The Uganda Ladies’s Nationwide Cricket Crew, the Victoria Pearls, was on Monday formally flagged off on the Nationwide Council of Sports activities (NCS) forward of the Rising Ladies’s Trophy 2025, scheduled for 18th November to 1st December in Thailand.

The inaugural match will carry collectively eight prime rising ladies’s cricket nations, together with ODI-status sides Netherlands, PNG, Scotland, Thailand, and UAE, alongside Namibia, Uganda, and Tanzania from the highest T20I rankings. Matches shall be performed on the Terdthai Cricket Floor and the Asian Institute of Expertise (AIT) in Bangkok.

Uganda enters the competitors in excessive spirits after sweeping the 2025 Victoria Sequence 5–0 in opposition to Canada in October. Teddy Oyella returns to the squad, changing Phiona Kulume from the workforce that competed on the ICC Africa Qualifier in July.

The Victoria Pearls open their marketing campaign on twentieth November in opposition to Scotland at Terdthai Cricket Floor.

The highest 4 groups from the match will qualify for a brand new international ladies’s occasion in 2027, a part of the ICC’s plan to develop the Ladies’s T20 World Cup to 16 groups by 2030.

Uganda Squad

Janet Mbabazi (Captain), Esther Iloku, Kevin Awino, Ritah Musamali, Immaculate Nakisuuyi, Stephanie Nampiina, Proscovia Alako, Malisa Ariokot, Consy Aweko, Sarah Akiteng, Kevin Amuge, Irene Mutonyi, Naume Amongin, and Teddy Oyella.

Key Fixtures

• 20 Nov: Scotland vs Uganda – 9:45am – Terdthai

• 21 Nov: Uganda vs Namibia – 9:45am – Terdthai

• 23 Nov: Uganda vs PNG – 5:30am – Terdthai

• 25 Nov: UAE vs Uganda – 9:45am – AIT

• 26 Nov: Thailand vs Uganda – 9:45am – AIT

• 28 Nov: Uganda vs Tanzania – 9:45am – AIT

• 30 Nov: Netherlands vs Uganda – 9:45am – Terdthai