Cricket: Nigeria Beats Brazil At Kwibuka Women’s Tournament
Nigeria’s national women’s cricket team, the Female Yellow Greens, beat the Brazilian women’s team by 8 wickets in their opening match at the ongoing 2022 Kwibuka Women’s Tournament, at the Gahanga Cricket Stadium in Rwanda.
Nigeria won the toss and opted to field at the 3rd match of the ongoing event. The Female Yellow Greens held the Brazilian Women to 53 all out in the first innings, with a well-coordinated bowling order.
Abdulrasaq Rukayat took four wickets, Eseigbe Rache had three, while Samson Rachel and Lillian Ude had two and one respectively to rattle the Brazilian side. In the second innings, it only took the Nigeria Women 10.5 overs to put up a 56-run total and get the first victory in the bag in the Kwibuka Campaign.
Coach of the Female Yellow Greens, Leke Oyede, said the team would improve as they play more matches and he believes that the best of the team has not been seen.
“We came to this event with our match plan and experience has taught us to take the matches as they come. We are very happy for this victory, but we are more focused on the next match,” Oyede said after the match.
“There is no gainsaying that the victory was well deserved, but we still have some work to do, we were a bit careless in some areas and we need to plug all the leakages as we perfect our game plans.”
Rukayat Abdulrazaq on her debut for Nigeria stole the show with an impressive bowling statistics of 4 wickets, conceding 9 runs in 3.2 overs, supported by Esiegbe Favour with 3 wickets, conceding 12 runs, 1 maiden over in 4 overs.
Rukayat Abdulrazaq was named player of the match.
Team Nigeria will take on Germany on Friday, June 10, at the IPRC pitch.
In the other opening matches of the tournament, hosts Rwanda lost to Uganda by six wickets while defending Champion Kenya beat Botswana by 35 runs.
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