Nigeria’s Women Cricket team, ‘FemaleYellow-Greens’ will depart the country to stake a claim for this year’s 7th Kwibuka Women’s T20 tournament title in Kigali, Rwanda from Monday, June 6, 2022.
The first batch will depart the Muritala Mohammed Airport in Lagos, on Monday include players, officials and training kits ahead of the arrival of other half of the team on Tuesday.
The event this year will also feature Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Botswana, Germany, Brazil and host Rwanda.
President of the Nigeria Cricket Federation, Uyi Akpata is confident that the Nigeria Women’s having been camped at the Cricket High Performance Center in Benin, Edo State for one-month will put up a descent show at the event when hostilities get underway on Thursday June 9.
“Our Team is very prepared and has showed steady rise in their performance over the years. Earlier in the year they finished second to Rwanda in the maiden NCF Women’s Invitational T20I that we hosted. And as a federation the event was instituted to help harness the growing potential that we have discovered in our development journey.’ He said over the weekend.
Akpata said that the game in Nigeria has been on the upswing and Women’s interest has been encouraging for the Federation.
“Given the level of preparation that the players had, I am confident they will put up a good show in Rwanda.”
He said the Nigerian team is only ranked above Botswana of the other competitors but said the dedication shown by the team and their handlers, they are expected to grind out result.
Nigeria’s opening match will be against Brazil on Thursday June 9 at Gahanga Cricket Stadium in Kigali by 1:30pm local time. Brazil is ranked 28th while Nigeria sits on 37th on the International Cricket Council’s T20I ranking.
Nigeria second match will be against Germany at the IPRC pitch, before dueling with Botswana, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania and finally Rwanda in the closing group match.
The tournament would be rounded up on June 18th.
