Courtney Walsh named marketing consultant for Zimbabwe ladies

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

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

Walsh, who as soon as held the file for probably the most Check wickets (519), might be aiding head trainer Walter Chawaguta. Between October 2020 and April 2023, Walsh was once head trainer of West Indies’ ladies’s crew, and beneath his steering, they reached the semi-final of the Girls’s ODI Global Cup in 2022.

“We depend ourselves lucky and privileged in an effort to usher in Courtney as a technical marketing consultant for our marketing campaign on the ICC Girls’s T20 Global Cup Qualifier in Abu Dhabi,” ZC Managing Director Givemore Makoni mentioned. “He is without doubt one of the global’s biggest cricketers and we imagine his revel in on the best possible degree of the ladies’s sport specifically will spice up our probabilities of securing some of the two spots up for grabs on the major international showpiece later within the yr.”

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

The highest two groups from each and every crew will qualify for the semi-finals, and then the 2 finalists will meet on Might 7. The 2 finalists will qualify for the Girls’s T20 Global Cup regardless of the results of the identify conflict.

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