Epokolo cricket launch
Epokolo cricket is, a new type of cricket played using the stem of palm leaves, was launched last Friday with six team cricket tournament to be held at the Nuuyoma senior secondary school (sss) sport ground at Oshikuku in Omusati region.

Epokolo cricket is named after the stems of the palm tree leaves that are going to be used in the tournament instead of cricket bats. Six teams from Oshikuku and Elmi will participate in the tournament .wet palm leave steam are better to play cricket than dry stem .apart from oshikuku launch another launch will be at Oshakati in oshana region .the cricket launch is under kwata cricket programme   development .the program is aimed for the northern region cricket development .the programmer has officer at school who are on the payroll of the programmer, also the teachers receive some money for the transport  when they are traveling. The Australian sport outreach programme is sponsoring the kwata cricket programmer for this year. All most 22 school in Oshana region three school in Ohangwena region and five school in Omusati region are part of the cricket league established  by the kwata programmer.

A trophy and gold medals will be awarded to the winning cricket team of the Epokolo cricket launch tournament while the runners-up and the third best team will take home silver and bronze medals, respectively, so come to the cricket tournament.

Reference http://www.namibian.com.na/sport/local/full-story/archive/2012/september/article/epokolo-cricket-to-launch-at-oshikuku