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Cricketers play on Kilimanjaro to set new world record

Cricketers play on 26 September 2014 in a crater of Mt Kilimanjaro in Tanzania

BBC NEWS, SEPTEMBER 26 ---

A group of international cricketers has set a new world record for the highest-ever match by playing at the top of Kilimanjaro, Africa's highest mountain, in Tanzania.

The teams included former South Africa fast bowler Makhaya Ntini and ex-Engand spinner Ashley Giles.

The game was played at a height of 5,730m (18,799 ft) in a flat crater just below the summit.

They played 10 overs each of a Twenty20 game before clouds stopped play.

Cricketers play on 26 September 2014 in a crater of Mt Kilimanjaro in Tanzania

"This is absolutely incredible! We are playing cricket on the summit of Africa!" Giles tweeted on Friday morning.

The current record for the world's highest game is 5,165m, played in the Himalayas at Everest base camp in Nepal in 2009.

The "Gorillas" team, led by England women's vice-captain Heather Knight, scored 82-5 to beat Giles' "Rhinos" team, who managed 64-9, the AFP news agency reports.

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They're taking crickets to new heights

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How about a cricket match atop Mount Roraima? That place looks heavenly.

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Originally Posted by Chameli:

Sir Bookstah, it does look like it'sup above...among the clouds

i see it listed as on the top places to see if you are looking for adventure

they say the stonhenge is not worth visiting because it its fenced in and the view is from 200 ft away

From the looks of Roraima top, all kinda ball games can take place there.

It even got a lil pool to bathe in. See it in the foreground?

ballSenior Member

Yo is neva hear bout lake top mountain

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Zulu should have been here to blast the ball down to one of the nearby villages. That would have been something.

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Originally Posted by Gilbakka:

How about a cricket match atop Mount Roraima? That place looks heavenly.

Too much "kai" you will slip and bruk you....you know what

antabantawild wild wicked and wild

Originally Posted by Gilbakka:

Cricketers play on Kilimanjaro to set new world record

No snow on Kilimanjaro?

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Originally Posted by antabanta:

Originally Posted by Gilbakka:

Cricketers play on Kilimanjaro to set new world record

No snow on Kilimanjaro?

Not when that game was going on, as the pictures show. It's summer now, so the little snow there melted.

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