The Nigeria Cricket Federation (NCF) has introduced that the nationwide U19 girls and boys groups will start their marketing campaign for his or her respective World Cup tickets from July 31.
Emeka Igwilo, the final supervisor of the federation, disclosed this, saying the boys’ staff is billed for Tanzania this week aiming to choose one of many two tickets at stake on the Beneath-19 Males’s Cricket World Cup, African Qualifier Division 2.
“Our efficiency at this stage in 2019 gave us the primary World Cup ticket and therefore it has all the time put us within the highlight since then. We’re banking on the expertise and onerous work of the teaching employees to scale the following stage,” Igwillo stated.
He stated the board had re-appointed the coach of the lads’s Beneath-19 staff, Daniel Gim, and hopes he’ll construct on his expertise to ship outcomes for the nation.
“The staff has been tenting for weeks and we hope this can depend for them within the tournaments that run from July 31 to August 14 in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania,” he stated.
Their feminine under-19 staff, parading eight members of the senior nationwide feminine staff, is scheduled for a one-level World Cup Qualifier in Kigali, Rwanda from August 19 to 31.
Igwilo says other than a brand new technical staff dealing with the youngsters, he believes that the staff parading some skilled gamers who helped the nation safe the African Video games silver medal in Accra, Ghana raises hope of performing nicely through the occasion.
“The gamers in each groups are merchandise of various developmental programmes throughout the nation which speaks to the trouble of the coaches and developmental officers driving cricket on the grassroots. These kids characterize the way forward for the sport in Nigeria and the board prioritises grassroots engagement throughout the nation together with facility improvement and steady upskilling our employees should proceed,” he additionally stated.
The senior males’s nationwide staff additionally just lately accomplished a bilateral encounter with Kenya the place they featured in 5 T20 video games and Two 50 overs, dropping 3-2 within the T20 collection and dropping all 50-over encounters.
“The Nigerian groups have been busy shaping up for the quarters forward and we’re glad on the classes we’re selecting up and the changes they’re opening us to,” the NCF additional stated.
The senior males’s nationwide staff will function in a Division 2 World Cup Qualifier to be hosted in Nigeria later in November.
