National cricket team set for Tri-Nations T20 in eSwatini
Leemisa Thuseho THE senior national men’s cricket team will continue its international engagements when it competes in the Ubuntu Tri-Nations T20 Series 2026 in eSwatini next month. Organised by the Eswatini Cricket Association, the series will feature hosts Eswatini, Lesotho and Mozambique, and will run from 2 to 7 June. The teams will compete... The post National cricket team set for Tri-Nations T20 in eSwatini appeared first on Lesotho Times.
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Leemisa Thuseho
THE senior national men’s cricket team will continue its international engagements when it competes in the Ubuntu Tri-Nations T20 Series 2026 in eSwatini next month.
Organised by the Eswatini Cricket Association, the series will feature hosts Eswatini, Lesotho and Mozambique, and will run from 2 to 7 June.
The teams will compete in a round-robin format, with each side facing the others twice before the top two teams advance to the final.
The international engagement is expected to provide valuable exposure and strengthen regional cricket relations within Southern Africa.
The team was last in action on the international stage in March this year during a bilateral T20 series against Botswana.
The eSwatini tournament also adds to a growing list of recent international engagements for Lesotho’s national cricket teams following the 2026 Kalahari Women’s T20 International Tournament, where the women’s side competed.
Organised by the Botswana Cricket Association, the annual tournament was held last month in Botswana and featured seven national teams: Botswana, Lesotho, Brazil, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia and Sierra Leone.
National teams head coach Dzikamai Alexander Mavhiko said regular international competition is the only way local teams can improve.
“We welcome the opportunity to keep competing internationally because that is the only way to improve,” Mavhiko told the Lesotho Times this week.
For the past two weeks, the team has been assembling at Lesotho High School for a training camp, and Mavhiko said they will hold their final camp this weekend before departure.
Mavhiko believes the tournament will help improve the players’ competitiveness and said the squad is shaping up well ahead of the competition.
He added that the squad will include several players promoted from the Under-19 side.
“Our squad has changed massively compared to the previous one. We are taking the Under-19 route because we want to increase our pool of players with international exposure.
“This is a triangular competition between the three countries and we are going to play each team twice. I think that will be enough games for our boys. We have had successful camps and we are now putting the final touches on our strategies,” Mavhiko said.
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