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Cricket Namibia has announced the names of 6 cricket teams that will participate in various cricket festivals and tournaments in South Africa and Namibia in December 2010.

Through the High Performance Program, regional visits, training camps and national trials held throughout the year the final teams were selected and finalised.

The Under 15 boys team will go to Benoni to participate at the ICC Africa Cricket Association U15 Cricket Festival from 6 to 8 December.

The other countries that will take part in the festival are Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, and Zambia.

The same team also will participate in the Cricket South Africa (CSA) PG Bison U15 Cricket Week in Port Elizabeth from 13 to 17 December. The team will be coached by Nobert Manyande with Gareth Cloete as the team manager.

The Under 19 boys will be participation in the CSA Khaya Mayola Coca Cola U19 Cricket Week in Bloemfontein, which will be held from 17 to 21 December. Johan Rudolph will coach the team and Solastie Scholtz will be the manager.

For the first time, the Under 12 boys have been invited to Worcester in the Boland Cricket Board Feedem Pitseng Provincial U13 Cricket Tournamnet along with the Namibian Under 13 team.

The tournament will run from 13 to 17 December and the teams will be coached by Johan Rudolph and managed by John Heynes.

The Under 15 girls will participate in the Bank Windhoek Girls Cricket Festival in Windhoek from 6 to 9 December. Other teams that will take part are Northerns, Limpopo, North West, Gauteng and Botswana.

The Namibian team will be coached by Ian van Schoor.

“By intensifying the coaching program of the youth players and focussing on squads of more than 30 players and not only a team of 13, the pool of very talented cricketers has increased tremendously,” Marsia Reed from Cricket Namibia said.

Reed also congratulated the players that were selected in to the different teams.

“To be selected for a national cricket team has become more challenging as the competition is real and becomes tougher each year, so congratulations to each player selected. They have achieved this through dedication and hard work,” she said.

“The exposure and experience they will gain on such a tour by participating in competitive matches will be tremendous and exciting.”

Meanwhile, Cricket Namibia will host the Standard Bank U11 and U12 Coastal Cricket Festival in Walvis Bay and Swakopmund from Friday 26 November to Sunday 28 November, where 52 players have been selected to take part.

Wanderers cricket club will also host a cricket training camp from 6 to 9 December. The camp is open to children aged between 10 and 13 who want to learn more about cricket.

Attached are the names of the players who were selected for the different national teams and those selected for the cricket festival