Over 140 Players To Participate As Abuja Hosts National Women’s Cricket Championship

The Nigeria Cricket Federation has announced that the 2024 National Women’s Championship will be held at the Twin Cricket Ovals of Moshood Abiola National Stadium in Abuja.

The tournament is set to kick off from October 20th to 27th.

According to the Secretary General of the Federation, Sanni Mohammed the event is the culmination of the zonal elimination that had gone on at different cricket clusters across the nation.

He said, “This is the national finals for the Women’s focused developmental initiates that had gone on from the first quarter of the year. It is just interesting that it is coming at this period that we had just qualified for the ICC Women’s U19 World Cup in Malaysia.”

Over 140 players from zonal finalists in Lagos, Ekiti, Kogi, Kaduna, Gombe, Edo, Akwa Ibom, and Anambra states will join top cricket officials across the nation for the Women’s Championship.

“We are also using this event to hone the game’s administrative skills, including umpiring, scoring, and growing our coaching and live broadcasting capacities.

The Twin Cricket Ovals of the Moshood Abiola National Stadium in Abuja will also host the ICC Men’s T20 WC Africa Sub-regional Qualifier in November.

Nigeria’s U-19 women’s cricket team defeated Zimbabwe to qualify for the 2025 ICC U-19 World Cup in Malaysia in September.

Nigeria will compete with New Zealand, South Africa, and Samoa in Group C of the competition.

The second edition of the ICC U-19 Women’s T20 World Cup will be held in Malaysia from January 18 to February 2, 2025.