{"id":55031,"date":"2025-07-27T14:19:59","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T14:19:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/cricket-rwanda-women-secure-promotion-to-division-one-in-world-cup-qualifiers\/"},"modified":"2025-07-27T13:57:36","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T13:57:36","slug":"cricket-rwanda-women-secure-promotion-to-division-one-in-world-cup-qualifiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/cricket-rwanda-women-secure-promotion-to-division-one-in-world-cup-qualifiers\/","title":{"rendered":"Cricket: Rwanda women secure promotion to Division One in World Cup qualifiers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The historic achievement came after Rwanda defeated Sierra Leone by 51 runs in the final.<\/p>\n<p>Rwanda batted first and posted a total of 135 runs in 20 overs, with Sierra Leone managing to take seven wickets. In response, Sierra Leone was bowled out for just 84 runs in 18.1 overs, falling short of the target and handing Rwanda a commanding victory.<\/p>\n<p>With this win, both Rwanda and Sierra Leone have secured promotion to Division One, where they will join Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Nigeria, Namibia, and Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n<p>The eight teams will face off in September 2025 in Namibia during the ICC Women\u2019s T20 World Cup Africa Qualifier. <\/p>\n<p>Only one team will earn a coveted spot to represent the continent at the ICC Women\u2019s T20 World Cup, set to take place in India later this year.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-91560 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/gwpbobxw4aaxazh-b2bfb.jpg\" alt=\"Rwanda\u2019s national women\u2019s cricket team has earned promotion to Division One after clinching top spot at the ICC Africa Division Two tournament held in Botswana.\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-91559 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/whatsapp_image_2025-07-27_at_09.56_29_fc9dcb0f-13b1e.jpg\" alt=\"The historic achievement came after Rwanda defeated Sierra Leone by 51 runs in the final.\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rwanda\u2019s national women\u2019s cricket team has earned promotion to Division One after clinching top spot at the ICC Africa Division Two tournament held in Botswana.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":2000091558,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-55031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":{"id":2000091558,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/gwpbobxw4aaxazh-b2bfbcricketlogo.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/gwpbobxw4aaxazh-b2bfbcricketlogo.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/gwpbobxw4aaxazh-b2bfbcricketlogo.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/gwpbobxw4aaxazh-b2bfbcricketlogo.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/gwpbobxw4aaxazh-b2bfbcricketlogo.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/gwpbobxw4aaxazh-b2bfbcricketlogo.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000091558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55031"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=55031"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=55031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}