FG approves India training tour for U-19 Women’s Cricket team | The Guardian Nigeria News

The Nationwide Sports activities Fee (NSC) has authorised a overseas coaching tour in India for Nigeria’s U19 Ladies’s Cricket Group.

The group is gearing as much as symbolize the nation on the ICC U19 Ladies’s T20 Cricket World Cup, scheduled for Malaysia from January 18, 2025.

The Director Normal of the Nationwide Sports activities Fee, Bukola Olopade, revealed that the Fee is working carefully with the Nigeria Cricket Federation, for logistics, technical, and monetary assist to make sure Nigeria places up a superb outing on the World Cup.

Olopade’s media aide Kola Daniel, stated, “Beginning the 12 months with Nigeria’s maiden participation on the Cricket World Cup for our U19 ladies is a giant deal for us on the Fee and we aren’t taking it without any consideration in any respect.

“It is a large deal as a result of it’s the very first time Nigeria will ever characteristic at any stage of a cricket World cup which additionally exhibits the extent of silent work that the President of the Nigeria Cricket Federation, Uyi Akpata and his group are doing within the sport which many individuals don’t even find out about.

“Myself and the Chairman, Mallam Shehu Dikko, are much more enthusiastic about this World Cup as a result of it suits into our Renewed Hope Initiative for Nigeria Sports activities Economic system, RHINSE, marketing campaign of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the place younger ladies may be taken off the road and are effectively engaged to make a livelihood from Sports activities participation.

“These are younger ladies of 19 years of age set to symbolize our nice nation on the greatest stage of World U19 cricket, subsequently they want all of the assist each from Nigerians and the media.“Preparations are on the bottom for them to journey to India for a coaching tour already and from the place they may proceed to Malaysia for the World Cup.”

Nigeria is among the many 4 international locations that may debut from the 16 Nations to characteristic within the World Cup. Different debutants are Samoa, Nepal, and the host nation, Malaysia.

India are the defending champions. They beat England within the ultimate of the 2023 version in South Africa.