UNN Cricket Club of Enugu have emerged the winners of 5th edition of the South-East Cricket Championship tagged The Chuma Anosike Cup as they defeated perennial rivals Royal Cricket Club of Anambra by 32 runs at the cricket pitch of Government College Umuahia.
Anambra won the toss and chose to field. UNN batted first and scored 91 runs for the loss of 6 wickets in 15 overs but in the second inning all efforts by Royal Cricket Club of Anambra to upturn the scores were not fruitful as Royal Cricket Club ended their batting at 60 runs for the loss of 9 wickets in 15 overs.
Owerri Cricket Club of Imo State came third after defeating Ebonyi state by 2 wickets in an explosive third place game.
The sponsor of the tournament, Barrister Chuma Anosike said this year’s edition was a reflexion of the level cricket development in the South–Eastern part of the country, adding that in the near future some of the states that had just been newly introduced to the game of cricket like Ebonyi and Imo would play at the final with the way they had performed both off and on the field.
According to Anosike, “Overall i am impressed with what i have seen and i think i want to thank the host Abia state. I believed there was going to be a challenge with hosting the tournament and they have lived up to the challenges.
The former first vice President of the Nigeria cricket Federation, NCF, expressed his delight in Ebonyi state cricket team performance adding that for their captain, Kosi Izekwe to have won cricketer of the series shows that Ebonyi state is rising fast in the game.
“a couple of years ago i challenged Ebonyi state because then in Ebonyi there was virtually no cricket being played in the state. So, i challenged them to host and of course being a host they must produce a team and i am happy to say that not only did they produce a team but they produced two teams at last year’s tournament in Afikpo.
Igweze Chinedu UNN cricket club, was name The bowler of the series, while another UNN cricketer Obinma Chisom, went home with Batman of the series title, while Izekwe Kosi of Ebonyi state was adjudged the cricker of the series, Fielder of the series award went to Nwosu Kenechukwu, The wicket keeper of the series was given to Ogbu Prince of the UNN and Best behaved team went to Abia State.
Cash prizes ware given to the champions, first and second runners up.
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