Ghana continued their supremacy over Nigeria, after defeating them by 4 wickets to win the ICC World T20 Africa ‘A’ Qualifier in Lagos. This was Ghana’s second victory over the host’s and Nigeria will be looking forward to return the favour in the Northwestern qualifiers for T20 Africa Cup, set to start shortly with Mali and Cameroon also joining the four teams from the ICC qualifiers.
Captain Isaac Aboagye won the toss and Ghana bowlers did the rest of the work as they bowled out Nigeria for only 73 runs in 19.3 overs with Koffi Bagabena picking up 4/22 runs and got good support from Micheal Aboagye, who picked up 2/4 runs of his 4 overs, which included 2 maidens as well.
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Man of the Tournament Simon Ateak of Ghana 🇬🇭 pic.twitter.com/sjTjoFFrFz
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Ghana didn’t have much of troubles as they reached the target with more than 5 overs to spare to claim the trophy. Nigeria, too have already qualified for Africa Regional finals.
The other two teams in the tournament, Sierra Leone and The Gambia will now try to better their performances in the T20 Africa Cup qualifiers and show much more resolve against both Ghana and Nigeria.
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Best Bowler Mohammed Taiwo of Nigeria 🇳🇬
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Sierra Leone ended their campaign with a second win over The Gambia. ICC development team will be very happy with how Lagos has organised the tournament in the past one week and will be looking forward to seeing Botswana and Rwanda hosting the Africa “B” and “C” group qualifiers, later in the year.
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Best Batman of the Tournament Onwuzilike Chimizie of Nigeria 🇳🇬 pic.twitter.com/AFwwMI8O7T
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Simon Ateak of Ghana was awarded the Man of the Series award while Nigeria Captain Chimizie Onwuzulike was adjudged the Batsman of the tournament and Mohammed Taiwo won the bowler of the tournament award.
