{"id":80198,"date":"2025-12-14T07:42:19","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T07:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=80198"},"modified":"2025-12-14T07:42:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T07:42:19","slug":"nigeria-thrash-rwanda-by-81-runs-to-top-west-africa-trophy-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/12\/14\/nigeria-thrash-rwanda-by-81-runs-to-top-west-africa-trophy-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria Thrash Rwanda by 81 Runs to Top West Africa Trophy Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Samuel Adeola<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nigeria\u2019s senior men\u2019s cricket team defeated Rwanda by 81 runs on Saturday in Abuja, finishing top of the West Africa Trophy group with 16 points from nine matches. Rwanda ended with 12 points.<\/p>\n<p>After winning the toss, Nigeria batted first, scoring 154 for four. Selim Salau led with 76 off 49 balls, Danladi Isaac added 52, and captain Runsewe Sulaimon chipped in 23.<\/p>\n<p>Rwanda were bowled out for 75 in 15.1 overs, with Didier Ndikubwimana making 30 and Manishimwe Oscar 22. Salau was named Player of the Match.<\/p>\n<p>Both teams will face off again in Sunday\u2019s final, while Zambia and Sierra Leone contest third place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Samuel Adeola Nigeria\u2019s senior men\u2019s cricket team defeated Rwanda by 81 runs on Saturday in Abuja, finishing top of the West Africa Trophy group with 16 points from nine matches. Rwanda ended with 12 points. After winning the toss, Nigeria batted first, scoring 154 for four. Selim Salau led with 76 off 49 balls, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":80199,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80198","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=80198"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80200,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80198\/revisions\/80200"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}