2017 Cricket season:

Busy 3 weeks for Cameroon Cricket

Fecacricket President, Victor AgborNso talking to the press

The 2017 Cricket Joint Domestic League and Cup of Cameroon tournament has kicked-off with matches in different cricket playgrounds in the country.

                The 8 teams tournament organized by the Cameroon Cricket Federation, Fecacricket with support from its British partners-Cricket without Boundaries and the Lord’s Traverners (they provided clothing and equipment), will run for three weeks, according to Fecacricket officials.

                In the first match of day one of the tournament staged on Saturday 5 August 2017 at the ENIET de SOA playground, Academy Cricket club of Douala walloped their counterparts of Warriors Cricket Club Yaounde by 170 to 35 runs. The 2nd match saw pathfinders Cricket club of Yaounde defeating Spartans Cricket club of Etougebe, Yaounde by 64 to 35 runs. While the 3rd match of the very busy day saw Trailblazers of Yaounde trouncing Cheetahs Cricket Club of Bamenda by 129 to 94 runs.

                It is worthy to not that the 2017 Joint Domestic League and Cup of Cameroon tourney is coming on the heels of a recycling workshop for Umpires and Scorers organized by Fecacricket, in Yaounde. The capacity building course was aimed to train Cameroon Cricket Umpires and Scorers and lift them up to acceptable international standards.

                “Our ambition is to take Cameroon Cricket to a level that permits us to compete favorably with big Crickets leagues. But we cannot attain this goal when our umpires and scorers are not up to date in their mastery of the rules of the game,” said the Fecacricket president, Victor AgborNso, on the sidelines of the recent recycling workshop in Yaounde.

                Victor Agbor also noted that the training was timely as it would enable the officials to live up to the exigencies of the 2017 Joint Domestic League and Cup of Cameroon tourney that would be played in a home and away basis. Until now the Joint tournament was played only on a one leg basis.

                The 2017 Joint Domestic League and Cup of Cameroon tournament is continuing in cricket playgrounds around the country. The tournament is expected to produce the 2017 Cricket Champions and also culminate in the semi-finals and finals of the 2017 Cricket Cup of Cameroon.

                The crowd-pulling tournament is supervised by the Cricket Focal Point at the Ministry of Sports and physical education.