{"id":67568,"date":"2025-06-08T12:00:59","date_gmt":"2025-06-08T12:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=67568"},"modified":"2025-06-08T12:00:59","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T12:00:59","slug":"nigeria-crushes-cameroon-with-104-run-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/06\/08\/nigeria-crushes-cameroon-with-104-run-victory\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria Crushes Cameroon with 104-Run Victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Huldah Shado<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nigeria\u2019s Female Yellow Greens recorded a dominant 104-run triumph over Cameroon Women in their second match of the 2025 Kwibuka Women\u2019s T20i tournament at Gahanga Cricket Stadium 2 in Rwanda.<\/p>\n<p>Electing to bat after winning the toss, Nigeria posted an imposing total of 140 runs for four wickets in 20 overs.<\/p>\n<p>Salome Sunday led the charge with an unbeaten 53 off 36 balls. She was supported by Esther Sandy with 23 runs and Kehinde Amusa who added 19.<\/p>\n<p>In response, Cameroon faltered in their chase, managing only 36 runs for six wickets in nine overs.<\/p>\n<p>Kehinde Amusa delivered a standout bowling performance, claiming two wickets for just four runs in her two overs.<\/p>\n<p>Liliane Ude and Rukayat Abdulrasaq also impressed with a wicket each, keeping the pressure on the Cameroonian side.<\/p>\n<p>The emphatic win strengthens Nigeria\u2019s momentum in the competition. After five matches, the team sits fifth on the standings with four points and a net run rate of -0.160, remaining in close contention for a semi-final spot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Huldah Shado Nigeria\u2019s Female Yellow Greens recorded a dominant 104-run triumph over Cameroon Women in their second match of the 2025 Kwibuka Women\u2019s T20i tournament at Gahanga Cricket Stadium 2 in Rwanda. Electing to bat after winning the toss, Nigeria posted an imposing total of 140 runs for four wickets in 20 overs. Salome [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":67569,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-67568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67568"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67570,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67568\/revisions\/67570"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}