The First batch of Senior Men’s Patriots comprising 9 players, has on Monday October 2nd, 2023, via AirPeace, departed for Lagos Nigeria to represent Sierra Leone in the West Africa Cricket Trophy slated for October 4 through October 15, 2023.
The second batch of five players, a coach and the team manager will join the first today Tuesday 3rd, 2023.
Sierra Leone will compete against Ghana, Rwanda, and host Nigeria in the ten-day tournament in which 20 matches will be played at the famous, Tawafa Balewa Square.
Sierra Leone will play nine matches, and she is pitted against Ghana on the tournament’s opening day, Thursday October 4.
On Match Day 2, the Senior Men’s Patriots will engage the Yellow-Green of Nigeria. Both sides have met more than ten times both within and outside ICC arrangements.
The West Africa Trophy is organized to keep the senior sides of the representative countries engaged as a new date has been set for the ACA Cup, which was earlier scheduled for South Africa.