14th February, 2013
Captain of Federal Government College, FGC, Warri Cricket Club, Andrew Aroy-Ororho has said that the team dedicated their victory over Foundation Cricket Club, FCC of Lagos in the second stanza of the Club Cricket Committee, CCC, league to their late player, Austin Alikali who died a day after the club’s Annual General Meeting, AGM.
FGC upset FCC by six wickets in the match played weekend at the Tafawa Balewa Cricket Oval. Orohoro said that the launching of the FGC new kits as well brought luck to the team, adding that the victory was as well dedicated to one late Alikali.
“The new jersey we launched brought luck to us. We also want to dedicate the victory to Alikali who died a day after the FGC AGM, may is soul rest in peace,” said the captain.
Aroy-Ororho attributed their success to hardwork, adding that they started the season badly losing three matches, but the mid-week games have helped their performance.
“Our victory was as a result of hardwork. Though we started the season badly, we lost three games to FCC, GCI Cricket Club and Ibeju Lekki in the first stanza of the league, but with the mid-week games, we have been coming up gradually with wins.
“I told Foundation Cricket Club that we will beat them despite having six players in the national team. My target was to put them under 100 runs, but they were luck to score 111 runs in 50 overs. In the second innings all what we did was just to score 100 runs and add some extra above 11 and carry the day,” he said.
FCC won the toss and elected to bat and scored 111 runs all out in 32 overs with Joshua Ogunlola scored 17 runs off 51 balls in 54 minutes. Kunle Adegbola had 16 runs off 25 balls in 30 minutes, Segun Olayinka had 25 runs off 32 balls in 53 minutes, while Femi Oduyebo scored 14 runs off 11 balls in 21 minutes.
From the bowling side, Frank Omosejele of FGC Warri took 3 wickets off 28 runs in 9 overs, Kelvin Agbonawangbe took 2 wickets off 48 runs in 9 overs, Opeyemi Awosanya took 2 wickets off 11 runs in 6 overs, Michael Agbiboa, Uthe Ogbemi and Azeez Salako all took a wicket each.
In the second innings, Prosper Mbangwa scored 41 runs off 65 balls not out, Uthe Ogbemi had 28 runs off 34 balls not out, Emmanuel Okudili had 27 runs off 31 balls in 86 minutes, while Dozie Okolo had 8 runs off 47 balls in 109 minutes to overcome the FCC.