Preview Can spirited Uganda challenge the mighty West Indies? Uganda beat PNG for their first World Cup win but the co-hosts will present them with a much stiffer challenge at the Providence Srinidhi Ramanujam 08-Jun-2024 • 22 mins ago 3:24 Ganga: Uganda's success will elevate cricket in East Africa Match details West Indies vs Uganda June 8, Providence, 7.30pm local Big picture: Uganda's players take on their heroes It's strange and beautiful that Uganda's third T20I against a Full-Member nation - they first beat Zimbabwe in Africa Qualifiers to reach the T20 World Cup and then lost to Afghanistan on their World Cup debut - is against West Indies. Irrespective of the result, Saturday will be celebrated and cherished not just in the Ugandan dressing room in Providence but also back home.

Some Ugandan players' role models are West Indians. In batter Simon Ssesazi' s words, some of them "only support West Indies in any format of the game" and it's a "blessing" to play against them. There is so much love and admiration for the co-hosts of this World Cup - Frank Nsubuga , 43, had named his son Pollard after a certain West Indian legend .

West Indies are coming into this game on the back of five successive wins and will be keen to extend that streak. Though they were given a scare by Papua New Guinea (PNG) in their opening match , West Indies eventually got home thanks to Roston Chase's cameo in the chase. As for Uganda, they are history-makers.

They are fighters. Back home, the.