The Worldwide Cricket Council’s ladies’s cricket supervisor, Snehal Pradhan, says the roaring success of the maiden ladies’s U-19 World Cup in South Africa will function a springboard for the second version, which shall be hosted by Malaysia from January 18 to February 2, PUNCH Sports activities Additional reviews.
Nigeria is among the 4 debutants among the many 16 nations that shall be on parade on the match to showcase the subsequent technology of girls cricketers worldwide.
The primary version was additionally the most important ladies’s match ever organised by the ICC and Pradhan is assured that the affect of this occasion shall be long-lasting.
“It was a unbelievable success. It was very a lot a dedication to fairness between the boys’s match and the ladies’s match but in addition a leap of religion.
“Nations have been nonetheless maturing in how developed their ladies’s and junior pathways have been so it was an opportunity to see the work that the nations have been placing in over the previous couple of years.
“The positioning of the match throughout males’s and girls’s is future stars as a result of this can be a match that enables a variety of gamers to make their title at U-19 degree earlier than occurring to play high-level worldwide senior cricket.”
“This match supplied a chance to provide just a few gamers who had already made their title in worldwide cricket, a platform to essentially step up as senior gamers within the staff.”
Nigeria’s participation aligns with Pradhan’s phrases, as gamers like Captain Piety Fortunate, Lillian Udeh, Peculiar Agboya, and Christabel Chukwuonye amongst others have been a part of Nigeria’s senior staff.
They have been core members of the staff that gained a historic bronze medal on the African Video games final 12 months in Ghana and hoped to propel the U-19 staff with their expertise in Malaysia.
The Junior Feminine Yellow Greens who pipped Zimbabwe to Africa’s spot in Malaysia have rounded up their preparations in Nigeria and can maintain their ultimate 10-day tenting forward of the World Cup India.
In Malaysia, Nigeria will compete in Group C together with South Africa, New Zealand and Samoa.
Their first match shall be towards Samoa on January 18, 2025, earlier than going through New Zealand two days later and South Africa on January 22, 2025.
