Host’s Nigeria and Ghana remained unbeaten after 2nd round of matches in the ICC Africa “A” sub-regional qualifiers for WorldT20 at Lagos. Both teams will now face each other to occupy the top spot in the points table on 17th Apr 2018.
While Nigeria posted a 55-runs victory over The Gambia, Ghana defended a below-par score against Sierra Leone to emerge victorious by 31 runs. Sierra Leone will the the four run-out’s in their innings which halted their challenge towards the target after their bowlers did a brilliant job of restricting Ghana to only 140.
With the top 2 team’s advancing to Regional Finals from each of the three groups in Africa, Nigeria and Ghana have both opened up a good gap of 4 points as of now over The Gambia and Sierra Leone respectively and the winner between The Ghana and Sierra Leone in the 3rd round of group matches will allow one team to open their points account and hopefully start their winning ways in the tournament.
The Media section (Back-end Operations) at the ground have been at their jovial best to bring all the action from Lagos Qualifiers.
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Brief Scores:
Nigeria 176/5 in 20 overs (Ademola Onikoyi 75 n.o, Chimezie Onwuzulike 34, Isaac Okpe 21 n.o, Basiru Jaye 2/26, Andre Jarju 1/20) beat The Gambia 121/7 in 20 overs (P Faye 29, Muhammed Manga 24, Daniel Gim 2/16, Isaac Okpe 1/6, Shola Anyia 1/7, Isaac Danladi 1/17) by 55 runs
Ghana 140/8 in 20 overs (Simon Ateak 57, Peter Ananya 16, Richard Tommy 2/21, Ibrahim Kamara 2/23, Abu Kamara 2/24, Hari Ram Bhamu 1/20) beat Sierra Leone 109/8 in 20 overs (Lansana Lamin 28, Abass Gbla 15, Isaac Aboagye 2/28, David Ankrah 1/13) by 31 runs
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Nigeria Cricket Federation (NCF), who have signed the sponsorship agreement with Visionscape Sanitation, held a press conference yesterday at the ground talking about the support and financial assistance they have received from them prior to hosting the ICC tournament, which will be followed by regional qualifiers for Africa Cricket Association’s T20 Africa Cup.
