The Nigerians bowled over by cricket

Bitterly disappointing. These two words best describe the national senior cricket team’s performance in this year’s ICC Africa Twenty20 Division 1 championship in South Africa. 

Uganda cannot host a six-nation ICC World Cricket League Division Three tournament because of security concerns, cricket's governing body says.

>The phenomenal performance of our national Under-19 boys’ cricket team in the 2014 International Cricket Council (ICC) Africa Division Two in Lusaka has not only made us proud. It has proved that Tanzania is endowed with abundant sports talent.  The boys bagged the ICC Africa title in the just-ended tournament and earned direct promotion to Division One, a historic feat in itself.

>Tanzania’s U19 cricketers have had the opportunity to wallow in the limelight after winning this year’s ICC Africa U19 World Cup Qualifiers Division 2 played in Zambia a fortnight ago.

>It was all smiles for the national cricket team after winning two opening matches at the ICC-Africa T20 Senior Women’s Trophy in South Africa. The Tanzanian girls, who left for South Africa on Thursday, silenced Kenya in their first match before beating Uganda in Benoni on Saturday.

When you’re climbing Africa’s tallest mountain to play the world’s highest game of cricket, you’d better make sure you’ve got a spare ball.

The game of cricket has undergone evolutionary changes over the years. Its rich tapestry of about 417 years has watershed events which have seen cricket nurture beyond the Commonwealth of nations.

Tanzania’s national women’s cricket team for next week’s ICC-Africa Women’s T20 Trophy tournament has finally been unveiled after a series of warm-ups.

Temba Bavuma making the first century for South Africa by a black African is "massively symbolic", writes Jonathan Agnew.