Nigeria’s national male cricket team, Yellow-Greens, are sitting comfortably the leading the ongoing West Africa Cup, being held at Tafawa Balewa Cricket Oval in Lagos.
Yellow-Greens top the leaderboard with eight wins and two matches to spare.
The four nation tournament sponsored by Nigerian Cricket Federation, sees Rwanda, Ghana, and Sierra Leone respectively being placed behind Nigeria.
Nigeria’s eight wins included three victories a piece against Ghana and Sierra Leone, and two off Rwandan national team.
Yellow-Greens’ Suleiman Runsewe currently leads the batters chart, with 208 runs on the log, from the eight games played so far.
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The high-points, being; 80 runs from 62 balls in the encounter with Ghana on Tuesday, October 10th, and 79 runs he had from 55 balls against Sierra Leone on Thursday, October 5th.
Rwandan, Hamza Khan follows with 177 runs too, from eight matches, while Nigerian Ajekun Daniel sits in the third spot with 160 runs.
Nigeria’s right-hand medium bowler, Isaac Okpe, is leading the bowling chart with 16 wickets from eight matches played, two ahead of Emmanuel Sebareme and Martin Akayezu who are tied at 14 wickets a piece from eight matches.
Cheimelie Udekwe of Nigeria is lurking behind in fourth place, with 13 wickets haul.
Nigeria’s Cricket Federation President, Uyi Akpata, said that the event is a demonstration of the progress that is being attained in the associate countries and the Wes African Sub-region especially.
“There are gains we are recording in the sub-region. We may not be where we want, but cricket, is growing infrastructurally, and a lot of developmental efforts are going on. This is affecting the quality of the game. The West Africa Cup is a platform that we have used to rally those gains.”
Friday, October 13 has been designated rest day, while the final two games have been set for Saturday and Sunday, October 14th -15th, 2023.
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