Nigeria’s Feminine Yellow Greens rose from their 49 runs defeat to Tanzania on Match-day 2 of the continued NCF Girls’s T20i Invitational Match handy Rwanda Girls’s workforce a five-wicket defeat yesterday on the Tafawa Balewa Cricket Oval in Lagos.
Captain Blessing Etim received the toss and selected to subject, leaving Marie Diane of Rwanda and her teammates to bat first.
A miss-fielding within the first over gave Nigeria a shaky begin. Nevertheless, the women picked up kind when teenage star, Shola Adekunle sparked a lethal bowling squad towards Rwanda.
The 16- outdated Shola took 4 wickets with precision, and Peculiar Agboya and Favour Eseigbe grabbed 3 and a pair of wickets respectively. The shock stored Rwanda’s complete runs at 95 and misplaced 9 wickets in 20 overs (95/9).
The second-inning chase for Nigeria began on a very good word when Assistant Captain Favour Eseigbe and Esther Sandy soaked the stress poured out in revenge by Rwanda. Favour and Esther’s partnership gave Nigeria 58 runs, earlier than Esther’s wicket fell.
Rwanda noticed a chance to tighten the screw and shortly stress shifted to Nigeria with 4 successive falls of wickets (Esther Sandy at 11.4, Agboya Peculiar at 12.2, Etim Blessing at 12.4, and Piety Fortunate at 14.4).
It took the pair of Salome Sunday and Christabel Chukwuonye to stabilise the workforce and drive them to the wanted 5 wickets victory. Nigeria completed at 99/5 win, with Shola Adekunle pocketing the N150,000 prize for the Participant of the Match award.
Nigeria’s coach, Leke Oyede, mentioned the workforce’s bench has taken their learnings from the victories, and likewise from the loss.
“The occasion is nice for us, and helps us make tweaks right here and there, which I consider is nice as we progress and put together for essential occasions forward.”
Tanzania additionally picked their second win on the occasion with a 98-run victory over Sierra Leone on Wednesday, and leaves the West African visiting workforce as the one workforce with out a win thus far.
Matches resume at the moment with Tanzania and Rwanda locking horns at 10:15am whereas Nigeria takes on Sierra Leone later within the day.
