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Nigeria defeated New Zealand for the first time in cricket at any level.
A big upset was seen on the third day of the Under-19 Women’s World Cup. African country Nigeria defeated Test playing nation New Zealand by 2 runs in the group stage match. Due to rain, the match was played in 13 overs each. Nigeria scored 65 runs, in reply the Whiteferns team could score only 63 runs.
The tournament started in Malaysia from 18 January. On Monday, 6 group stage matches were played in the World Cup. New Zealand had to face defeat in Kuching. In the other match of the day, Samoa’s team got all out after scoring 16 runs against South Africa.
Nigerian players celebrating after defeating New Zealand by 2 runs.
Only 2 batsmen from Nigeria scored 10+ runs New Zealand won the toss and chose bowling at the stadium in Kuching. Due to rain the match was played in 13-13 overs. Nigeria’s batting was very poor and the team could score only 65 runs after losing 6 wickets. From the team, Lilian Udeh scored 18 runs and captain Lucky PT scored 19 runs.
Six batsmen from Nigeria could not even reach the 10-run mark. For New Zealand, Anika Towhair, Hannah O’Connor, Anika Todd, Tash Wakelin and Hannah Francis took 1 wicket each. There was also a batter runout. New Zealand team gave 6 runs from wide.
New Zealand lost 2 wickets in powerplay New Zealand Women had a bad start while chasing the target of 66 runs. Emma McLeod 3 and Kat Irwin were out without opening the account. The team lost 2 wickets on the score of 7 runs. From here, Eve Voland scored 14 runs and Anika Todd scored 19 runs, taking the team’s score close to 50.
Captain Tash Wakelin settled at one end. She started leading the team towards victory, but Darcy Prasad was out in front of her without opening the account. He then joined Ayan Lambat, who scored 6 runs off 7 balls.
Nigeria ran out 3 New Zealand batsmen.
Could not score 9 runs in the last over New Zealand needed 9 runs in the last over to win. Captain Tash Wakelin was playing after scoring 18 runs. There were 4 singles on the first 4 balls, while the 5th ball was dot. Now 5 runs were needed on the last ball, Lambat played a big shot and ran to score runs. Both the players could run only 2 runs and were run out while trying to score the third run.
After the end of the over, New Zealand team could score only 63 runs after losing 6 wickets. Nigeria bowled only 1 wide, which was 5 less than New Zealand. New Zealand’s extra runs played an important role in Nigeria’s victory.
New Zealand players were disappointed after losing the match.
Captain became player of the match For Nigeria, Usain Paas, Adeshola Adekunle and Lilian Udeh took 1 wicket each. 3 batsmen were also run out. Team captain Lucky PT, who scored 19 runs off 25 balls in the first innings, received the Player of the Match award.
Australia had to wait for victory In the first match on Monday, Australia had to wait till the last over to win against Bangladesh. Batting first in Bangi, Bangladesh scored 91 runs losing 9 wickets. Australia had lost only 1 wicket till 50 runs, but by the time they reached 86 runs, the team lost 8 wickets.
Australia had to score 5 runs in the last 2 overs, the team scored 4 runs in the 19th over. 1 run was needed in the last over, here Habiba Islam of Bangladesh made a ball dot. However, Ella Briscoe from Australia took a single on the second ball and gave the team a close match win by 2 wickets.
Australia could win against Bangladesh in the last over.
Samoa all out for 16 runs In Kuching, Samoa team was reduced to only 16 runs after playing 9.1 overs. 5 players could not even open their accounts. Whereas 4 players could score only 1 run each. Captain Awetia Mapu and Stella Sagalala scored the highest score of 3 runs each. South Africa scored 17 runs in just 10 balls and achieved the target without losing any wicket.
5 players from Samoa team could not even open their account. 4 batsmen could score only 1 run each.
Scotland won a close match against Nepal Three more matches were also played on Monday. America and England had no problem in winning their respective matches. Whereas Scotland defeated Nepal by 1 wicket in a close match.
- Ireland were all out after scoring 75 runs in Johor. America achieved the target by losing only 1 wicket in 9.4 overs.
- Nepal team was all out after scoring 73 runs in Bangi. It took 18.4 overs for Scotland to chase. However, the team lost 9 wickets to reach the target.
- In Johor, Pakistan team was limited to 66 runs. England achieved the target by losing 4 wickets in 9.2 overs.
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