CWB coaching weeks always end with a festival day when all the schools we have just coached get together to show us what they have learned during a Kwik Cricket competition.
One hundred and twenty boys and girls from six schools around Kigali made their way to the oval at Kicukiro where 21 games were played during the afternoon. Schools taking part were Excella, St Joseph's, St Esprit, Indera and Kicukiro.
Teams comprised of equal numbers of boys and girls and, in the spirit of both Kwic cricket rules and CWB objectives, everyone got to bat and bowl. CWB volunteers ran the games and kept score while the newly trained teachers and coaches helped out.
After much ebb and flow on a boiling hot afternoon the final was fought out between Excella and St. Esprit. In a nail biting finish two wickets in three balls by the St. Esprit bowler looked to have produced the first ever tie, something quickly confirmed by the most detailed and undisputedly precise scorecard in CWB history!
Earlier in the day half a dozen of us had taken motorcycle taxis (ridiculously cheap) to a local market where much fierce haggling saw us leave with armfuls of tourist trinkets. We all thought we had bagged a bargain. Funny thing was, the traders' smiles were even wider than ours! They clearly know this bartering malarkey better than us.