| Dates | 18 – 23 June 2019 |
|---|---|
| Administrator(s) | Rwanda Cricket Association |
| Cricket format | Women's Twenty20 International |
| Tournament format(s) | Double round-robin |
| Host(s) |  Rwanda |
| Champions |  Tanzania (1st title) |
| Runners-up |  Uganda |
| Participants | 4 |
| Matches | 12 |
| Player of the series | Marie Bimenyimana[1] |
| Most runs | Rita Musamali (189) |
| Most wickets | Joyce Apio (10) |
The 2019 Kwibuka Women's T20 Tournament was a women's T20I cricket (WT20I) tournament held in Rwanda from 18 to 23 June 2019.[2] This was the sixth edition of the annual Kwibuka T20 Tournament,[3] first organised in 2014 in remembrance of the victims of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi.[4]
The participants were the women's national sides of Rwanda, Uganda, Mali and Tanzania, with the latter two teams making their first appearance in the tournament while defending champions Kenya withdrew due to lack of funding.[5] This was the first time in the tournament's history that the matches were recognised as official WT20I games as per ICC's announcement to provide full WT20I status to all the matches played between the associate teams after 1 July 2018.[6] All the matches were played at the Gahanga International Cricket Stadium in Kigali.[7] Kenya had previously won the title three times (2015, 2017, 2018) while Uganda had won it twice, the inaugural edition in 2014 and also in 2016.[3] Tanzania Women won this year's edition by winning all of their matches and thus remaining unbeaten, while two Ugandan players, Rita Musamali and Joyce Apio became the highest run scorer and wicket taker respectively.[8][9][10]
In the 2nd match of the tournament, the Mali women's team was bowled out for six runs in nine overs by the hosts Rwanda, making it the lowest team total in a completed WT20I match. The Rwandan side chased down the target of seven runs in just four balls to win the match by ten wickets with 116 balls to spare.[11] In the fifth match of the tournament against Mali, Uganda went on to score 314/2 in 20 overs,[12] making it the highest team total in Women's Twenty20 internationals.[13] It was the first time in a T20 international cricket match, male or female, that a team had scored 300 runs.[13] The Mali team were bowled out for 10 runs in 11.1 overs, the second lowest team total in WT20Is. The margin of victory (304 runs) was also the biggest ever in a WT20I match.[14][13]
The seventh edition of the tournament was scheduled to take place in June 2020, but was postponed until the following year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[15]
- ^ "Charles Haba on Twitter". Retrieved 24 June 2019.
- ^ "Rwanda Cricket Association on Twitter". Retrieved 19 June 2019.
- ^ a b Musali, Denis (12 June 2019). "25 years on, Rwanda to host 4 team memorial women's T20I event". Emerging Cricket. Retrieved 24 May 2020.
- ^ Muhinde, Jejje (18 June 2019). "Women's Cricket team to face Mali in T20 opener". The New Times. Retrieved 19 June 2019.
- ^ "Rwanda to Host 4-Nation Kwibuka Memorial Tournament As Defending Champs Pull Out". Czar Sportz. Retrieved 20 June 2019.
- ^ "All T20 matches between ICC members to get international status". International Cricket Council. 26 April 2018. Retrieved 19 June 2019.
- ^ "Kwibuka Women's Twenty20 Tournament 2019 - Fixtures and Results". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 19 June 2019.
- ^ "Tanzania win Kwibuka Peace Tournament on maiden appearance". Kawowo Sports. Retrieved 24 June 2019.
- ^ Musali, Denis (27 June 2019). "Tanzania Continue to Impress with Unbeaten Run at Kwibuka Peace Tournament". Emerging Cricket. Retrieved 27 June 2019.
- ^ "Kwibuka Women's T20 Tournament - Records & Stats". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 24 June 2019.
- ^ "6 All Out - Mali Women Bowled Out For Lowest Women's T20I Total". ESPNcricinfo. 18 June 2019. Retrieved 19 June 2019.
- ^ "Rewind: When Uganda mercilessly thrashed Mali in a T20I". Women's CricZone. Retrieved 28 June 2020.
- ^ a b c "Wonder Women – Ten T20I records women own". Women's CricZone. Retrieved 21 April 2020.
- ^ "Mali Women Sink to Record 304-run Defeat in T20I". ESPNcricinfo. 20 June 2019. Retrieved 21 June 2019.
- ^ Musali, Denis. "Kwibuka Tournament postponed to 2021". Emerging Cricket. Retrieved 9 May 2020.
© MMXXIII Rich X Search. We shall prevail. All rights reserved. Rich X Search