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 Further reviews.
Nigeria is among the 4 debutants among the many 16 international locations that shall be on parade on the event to showcase the following era of girls cricketers worldwide.
The primary version was additionally the biggest ladies’s event ever organised by the ICC and Pradhan is assured that the influence 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 event and the ladies’s event but in addition a leap of religion.
“International locations had been nonetheless maturing in how developed their ladies’s and junior pathways had been so it was an opportunity to see the work that the international locations have been placing in over the previous couple of years.
“The positioning of the event throughout males’s and girls’s is future stars as a result of this can be a event that enables a lot of gamers to make their title at U-19 degree earlier than happening to play high-level worldwide senior cricket.”
“This event offered a possibility to offer a couple of gamers who had already made their title in worldwide cricket, a platform to actually step up as senior gamers within the crew.”
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 crew.
They had been core members of the crew that gained a historic bronze medal on the African Video games final yr in Ghana and hoped to propel the U-19 crew 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 in opposition to Samoa on January 18, 2025, earlier than dealing with New Zealand two days later and South Africa on January 22, 2025.