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Courtney Walsh named marketing consultant for Zimbabwe girls

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Zimbabwe Cricket (ZC) has roped in former West Indies captain Courtney Walsh as marketing consultant for the nationwide girls’s aspect. Walsh’s appointment comes because the aspect seems to qualify for the Girls’s T20 World Cup in September-October 2024.

Walsh is at present with the squad within the UAE, the place they are going to play the qualifying event for the Girls’s T20 World Cup. The highest two groups from the 10-team occasion, which begins on April 25, will qualify for the primary occasion in Bangladesh. Zimbabwe have by no means performed on the Girls’s T20 World Cup earlier than.

Walsh, who as soon as held the document for essentially the most Check wickets (519), shall be helping head coach Walter Chawaguta. Between October 2020 and April 2023, Walsh was head coach of West Indies’ girls’s crew, and beneath his steering, they reached the semi-final of the Girls’s ODI World Cup in 2022.

“We depend ourselves lucky and privileged to have the ability to herald Courtney as a technical marketing consultant for our marketing campaign on the ICC Girls’s T20 World Cup Qualifier in Abu Dhabi,” ZC Managing Director Givemore Makoni mentioned. “He is among the world’s best cricketers and we consider his expertise on the highest stage of the ladies’s recreation particularly will increase our possibilities of securing one of many two spots up for grabs on the most important international showpiece later within the yr.”

Zimbabwe are in Group B of the qualifier event, alongside Eire, Netherlands, UAE and Vanuatu. Group A has Sri Lanka, Thailand, Scotland, Uganda and USA.

The highest two groups from every group will qualify for the semi-finals, after which the 2 finalists will meet on Might 7. The 2 finalists will qualify for the Girls’s T20 World Cup no matter the results of the title conflict.


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