The 2021 ICC Women's T20 World Cup Africa Qualifier was a
cricket
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tournament that was played in Botswana in September 2021.
The matches were played as
Twenty20 Internationals
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(T20Is), with the top team progressing to the
2022 ICC Women's T20 World Cup Qualifier
The 2022 ICC Women's T20 World Cup Qualifier was an international women's cricket tournament held in September 2022. It was the fifth edition of the ICC Women's World Twenty20 Qualifier, Women's T20 World Cup Qualifier and served as the qualific ...
tournament.
Botswana
Botswana, officially the Republic of Botswana, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. Botswana is topographically flat, with approximately 70 percent of its territory part of the Kalahari Desert. It is bordered by South Africa to the sou ...
,
Cameroon
Cameroon, officially the Republic of Cameroon, is a country in Central Africa. It shares boundaries with Nigeria to the west and north, Chad to the northeast, the Central African Republic to the east, and Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and the R ...
and
Eswatini
Eswatini, formally the Kingdom of Eswatini, also known by its former official names Swaziland and the Kingdom of Swaziland, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. It is bordered by South Africa on all sides except the northeast, where i ...
made their debut at an ICC women's event.
Malawi
Malawi, officially the Republic of Malawi, is a landlocked country in Southeastern Africa. It is bordered by Zambia to the west, Tanzania to the north and northeast, and Mozambique to the east, south, and southwest. Malawi spans over and ...
were originally named as a participants in the tournament, but they were replaced by Eswatini.
The tournament was originally scheduled to take place in October 2021, but was brought forward to ease fixture congestion. In July 2021, the dates for the Africa Qualifier were confirmed. The fixtures were reshuffled shortly before the tournament, following a member of the Cameroon squad recording a positive
COVID-19
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test. The entire squad was placed into isolation until they returned negative tests.
During Cameroon's opening match against Uganda,
Maeva Douma dismissed four batters by '
Mankading
Run out is a method of dismissal in cricket, in which the fielding team put down the wicket of a batter who is outside their ground, usually because they are trying to score a run.
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'. Namibia progressed to the semi-finals by winning all of their games to finish as winners of group B. Uganda joined them in the semi-finals as runners-up in the group. Zimbabwe topped group A with a 100% record to secure a semi-final against Uganda. Zimbabwe and Namibia won their respective semi-finals to advance to the final of the tournament. In the final, Zimbabwe beat Namibia by 13 runs to advance to the World Twenty20 Qualifier tournament, with Tanzania beating Uganda by nine wickets in the third place play-off match.
Squads
The following teams and squads were named for the tournament:
Group stage
Group A
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Group B
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Play-offs
1st Semi-final
2nd Semi-final
3rd place play-off
Final
References
External links
Series home at ESPN Cricinfo
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Qualifier Africa
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Associate international cricket competitions in 2021–22
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