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The Under 16 Western Schools T20 cricket tournament came to end over the heroes’ holiday with Luveve High School and Mpopoma High School squaring up in the final. The tournament which featured 28 schools was held on a knock out basis and saw Mpopoma walk away champions after winning the final by 14 runs.

In the final, Luveve High won the toss and elected to field. The decision seemed to have worked well for them when they bowled out Mpopoma out for 120 runs. The Luveve outfit put up a good fielding performance and at this point fancied themselves to win the match. However, the Mpopoma XI came out equally determined and showed great discipline in restricting Luveve to 92 runs for the loss of 9 wickets.

The Matabeleland Development Officer, Chris Phiri, expressed satisfaction with the level of competition shown at this year’s tournament but stated that he would like to see some low density schools participate in the tournament next year. He said schools like Northlea, Hamilton, Founders and Gifford High schools, who are currently rebuilding their cricket structures, would benefit from the tournament.

Mr Phiri also said the province where looking forward to the new cricket season and had, at the moment, two games lined up for the schools select team. The boy’s team will play against a Hwange select team on the 29th of August, 2010 while the girl’s team will also play the Hwange team on the sometime in September.

Meanwhile, the Tuskers umpires and scorers association will hold its annual general meeting on the 4th of September at Queens Sports Club. The chairman of the association Donald Nyoni said the meeting was to elect office bearers for the year 2010/2011.
[Source: ZC]