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43-year-old Frank Nsubuga in Uganda squad for 2024 T20 World Cup
Brian Masaba will captain Uganda in the 2024 Men's T20 World Cup in the USA and the West Indies, their first appearance in a senior men's ICC World Cup in any format.
Masaba drives a crew of 15 that incorporates 43-year-old Plain Nsubuga, an offspinning allrounder who is set to be the most established player in the competition in front of Oman's Mohammad Nadeem and Naseem Khushi, both of whom are 41. Riazat Ali Shah, who was brought into the world in Gilgit in Pakistan and moved to Uganda at 16 years old, has been named bad habit skipper, while Ronald Lutaaya and Honest Mwebaze are the two voyaging save players.
Uganda's crew has five changes to the 17-player bunch that directed their movement to the T20 World Cup from the Africa qualifiers last year. Wicketkeeper Cyrus Kakuru, seamer David Wabwire, player Pascal Murungi and experienced left-armer Jonathan Ssebanja have not taken care of business while Lutaaya is in the stores. Fred Achelam, who was Uganda's wicketkeeper at the Africa Games in Ghana recently, will take the gloves while allrounder Juma Miyagi and medium-pacer Cosmas Kyewuta have been remembered for the crew. The choices were prize for individuals from the group who arrived at the semi-finals of the African Games, where they lost to Namibia.
At that competition, Ugandan players ruled the run and wicket outlines as three of the main five run-scorers - Roger Mukasa, Simon Ssesazi and Dinesh Nakrani - and two of the three driving wicket-takers - Alpesh Ramjani and Miyagi - came from their camp. Robinson Obuya, who is additionally in the T20 World Cup crew, had the most noteworthy strike-rate at 190.90 but from just two innings. Simon Ssezazi is additionally Uganda's unsurpassed driving T20I run-scorer and the main hitter from his country with in excess of 2000 T20I hurries to his name, while his sibling, left-arm spinner Henry Ssesyondo, is their driving wicket-taker in the arrangement and six away from turning into the principal Ugandan to 100 T20I wickets.
Uganda travel to the T20 World Cup under another mentor, Abhay Sharma, a previous Indian top notch cricketer who was handling mentor for the Indian Under-19, An and ladies' groups. He went along with them last month for instructional courses in Uganda. The crew is presently in Sri Lanka, finishing a fourteen day instructional course that incorporates matches against the Sri Lankan An and Armed force side, as groundwork for their greatest task to date.
Uganda are in Gathering C at the T20 World Cup, alongside Afghanistan, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea and West Indies, and play their most memorable match against Afghanistan in Fortune, Guyana on June 4.