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Africa-Press – Tanzania. <\/strong><\/span>Tanzania has started its campaign for the progression to the next year\u2019s World Cup finals with a bhang, after beating Nigeria and Kenya in yesterday\u2019s opening matches of the 4-Nation ICC men\u2019s T20 World Cup Africa Regional finals taking place in Kigali, Rwanda.<\/p>\n

In a late match on Wednesday, Tanzania beat Kenya by 39 runs, after the latter failed to chase the target of 188 runs.<\/p>\n

Earlier in the morning, the national cricket team skipper Abhik Patwa was instrumental in his team\u2019s six- wicket victory over Nigeria in Kigali, Rwanda on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Patwa played well in his role as the captain by scoring 36 runs to lead his side to an emphatic first match victory.<\/p>\n

Patwa scored the runs from 24 balls before he was bowled out in the 10.3 over to leave the assignment to others, who did not let him down.<\/p>\n

Ivan Seleman, who snatched the \u2018Man of the Match\u2019 title twice consecutively during the Sub-Regional Qualifiers held two weeks ago at the same venue, hit 21 runs from 15 balls.<\/p>\n

Nigeria opted to bat first to set up the target of 114, dropping all of their wickets.<\/p>\n

Tanzania then took well it\u2019s chances in it\u2019s inning, scoring 117\/4 to set up a six-wicket victory.<\/p>\n

Those who did not bat were Riziki Kiseto, Salum Jumbe, Ally Kimote, Nassib Mapunda and Sunjay Kumar. Nigeria earned most of their runs through Ashmit Shreshtav who netted 26.<\/p>\n

The fixture shows that Tanzania was late in the evening yesterday expected to take on Kenya, who are regarded as among the title favourites.<\/p>\n

However, Tanzania, coached by a Kenyan Steve Tikolo, has chances to outclass their fellow East African brothers in their bid to progress to the next year\u2019s World Cup fixtures scheduled in Australia.<\/p>\n

Kenya and Nigeria have progressed directly to the ongoing final by virtue of their appearance in the previous T20 World Cup Global Qualifiers held two years ago.<\/p>\n

Tanzania and Uganda have also progressed to today\u2019s final after claiming their spots from the two Africa sub-regional qualifiers A & B held in Rwanda over the past 3 weeks.<\/p>\n

\u201c We are in good shape to take the two sides and move forward\u201d, said the team\u2019s captain, Abhik Patwa.<\/p>\n

Patwa, one of the experienced players in the team, however, said the prowess of their opponents, but stays optimistic that they will break the ice.<\/p>\n

The fixture further shows that Tanzania will today play Uganda before replaying Kenya in the afternoon.<\/p>\n

The final fixture will see Tanzania re-playing Uganda before re-playing Nigeria Tanzania is familiar with Kenya and Uganda, having, having an experience of encountering the two sides in various ICC World Cup qualifiers as well as Africa Division 1 &2 tournaments.<\/p>\n

Kenya should be wary of Tikolo\u2019s tactics and approach because of his international experience that includes representation of his country in five World Cup events.<\/p>\n

The finals take place at the Gahanga International Cricket Stadium and IPRC Kigali ground.<\/p>\n

The four teams in the competition play each other in a double round-robin group stage format to determine the winner of the tournament, who will advance towards 2022 Global qualifiers.<\/p>\n

The finals are part of the progression to the T-20 in pursuit for the T-20 World Cup finals to be played next year.<\/p>\n

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