Champions Trophy Final

Champions Trophy final
Premier, 221
Wanderers 115
Premier win by 106 runs
Mawanda Cup final
Premier 183,
Wanderers 179
Premier win by 4 runs
Second division
Patidar 219 beat Charity 107 by 112 runs

Over the weekend, the 2010 national league champions added the Mawanda Cup and Champions League trophies to their list of conquests this season.

They defeated the Wanderers in the finals of both competitions, by four runs in the Mawanda Cup and 106 runs in the Champions Trophy.

This latest success took Premier to five titles out of five, having begun the year by scooping the pre-season Luswata Cup and the Easter Twenty20 tournament.

Premier are worthy winners by any standard even though their achievements are not all too surprising. With a squad boasting 10 of Uganda’s best cricketers, they always had it within them to scale such heights.

Premier enters elite list
In fact, Premier are not the first team to sweep everything on the calendar, with Tornado and the Wanderers having done it in the past.

As with the times it happened before, when one team runs roughshod over everyone else, it raises questions about the health of cricket.

However, Premier captain Davis Arinaitwe doesn’t accept the argument that his team’s dominance is necessarily bad for the game.

“I don’t agree that it is bad,” Arinaitwe argued. “Winning is a habit and it means that by the time we (Premier’s Uganda cricketers) play for the national team we will know the feeling of winning.”

Nevertheless, Arinaitwe conceded to “some disadvantages” resulting from having too many national stars on one team.

“Some players don’t get to fulfil their potential,” the skipper explained. “There is not enough opportunities to bat and bowl.”

Premier dedicated their achievements to fallen cricketer Charles Lwanga.

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