/78428299-12809639-image-a-1_1701359002216.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The African nation have qualified at the expense of Zimbabwe for the tournament<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I can&#8217;t put words to the emotions we are feeling now as a team. It&#8217;s massive for Ugandan cricket and huge for African cricket, especially, for a country like Uganda to make it to the World Cup.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Namibia has also advanced through African qualifying to complete a lineup of teams that also contains Oman, Nepal, Papua New Guinea and Canada. The United States qualifies through being a host country.<\/p>\n<p>Uganda has been an associate member of the ICC since 1998 but does not have test or ODI status.<\/p>\n<h3>T20 WORLD CUP 2024\u00a0<\/h3>\n<p>Host nations: United States, West Indies<\/p>\n<p>Top 8 from 2022 T20 World Cup: Australia, England, India, Netherlands, New Zealand, Pakistan, South Africa, Sri Lanka<\/p>\n<p>Next two highest-ranked nations: Afghanistan, Bangladesh<\/p>\n<p>Europe Qualifier: Ireland, Scotland<\/p>\n<p>East Asia\/Pacific Qualifier: Papua New Guinea<\/p>\n<p>Americas Qualifier: Canada<\/p>\n<p>Asia Qualifier: Nepal, Oman<\/p>\n<p>Africa Qualifier: Namibia, Uganda<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/cricket\/article-12809639\/Uganda-qualify-T20-World-Cup-miracle-result.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uganda qualify for the T20 World Cup in miracle result with cricket minnows set to rub shoulders with Australia, England<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - 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