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Africa-Press – Lesotho. <\/strong><\/span>Four cricket teams will battle it out in the Lesotho Post Bank T20 Championship at the Lesotho High School Oval next weekend. Leribe-based Linare Cricket Club face Mohale\u2019s Hoek Cannibals in the first semi-final of the championship, while Teya-Teyaneng (TY) outfit Ajax are set to play United 11 of Maseru in the second semi-final.
\nAccording to the Lesotho Cricket Association (LCA)\u2019s media liaison officer Clifford Molefe, the four teams reached the T20 Championship after dominating cricket competitions at district levels last month.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe four teams; Linare in Leribe, Cannibals in Mohale\u2019s Hoek, United in Maseru and Ajax in Berea, qualified for the championship after they dominated the district tournaments,\u201d said Molefe in an interview with Public Eye on Wednesday this week.<\/p>\n

Molefe said they are expecting a highly competitive contest between the four teams as this will be the climax of the national cricket championship. Molefe added their championship would be observed by, among others, officials from the Free State Cricket Union.
\n\u201cWe are going to have five officials from Free State Cricket Union, who are specifically coming to watch our tournament,\u201d Molefe said.
\n\u201cThe main purpose of their visit is to see what we have and don\u2019t have so that they would know where and how to help us.<\/p>\n

\u201d This after the Free State Cricket Union chief executive officer (CEO), Johan van Heerden, visited Lesotho last Saturday. Molefe said van Heerden was in the country to assess the facility LCA at Lesotho High School Oval.<\/p>\n

They later invited him to the women cricket course dubbed Elite Academy which was held at the same venue, Lesotho High School. \u201cHe came to see our facilities at Lesotho High School and from there we invited him to the ladies\u2019 course, and he was very impressed,\u201d Molefe said.
\nVan Heerden came to Lesotho after LCA approached the Free State Cricket Union to help them in the development of cricket in Lesotho. \u201cWe have asked them to help us with the development of the sport from Under-13, Under-15, Under-17 up to the senior players, and they didn\u2019t have problem,\u201d he added.
\nMolefe said this is because the Free State Cricket Union have qualified coaches in all the age groups. He said in September one of the Free State Cricket Union\u2019s premier league team, VKB will visit Lesotho for a friendly game with the Lesotho national cricket team.
\nLCA has 19 senior cricket teams made up of 10 men clubs and nine women teams. Molefe said they are required by the International Cricket Council to increase the number of women teams to 10 in order to qualify for international women tournament.<\/p>\n

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