Opening of 2020 Cricket Season:

Fecacricket Electrocutes Y’de Youths with Cricket Bonanza

The Youth Week Inter-Schools Cricket Bonanza holding at the Mevick BGS here, on Saturday, 8 February, saw the participation of young cricket players from selected schools in and around Yaounde.

By Doh Bertrand Nua in Yaounde

Fecacricket president, Victor Agbor, advising the youths

The Cameroon Cricket Federation, Fecacricket, has on 8 February launched its sporting activities for the 2020 season.

                The launching that coincided with activities of the National Youth Week, took the garb of a youth cricket bonanza which brought together at the Mervick Bilingual Grammar School playground, young cricketers from some selected cricket playing schools in Yaounde.

                The schools included notably Mervick BGS, BHS Essos, College Montesquieu Yaounde, College Larousse Yaounde and BHS Emana.

                Activities of the day started with the singing of the National Anthem, followed by remarks of advice by the President of Fecacricket, Victor Agbor Nso.

                Before the start of the day’s tournament, a mini didactic cricket match was played pitting some players of the under-17 national cricket selection against coaches of some cricket playing schools. The coaches won the match by 37 against 22 runs.

                The tournament proper had matches pitting the selected schools against one another, in both male and female categories.

                The first round results were the following: BHS Emana (Girls) 44 runs – College Larouse 43 runs; BHS Essos 22 runs – Mervick GHS 34 runs.

                In the second round (semi-finals), College Larouse girls beat BHS Essos girls by 26 runs against 25, while Mervick boys beat Montesquieu boys 30-28 runs.

                In the finals that followed, BHS Emana girls beat their counterparts of College Larouse 27 to 21 runs, while in the boys final, College Larouse beat Mervick by 37 to 34 runs.

                As the victors celebrated their victories, the President of Fecacricket, Victor Agbor, informed the jubilant youths of the holding during the long holidays of a two-week “intensive cricket training holiday camp”.

                The very long day came to an end with the award of individual and collective prizes to some players who distinguished themselves and to the participating teams. The prizes included notably that for the revelation of the tournament; best male and female player; best fielder; best bowler, best batter, best fair-play team etc.

                The activities were watched by a representative of the Minister of Sports and Physical Education. A battery of pressmen assured media coverage of the well-organized, crowd-pulling tournament.