Nigeria’s U-19 Cricket Team, the Junior Yellow Greens, have beaten Tanzania by 35 runs to advance into Division One and booked a place in the African qualifiers for the 2020 Cricket World Cup in South Africa.
In the keenly contested first semi-final match on Sunday, the Nigerian team showed class over their opponent to maintain their unbeaten run at the ICC Division Two qualifiers in Potchefstroom, Senwes Park in South Africa.
Tanzania won the toss and elected to bat, taking early wickets in the innings to put the Nigeria batting side under intense pressure in the 50 overs match.
The last two partnership of the Nigerian batters, Ifeanyi Uboh and Segun Ogundipe boosted their runs by 80 runs to push Nigeria’s total runs in the first innings to 169 runs (all out) in 46.2 overs.
In the second innings, Tanzania looked determined targeting 170 runs to win but were overwhelmed by the persistence of the Yellow Greens bowling and fielding who stopped them at 134 runs (all out) in…
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