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Cricket: Piety leads Nigeria U-19 girls to W’Cup qualifiers

Captain Piety is joined by some other Female Yellow Greens stars like super-bowler Peculiar Agboya, teenage sensation Shola Adekunle, Lilian Ude and Christabel Chukwuonye.

Others her Kehinde Amusa, Anointed Akhigbe, Peace Usen, Deborah Bassey, Eguakun Omosigho, Victory Igbenedion, Inyene Ubong, Naomi Memeh and Beauty Oguai.

The team whose journey started with a series involving Ghana U-19 team, Nigeria selected, and South West, will compete alongside Malawi, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe, at the ICC U-19 Women’s T20 World Cup Africa Qualifier.

Nigeria were initially billed to play in a two-group tournament of seven teams each, but the late inclusion of Zimbabwe resulted in the withdrawal of the top four sides from the series to form another division.

The winner of the Division 1 qualifier will pick Africa’s second ticket to the tournament in Malaysia.