Whereas the Victoria Sequence 2025 took a quick pause, the motion continued off the pitch at Gayaza Excessive College, the place Uganda and Canada’s ladies’s cricket groups got here collectively to have a good time ICC Girls’s Cricket Week.

In a vibrant occasion crammed with vitality and pleasure, the varsity hosted an inspiring day devoted to empowering younger women via cricket.

Worldwide stars, nationwide gamers, and curious college students shared the sector in a celebration of inclusion, teamwork, and risk.

“It’s wonderful to see all of you right here,”

stated Leria Ondeko, Uganda Cricket’s Girls’s Consultant.

“It is a world celebration of women and girls in cricket—and in the present day, it’s all about YOU.”

For a lot of college students, it was their first time choosing up a bat and a ball.

However with the steering of coaches from the Central Area Hub, Cricket Uganda’s Growth Supervisor Davis Turinawe, and gamers from each groups, they rapidly discovered their rhythm.

Encouragement was fixed, and enthusiasm was in every single place.

Appearing CEO Evelyn Kabongerwa Shinyekwa and different leaders shared highly effective messages about ladies’s rising function in cricket.

“From schoolyards like this to worldwide stadiums,”

Evely stated,

“women are exhibiting the world what they’re manufactured from.”

The day included enjoyable drills, mini-matches, and private mentoring—creating an area the place women felt seen, supported, and impressed.

Laughter echoed throughout the sector as friendships fashioned and confidence grew.

Launched to spice up world participation, ICC Girls’s Cricket Week discovered the proper dwelling at Gayaza—the place cricket turned greater than a sport.

It turned a spark for change.

Because the solar set on a discipline stuffed with goals, one message stood tall: cricket is for everybody.

And for a lot of women at Gayaza Excessive College, this was only the start.