The 2021 Kwibuka Women's T20 Tournament was a women's T20I cricket (WT20I) tournament held in

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from 6 to 12 June 2021. This was the seventh edition of the annual Kwibuka T20 Tournament, first organised 2014 in remembrance of the victims of the 1994

genocide against the Tutsi The Rwandan genocide, also known as the genocide against the Tutsi, occurred from 7 April to 19 July 1994 during the Rwandan Civil War. Over a span of around 100 days, members of the Tutsi ethnic group, as well as some moderate Hutu and Gre ...

. All matches were played at the

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won the 2019 edition but did not defend the title this year. The 2020 edition of the tournament was cancelled due to the

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. The 2021 edition of the tournament was originally announced as a five-team event featuring the women's national sides of

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and two-time champions

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. On 29 May 2021, it was confirmed that three-time champions

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would also participate. Botswana, Namibia and Nigeria played in the Kwibuka tournament for the first time. The six teams were placed into two groups of three. However, Uganda withdrew from the tournament on 3 June 2021 due to positive

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tests within their camp. Prior to their withdrawal, Uganda had named a provisional squad for the tournament. The

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stated their intent to further enhance the status of the Kwibuka tournament by including

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on a regular basis in future years and inviting leading associate teams from Europe and elsewhere, stating that they had already held positive talks with the

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and the Brazilian Cricket Association. Namibia won all four of their round-robin matches to become the first team to qualify for the semi-finals. Hosts Rwanda beat Nigeria in their penultimate group match to confirm their berth in the semi-finals. Kenya also secured a place in the semi-finals. In the final group game, Nigeria beat Botswana by three wickets to become the fourth and final team to qualify for the semi-finals. Namibia and Kenya advanced to the final with comfortable semi-final victories over Nigeria and Rwanda, respectively. Rwanda finished the tournament in third place, after beating Nigeria by eight runs in the play-off match. Kenya won their fourth Kwibuka T20 title after defeating Namibia by 7 wickets in the final. Kenyan all-rounder Queentor Abel was named player of the tournament, after scoring 165 runs and taking 7 wickets.

Squads

The following squads were named for the tournament:

Round-robin

Points table

Matches

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Play-offs

Semi-finals

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Third-place play-off

Final

Team of the tournament

The following 14 players were named in the team of the tournament: * Sune Wittmann * Queentor Abel * Yasmeen Khan ( wk) * Sarah Wetoto *

Adri van der Merwe Adri van der Merwe (born 6 June 2002) is a Namibian cricketer. She made her Women's Twenty20 International (WT20I) debut for the Namibia women's cricket team on 20 August 2018, against Malawi, in the 2018 Botswana Cricket Association Women's T20 ...

* Margaret Ngoche ( c) * Kayleen Green * Amantle Mokgotlhe * Blessing Etim *

Henriette Ishimwe Henriette Therese Ishimwe (born 14 October 2003) is a Rwandan cricketing all-rounder who plays for the women's national cricket team as a right-arm medium pace bowler and right handed batter. Domestic career At the domestic level, Ishimwe ...

* Victoria Hamunyela *

Cathia Uwamahoro Cathia Uwamahoro (Gisozi, 5 August 1993) is a Rwandan cricketer who is well known for breaking a Guinness world record in 2017 for the longest cricket net session by a woman. Biography Cathia Uwamahoro was a basketball player at her time at sc ...

* Salome Sunday * Marie Bimenyimana

References

External links

Series home at ESPN Cricinfo
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