Rita Musamali (born 21 May 1999) is a Ugandan
cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by st ...
er.
In July 2018, she was named in Uganda's squad for the
2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20 Qualifier
The 2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20 Qualifier was an international women's cricket tournament held from 7 to 14 July 2018 in the Netherlands. It was the third edition of the Women's World Twenty20 Qualifier and was the qualification tournament ...
tournament.
She made her
Women's Twenty20 International
Women's Twenty20 International (WT20I) is the shortest form of women's international cricket. A women's Twenty20 International is a 20 overs-per-side cricket match between two of the International Cricket Council (ICC) members. The first Twenty ...
(WT20I) for
Uganda
}), is a landlocked country in East Africa. The country is bordered to the east by Kenya, to the north by South Sudan, to the west by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, to the south-west by Rwanda, and to the south by Tanzania. The south ...
against
Scotland
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in the World Twenty20 Qualifier on 7 July 2018.
In April 2019, she was named in Uganda's squad for the
2019 ICC Women's Qualifier Africa
The 2019 ICC Women's Qualifier Africa was a cricket tournament that was held in Zimbabwe in May 2019. The matches in the tournament were played as Women's Twenty20 Internationals (WT20Is), with the top team progressing to both the 2019 ICC Wome ...
tournament in Zimbabwe. On 20 June 2019, in the
Kwibuka Women's T20 Tournament match against
Mali
Mali (; ), officially the Republic of Mali,, , ff, 𞤈𞤫𞤲𞥆𞤣𞤢𞥄𞤲𞤣𞤭 𞤃𞤢𞥄𞤤𞤭, Renndaandi Maali, italics=no, ar, جمهورية مالي, Jumhūriyyāt Mālī is a landlocked country in West Africa. Ma ...
, Musamali scored 103
not out
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Occurrence
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. She was the leading run-scorer in the tournament, with 189 runs in six matches.
In March 2023, Musamali became one of the
Uganda Cricket Association
Uganda Cricket Association controls and organises all tours and matches undertaken by the Uganda national cricket team and Uganda women's national cricket team. It is the governing body for the sport of cricket in Uganda. Its current headquarter ...
's first twelve women players to be awarded central contracts.
See also
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List of centuries in women's Twenty20 International cricket
In the sport of cricket, a century is a score of one hundred or more runs by a batsman in a single innings. In a women's Twenty20 match, each team plays a single innings, which is restricted to a maximum of 20 overs. A women's Twenty20 Intern ...
References
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1999 births
Living people
Ugandan women cricketers
Uganda women Twenty20 International cricketers
Place of birth missing (living people)
Cricketers at the 2023 African Games
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