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The teams showed sheer dominance in the competition, winning all games and eventually claiming the title. It’s the fourth consecutive win for the ladies and the third for the male team.
The defending champions, Team South-South, have retained the PwC/NCF U-17 Cricket Championship.
The south-south male and female teams dominated the fourth edition of the Nigeria Cricket Federation (NCF)/PwC national championship.
The teams showed sheer dominance in the competition, winning all games and eventually claiming the title. It’s the fourth consecutive win for the ladies and the third for the male team.
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In the game played on Sunday at the Moshood Abiola National Stadium, Abuja, the girls' game saw the defending champions pitch against South East.
South East won the toss and opted to field.
The bowling effort of Faith Okpara (3/16) was not enough to limit the defending champions as they raced to 133/5 in 20 overs.
Player of the Match Piety Lucky 49 (36) and teammate Peculiar Agboya 30 (20) did the job for the South-South zone as they finished the innings on a high note.
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In reply, South East managed to reach 67 runs/10 in 17.4 overs, as Lucky earned a 4-wicket haul for 10 in 3.4 overs. South South won by 64 runs.
The men’s game began with South South winning the toss and electing to bat against North West.
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Abraham Oaikena 27 (33) and Godswill Effiong 28(29) did the most for the defending champions, as they scored 128 all out in 24 overs.
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To win, North West needed to score 129 runs but the likes of Unity Ogbide 3/16 and Effiong’s 5/6 was instrumental to restricting the Northern side to 56/10 in 21.4 overs.
South South won by 71 runs.
Earlier, South West defeated South East by 17 runs in the boys event as well as North West by 7 wickets in the girls event to claim the third place position.
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At the end of the game, Theophilus Ibodeme, coach of South South lauded the team’s performance.
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“I am very happy with the players and the performance. It should our hardwork has paid off and hopefully we will keep improving on this feat.
“Also appreciation to the other teams. They have really improved from the last time we met them and they give us good competition,” he said.
At the end of the event, a number of individual awards were given to the deserving players.
For Girls, Aisha Aliyu from North East emerged Best Behaved, while Precious Simon from North West was the Best Fielder and Kehinde Amusan emerged Best Fielder from South West.
The Best Batter was presented to Chinemerem Ihezuo of South East and the Most Valuable Player (MVP) was presented to Piety Lucky of South-South.
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The boys' event saw Abdullahi Ismail of North West go home as the best behaved, while Daniel Joseph of South West was the best fielder.
The Best Batter award was presented to South West’s Wale Odukoya, while South South’s Joseph Omonkhobhio is the best Bowler and the MVP award goes to Kareem Gafar from South West.
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