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(English) Highest ever game in high altitude beats Everest Base Camp record

Cricketers attempt a record breaking match played at 5,730 metres (18,910 feet), in the flat crater just below Kilimanjaro's summit (AFP/Peter Martell)
Cricketers attempt a record breaking match played at 5,730 metres (18,910 feet), in the flat crater just below Kilimanjaro’s summit (AFP/Peter Martell)

KATHMANDU, Nepal–A group of weird cricketers on Friday set a record for the highest ever match with a marvelous effort at the top of Tanzania’s Mount Kilimanjaro.

A handful of bewildered spectators grabbed the opportunity to take part in highest ever match.

The game was played at the elevation of 5,730 metres, in the dusty and icy crater just below the dormant volcano’s 5,895-metre summit.

With the attempts to raise funds for charities including Cancer Research and conservation charity Tusk Trust, which initiates to curb rampant poaching of elephants and other endangered species of animals, the game was organized.

The teams, including England’s Ashes bowling legend Ashley Giles and South African icon Makhaya Ntini, the country’s first black Test player, trekked to the roof of Africa before dawn and played 10 overs each of a Twenty20 game before cloud stopped play, according to AFP report.

The previous highest game had been 5,165 metres, played in the Himalayas at Everest Bade Camp in Nepal in 2009.

“It was such hard work breathing and running at this altitude but something like this only happens once in a lifetime,” a participant Steven Smith was quoted by AFP.

Tanzanian mountain guide Mukuru Mugapablo said he had seen nothing like such thrilling event in highest ever place.

Tanzanian porters pulled out a plastic track, bats, balls among other necessities taking a seven-day trek.

The final score was a winning 5-82 for the Gorillas team, led by England women’s vice-captain Heather Knight, against 9-64 for Giles’s Rhinos team.

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