BRF Cricket Club on Sunday,October 28, at the Abuja Cricket Oval, defeated Crocodile on run rate to clinch the the 6th National Cricket Club Championship trophy for the 4th time running.BRF CC run rate was 4.7 while that of Crocodile CC of Kaduna was 2. 6.
The match was stopped by heavy rain after Crocodile were 54 for 2 in 21 overs.
In the 1st innings, BRF CC were bowled all out for 188 runs in 38 overs. Godwin Onoja accounted for 3 wickets for 34 in 8 overs.
Onikoyi Ademola, Friday Udoh and Jide Bejide (BRF),were good with the bat as they scored 38, 31 and 33 respectively.
In the 2nd semi final match played earlier on Saturday October 27, Crocodile CC of Kaduna, defeated University of Nigeria Cricket Club of Enugu (UNN CC) by 84 runs to qualify for the final.
UNN CC won the toss and opted to field. The boys from Enugu gave the Kaduna boys a big scare as they accounted for 6 quick wickets. Ngboji accounted for the wickets of the kaduna opening batsmen. Chimeze, who claimed the kaduna middle order was the pick of Enugu bowling with his 3 for 34.
It was a solid recovery by the kaduna boys as they were down for 50 runs for 6 in 10 overs and went ahead to score 147 runs all out in 28.2 overs.
Moses Joseph, Obinna Ohurogu and Dauda Gim were the pick of Kaduna batsmen with 26, 26, and 25 runs respectively.
There were early wickets for the kaduna boys as Emmanuel Gowon bowled out Ifechelobi in his first over and Adogu in his fifth over. The wickets were shared amongst Haruna Thomas, Obinna Ohurogu and Gowon Emmanuel with 2 wickets each.
The Enugu boys were restricted to 63 runs all out in 26.3 overs. Kaduna won by 84 runs.
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