{"id":350599,"date":"2023-11-30T18:59:14","date_gmt":"2023-11-30T19:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=350599"},"modified":"2023-11-30T23:02:09","modified_gmt":"2023-11-30T23:02:09","slug":"cricket-minnows-qualify-for-first-ever-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=350599","title":{"rendered":"Cricket minnows qualify for first ever World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Uganda secured its place in a global cricket tournament for the first time after beating Rwanda in African qualifying for next year\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/cricket\/t20-world-cup\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\" T20 World Cup\">T20 World Cup<\/a>.<\/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 \u2014 an established cricketing nation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/golf\/australian-open-2023-day-1-live-scores-tee-times-leaderboard-scores-results-highlights\/5ec270c2-8f3f-4b72-982e-3a5b99c39049\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Aussie amateur golfer leads Australian Open<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/news-2023-jarome-luai-wests-tigers-penrith-panthers-greg-alexander-money\/8bcad085-7db4-4446-852d-c3efc29933a1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Luai bombshell pinned on notorious agent<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/afl\/news-2023-hawthorn-hawks-nfl-arryn-siposs-development-coach\/291f89b3-cc27-47aa-ad12-b8c73c936664\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"\"><strong>NFL star joining the AFL after Super Bowl blunder<\/strong><\/a><\/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><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ICC\/status\/1730162871126904891?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"embed-social embed-twitter\" data-show-caption=\"false\" data-conversation=\"none\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/ICC\/status\/1730162871126904891?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JayShah\/status\/1730193627836731765?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"embed-social embed-twitter\" data-show-caption=\"false\" data-conversation=\"none\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/JayShah\/status\/1730193627836731765?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CricketUganda\/status\/1730277173892665559?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"embed-social embed-twitter\" data-show-caption=\"false\" data-conversation=\"none\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/CricketUganda\/status\/1730277173892665559?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&quot;It is pretty surreal,&quot; Uganda captain Brian Masaba said.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I can&#x27;t put words to the emotions we are feeling now as a team. It&#x27;s massive for Ugandan cricket and huge for African cricket, especially, for a country like Uganda to make it to the World Cup.&quot;<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Uganda secured its place in a global cricket tournament for the first time after beating Rwanda in African qualifying for next year\u2019s T20 World Cup. <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=350599\" title=\"Cricket minnows qualify for first ever World Cup\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350599"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=350599"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":350600,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350599\/revisions\/350600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=350599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=350599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=350599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}