Baby Cricket Cranes spinner Joseph Baguma is hopeful the team can gain enough experience from the ongoing Indian tour.
Uganda flew to the country that takes Cricket as a religion to prepare for the forthcoming ICC U19 World Cup Regional Qualifiers.
Baguma and the U19 side are in India for a two-week tour full of friendlies as they fine-tune for the July qualifiers in Tanzania.
Joseph Baguma continued to lead by example.
The side has already played two games and they have won both games comfortably with Baguma being the kingpin.
The 17-year-old was named Man of the Match in both games due to his outstanding displays that had him claim 9 wickets in total.
Focus remains the July prize in Tanzania
All eyes are on a fourth World Cup appearance and as they prepare for the big one, the spinner who earned his senior national team debut last year hopes whatever they learn from this trip will help them outcompete other nations in Tanzania.
“We are trying to play some basics because India is just like Tanzania,” Baguma who already has World Cup experience under his belt noted.
“It is the same conditions so we are trying to gain more experience from here to help us in our qualification quest.”
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The player who was part of Uganda’s World Cup squad in the West Indies added that: “I’m trying to bowl in variations so I can use them properly in the Qualifiers.”
The team’s assistant coach Robinson Turinawe highlighted the same. Turinawe insists they are majorly concentrating on the basics.
“We are trying to polish bowling according to proper lines and length. We are also working in pairs in fielding and partnerships in batting.”
Uganda has featured at the U19 World Cup thrice (in 2004, 2006, and 2022) but, for them to repeat history, they will have to first negotiate their way past five nations.
Namibia, Kenya, Sierra Leone, Nigeria, and hosts Tanzania are the hurdles in their path of booking a ticket for next year’s showpiece in Sri Lanka.
By: Rose Agwang
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