The Nigeria’s U-19 cricket just concluded ICC U-19 Cricket World Cup Africa Qualifiers in Namibia.
Nigeria is the first team from the continental championship to join top playing cricket nations like Pakistan, South Africa, Afghanistan, Australia, India, England, New Zealand, Sri Lanka, West Indies, Zimbabwe and host – South Africa as teams that had already booked their places at the global championship holding in 2020.
President of the Nigeria Cricket Federation (NCF), Professor Yahaha Ukwenya described the feat as a new dawn for the sport.
According to him, he said: “As a President, it is great and incredible and I cannot believe the boys have done this.
We trained them to be true Nigerians, tough in character and spirit and to tell everybody that we are Africa’s largest nation and some of the toughest human beings from the continent are from Nigeria and they played that way.
According Ukwenya, he said: ” We had no idea that they will get this far and by match by match, they fought and came out victorious,”
