T20 WC 2024: The captain who equaled Rohit Sharma's record surprised the cricket world, took this decision after the team's defeat

Posted on 20th Jun 2024 by rohit kumar

Uganda's team participated in the T20 World Cup for the first time. Making its debut in the T20 World Cup, the Ugandan team's journey was not very special. The team won only one match out of 4 matches, while it lost three matches. Due to this poor performance, the Ugandan team failed to qualify for the Super-8. Uganda's team suffered another major setback with their exit from the tournament. Ugandan team captain Brian Masaba resigned from his post.

 

Brian Masaba left captaincy after Uganda failed to reach Super-8

 

The Uganda Cricket Association has shared a video on its X (formerly Twitter), in which Brian Masaba is giving information about his decision to leave the captaincy. Brian is saying that this was a decision that I had been thinking about for a long time. This is the proudest moment of my life, in which I not only got the opportunity to captain my country in the World Cup, but I have been carrying out this responsibility for the last 5 years. Due to this responsibility, I have learned a lot as a leader, which is going to be very important in my future life as well.

 

Brian Masaba equaled Rohit Sharma's record

 

With Brian Masaba resigning from the captaincy of the Ugandan team, he equaled the record of Indian captain Rohit Sharma as captain in T20 International. Brian Masaba holds the record of the second most successful captain in Men's T20 International. While captaining the Ugandan team in T20 International, he won 45 matches out of 60 matches. Rohit Sharma has done a similar feat while captaining India. Rohit Sharma has led India to victory 45 times while captaining a total of 57 matches in T20 International.

 

This was the performance of Uganda's team in the T20 World Cup 2024

 

If we talk about the performance of the Uganda cricket team in the T20 World Cup 2024, then let us tell you that the team lost to Afghanistan by 125 runs in their opening match. After this, Uganda won against Papua New Guinea by 3 wickets. The team lost against West Indies by 134 runs, while Uganda lost against New Zealand by 9 wickets.

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