1999 West African Championships to be held in 2000 (5 Dec 1999)

5 December 1999

1999 West African Championships to be held in 2000

Gambia Cricket Association secretary, Mr. Sonny Manly- Rollings, reckons nothing happens too quickly in West Africa.

The West African Championships are proving that with the 1999 Quadrangular tournament now almost certain to played in February, umm, 2000.

While the late 1990s have been dubbed the `Communication Age' in so-called Western countries, easy correspondence is not taken for granted in the West African countries with a cricket presence - Gambia, Sierra Leone, Ghana and Nigeria.

Mr. Manly-Rollings, who is the organiser of the 1999 event which has seen two deferments of the annual tournament, said Sierra Leone was the only confirmed participant for a slated December appearance.

"Ghana wants it postponed to February while getting through to Nigeria is a nightmare," Mr. Manly-Rollings said.

Sierra Leone's participation would be a remarkable triumph of the human spirit considering a civil war which various aid organisations have observed to be one of the worst they have seen.