CRICKET: NCF CALLS TO CAMP THE NATIONAL MALE, FEMALE AND UNDER 19 MALE TEAMS

August 06 10:42 2019 by The Ajasa News Print This Article

The Nigeria Cricket Federation has invited to camp the National Men’s team AKA Yellow greens, Under 19 Men’s team (Junior Yellow greens) and the Female National team  ahead of series of international competitions lined up from 3^rd quarter 2019 till 1^st Quarter of 2020.

The Junior Yellow greens have been in camp in Abuja since 15^th July 2019 as part of the official preparation and build up to the ICC Under-19 world cup 2020 in South Africa.

The Yellow greens who are presently in camp in Abujaare also scheduled to take part in the Africa Cricket Association Africa Cup Finals later in September with Kenya as host. We may recall in April 2018 in Lagos, Nigeria and Ghana both qualifies during the West Africa regional tournament ahead of Sierra Leone, Gambia, and Cameroon.

Other countries to participate are yet to be confirmed with the proposed tournament aimed at 6 countries involved with 2 representing each zone in Africa..

Also, following the positive outing at the ICC Women’s World Cup Africa Qualifier in May 2019 in Zimbabwe, 24 Female players have been invited to camp in preparation for the return leg of the Bilateral Series between Nigeria and Rwanda which took place earlier this year in January. Nigeria emerged winners of the series after winning 3 games out of the 5 match series.

True to the Federation’s commitment to continue to develop Women Cricket in Nigeria and foster diplomatic relationship with other member countries in Africa, Nigeria will attend the return leg of the bilateral series which is expected to take place in Kigali from2^nd – 8^th September 2019. The National Women’s camp opened in Lagos on Sunday 4^th August 2019.

Thus far in the national camps for the men, Yellow Greens and the Junior Yellow Greens have played 3 friendly matches from a possible 8 with 5 T-20’s and 3 ODI’s lined up.

The senior boys have triumphed in all the games played so far but with narrow win margins to indicate that the U-19 team are improving daily ahead of the pre-tournament tours scheduled by the Federation before the 2020 world cup in South Africa.