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CRICKET ON KILIMANJARO
Gorillas 82 for 5 - Rhinos 64 for 9 - Yes, last week a game of Twenty20 cricket was played in the crater of Mt. Kilimanjaro at a height of 5,730 metres, before the clouds stopped play, by a group of international cricketers setting a new record for the highest-ever match played. The current record for the world’s highest game is 5,165 metres, played in the Himalayas at Everest base camp in Nepal in 2009.
The teams, including English bowling legend Ashley Giles and South African icon Makhaya Ntini, the country’s first black Test player, made the 8-day grueling trek up the extinct volcano in Tanzania to raise funds for cancer research, wildlife conservation and to promote the sport in Rwanda.
The match was played on a plastic mat for the wicket over the ash and in thin, freezing air surrounded by vast blocks of ice.
Top scores were 20 each by Heather Knight and Phil Walker, editor of the All Out Cricket magazine.
For more on the news: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-29375679
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