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Sagoe on Friday in Nairobi was elected chairman of the Africa Cricket
Association (ACA) at the body’s annual general meeting which held at the
Nairobi Hilton last Saturday. The Nigerian will be serving for the next
two years. After his election, he made it known that he would continue
to toe the line of the former chairman, Cassim Suliman, who made
developmental programmes key to his tenure.

Speaking to
reporters after the election, Mr Sagoe, the chairman of the Nigeria
Cricket Federation (NCF), said, “Grassroots development is the way to
go. Developing the umpiring, curatorship and other aspects of the game
is so vital to the development of the sport in Africa. The educational
programme is continuous. The coaching clinics will continue in the short
term as they have always been done and that is the way that we want to
go to develop capacity for the game on the continent.” Also speaking on
Sagoe’s election, the chief operating officer of the NCF, George
Wiltshire, said the development could only help the growth of the game
in the country and also in Africa.

In the same vein, the national team players currently in Benoni,
South Africa, preparing for the World Cricket League Division 7 matches
are feeling the chill as the weather is down to between 13 °C and 15 °C
in Benoni. But the team, which has settled down to training twice a day
under Sean Philips, are looking ahead to the coming challenge of Kuwait,
Germany, Botswana, Japan and Norway. They hope to be one of the two
teams that will book a place in the World Cricket League Division 6 in
Malaysia. The two best countries in the round-robin tournament qualify.