THE Viti Ruve, Fiji’s Women’s national cricket team lost their opening clash with Samoa in a thrilling game in Apia on Wednesday.
Chasing a total of 124, Ruve were all out for 118, leaving them seven runs short of victory.
Persistent morning rain meant that the game, the first international ever played by Ruve, was shortened to 25 overs.
FAILING to make the cut in netball and athletics did not dampen Marica Vua’s spirts. She successfully won a spot to represent the first Fiji Women’s cricket team to Samoa.
Vua impressed the national selectors, playing an instrumental role for her Lomary Secondary School team in the women’s championship last year.
NEW Zealand-based Losi Harford jetted into the country to join her team’s preparation prior to their first game of the Women’s Challenge Series against Samoa next Wednesday.
Harford who plies her trade in Auckland cricket would spearhead the campaign of the first ever Fiji women’s cricket team.
NEW Zealand-based Fiji women’s cricket rep Losi Harford was honoured to be named the first national skipper to lead the national side to the Women’s Challenge Series in Samoa. Harford, who joined the team yesterday, said she had confidence in the young and energetic local talent during a training session at Albert Park.
Cricket Fiji has announced the first ever National Women
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