Kenya surprises Nigeria after winning the 3rd Place Play-off – Cricket News Update
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/ICC-World-Cup-2011-c100625 World Cricket League Africa Region Division One Twenty20 (T20) series. The second last fixture of the competition kicked off on Friday, July 15, 2011,
and was being staged at the Lugogo Cricket Oval.
This was the third time that the two sides were facing each other. Previously, the Nigerians took on the Kenyan side in their first match on July 10 at the Kyambogo Cricket Ground. The game resulted in an impressive 8 wickets win by the Nigerians.
On July 13, the two teams again went head to head at the same venue. The Nigerians marked another critical triumph against the opponent with a single ball to spare.
Hence, the crucial win for the Kenyans came to Nigeria’s surprise, as the team hoped to maintain their winning streak against the opponent.
The play off began after the Nigerians won the toss and forced the Kenyans into batting.
Team Kenya opened its session with http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Duncan-c54739 Allan and Jignesh Hirani while the Nigerians opened their bowling attack with Chibuike Iteogu and Oluseye Olympio.
The openers brought in an impressive start to the Kenyan session but failed to create a footing on the crease as Allan was caught out off Kunle Adegbola’s delivery in the 5th over.
The following over, Nigerian bowling attack managed to bring an end to Hirani’s innings as well. The wicket was owned by Olympio.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Huzefa-Mohammed-Patel-c63657 once again proceeded with the batting side’s innings, adding swift scores to the total. However, the partnership was again brought to a close in the third quarter of the session after Patel made the return to the pavilion.
Eventually, the Kenyan innings came to an end after facing two more players. By the end of the 20th over, the Kenyan batsmen managed to post a decent total of 162 runs with loss of 5 wickets.
In reply to the Kenya’s fair performance, the Nigerian batsmen geared up to chase the target.
In contrast, the team’s openers, Ademola Onikoyi and http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Segun-Olayinka-c89153, took off with a swift start. However, the team’s first jolt came in the second quarter after Raj Savala secured Olayinka’s wicket.
Following the first loss, the Nigerians went on with the procession however a couple overs later the team lost another player. Nigeria’s second wicket marked the consistent wicket taking streak by the Kenyans.
The opponents offered some dominating bowling attack as Nigerian players lost their ground overs after overs. By the close of the 15th over of the day, the troubled batting side had already lost 6 players.
Despite http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Nigeria-c2970’s consistent loss, the team held on to a little remaining hope in the few more chasing runs. However, the Kenyan bowlers did not give the opponents a chance.
The Kenyans marked their eventual win after Awolowo was declared run out in the 19th over of the innings. The Nigerians were finally faced with a 23 runs defeat.
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