Rwanda Under-19s 119 for 8 (Gisele 34, Moyo 3-22) beat Zimbabwe Under-19s 80 all out (Mtomba 20, Henriette 4-13) by 39 runs
The Zimbabwean collapse began with a run-out within the seventeenth over, when victory already appeared to be evading their grasp. They wanted 39 runs off 14 balls when Adel Zimunu was run-out by Rwanda captain Giselle Ishimwe.
Henriette – no relation – then stepped as much as bowl the nineteenth over. She bowled Kudzai Chigora, had Olinder Chare given out lbw after which eliminated each Chipo Moyo and Faith Ndlalambi’s stumps to seal victory with eight balls remaining. She instructed ESPNcricinfo that every one 4 deliveries had been “yorkers, because that’s a delivery I practise a lot.”
Her efficiency on this match constructed on her type main into the event. Henriette additionally took 2 for 19 in Rwanda’s one-run win over Ireland within the heat-up matches, and has been capped 44 instances for the senior aspect as properly.
Rwanda’s victory could come as bittersweet for his or her coach Leonard Nhamburo, who’s Zimbabwean and was beforehand concerned with their senior girls’s aspect, as an assistant coach and interim head coach. Nhamburo is skilled on the continent and has additionally coached the Namibian nationwide girls’s workforce earlier than transferring to Rwanda in 2021.