South-south Wins 4th PwC/NCF U17 Cricket Championship
Defending champions, Team South-south has won the fourth edition of the PwC/NCF U17 Cricket Championship.
South-south Male and Female teams showed sheer dominance in the competition, winning all games and eventually claiming the titles at stake.
It’s the fourth consecutive win for the ladies and the third for the male team.
The women’s game pitted the South-south against against South-east.
South-east won the toss and opted to field. The bowling effort of Faith Okpara 3/16 was not enough to limit the defending champions as they raced to 133/5 in 20 overs.
Player-of-Match Piety Lucky 49(36) and teammate Peculiar Agboya 30(20) did the job for the South South zone as they finished the innings on a high note.
In reply, South-east managed to reach 67 runs/10 in 17.4 overs as Lucky earned a 4-wicket haul for 10 in 3.4 overs. South-south won by 64 runs.
The men’s game began with South-South winning the toss and electing to bat against North-West.
Abraham Oaikena 27 (33) and Godswill Effiong 28(29) did the most for the defending champions as they scored 128 all out in 24 overs.
To win, North-West needed to score 129 runs but the likes of Unity Ogbide 3/16 and Effiong’s 5/6 were instrumental to restricting the Northern to 56/10 in 21.4 overs. South-South won by 71 runs.
Earlier, South-West defeated South East by 17 runs in the men’s event and also defeated North-West by 7 wickets to claim the third place.
A number of individual awards were also given to the deserving players.
For Girls, Aisha Aliyu from North-East emerged Best Behaved, while Precious Simon from North West was the Best Fielder and Kehinde Amusan emerged Best Fielder from South West.
The Best Batter was presented to Chinemerem Ihezuo of South-East and the Most Valuable Player was presented to Piety Lucky of South -South.
The Boys event saw Abdullahi Ismail of North-West go home as the Best Behaved while Daniel Joseph of South-West was Best Fielder.
The Best Batter was presented to South-West’s Wale Odukoya while South South’s Joseph Omonkhobhio as Best Bowler and the MVP award to Kareem Gafar from South -West.
The tournament which began on Thursday ended with fan fair yesterday.
