Mozambique national cricket team play to a draw with local team
Mozambique played a friendly series with Duduza.
Duduza – The Duduza Cricket Club hosted the Mozambique national team for friendly games at the Duduza Multipurpose Centre over the weekend.
This was to give the Mozambican team a chance to prepare for their Africa Cricket Association (ACA) tournament taking place in South Africa from May 27 to June 1.
Duduza head coach Tsepo ‘Geco’ Mofokeng said, “We are in our club cricket off-season now and had to put the squad together so that we may play these matches.”
Mofokeng said he had an opportunity to see his squad’s performance so that he can check if the club must go on the market to strengthen the squad for the new coming season that will start in September.
The teams played four T20 matches on Saturday and Sunday with the results as follows:
Saturday:
First T20: Duduza batted first placing a score of 78 runs. Mozambique chased and won by four wickets.
Second T20: Mozambique batted first and was all out at 48 runs. After chasing, Duduza reached the target and won by seven wickets.
Sunday:
Duduza batted first at the first Sunday T20 and placed a target of 80 runs. Mozambique chased yet couldn’t reach the target as they were all out after 68 runs.
In the second T20 of the day, and the last one for the weekend, Mozambique batted first and they placed a 110-run target after their allotted 20 overs.
Duduza lost by three runs as they failed to reach the target. The two-day friendly series ended in a draw.
“It was an honour to host the Mozambican team and we wish them well in the tournament,” Geco said.
