Uganda, April 25 -- The contrast in the two warm-up results against Vanuatu and hosts UAE simply tells how long a journey Team Uganda have got at the ICC Women's Twenty20 Global Qualifier.

The eight-team championship which offers the finalists two tickets to the ICC Women's T20 World Cup set to be in Bangladesh come September, bowls off this afternoon in Abu Dhabi.

The senior national women's team - the Victoria Pearls - clearly showed they are far from ready after they lost their second warm-up match to UAE by nine wickets after setting 69-9 after the allotted overs.

That result on Tuesday night must have left Pearls' technical set-up comprising coaches Lawrence Ssematimba, his assistant Deus Muhumuza, strength and conditioning expert...